Artificial Intelligence and Digital Media ,Certificate
AI, Digital Media, Machine Learning
Do you want to understand the images, video and audio created by artificial intelligence and how AI technologies impact society and culture? Whether you enjoy building and designing new media from scratch or understanding how media shapes our society, in this program, you'll immerse yourself in advanced intelligent media technology.
In the artificial intelligence and digital media certificate program, you focus on the creative exploration of how new media, built on advances in AI and machine learning, influences the way people live, learn, create and communicate.
You enhance your program of study with integrated, transdisciplinary training in the use of AI in new media and its sociocultural implications. You learn how to design and create new media and analyze existing media products from a transdisciplinary perspective.
The Games, Arts, Media and Engineering School educates the next generation of learners, empowering you with technofluency --- its development, application and implications. The GAME School prepares you to be a socially aware, critically thinking global citizen who strive to bring about positive change in a society that is increasingly shaped by new technologies.
- College/school:
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
- Location: Tempe
2026-2027 Catalog Year
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The certificate in artificial intelligence and digital media consists of 15 credit hours of coursework, including 12 upper-division credit hours. A minimum grade of "C" (2.00) is required in all courses for the certificate. |
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AME 130 Prototyping Dreams
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AME 230 Programming for the Media Arts
3 Credit Hours
Minimum
Grade:C
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C | 3 |
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AME 400 Minds and Machines
3 Credit Hours
Minimum
Grade:C
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C | 3 |
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AME 404 Reading the Algorithm
3 Credit Hours
Minimum
Grade:C
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C | 3 |
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AME 434 Machine Learning for Media Arts
3 Credit Hours
Minimum
Grade:C
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C | 3 |
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3 Credit Hours
Minimum
Grade:C
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C | 3 |
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Prerequisite courses may be needed in order to complete the requirements of this certificate.
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A student pursuing an undergraduate certificate must be enrolled as a degree-seeking student at ASU. Undergraduate certificates are not awarded before the completion of an undergraduate degree. A student who already holds an undergraduate degree may pursue an undergraduate certificate as a nondegree-seeking graduate student.
Program learning outcomes identify what a student will learn or be able to do upon completion of their program. This program’s learning outcomes include the following:
- Understand key algorithms and topics underlying artificial intelligence and how they work.
- Analyze an AI algorithm from a sociocultural perspective and produce written documentation and analysis for a given algorithm and its deployment in society.
- Create of media products and creative work that intersect with AI technology or applications.
Several companies are hiring in the augmented and virtual reality, image and video multimedia space, including Adobe, Dreamscape, NVIDIA, Disney and Intel.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, overall employment in media and communication occupations is projected to grow more slowly than the average for all occupations from 2024 to 2034. Despite limited employment growth, about 104,800 openings are projected each year, on average, largely because of the need to replace workers who leave the occupations permanently. The median annual wage for media and communication workers (such as public relations specialists, news analysts, and writers and authors) was $70,300 in May 2024, which was higher than the median annual wage for all occupations of $49,500. Media and communication equipment workers (such as broadcast technicians, film and video editors, and photographers) had a median annual wage of $56,480 in May 2024, which was higher than the median annual wage for all occupations.
Employment in computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations from 2024 to 2034. About 317,700 openings are projected each year, on average, because of employment growth and the need to replace workers who leave the occupations permanently. All these numbers show a promising future for graduates who develop the skills taught in this certificate program.
Example careers include:
- augmented and virtual reality software developer
- computer animator
- data scientist
- graphics software developer
- machine learning engineer
- media and communications designer
- user experience and user interface designer
The GAME School
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STAUF-B 107
TheGameSchool@asu.edu
480-965-9432
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