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  "edition": "2025-2026",
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  "id": "applied-art-design--visual-skills",
  "name": "Visual Media",
  "award": "Skills Certificate",
  "department": "applied-art-design",
  "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.sierracollege.edu/archive/2025-2026/departments/applied-art-design/#visual-skills",
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      "markdown": "(Formerly Visual Arts and Media)\n\nDesigned for students interested in understanding visual media and becoming proficient in techniques for conceptualizing and creating impactful visual communication. Valuable for those preparing for a career in the visual arts and media, providing knowledge and technical skills applicable to digital art and design, visual communication studies, or for those upgrading their skills.\n\nThis is a specialty skills certificate designed to provide career technical skills; it is not equivalent to an associate degree."
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