Certificate in Digital/Social Media

Taking our digital and social media certificate online can help you become an expert in the field. You’ll learn how to effectively be the voice and face of your business and acquire the skills to interact with consumers and fans and grow interest in your company. While gaining a multitude of practical experience in a wide range of digital skills and becoming well versed in online terminology, you’ll learn how to create strategies across multiple social media platforms to connect the brand’s fans. The credential-boosting program can be completed quickly and acts as a great introduction to a variety of career paths.

With the digital media certificate online, you’ll examine the how to gather, write and report news for online news outlets. You’ll be introduced to how social media can be used as a mass communication outlet. Additionally, you will study the art of storytelling through photography and graphic design as it applies to newspapers, magazines, brochures and web design. The program allows you to choose to study either mass media law, which includes libel and privacy invasion, or ethics, which focuses on topics such as objectivity and accuracy.