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Degrees & Certificates

Choose from over 200 programs and get started achieving your educational and career goals. 

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Pathways:
  • Career & Technical Education
  • Learn basic audio production techniques such as operating audio equipment and producing tracks. Develop the fundamentals of mixing and creating a final master.
  • Build on your skills to produce live sound and advanced digital editing techniques. Master time compression, harmonic and rhythmic manipulation and sound processing with plug-ins.
  • Create your own passion project. Learn to produce sound for film and video and then demonstrate all you’ve learned with a capstone project: a self-led audio project with instructors to support you.
  • Study how automatic transmissions and transaxles work and how to repair them. Gain hands-on skills in auto shop safety, hydraulics, electronics, power flow, transmission and transaxle removal and replacement and more.
  • Automotive Collision Repair Technology

    Associate of Applied Science
    Gain knowledge and hands-on skills in automotive collision repair shop management and safety, structural and non-structural auto repair, metal finishing, movable automotive glass and hardware, metal welding and cutting, surface preparation and refinishing, panel repair and replacement. Learn estimating, customer relations, sales, and structural damage and diagnosis.
  • This certificate program teaches you all of the core skills needed to become an automotive service technician from the associate of applied science in automotive technology degree program, minus the general education requirements. Learn essential automotive systems and how to repair them, including transmissions, brakes, steering and electrical.
  • AYES Certificate

    Certificate
    Prepare for work as an automotive technician with the AYES certificate. The courses and internship will provide students with the the necessary skills to succeed in entry-level tech positions in the automotive industry.
  • Learn the basics of 2D and 3D animation. Master storyboarding techniques, tweening, character drawing and design and animate scenes using advanced techniques seen in movies and video games.

    In-district high school students can earn this certificate in two semesters and receive dual high school and college credit.

  • This comprehensive certificate program provides students with skills in computer terminology, experimental design, manufacturing, process operations and energy technologies. Best practices, collaborative techniques and ethical considerations within the industry will also be explored.
  • Get practice in the fundamentals of computer aided drafting by studying blueprint reading and AutoCAD software techniques. Learn how to read blueprints and use AutoCAD software to draft two-dimensional documents.