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College of Science and Liberal Arts
Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 12
Program Details
Enables students to dig deep into advanced professional and technical communication and quickly apply their newfound knowledge.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the Technical Communication Essentials Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- Technical and report writing.
- Usability analysis.
- Ethics.
- Information literacy.
- Elements of visual design (design theories, composition techniques, electronic and print publishing technologies).
- Content management and information architecture focusing on methodologies such as DITA and DocBook (in-demand proprietary software free to students).
- Professional and technical editing.
Admissions & curriculum
12 Required Credits
Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 12
Program Details
Offers detailed instruction in the use of social media as a communication tool in the business, education, government and nonprofit sectors, as well as the opportunity to develop a comprehensive professional ePortfolio.
Graduates from this certificate program will know when and how to use media tools to foster dialogue and drive action. Students will gain competencies in communication, information design, and new technologies.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the Social Media Essentials Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- How and when to use blogging, tagging, wiki writing, podcasting, and tweeting.
- Online visual communication strategies, including multimedia design and creation, usability heuristics, navigation theory and community building.
- User research methods such as contextual inquiry, ethnographic field studies, card sorting, affinity diagramming and usability testing.
- User and task analysis/rhetorical strategies.
- Contemporary types of technical communications.
Admissions & curriculum
12 Required Credits
Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 12
Program Details
Designed to teach students to build quality educational experiences, at varying levels for diverse learner populations, for any discipline of study or subject matter. Promotes seamless integration of technology awareness and application to augment theoretical study and research toward planning, assessing and improving learning.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the Instructional Design, Evaluation, and Assessment Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- Integrated curriculum, learning and assessment systems (CLAS) design.
- Instruction and assessment-methods design.
- Various types of technology to develop, use and process assessment results, as well as facilitate and augment instructional design.
- Design and development of effective online and hybrid instruction.
- Program evaluation methods and practice.
Admissions & curriculum
12 Required Credits
Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 12
Program Details
Focuses on the use and impact of digital media in marketing communications, to enable students to gain competencies in information technologies, social media, and organizational cultures, and more effectively practice the social, cultural and economic dynamics of digital media marketing.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the Digital Marketing Design Essentials Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- The use of internet and electronic commerce in developing a marketing strategy.
- Internet-based marketing.
- An overview of social networks.
- Data analysis, probability, and statistics from an information systems perspective.
- Rudiments of probability and random variables, estimation, special distribution and sampling, Markov processes, hypothesis testing, graphics, and visualization.
Admissions & curriculum
12 Required Credits
Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 12
Program Details
Provides the groundwork for developing new statistical methods, as well as applying existing techniques, to interpret data about the medical and life sciences.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the Biostatistics Essentials Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- Statistical techniques with emphasis on applications in health-related sciences (Bayes’ theorem, basic epidemiologic tools and more).
- Different sampling methods.
- Statistical methods used in designing clinical trials and analyzing their data.
- Modeling of time-to-event data in the presence of censoring and truncation, with emphasis on applications to the health sciences.
Admissions & curriculum
12 Required Credits
What our students are saying
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Getting a degree from a great school like NJIT gave me the opportunity to choose the job I wanted."Seif Issa -
NJIT was my dream school."Hilsson Angeles
Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 12
Program Details
Provides professionals with advanced skills and tools to collect data, analyze it and interpret results across a wide variety of high-tech companies. The techniques learned can be applied to quality control, production design and analysis, telecommunications, financial analysis and risk analysis.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the Applied Statistical Methods Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- Role and purpose of applied statistics (summary measures for quantitative/qualitative data, random behavior modeling, computational statistical inference, linear regression analysis and inference, and more).
- Regression models and the least squares criterion.
- Role of sample surveys, sampling design and different sampling methods.
- Fixed and random effect models and ANOVA, block design, Latin square design, factorial and fractional factorial designs and their analysis.
- Statistical software such as JMP, SAS and S-plus.
- Times-series and naïve-forecasting models, estimation and forecasting for ARMA models and nonseasonal and seasonal ARIMA models, and more.
Admissions & curriculum
12 Required Credits
What our students are saying
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NJIT was my dream school."Hilsson Angeles
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Getting a degree from a great school like NJIT gave me the opportunity to choose the job I wanted."Seif Issa
Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 15
Program Details
The primary objective of the program is to 'educate the educators' in a concentrated science field at a high level, and apply current instructional design tools in that science field, to bring back to the classroom on their own.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the Applied Science Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- Technology in Class and Learning - Various types of technology necessary to develop, use, and process the results of assessments as well as facilitate and augment instructional design.
- Digital Instruction Essentials - The digital era has placed teaching and learning in flux, creating instructional opportunities at every turn. In this course students will examine the fundamentals of instructional design, working through a cycle of continuous improvement including idea generation, curriculum development, course production, and assessment.
Select skills from the chosen track: Professional and Technical Communication, Business, Computer Science, Engineering Management, Information Systems, Engineering, Architecture, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Physics.
Admissions & curriculum
15 Required Credits
What our students are saying
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NJIT was my dream school."Hilsson Angeles
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Getting a degree from a great school like NJIT gave me the opportunity to choose the job I wanted."Seif Issa
