Creative Arts Technology
Boise State’s School of the Arts is launching a brand-new Creative Arts Technology (CAT) certificate—your chance to fuse art with cutting-edge technology. Whether you’re into music, design, video or digital media, this program helps you level up your creative skills and break into the modern creative industry.
The CAT certificate will complement your creative talents with interactive programming, animation, visual communication and generative artificial intelligence skills. Add this certificate to your degree program with just 12 credits in topics like film production, the music industry, digital photography and other creative technology courses.
Create and innovate with a Creative Arts Technology certificate
Career-applicable skills
Learn interactive programming, animation, visual communication and generative artificial intelligence for the arts.
Complements your artistic passion
Build on the creative skills you learn in your arts degree.
Only 12 credits
Add the CAT certificate to your degree program with just one full-time semester’s worth of courses.
Required courses
Creative Technology Integration
AE 490
Build in-demand creative tech skills, connect with professionals in various creative industries and prepare for success in the evolving creative economy.
Technology in the Music Industry
MUS 209
Students will develop experience with hardware and software tools used in the music industry.
Culture—the way we express ourselves and understand each other—can bind us together as one world. The values behind music, behind art, are connections, creativity, and innovation, and those are the things that technology enables at a global scale.
Yo-Yo Ma
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