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Certificates in Communications

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Give your future resumé a boost!
Earn a pre-professional certificate without taking ANY additional units.

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Digital Media Certificate

Photo Comm Certificate

Radio-Audio Certificate

Sports Media Certificate

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Digital Communications Media Certificate

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The Digital Communications Media Certificate gives CSUF students a chance to complete a set of courses that provide relevant hands-on skills for the ever-evolving media workplace. Students will gain the concepts and skills needed to strategize, design, and execute interactive Web-based and social media content. To prepare for graduation, students will create a web portfolio with their own domain and web hosting in place.

Select 3 of these 5 Courses

  • COMM 300 Visual Communication
  • COMM 380 Interactive Media Design
  • COMM 422 Communications Technologies
  • COMM 444 Portfolio Visual Communications
  • COMM 481 Adv. Interactive Media Design

Select 1 of these Courses

  • ANTH 311 Culture and Communication
  • ANTH 486 Anthropology of Digital Media
  • CAS 360 Adolescents and the Media
  • CPSC 305 Coding for Artists
  • CPSC 313 The Computer Impact
  • HCOM 305 Digital Media Literacy
  • HCOM 315 Social Media and Communication
  • SOCI 345 Sociology of Communication
  • WGST 320 Gendered Technoculture

Resources:

All Department of Communications majors are encouraged to consider completion of one of our pre-professional certificates. The certificates are also open to students from other majors. A certificate takes the place of the collateral requirements on the COMM degree check sheet. To learn more, speak to your faculty advisor or visit the College of Communications Advising and Student Success Center (College Park 210).

Department of Communications Certificates are open to all CSUF students

 

Digital Media Certificate Faculty Advisor:

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Photo Communications Certificate

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The Photo Communications Certificate allows CSUF students to complete a set of courses that provide relevant hands-on skills for traditional and digital photography. Students will learn to conceptualize and create compelling photographic images for use in Web-based and social media content. Students will also learn the business issues involved with being a successful photographer.

Select 3 of these 4 Courses

  • COMM 319 Visual Reporting
  • COMM 321 Studio Photography
  • COMM 409 Advanced Visual Reporting
  • COMM 421 Advanced Studio Photography

Select 1 of these Courses

  • ART 338A Creative Photography
  • ART 338B Creative Photography
  • ART 410 The Digital Studio
  • ART 478 Studio Expanded: Other Genre
  • ART 479 Video Art & the Moving Image
  • ART 488T Sel. Topics in Creative Photography
  • CTVA 300 Language of Film
  • CTVA 350 Story Structure
  • CTVA 362 Media Literacy
  • ANTH 311 Culture and Communication
  • ANTH 306 Culture and Art
  • PHIL 311 Aesthetics: Philosophy Art & Beauty

Resources:

All Department of Communications majors are encouraged to consider completion of one of our pre-professional certificates. The certificates are also open to students from other majors. A certificate takes the place of the collateral requirements on the COMM degree check sheet. To learn more, speak to your faculty advisor or visit the College of Communications Advising and Student Success Center (College Park 210).

Department of Communications Certificates are open to all CSUF students

 

Photo Comm Certificate Faculty Advisor:

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Radio-Audio Certificate

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The Radio-Audio Certificate allows CSUF students to complete a set of courses that provide relevant hands-on skills for working in traditional radio and online audio broadcasting. Students will learn to develop, produce and host compelling news, entertainment and live action programing and learn the business issues involved in the traditional and online broadcast world.

Take all 3 of these Courses

  • COMM 371 Radio-Audio Operations
  • COMM 375 Radio-Audio Entertainment
  • COMM 377 Radio-Audio News

Select 1 of these Courses

  • CTVA 310 Audio Production
  • CTVA 341 Business of TV
  • CTVA 361 American TV
  • CTVA 362 Media Literacy
  • CTVA 381 Censorship
  • HCOM 325 Interviewing: Principles & Practices
  • HIST 401A Oral History-United States
  • HIST 404 Community History
  • MUS 302 History of Jazz
  • MUS 303 World Music
  • MUS 304 Music of Mexico
  • MUS 305 Women in Music
  • MUS 306 Business of Music
  • MUS 307 History of Rock Music
  • MUS 308 Music of the Middle East
  • MUS 350 Music in American Society
  • MUS 356 African American Music Appreciation
  • POSC 448 Media and Politics

Resources:

All Department of Communications majors are encouraged to consider completion of one of our pre-professional certificates. The certificates are also open to students from other majors. A certificate takes the place of the collateral requirements on the COMM degree check sheet. To learn more, speak to your faculty advisor or visit the College of Communications Advising and Student Success Center (College Park 210).

Department of Communications Certificates are open to all CSUF students

 

Radio-Audio Certificate Faculty Advisor:

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Sports Media Certificate

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The Sports Media Certificate allows CSUF students, who are interested in a career in sports media, to complete a set of courses that provides hand-on skills for a variety of positions within the profession. Students will learn to write, develop, produce and host compelling sports features, sports announcing and in-studio shows and learn the business issues involced in the modern sports media world.

Select 3 or 4 of these 4 courses

  • COMM 336 Sports Broadcast Journalism
  • COMM 441 Sports Reporting
  • COMM 445 Sports Entertainment
  • HCOMM 370 Sport Communication

Select 1 of these Courses

  • AMST 346 American Culture Through Spectator Sports
  • KNES 381 History of Sports, Games, and Culture
  • KNES 384 Sport Sociology
  • KNES 481 The Socio-Cultural Study of the Olympic Games:
  • Ancient to Modern
  • MATH 120 Elementary Statistics
  • MATH 205 Elementary Statistics Supplement
  • MKTG 430 Sports Marketing
  • SOCI 467 Sociology of Sport

Resources:

All Department of Communications majors are encouraged to consider completion of one of our pre-professional certificates. The certificates are also open to students from other majors. A certificate takes the place of the collateral requirements on the COMM degree check sheet. To learn more, speak to your faculty advisor or visit the College of Communications Advising and Student Success Center (College Park 210).

Department of Communications Certificates are open to all CSUF students

 

Sports Media Certificate Faculty Advisor:

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