The Digital Media Essential Skills Certificate of Completion is designed to provide students with an overview of digital media tools and processes used in the industry. Through lectures and hands-on instructions, students are introduced to a variety of workflows to create effective content for videos, web, games, graphic designs, and social media marketing campaigns.

Student Learning Outcomes

- Apply basic digital media production skills.

- Employ problem-solving skills to provide solutions for media productions.

- Create media content for a diverse range of clients or industries using different modalities.

- Evaluate artwork with an understanding of concepts, appropriate terminology, and aesthetic awareness.

The Digital Arts and Interactive Design Certificate of Accomplishment provides students with technical, artistic, and creative skills to develop graphics, animations, videos, web, and interactive projects. The certificate helps prepare students for entry-level career opportunities in industries that require interactive/web content to support, enhance, and/or market their products and services.

Student Learning Outcomes

- Solve communication problems by identifying and applying strategies of visual design including principles of visual organization/composition, information hierarchy, symbolic representation, typography, and story structure.

- Demonstrate an understanding of tools and technology to create digital arts projects.

- Demonstrate the ability to produce and optimize media for diverse audiences, contexts, and outputs.

- Employ best practices and management in the design profession and within a collaborative work environment.

The Digital Arts and Interactive Design Certificate of Achievement provides students with a comprehensive and in-depth education in the rapidly evolving fields of digital arts and interactive design. The curriculum provides hands-on training and includes areas such as animation, interface design, video production, and web design. Students develop creative and technical skills; work individually and collaboratively; and explore the many different areas of Digital Arts and Interactive Design while following professional practices.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

- Demonstrate a conceptual understanding and practical ability to plan, actualize, and complete an industry-standard multimedia/interactive design project.

- Communicate ideas and projects effectively verbally, visually, and in writing using techniques that are tailored to audiences and users.

- Apply critical thinking, research, aesthetic judgments, and problem formulation and solutions in creating Digital Media projects.

- Demonstrate the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

The noncredit Digital Arts Certificate of Completion is intended for students wishing to acquire competencies in digital arts for job advancement and immediate employment. Through lectures and hands-on instructions, students are introduced to a variety of skills and workflows to create videos, websites, animations, video games, and 3D models.

The skills learned upon completion of this certificate will help students gain employment as Junior User Experience Designer/Front End Developer; Junior Designer; Video Editor; Junior Game Designer; Game Tester; Junior Animator; Visual Effects Artist; 3D Modeler; and Texture Artist.

Student Learning Outcomes

- Apply digital media production skills and demonstrate an understanding of tools and processes related to visual and interactive design.

- Employ creative, conceptual, and problem-solving skills including research, prototyping, and previsualization techniques.

- Create media content for a diverse range of clients or industries using different modalities.

- Demonstrate efficient communication strategies and work effectively within a team

Exploration of self-concept will be achieved through self-reflection and real-life applications included in program coursework. Courses included in this noncredit certificate will help students build their knowledge base in social-emotional learning, choose a career pathway, and learn the fundamentals of financial literacy. Knowledge of these three topics is valuable across all career pathways and will empower students to contribute to safe, healthy, and equitable communities.

Student Learning Outcomes

- Foster awareness and acceptance of self-concept.

- Assess career interests and explore occupations.

- Learn fundamental financial literacy practices.

- Engage in the development of self-concept for success in the workforce.

The Design Certificate of Accomplishment signifies that students have received exposure to techniques, concepts, color theory, and drawing, with an emphasis on creative expression and composition. This certificate provides a good foundation for continued study in the field of drawing and design.

Student Learning Outcomes

- Identify the visual elements of two-dimensional and three-dimensional art and the organizational principles for their use as well as the visual elements of color theory.

- Identify both romantic and classic historic references in their own work and the work of others.

- Demonstrate an understanding of the two-dimensional design concepts (i.e. line, shape, color, value, scale, perspective) and of three-dimensional concepts (i.e. form, scale, movement, texture) as well as an understanding of color theory (i.e. color physics, color and form) presented in class lectures.

- Demonstrate through assigned drawings basic skills an observation of contour and surface.

- Apply proper studio practice and technique as presented and use the techniques presented in class when working with the media selected for a particular project.

- Produce a portfolio of finished work that represents the design concepts and color theories presented in class.

The Certificate of Achievement in Deaf-Centered Interpreting is designed to prepare students for entry-level positions that require skills in interpreting American Sign Language and English and cultural competence among a diverse array of Deaf people from BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and multilingual communities. The certificate instills an appreciation of the sociolinguistic Deaf minority, who comprise a historically oppressed group and possess a rich cultural history and a vibrant language. The program provides a career pathway for individuals who desire to work in the Deaf community.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

- Display the ability to create and maintain professional relationships and appropriate cultural responsiveness and sensitivity with diverse multicultural stakeholders including members of the Deaf community, professional interpreters, and interpreter agencies through effective interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills.

- Demonstrate critical thinking skills and construct ethically appropriate and socially just responses and decision-making that recognize diverse multicultural and intersectional experiences and perspectives by assessing competencies and impacts on recipients of interpreter-mediated communication in various interpreting situations.

- Perform entry-level sign language interpreting skills in settings commensurate with entry qualifications, such as in post-secondary or community service where graduates are able to exercise autonomous professional judgment.

This noncredit Customer Service certificate program teaches students best practices for building teams in the workplace, managing change, and promoting a positive environment. This certificate is an ideal learning venue for non-traditional students who may have English as a second language needs.

Student Learning Outcomes

- Implement the best practices for building a team including, but not limited to, effective communication and problem-solving.

This non-credit certificate teaches students best practices and promotes skill development for successfully troubleshooting customer-related problems. This certificate is an ideal learning situation for non-traditional students who may have English as a second language needs.

Student Learning Outcomes

- Acquire the knowledge to recognize the importance of creativity in problem-solving, and identify various blocks to problem-solving.

This non-credit certificate provides a venue for students to learn the best communication and writing approaches and practices to use in customer service occupations. This certificate is an ideal learning venue for non-traditional student who may have English as a second language needs.

Student Learning Outcomes

- Develop the skills to be effective when communicating and writing for both internal and external customers.