Students in the Web Systems Development Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

• Java programming. 
• Information retrieval. 
• Web mining

Students in the User Experience Essentials Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

•  Audience analysis (audience theory and research traditions, audience formation and experience, reception studies, etc.).
•  User experience theories and applications (uses and gratifications, media functions versus media use, information-processing theory, etc.).
•  Empirical communications research methodologies (content analysis, focus groups, in-depth interviews, thematic analysis, and surveys).
•  Ability to draw inferences and make actionable recommendations based on user experience data.
•  A research design that is user-centered, process-oriented and motivated by outcomes.

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.

Students in the Software Engineering, Analysis, and Design Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

• Key software engineering principles, methods, and frameworks, including agile and lean principles, estimation, modeling, design patterns and more. 
• Development of large software systems and the integration of multiple systems into a domain-dependent solution. 
• The lifetime of a software system, from conception to obsolescence and replacement. 
• Various software costing techniques, including COCOMO and ROI. 
• Various methods of software development, including Cleanroom and Agile.

Students in the Project Management Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

• Project control methodologies. 
• Theories of economic behavior. 
• Capital expenditure planning. 
• Demand analysis, competition, and monopoly. 
• Econometric models of market strategies and competitive action. 
• Cost considerations and cash flow forecasting. 
• Financial and performance control. 
• Contractor organization and management. 
• Legal aspects in construction and environmental engineering. 
• Legal, ethical and intellectual property issues.

Students in the Power Systems Engineering Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

• Power system steady-state analysis of power system networks. 
• Digital computer techniques to solve power system problems. 
• Transient performance of power systems (interruption of arcs, re-ignition inertia effects, harmonic oscillations, saturated systems and more). 
• Energy accounting control and economic theories for interconnected steam and hydroelectric power systems.

Students in the Network Security and Information Assurance Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

•  Computational methods that provide secure internet communication. 
•  Network management technology and techniques. 
•  Emerging network management standards. 
•  Widely used security applications, schemes and practices on the internet and enterprise networks. 
•  Information assurance, and network and computer security concepts, applications and standards. 
•  Audit, control and security issues, requirements and processes in organizational information systems. 
•  Computer security auditing.

Students in the Management of Technology Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

• Knowledge management. 
• Information systems principles (personnel resources and budgets, integration of corporate and MIS plans, intermediate and long-range MIS plans, security and controls, and more). 
• Decision support systems. 
• E-commerce technologies and management strategies. 
• Digital technology management.