The Media Arts Center Online
Get real world training media arts training, online. Learn industry standard tools and techniques with focused instruction aimed to get you job-ready.
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Spring Programs | Mar 31st - Jun 28th
Automate the busy work with smart tools. Integrate AI into the core pillars of your business that drive growth.
Develop a complete marketing strategy that covers everything your project or business needs.
Virtual Campus
Unlike traditional classrooms where you move at the pace of the slowest student, our digital environment allows for real-time screen-side coaching. If you get stuck on a timeline in Premiere or a node in AI, your instructor can jump right onto your screen to guide your hand.
- Personalized Instruction: In a physical classroom, a teacher divides time among 20 desks. Online, screen-sharing allows the instructor to see exactly what the student is doing on their software in real-time.
- Access state-of-the-art workflows without the overhead of a physical lab. We bring the industry to you, ensuring you learn on the hardware and software you’ll actually use in your career.
- No Commute = More Creation: Instead of spending 1 hour driving to a lab, students spend that hour editing or designing.
- Cloud based learning environment for class materials, tools, submissions, assignments and more.
- Chat and email support available for students.
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With The Media Arts Center program certificate vs. a degree at UNC Charlotte.
Spring Programs | Apr 28th - Jul 16th
Learn the ins and outs of broadcasting for the news, sports, streaming, as well as what makes everything tick.
Film a short movie in 12 weeks. From writing to post production, learn skills that work on any set.
Summer Programs | Jul 21st - Aug 27th
For videogames, movies, broadcasts or anything that requieres computer graphics. Create a short animation in 12 weeks.
Fall Programs | Sep 1st - Nov 18th
Get started or overhaul your online store. From draft to customer support, deploy an e-commerce website in 12 weeks.