Full Sail University

Media & Communications

Online Certificate Programs

Learn the power of messaging.

If you have a passion for storytelling, Full Sail University's communications certificate programs can increase your understanding of how narratives take hold across different media and how technology can enhance your audience's experience. Whether you're interested in marketing, entertainment, or reporting, these programs bring together traditional and new methods with an emphasis on emerging technologies.

Creative Writing Undergraduate Certificate — Online

The Creative Writing undergraduate certificate program provides students with an expert-curated introduction to character creation, story development, and the fundamentals of creative communication.

Courses Include:

  • New Media Tools - Students will explore a variety of media used in digital and online environments to accomplish course projects and further their understanding of new-media tools, including images, text, and streaming video and audio.
  • Scriptwriting Techniques - Students will learn the fundamentals of formatting using industry-standard software, structural techniques, character development, conflict, and scene construction.
  • Multimedia Storytelling - Students will learn the building blocks of visual storytelling, such as how to communicate moods, emotions, ideas, sounds, and scenery through props.
  • New Media Tools
  • Scriptwriting Techniques
  • Multimedia Storytelling

Media Strategy Undergraduate Certificate — Online

In the Media Strategy undergraduate certificate, coursework begins with an introduction to storytelling and communicating through media.

Courses Include:

  • Aesthetics and Theory of Communications - The course examines the theories of sight, sound, and motion as applied to the design of communication products for different media formats.
  • Digital Video and Audio Production - The course examines scripting, treatments, visual and audio storytelling, storyboarding, editing, sound, media management, narration and industry terminology, and application.
  • New Media Tools - Students will explore a variety of media used in digital and online environments to accomplish course projects and further their understanding of new-media tools, including images, text, and streaming video and audio.
  • Aesthetics and Theory of Communications
  • Digital Video and Audio Production
  • New Media Tools

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