Graphic Arts is an instructional program that generally prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to plan, prepare and execute commercial and industrial visual image, and print products using mechanical, electronic, and digital, graphic and printing equipment.

Students learn desktop publishing, layout, composition, presswork, and bindery as well as photography, flexography, lithography, photoengraving, and other graphic arts techniques. Emphasis is on typographical layout and design using computer graphics, photo typesetting, camera and plate making, offset preparation and operation, paper cutting, ink and color preparation and dynamics, and airbrush and screen printing production.