Creative Arts Technology
Boise State’s School of the Arts is excited to announce our new Creative Arts Technology (CAT) certificate. With just 12 credits, you can supplement your degree program starting in Fall 2025.
The CAT certificate complements your creative talents with training in interactive programming, animation, visual communication and generative artificial intelligence. These skills can help you grow your creative career after graduation and find work in a field that lets you flex your artistic abilities while supporting your professional goals.
You’ll take courses across all four School of the Arts departments—plus an Arts Entrepreneurship credit—to help you blend your creativity with technological tools.
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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