This curriculum guide is designed to assist teachers in junior high and high schools in New Mexico to improve the quality of instruction and to prepare a new curriculum in communications that is consistent with current thinking in industrial arts education. This communications curriculum is designed for one year or 180 hours of instruction, with each of the four sections (telecommunications, visual communications in drafting, graphic communications in printing, and photography) to be implemented on a nine-week basis. Each of the four sections is divided into a course outline and units of instruction. The units of instruction are arranged in the following format: unit description, objectives, content outline, teacher activities, student activities, references/resources, information sheets, transparency masters, teacher demonstration sheets, student assignment sheets, student activity sheets, unit examinations, answers to examinations, and lists of equipment/supplies needed. The objectives found at the beginning of each unit are measured by the student activities or by examinations. Answers are provided for all of the assignments and examinations. A rationale and possible outcomes for the course are also provided in the guide. (KC)