Introducing Digital Badges
Digital badges are now available for select offerings through ArtCenter Extension (ACX) for students seeking professional development and continuing education courses.
With ArtCenter College of Design's new digital badges, you can now share your skills and learning achievements with potential employers, educational institutions, and peers.
What is a digital badge?
A badge gives you the ability to share your accomplishments online in a way that is simple, trusted, and can be easily verified in real time. Badges provide employers and peers evidence of what you can do as a result of your education through newly acquired, specialized skills. You can display badges you've earned on social media, your website, a digital resume, LinkedIn, and in your email signature.
Badges are earned based upon the successful completion of a sequence of selected courses. Badges currently available:
Surface Design
Gain an understanding of surface design concepts and collections, terminology, basic knowledge of software, technical requirements for reproduction, licensing and print on-demand, and build a professional quality portfolio for job search, freelance and licensing presentations. To earn a badge, complete the following courses with a grade of B or better:
Graphic Design
Develop a foundation of layout, design and typography through projects that provide an understanding of hierarchy, grid systems, logo forms, design thinking, design research, visual communication, color, and printing. Students will learn how to document process and professionally present their work. Complete the following courses with a grade of B or better:
Product Design/Designing Everyday Products
Learn basic sketch, rendering and presentation techniques rooted in dimensional form, observation and materials. Students will work on projects that create an understanding of designing products including project framing, research, concept, development, refinement and presentation. Complete the following courses with a grade of B or better:
Creative Direction
Engage in the culture of a creative agency as you learn to work and thrive in a stimulating environment rooted in advertising. Learn how to utilize forms of traditional and emerging media to reach consumers, exercise design practices that tap into an audience and culture, construct brand identities, and produce multiple and varied creative campaigns with powerful copy ready to be presented in a final book or portfolio. Complete the following courses with a grade of B or better:
How to Earn a Badge
If you've already taken any of these courses in the sequence through ACX within the last 3 years (since Fall 2020), you're eligible to complete the series and earn the badge.
Course Changes and Cancellations
ACX reserves the right to cancel any class, limit class size, change times or substitute instructors for those listed in the class schedule as deemed necessary. Class cancellations will not be announced until the end of the registration period. If ACX cancels a class you have registered for, you will receive a full refund of course tuition.
How to Request and Claim your Badge
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