Visual Media (Skills Certificate) · Sierra College

Skills Certificate Applied Art and Design · Sierra College · 2026-2027 Catalog

(Formerly Visual Arts and Media)

Designed 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.

This is a specialty skills certificate designed to provide career technical skills; it is not equivalent to an associate degree.

Required Courses

Course	Title	Units
AAD 0012	Visual Communication (also COMM 0012)	3
orAAD 0013	History of Graphic Design
AAD 0044	Sketching for Design	3
orART 0004A	Drawing I
AAD 0060	Graphic Design I: Principles and Process	3
AAD 0070	Graphic Design II: Introduction to Digital Design	3
PHOT 0060A	Beginning Photography	3
Total Units		15