| You are here: Home  Academic Design and Communications Graphics | | | Design and Communications Graphics | Technical Graphics (T.G.) is offered to all first form students for a single period a week. A group of approximately 24 students then opt to continue with the subject for their Junior Certificate and attend four classes per week. This course aims to develop the creative imagination by encouraging pupils to reason in two and three dimensions and apply these skills to the solution of graphical and spatial problems of an abstract and practical nature.
Before September 2007, students in the Senior Cycle studied Technical Drawing (T.D.). It is now known as Design & Communication Graphics (D.C.G.). This subject follows a natural progression from Technical Graphics and students, as a rule, should have covered that course. D.C.G. endeavors to develop skills in the areas of graphicacy / graphical communication, creative problem solving, spatial abilities / visualization, design capabilities, computer graphics and CAD modeling. Students attend five periods a week during Form 5 and 6. Their final Leaving Certificate assessment comprises of two key components:
A student assignment (40% of the examination marks, of which CAD will form a significant and compulsory component.
A terminal examination paper (60% of the examination marks)
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Paddy O’Shea, B.Tech.Ed. (WBT) Co-ordinator
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|  | | |  | Technical Graphics involves students in the development of the range of skills associated with the management of spatial problems and the graphical communication of spatial ideas and solutions.
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