433 Creative Arts and Design Certificate Programs

The Digital Art and Animation Department provides courses taught by faculty with extensive academic, professional, and industry experience. Students are guided through the department's project based courses to develop the knowledge and skills needed to incorporate the principles of visual communication in their work.

This certificate prepares students for careers in multimedia graphics and computer animation. This includes instruction in photo manipulation, web animation, motion graphics, compositing, basic modeling and 3D animation using the latest equipment and software available.

The 3D Animation & Video Game Art Program is a comprehensive program that puts equal emphasis on the artistic and the technical side of 3D modeling and animation. Courses cover material that will take the student through the whole production process and workflow of 3D animation, from storyboarding and conceptualization to the final delivery of the rendered product.

The Mission of the Music Department is to provide students the means to accomplish their goals in music with an educational program that prepares them to contribute as artists, educators, audience members, and supporters of the arts. Our standard is to meet the cultural, educational, and social needs of the community through excellent musical performances, school visitations, workshops, and masterclasses. At the heart of the department are outstanding arts experiences, superior teaching, and access to an aesthetic learning education. Prepares individuals for careers in music recording, music composition, and music production using state-of-the-art music technology. Fulfills a portion of the Associate of Arts degree in Music.

The Mission of the Music Department is to provide students the means to accomplish their goals in music with an educational program that prepares them to contribute as artists, educators, audience members, and supporters of the arts. Our standard is to meet the cultural, educational, and social needs of the community through excellent musical performances, school visitations, workshops, and masterclasses. At the heart of the department are outstanding arts experiences, superior teaching, and access to an aesthetic learning education. Prepares individuals for a career in music as performers. Fulfills a portion of the Associate of Arts degree in Music.

The Mission of the Music Department is to provide students the means to accomplish their goals in music with an educational program that prepares them to contribute as artists, educators, audience members, and supporters of the arts. Our standard is to meet the cultural, educational, and social needs of the community through excellent musical performances, school visitations, workshops, and masterclasses. At the heart of the department are outstanding arts experiences, superior teaching, and access to an aesthetic learning education. Prepares individuals for a career in music as piano performers. Fulfills a portion of the Associate of Arts degree in Music.

The Mission of the Music Department is to provide students the means to accomplish their goals in music with an educational program that prepares them to contribute as artists, educators, audience members, and supporters of the arts. Our standard is to meet the cultural, educational, and social needs of the community through excellent musical performances, school visitations, workshops, and masterclasses. At the heart of the department are outstanding arts experiences, superior teaching, and access to an aesthetic learning education. Prepares individuals for a career in music as jazz performers. Fulfills a portion of the Associate of Arts degree in Music.

The program is open to individuals with a bachelor's degree and is especially useful for computer programmers, web designers, software engineers, human factors professionals, user interface designers, and others who wish to develop or enhance their user interface design and implementation skills.

This program prepares individuals to communicate information, entertainment and ideas through animation and cinematic arts. This includes practical, hands-on instruction in how to plan and produce a variety of animated works seeing the project through from concept to practice including but not limited to storyboarding, directing, editing, and all aspects of animation film production.

The Artist Certificate in Music Performance is designed for aspiring professional musicians who demonstrate outstanding performance ability and seek to advance their performance career. The certificate complements a traditional degree, may prepare the student for additional formal study, and gives the performer the mentor, performance, and industry connections for a career in performing arts.

Theatre endeavors to create with and for its students, a learning environment that is inclusive and representative of its community as a whole. We encourage students to develop their artistic expression and technical ability in preparation for their continuing education and future careers. Our hope is to challenge and channel students' talents into having an equitable, local, and global impact as artists, technicians, educators, audience members, and supporters of the arts. This program will provide training in basic technical theatre skills for career employment in production and performance within the Theatre Industry.

A practical, hands-on 8-month certificate delivered at SAE Institute Amsterdam that introduces students to electronic music production. The course focuses on DAWs (primarily Ableton Live and Logic Pro), sound design, sampling, mixing and mastering, recording, and live performance. The program is taught in English, delivered in a mixed/blended (in-person and online) studio-based environment, and includes access to an Ableton Live 12 Suite license for the duration of the course. Content is developed and updated by industry professionals.

The one-year Certificate in Musical Theatre has US accreditation with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). This program offers a conservatory and holistic musical theatre program, one that not only concentrates on a participatory performance perspective but also prepares students for a wide and exciting range of careers available in the performing arts industry.

The WebMaster certificate program prepares a student to be a valuable member of a professional web design or development team. The successful student will become a competent HTML and CSS coder and be proficient enough in Dreamweaver to streamline the development cycle and integrate all the typical technologies within a website. Depending on the chosen emphasis, the student will also become more skilled at designing sites with web graphics and animation or more skilled at developing web applications with programming in Javascript and PHP.

Besides industry, digitalization has now firmly taken hold of the service sector. This transformation offers you new career options, leading to future-proof positions as a specialist or manager. In this course, you will complement your knowledge of service management with digital skills. You will learn how to make analog processes more efficient using computer-aided systems – without losing sight of customer needs and expectations. First, you will gain insight into modern concepts of digital transformation. In the second module, you will learn which tools and channels are suitable for implementation. The service management learning unit will refresh your knowledge before you delve into the creative aspects of service delivery. Towards the end of the course, you will explore the diverse areas of e-business – from legal foundations and online communication to the development of sophisticated e-business concepts. You will receive the university certificate after successfully completing two exams and three assignments. The continuing education content is assessed at AKAD University with the credits earned and can be credited accordingly in any applicable credit transfer procedures.