Digital Badges
Sessions College Micro-Credentials
At Sessions College, micro-credentials are awarded for demonstrating essential digital creative foundation skills.
Beginning in April 2026, through a partnership with Credly, students who complete selected courses with a grade of B or higher earn a micro-credential and digital badge that can be added on their LinkedIn, Twitter/X, or Facebook profile, shared via email, or added to a website or email signature.
Micro-credentials can be earned through completion of individual courses, or by enrollment in Undergraduate Certificate, Associate Degree, or Bachelor’s Degree programs.
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After Effects. Badge earners produce quality creative work utilizing Adobe After Effects software. Digital skills include creating sophisticated motion graphics including text and object animations, compositing videos and images, and adding audio and effects. Badge earners set keyframes on a timeline and work with transform properties, motion paths, masks, effects, and more. |
Successfully complete the 3-credit hour course DIG 208 After Effects I with a grade of B or higher. |
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Cinematographer. Badge earners produce quality creative work by applying cinematic principles in filmmaking. Recipients utilize and apply a variety of shot types, compositions, and lighting strategies when creating compelling digital media projects. |
Successfully complete the 3-credit hour course FLM 101 Cinematography with a grade of B or higher. |
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Color + Design + Type. Badge earners produce quality creative work by applying the principles of color theory, design, composition, and typography while effectively utilizing Adobe Photoshop software. Recipients develop effective visual communications informed by design and color theory in response to professional design scenarios. |
Successfully complete the 3-credit hour course DES 106 Design Foundations with a grade of B or higher. |
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Digital Media Filmmaker. Badge earners produce quality creative work by employing filmmaking and digital media skills with an emphasis on planning, producing, and distributing creative work through a variety of web-based applications and venues such as YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitch. Recipients conduct research in order to produce compelling work while serving as a storyteller, cinematographer, director, and editor for short-form digital media projects. |
Successfully complete the 3-credit hour course FLM 201 Filmmaking Concepts for Digital Media with a grade of B or higher. |
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Digital Photographer. Badge earners produce quality creative work by applying principles of photography. Digital skills include a foundation in fundamental photography techniques including the use of manual camera settings, balancing the elements in the Exposure Triangle (ISO, Shutter Speed, and Aperture/F-Stop), establishing White Balance appropriately, effectively managing depth of field, capturing motion, with consideration of different lighting conditions. |
Successfully complete the 3-credit hour course DES 151 Digital Photography I with a grade of B or higher. |
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Drawing. Badge earners produce quality creative work by applying multiple foundational drawing techniques. Working in traditional media, recipients employ effective use of line, value, mass, form, perspective, and composition. |
Successfully complete the 3-credit hour course DES 111 Drawing I with a grade of B or higher. |
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HTML and CSS. Badge earners produce quality creative work by knowing how to code using HTML and CSS. Recipients create Web pages with HTML and control page design and layout with CSS and get up to speed with current Web design practices including HTML5, semantic coding, CSS Grid, Flexbox, Web fonts, and CSS3 effects. |
Successfully complete the 3-credit hour course WEB 101 HTML and CSS I with a grade of B or higher. |
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Illustrator. Badge earners produce quality creative work by utilizing Adobe illustrator software. Digital skills include the creation of vector art for illustrations, logos, and graphics for print and the web. Creative tools include the use of the Pen tool, type tools, and modifying paths and shapes. |
Successfully complete the 3-credit hour course DES 141 Illustrator I with a grade of B or higher. |
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InDesign. Badge earners produce quality creative work by utilizing Adobe InDesign software. Digital skills include the implementation of an efficient design production workflow, use of parent pages, importing and manipulating objects, controlling text flow and style, organizing content with tables, layers, links, and preparing files to export for print and the web. |
Successfully complete the 3-credit hour course DES 201 InDesign I with a grade of B or higher. |
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Lightroom. Badge earners produce quality creative work by utilizing Adobe Lightroom Classic software. Digital skills include how to import and catalog digital photographic images, use basic and advanced development and retouching tools to create stellar shots, and taking advantage of advanced production techniques and workflows. |
Successfully complete the 3-credit hour course PHO 205 Lightroom with a grade of B or higher. |
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Photoshop. Badge earners produce quality creative work by utilizing Adobe Photoshop software. Digital skills include image manipulation for print design, Web design, and photography. Creative skills include selecting and isolating objects, creating image composites, masking and vignetting images, setting typography, and improving images with retouching and effects. |
Successfully complete the 3-credit hour course DES 121 Photoshop I with a grade of B or higher. |
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Premiere. Badge earners produce quality creative work by utilizing Adobe Premiere software. Digital skills include an emphasis upon the art and craft of editing videos with an emphasis upon shot types, story structure, scripting, editing sound, continuity editing, CODECs, adding text and graphics, compressing and expanding time, and storytelling strategies. |
Successfully complete the 3-credit hour course DIG 201 Digital Video Editing I with a grade of B or higher. |
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Screenwriting. Badge earners produce quality creative work by analyzing and writing screenplays, with an emphasis upon dialogue, character development, and plot structure. Recipients author and effectively format scripts and create compelling short dialogue scenes between two or more characters. |
Successfully complete the 3-credit hour course FLM 103 Screenwriting I with a grade of B or higher. |