Courses

Learn how to secure applications and manage production environments using modern development and AI security practices.

Understand how modern applications are structured, scaled, and optimized through systems design and architecture principles.

This 276-hour certificate covers the production skills behind modern content work and then adds the AI tooling that surrounds them. The first block teaches interface design in Figma, image editing in Photoshop, video editing in Premiere Pro, and motion graphics in After Effects. The second folds generative AI into that workflow and treats Claude as a day-to-day work assistant. The program closes with an AI coding course and four studio projects, each shipped to a live URL: a client website, an interactive design system, a social media creative studio, and a marketing studio. Graduates leave able to produce content across formats and to build the small tools that support it.

At 438 hours across twelve courses, this is one of the longer design certificates in VDCI's catalog, and it starts from no prior design or coding experience. It opens with design principles, color theory, typography, and layout, then builds working command of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign through projects rather than feature walkthroughs. From there it moves into product design: Figma, interface patterns, design systems, user research, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing. The last third of the program covers AI image generation across Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, DALL-E, and Google Imagen, including the prompt technique and commercial licensing questions that client work raises, and then AI-assisted application development with databases, authentication, and hosting. Students finish with an eight-piece graphic design portfolio, a documented UX case study, and three deployed web applications. This program is approved for GI Bill education benefits. See VDCI's veterans page for eligibility and enrollment information.

Create three projects from a selection of seven options, such as a portfolio website, interactive design system, brand studio, social creative tool, pitch deck designer, brand identity app, or motion studio.

Build the skills to design across print, web, and digital using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Figma. You'll learn to put AI tools to work throughout your process and graduate with a portfolio of real projects ready for a career in graphic design.

This 294-hour bootcamp runs from design fundamentals through to a finished portfolio, with AI tooling introduced at each stage. Students build command of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign alongside the typography, color, layout, and composition principles behind them, then move into interface design in Figma, producing wireframes, prototypes, and finished UI for websites and apps. The later courses cover generative tools including ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, and Midjourney together with the AI features built into Creative Cloud, and then AI-assisted development for building live design applications such as a portfolio site, brand studios, and interactive design tools. Tuition includes four months of Adobe Creative Cloud access.

Create portfolio projects across digital marketing, social media, and analytics, dig into modern AI marketing workflows, and build live web applications that show off your marketing and technical skills.

This 300-hour certificate spans seventeen courses covering digital marketing strategy and web fundamentals, content marketing, email marketing, SEO, Google Ads, and Google Analytics, then works through social media marketing on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, X, and live streaming. The program is built around produced work rather than lectures: students run and measure campaigns, grow a social presence, and build live marketing web applications with AI coding tools. Graduates finish with a marketing portfolio, hands-on experience across paid, organic, and analytics workflows, and deployed projects they can show employers or clients. This program is approved for GI Bill education benefits. See VDCI's veterans page for eligibility and enrollment information.

Build projects like a campaign brief generator, a marketing ops dashboard, an AI campaign studio, an SEO content workbench, a lifecycle email builder, or a paid ads campaign app.