The New Media Short-Term Certificate is designed to cultivate skills in mass communication and message design, visual communication, journalism and marketing within the realm of new technologies including blogs, podcasts, video games, video production, websites, and social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. Students will learn valuable marketing skills, hands on visual communication design, and effective message design in mass communication channels through interdisciplinary theory and methodology. Graduates of the certificate will be able to analyze and assess the needs of a client in order to most effectively communicate and engage with their respective publics.