{"id":462,"date":"2025-07-03T14:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/?page_id=462"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:16:13","slug":"information-and-communications-adst","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/departments\/adst\/information-and-communications-adst\/","title":{"rendered":"Information and Communications (ADST)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Information and communications at NWSS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Information and communications courses at NWSS give students the chance to develop valuable digital skills used in school, work, and everyday life. Courses explore a range of topics including web development, programming, digital publishing, and design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students learn to create and code using industry-standard tools and software to build digital literacy skills while working on real-world projects. Courses support student success across subject areas and help prepare them for post-secondary studies in technology, media, and design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Courses offered by our department are based on the province\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/curriculum.gov.bc.ca\/curriculum\/adst\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/curriculum.gov.bc.ca\/curriculum\/adst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ADST curriculum<\/a>. Examples of available courses (may differ from year to year) include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>GRADE 10<\/th><th>GRADE 11<\/th><th>GRADE 12<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Web Development 10<\/td><td>Computer Programming 11<\/td><td>Computer Programming 12<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Computer Studies 10<\/td><td>Digital Communications 11<\/td><td>Digital Media Development 12<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Computer Information Systems 11<\/td><td>Computer Information Systems 12<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Desktop Publishing 11<\/td><td>Desktop Publishing 12<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Yearbook 12<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For detailed course information, requirements, availability, etc., refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/students\/course-selection\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/students\/course-selection\/\">most current course description booklet.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information and communications at NWSS Information and communications courses at NWSS give students the chance to develop valuable digital skills used in school, work, and everyday life. Courses explore a range of topics including web development, programming, digital publishing, and design. Students learn to create and code using industry-standard tools and software to build digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":202,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-462","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/462\/revisions\/587"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}