Emerging Digital Technologies Certificate
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
Graduate will be able to:
1. Use multiple emerging technology applications in a basic way for either personal or possible professional use.
2. Demonstrate proficiencies in various technologies by completing project-based assessments
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)
REQUIRED COURSES
COMP 1140 Survey of Web-Based Tools (3cr)
(Note: Students should satisfactorily complete a computer literacy assessment prior to enrolling or complete the recommended prerequisite of COMP 1109)
SELECT 13 CREDITS FROM AT LEAST 2 DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES
COMP 1120 Introduction to Computer Applications (3cr)
COMP 1121* Advanced Computer Applications (3cr)
COMP 2127 Software Evaluation (3cr)
ARTS 1420 Digital Photography (3cr)
ETEC 1120 Immersive Worlds, Second Lives and Avatars (2cr)
PHIL 1420 Cyber Ethics (2cr)
SPCH 1472 Online Social Networking (3cr)
THTR 1430 You Tube is a Stage (3cr)
Total 16 Credits
GRADUATION REQUIREMENT 16 CREDITS
*Denotes Prerequisite or Co-requisite