Career Description
The Emerging Digital Technologies Certificate will help students package their learning in a way that demonstrates their knowledge and skills in various digital media areas.  Through this program, students gain skills in managing and creating digital media content, assessing and using web applications for business purposes, conducting webinar meetings, utilizing social networking for business purposes, capturing digital photos, posting and managing digital video and more.  In this highly digitalized world, the Emerging Digital Technologies Certificate will help students in a personal sense, as well as provide a valuable component to their technical or liberal arts degree. 

Program Information
The Emerging Digital Technologies Certificate prepares students to understand, navigate, and use the ever-expanding world of emerging digital media.  Courses will mix cutting-edge technology with core communications and liberal arts concepts so that students will not only be able to manage the basic technology, but will be able to use it to effectively to work with others on a personal or professional level.

Program Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to use multiple emerging technology applications in a basic way for either personal or possible professional use.

Students will be able to demonstrate proficiencies in various technologies demonstrated by project-based assessments utilized in courses.

Admissions
Students can start the certificate any semester.  Specific program admission is not required

Transfer Opportunities
Most courses within the program may be used as elective credits toward an Associate of Arts degree and many will also meet goal areas within the MN Transfer Curriculum   

Employment Opportunities
This certificate is designed to integrate into or be added onto another degree program.  Students with the Emerging Digital Technologies Certificate will find themselves more valuable to perspective employers across a wide-range of employment areas.

Emerging Digital Technology, Certificate - Program Planning Form (pdf)