By successfully completing the courses for a Certificate of Achievement in Communication Studies, students will gain breath and depth of communication competence to significantly impact future employment and promotion. Students will build practical and theoretical understanding for future Communication Studies work.

Learning Outcome(s):

✓ Gain breath and depth of communication competence to impact future employment and promotion.
✓ Build practical and theoretical understanding for future Communication Studies work.

The Entry-Level Accounting Certificate is designed to prepare students for entry-level accounting positions in the private sector area such as small business, financial service, wholesale trades, and government. Specialized training enables students to maintain accounting records and develop financial reports in: 1) accounting, and 2) finance principles and practices. Entry-level employment opportunities include positions in accounts receivable/payable and a number of trainee/internship positions. A minimum grade of C is required in each course taken. This certificate requires 16-19 units.

Program Student Learning Outcome:

🗸 Prepare accounting records in accordance to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

The Entrepreneurship Skills Certificate ensures tomorrow's leaders are prepared with the skills they need to get ahead in today's competitive 21st century business landscape. Whether you are starting a home-based business or launching the next billion dollar startup, students' develop an understanding of core business principles, including the essentials needed to launch and maintain their successful business endeavor. A minimum grade of C is required in each course taken. This certificate requires 9 units.

Program Level Student Learning Outcome:

🗸 Create a basic business plan for a small business.
 

The Entrepreneurship Certificate is designed to prepare students with key considerations for starting and managing a business. We will guide you step-by-step through solid business planning. Upon program completion, students will have a business plan and the skills necessary to seek funding to start or expand a business. A grade of C or better is required in each course taken. This certificate requires 22-25 units.

Program Student Learning Outcomes:

🗸 Define and identify the principles of entrepreneurial management to create a basic business plan for a small business.

🗸 Illustrate good business writing skills to analyze a routine business request and respond with a written letter.

The Trauma Informed Practices in Education Certificate is designed to prepare students to support and promote social-emotional competence in young children. Students acquire knowledge to integrate developmentally appropriate cognitive and social-emotional support strategies and skills to meet children’s diverse mental health needs. They are taught culturally responsive behavior and discipline techniques, practical prevention and intervention strategies, and brain-appropriate curriculum. Students will identify mental health community resources to help create and build respectful, reciprocal relationships that support children’s mental health and the families they serve.

Learning Outcome(s):

✓ Demonstrate and apply their knowledge of developmentally appropriate cognitive and social-emotional support skills, strategies, and resources to promote social and emotional competence in young children in the educational setting.
✓ Define how discipline and stress affect learning and the mental health of young children.
✓ Describe how child abuse, culture, ability, self-concept, and a child’s experiences impact brain development.
✓ Examine the integration of child development theory and practice within the fields of early education and mental health.
✓ Analyze current research in children's mental health topics and practices in provider and family support and strategies to provide mental health support.

The Entertainment Arts Certificate is designed to prepare students for an entry level position in the fields of entertainment encompassing animation and game design. The Entertainment Arts Certificate requires a total of 45 units, of which 15 are required courses in art and 27 are required courses in digital art emphasizing entertainment production techniques. An additional 3 units may be chosen from the restricted electives. A grade of C or better is required for each course taken. Upon completion of the required courses the student must submit a final professional level portfolio for review and approval by three full-time faculty including: Head of the Digital Art Department, Art Department Chair, and another full-time faculty from the ART or DART department. The portfolio will be assessed against an industry standard preparing the student for entry-level work inside the fields of entertainment.

Program Student Learning Outcomes:

🗸 Upon successful completion of courses leading to the Entertainment Art Certificate, the student will be able to demonstrate evidence of proficiency in problem solving techniques and devise solutions for designs presented from scripted assignments while using digital software applications.

🗸 Upon successful completion of courses leading to the Entertainment Art Certificate, the student will be able to demonstrate an expanded in-depth knowledge of traditional drawing/sketching techniques for rapid visualization and be able to translate those techniques into a digital format using various digital software applications.

🗸 Upon successful completion of courses leading to the Entertainment Art Certificate, the student will be able to demonstrate the ability to effectively display their step by step solutions, and finished final work in a professional portfolio presentation adhering to an industry standard.
 

The Engineering Technology Certificate program is the study of technologies, sciences and management practices that provides a background in materials, advanced manufacturing processing (metals and plastics), automation (robotics and programmable controllers), mechanical design and development process, CAD/CAM, quality control/metrology, process planning, "lean" principles, and project management. The student is required to complete a total of 34-36 units. At least one half of the units toward the certificate must be completed at Fullerton College. A minimum grade of C or better is required for each course taken.

Program Student Learning Outcomes:

🗸 Interpret and apply basic concepts of math and materials science such as strength of materials, structural properties, conductivity, and mechanical properties.

🗸 Perform various non-destructive and destructive materials testing procedures.

🗸 Analyze and apply electrical, electronics, and programming logic principles within various automated manufacturing environments and applications such as industrial robotics, programmable controls, and other such systems.

🗸 Working individually and as a team, monitor and control lean manufacturing processes or other industrial systems.

🗸 Select appropriate manufacturing processes for production applications such as forming, molding, subtractive and additive manufacturing, conditioning, joining, and finishing.

🗸 Communicate mechanical ideas utilizing 2-D and 3-D computer-aided design systems to create designs and models for products, machines, jigs, fixtures, and other mechanical devices used in manufacturing environments.

The Support for Students with Special Needs Certificate is designed to prepare students with knowledge, skills, and resources to address the diverse needs of children and adolescents with special needs. Students are offered intervention strategies, adaptive curriculum, and tools to both support and empower educators and families in both natural and/or inclusive education settings.

Learning Outcome(s):

✓ Demonstrate analysis and knowledge of the personal and team roles and responsibilities of the special education provider in the public school which includes diagnosis and implementation strategies for students with special needs.

The purpose of the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) Certificate for Early Childhood Educators is to empower teachers to employ a project-based learning approach that crosses all of these disciplines in solving everyday problems. This approach aligns with Common Core Standards and has been shown to engage students and allow them to use both left and right-brained thinking in the same exercise. This certificate provides a strong research-based curricular foundation with immediate practical classroom applications. Additionally, the STEAM certificate can be used towards earning professional growth hours for the child development permit.

Learning Outcome(s):

1. Demonstrate a knowledge basis of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) within early childhood.
2. Recognize current knowledge, skills, and resources related to STEAM and apply those skills in a classroom setting

The Secondary Education (Pre-Professional) Certificate is intended to provide students with skills necessary to work with secondary education students (middle and high school) in an after-school setting, provide tutoring or homework assistance, or assist in academic enrichment programs. This certificate is also pre-professional preparation for students preparing to transfer to a university to earn a bachelor’s degree and single subject teaching credential.

Learning Outcome(s):

✓ Students who complete the certificate in secondary education will be able to apply skills necessary to work with secondary education students (middle and high school) in an after-school setting