Generative Media and Creative AI Graduate Certificate (Online)

The Generative Media and Creative AI Graduate Certificate equips you with the creative and technical foundation to work with generative AI across the full media production landscape. In four online courses, you’ll explore video, visual design, interactive prototyping, and immersive storytelling.

Designed for media professionals, designers, content creators, and marketers ready to lead in AI-driven production environments, this fully online certificate provides you the opportunity to learn from expert faculty amid a network of high-achieving peers.

Through the Generative Media and Creative AI Graduate Certificate, you’ll learn to:

• Create AI-generated media across video, visual, and multimodal formats.
• Apply storytelling principles to AI-assisted media production and narrative design.
• Use generative AI tools to support your creative workflows and production pipelines.
• Design immersive and interactive media experiences using modern digital tools.
• Evaluate the ethical, legal, and creative implications of generative AI in media production.

As generative AI transforms how digital media is created and distributed, demand is growing for professionals who can combine creative direction with technical fluency. Organizations across media, marketing, entertainment, and technology are seeking talent who can design and produce AI-enabled content for a range of platforms. The certificate will prepare you for success in roles such as:

• AI Media Creator
• Digital Content Producer
• Creative Director (AI-enabled media)
• Multimedia Designer
• Generative Media Specialist

The Generative Media and Creative AI Certificate includes the four online courses:

Two required courses:

• DGMD E-59  Human-Centered Design and Artificial Intelligence
• DGMD E-1  Interactive Prototyping and Creative AI

One course in generative media, chosen from the following options: 

• DGMD E-10  Advanced Digital Photography
• DGMD E-42  Making the Short Film: Innovations and Practices for the Digital Age

One course in storytelling and multimodal media, chosen from the following options: 

• DGMD E-30  Introduction to Media Production
• DGMD E-35  Video Editing and Digital Design

This is a new graduate certificate as of fall 2026. Any courses completed before the fall 2025 term cannot be applied to this graduate certificate. To earn the certificate, at least one course must be taken in the fall 2026 term or later.

Selecting courses. Multiple course options are available during fall, spring, and summer terms. Offerings vary by term. Explore current options in the DCE Course Search & Registration platform.

The Generative Media and Creative AI Graduate Certificate can be completed on its own or applied toward the Digital Media Design Degree Program.

Two courses for the certificate enable you to:

• Fulfill the “earn your way in” admissions requirement.
• Earn the Creative AI Foundations Microcertificate.

After admission, you can complete two additional courses to earn the graduate certificate while also applying them toward your master’s degree.

Learn more about degree admissions, requirements, and timeline.

If you take two courses per semester, you can complete your certificate in 8 months. If you prefer a more flexible pace, you have up to three years to finish.

There is no formal application required. You simply register for each course.

To meet the requirements for the certificate:

• Complete the four certificate courses for graduate credit.
• Earn at least a B grade in each course.
• Complete all courses within three years of starting your first eligible certificate course.

Learn more about pursuing a certificate and the process of requesting your certificate.