This certificate provides flexibility for students interested in developing graphic design and visual communication skills. Students may customize their study while learning core competencies. Courses emphasize design and creativity while providing technical studio and software training.

Students gain the skills and understanding required to communicate ideas in digital and printed media through extensive and varied applied learning experiences. Students also learn creative problem solving, while enriching their understanding of art, media, and culture.

This certificate is not for university degree credit.

Choose minimum five courses required from the list below:

Arabic Typography Workshop

Basic Design Principles

Children's Book Illustration Studio

Character Design Studio

Colour Theory for Digital Design

Comics and Graphic Novels Studio

Editorial Design Studio

Graphic Design: Past, Present & Future

Illustration Essentials

Intermediate Adobe Illustrator

Intermediate Adobe Photoshop

Intermediate Comics and Graphic Novels Studio

Intermediate Children's Book Illustration Studio

Introduction to Adobe InDesign

Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

Introduction to Adobe Photoshop

Introduction to Adobe Software for Creative Design

Introduction to Digital Photography

Introduction to Screen Printing

Korean Typography Workshop

Package Design Studio

The Art of Type

Type and Image Studio

Working with your OCAD U Account

As a student, you will receive an OCAD U user account, which will grant you access to the OCAD U learning management system, called Canvas.

Your Canvas account will be enabled one week prior to the start date of your course. Login at canvas.ocadu.ca. Contact continuingstudies@ocadu.ca for assistance with using your Canvas account.

Other questions about Certificates and registration? We are here to help - contact cstudies@unbc.ca.

Qualifications

• For online courses, students must complete and turn in all assigned material.
• Instructors assess the student's work and issue a grade of pass or fail. Students must receive a passing grade in the course for the course to qualify for the certificate.
• Students must complete five distinct qualifying courses within three years. One of these courses may be a qualifying course from any of the other OCAD U Continuing Studies certificates.
• Successfully completed courses can be applied towards one certificate only.
• Students must register with OCAD U to be eligible for the certificate program. Registration can be done at any time before, during or after completing the requirements.
• When students have completed all certificate requirements within the prescribed time limit, they will be able to download a printable PDF file of their certificate.