Students who complete the Emerging Tech Entrepreneurship certificates will be exposed to and become proficient in the coursework to become entrepreneurs in a technical field. This program combines the business skills necessary to make sound business decisions with the technical know-how to survive in the 21st century. Students will learn how to build and manage successful modern technical businesses.

Program Learning Outcomes

🗸 Create and produce documentable solutions to business problems and challenges.
🗸 Identify key issues, research relevant data, and show evidence of analytical thinking about possible solutions for business opportunities and problems.
🗸 Demonstrate knowledge of the influence of the Internet on business and terms relating to the World Wide Web.
🗸 Demonstrate understanding of the impact and application of computers in business, government, and social organizations.
🗸 Work and interact effectively in teams consisting of individuals with differing interests, gender, global backgrounds and professions.
🗸 Create user interfaces and algorithms to solve business problems and user needs.

One of the most prestigious programs of its kind in the nation, the Science Illustration Certificate at California State University, Monterey Bay, prepares students who are sought after by renowned institutions and publications around the world.

Graduates’ work can be found at museums and science centers such as the Smithsonian Institution, New York’s American Museum of Natural History, California Science Center and the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History; in top science magazines such as National Geographic, Scientific American, American Scientist, Nature, Natural History and Audubon; at zoos, aquaria, and botanical gardens such as the National Zoo, Washington, D.C., the Monterey Bay Aquarium; Kew Botanical Gardens, U.K.; as well as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and hundreds of equally respected organizations.

The Instructional Science and Technology Certificate prepares students to design, develop, implement, and evaluate instructional programs enhanced by interactive technologies.

The certificate is ideal for professionals working in education, private industry, or governmental institutions, who wish to improve their knowledge and skills in designing effective and efficient instructional programs.

Program Learning Outcomes

✔ Instructional Technology Outcomes

Students are able to:

• Utilize basic terminologies with comprehension;
• Identify various instructional design models;
• Identify major tools, trends, and issues in the field within their historical context;
• Articulate differences between instructional technology, performance technology, and other related concepts;
• Describe the essence of major learning theories and their impact on instructional technology;
• Conduct career planning and lifelong professional development plans; and,
• List and evaluate several possible capstone ideas.

✔ Instructional Design Outcomes

Students are able to:

• Identify, define, analyze, and articulate instructional problems and needs;
• Generate and organize audience appropriate instructional content;
• Develop an effective implementation strategy;
• Create a learning assessment;
• Create and justify a project evaluation plan;
• Apply relevant learning theories to an instructional problem
• Identify and explore diverse instructional products;
• Complete a collaborative instructional design project with design document;
• Create an individual instructional design document;
• Evaluate and critique diverse instructional products and cases;
• Design, develop, and implement a client-based real-world project;
• Demonstrate professional collaboration and communication skills with clients and SMEs; and,
• Apply project management skills.

✔ Interactive Multimedia Outcomes

Students are able to:

• Apply appropriate theories and derived multimedia principles;
• Apply interactive design principles;
• Construct a functioning learning module using interactive multimedia software, information technology, and media based upon appropriate learning theories;
• Develop an interactive multimedia experience with appropriate feedback;
• Select and use appropriate media tools to develop a solution designed for an identified instructional problem;
• Use integrated software help systems, web communities, peer, and instructor support to overcome media tools software learning curves in an adaptable, flexible, proactive manner; and,
• Conduct formative evaluation and obtain documented user feedback.

✔ Breadth of Knowledge

Outcome Students are able to:

• Broaden knowledge and skills that open wider career opportunities.

The Certificate of Achievement in Leadership prepares business, management, and public administration students and practitioners with improved core analytical skills required for approaching organizational challenges holistically, for making better executive decisions, developing greater awareness of leadership styles and their perceptions by others, and to learn effective ways of designing teams, business operations, management initiatives, and organizational culture and structure.

Career Opportunities

According to the July 2022 SFBCELMR, there is a large labor market gap in the Bay region with 16,961 annual openings for the Leadership occupational cluster and 181 annual (3-year average) awards for an annual undersupply of 16,780 students. In the Mid-Peninsula Sub-Region, there is also a gap with 5,185 annual openings and 14 annual (3-year average) awards for an annual undersupply of 5,171 students. The report showed 14,615 leadership openings for students with high school or vocational (certificate) training, and 3,023 with an Associate's degree in the wider region. Leadership skills help move hourly workers to living wages and salaried positions. Further, according to a Burning Glass report, in California, over 162,000 job posts across multiple disciplines listed leadership skills as a key requirement for prospective employees. Management occupations related to the proposed program: First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers; General and Operations Managers; Managers, All Other; Administrative Service Managers; and, Sales Managers.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students completing this program will be able to:

🗸 Clearly articulate own leadership capacity based on a thorough examination of personal leadership style, vision, and values
🗸 Discuss and analyze both core beliefs and the origins of their core beliefs
🗸 Support a constructive and innovative team climate
🗸 Recognize ethical and moral issues, identify needed actions, and demonstrate the moral courage to implement them
🗸 Demonstrate an understanding of core business principles in the primary areas of leadership and management, organizational behavior, and conflict management

The Braiding and Hair Design Certificate of Specialization embraces a student-centered approach to collaborative team teaching and delivers current and comprehensive curricula via modern technologies, individual training, group projects, and supervised practice on the public, linking theoretical knowledge to hands-on (practical) experiences. Instruction on hair styling, hair design in cosmetology specialty classes, and portfolio preparation to include resume preparation and job placement support.

Career Opportunities

Career opportunities include independent salon stylists, salons and spa owners/managers, products, inventors/educators, movies/television/runway/platform and print work artist, beauty bloggers, writers, and school educators. Emerging and experienced cosmetologist enjoy worldwide opportunities with licensing reciprocity and equivalency accepted in most states and countries. Work opportunities are not limited by demographic indicators such as age, gender, or education level.

Program Learning Outcomes

🗸 Students completing this program will be able to:
articulate and demonstrate theoretical and practical (hands-on) discipline competency that will support initial licensing and/or entry-level job placement.
🗸 Pass program benchmarks and earn the credentials required for certificate specialization.
🗸 Pass the program with a holistic understanding with specific skills reflected in the beauty industry.

The Certificate Program in Behavior Analysis prepares professionals in the area of Applied Behavior Analysis, with a particular emphasis on supporting students with academic and behavior support needs in public school settings. Program faculty hold certification at the Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral (BCBA-D) level, and have extensive experience in the fields of Applied Behavior Analysis, Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, Bullying Prevention, Pivotal Response Training and much more. The course sequence is approved by the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) as a Verified Course Sequence meeting the coursework requirements towards eligibility to obtain certification as a Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA). Applicants will need to meet additional requirements before they can be deemed eligible to take the examination required for certification as a BCaBA.

The College's Automotive Technology program is certified by the Automotive Service Excellence Education Foundation (ASEEF). The program is conducted in a well-equipped facility with a large fleet of late model domestic and import vehicles. Automobile manufacturers provide substantial support for the program.

Students can pursue a certificate or degree in Automotive Technology or a specialty degree or certificate in Japanese Automotive Technology. Our partnerships with Subaru of America, Inc., Nissan of America, Infinity of America, Ford Motor Co. and Audi of America, Inc. provide employment opportunities for students enrolled in our programs. Our internship program matches students with employers who agree to mentor the student for a minimum of one semester. The College also provides numerous classes to update the knowledge and skills of practicing technicians.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students completing this program will be able to:

- Successfully pass 3 out of 8 Automotive Service Excellence Education Foundation (ASEEF) exams.

- Apply theories, principles, and concepts to address skills learned that would apply to the ASEEF Certified areas of the Automotive Technology Program.

- Exhibit strong and effective written and oral communication skills.

- Exhibit strong electrical and mechanical analytical diagnostic skills.

- Recognize the importance of and practice ethical behavior in a professional work setting, both within the workforce and within the community.

- Successfully complete 100% of P-1 ASEEF specific tasks.

- Successfully complete 95% of the P-2 ASEEF specific tasks.

- Successfully complete 65% of the P-3 ASEEF specific tasks.

This program provides a foundation of interpreting skills for students seeking to take a national interpreting certification exam (CMI or CHI) to become a certified Spanish/English healthcare interpreter. The coursework presents Spanish/English interpreting in a cross-cultural context, addressing the ethics and standards expected of a professional healthcare interpreter.

Students who receive this certificate may seek employment as healthcare and community interpreters, translators, bilingual healthcare staff.

Program Learning Outcomes

🗸 Demonstrate a high intermediate/advanced linguistic proficiency in speaking, listening, and reading as applied to the use of the three modes (consecutive and simultaneous interpretation, and sight translation) in healthcare interpreting settings.

🗸 Apply critical thinking, cultural responsiveness and linguistic skills to successfully identify and manage potential communication- and ethical pitfalls in healthcare settings.

🗸 Locate and articulate the resources that are available to pursue continuing education opportunities in the field, to obtain formal assessments of their specific linguistic proficiency levels, and to pursue national interpreting certifications.

This program prepares students to communicate in the workforce with increased cultural responsiveness and increased Spanish/English linguistic proficiency. Students will gain an understanding of the ethical and professional standards required in various professional settings with an introduction to Spanish/English Interpreting.

Students who earn this certificate may be employed in any field that needs bilingual communication specialists.

Program Learning Outcomes

🗸 Demonstrate a high intermediate/advanced linguistic proficiency (reading, writing, speaking, listening) in the use of specialized vocabulary and grammatical structures applied to various community work environments.

🗸 Apply cultural responsiveness and linguistic skills to successfully identify and solve potential communication pitfalls in the workforce.

🗸 Identify, define, and analyze the important differences between interpretation and translation, and articulate the specialized skill-set required of each area.

The ASL program provides a foundation of interpreting skills for students seeking to transfer to a four-year institution in order to become an interpreter. The coursework presents American Sign Language in a cross-cultural context, addressing the ethics and standards expected of a professional interpreter.

The Certificate of Achievement can be obtained by completing all courses within the 27 unit major with a minimum grade of C or a P if the course is taken on a Pass/No Pass basis.

Program Learning Outcomes

🗸 Demonstrate an understanding of Deaf culture, and the ethics and standards of professional ASL environment.

🗸 Sign effectively, using appropriate skills, in working with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.