Program Overview
Liberal Arts and Sciences: Visual Communication at Cerritos College
Associate of Arts
This area of emphasis will focus on the power of images and serves as an introduction to techniques for improved visual communication. It starts with a study of images in culture, progresses to visual communication exploration, and culminates with learning hands-on skill development. This area of emphasis will prepare students for possible baccalaureate degree majors in art, graphic arts, graphic design, desktop publishing, communication, theatre, and photography. Students pursuing these studies may seek careers in film and entertainment, mass communications, media, publishing, photography, education, museum work, web design, theatre stage design, and journalism.
Salary, Growth and Careers
Salary
Careers associated with this program have a salary range from $48,000 to over $239,000 with an average salary of $110,000.
Growth
Career opportunities for this program are expected to grow nationwide from 2022 to 2032.
Careers
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
- Education Level: Bachelor's degree
- Job Growth: +1%
- Average Salary: $105k
- Salary Range: $78k - $127k
- Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary
- Education Level: Doctoral or professional degree
- Job Growth: +3.9%
- Average Salary: $130k
- Salary Range: $85k - $163k
- Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
- Education Level: Doctoral or professional degree
- Job Growth: +1.4%
- Average Salary: $128k
- Salary Range: $76k - $168k
- Historians
- Education Level: Master's degree
- Job Growth: +3.1%
- Average Salary: $92k
- Salary Range: $74k - $108k
- History Teachers, Postsecondary
- Education Level: Doctoral or professional degree
- Job Growth: +1.3%
- Average Salary: $114k
- Salary Range: $82k - $134k
- Interpreters and Translators
- Education Level: Bachelor's degree
- Job Growth: +4.3%
- Average Salary: $69k
- Salary Range: $48k - $85k
- Personal Service Managers, All Other; Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling; and Managers, All Other
- Education Level: Bachelor's degree
- Job Growth: +7.4%
- Average Salary: $141k
- Salary Range: $77k - $239k+
- Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
- Education Level: Doctoral or professional degree
- Job Growth: +5.9%
- Average Salary: $105k
- Salary Range: $50k - $165k
Education Levels
Education levels are meant to represent what is typical for entry into the career, based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.