Capitol College offers several graduate certificates in computer science and related areas that can help you focus your knowledge without the commitment of completing an entire degree. The certificates are useful for professionals who already hold a master's degree or who want to learn more about a specific topic. The programs typically consist of four online courses.

You can later apply your credits toward a master's degree. If you complete both of the certificates in either information architecture or network security, you are just two courses away from completing the entire master's degree.

Courses from other institutions cannot be transferred toward a graduate certificate. Certificates, all of which are 12 credits, are available in the following technology specialty areas:

Client-Server and Wireless Devices
Component Technologies and Online Collaboration
Global Telecommunications Systems
Information Technology
Network Protection
Security Management

Client-Server and Wireless Devices
This certificate provides students with a specialization in the hardware and software that drive local, Internet, and wireless computing. Students learn the technical aspects of network and wireless devices and the standards and protocols of connectivity.

IE-701 Principles of Designing and Engineering Computer Networks
IE-703 Thin and Fat Client Deployment
IE-705 Comparison of Operating Systems and Web Servers
IE-707 Network Architecture Convergence Using Wireless Technology

Component Technologies and Online Collaboration
This certificate provides students with an advanced understanding of the sophisticated technologies used to develop, integrate, and deploy e-business solutions. Students learn aspects of programming tools for online applications, technologies and policies of multimedia products, and component integration for on-demand communications.

IE-709 Comparison of Object-Oriented and Scripting Languages
IE-713 Multimedia and Web Casting
IA-715 Identifying and Integrating Component Collaboration Technologies
IA-717 Invention, Innovation and the Use of Intellectual Property

Global Telecommunications Systems
This certificate provides students with a case-study approach to the issues faced in global business. Students learn the fundamental concepts of global telecommunications from both technical and legal standpoints.

SM-563 Managing Information Systems
SM-567 Telecommunications and Computer Networks
SM-568 Global Telecommunications Applications
SM-586 Global Telecommunications Policies and Regulations

Information Technology
This certificate provides students with a foundational knowledge of systems management with respect to telecommunications systems as well as the computer systems that support managerial decision-making. Students learn principles of technology management and information systems.

SM-563 Managing Information Systems
SM-567 Telecommunications and Computer Networks
SM-569 Decision Support and Expert Systems
MBA-650 Strategic Management

Network Protection
This certificate is technical in nature and designed to equip the student with the necessary knowledge of available tools and theory to ensure proper employment of network safeguards to protect the organization from technical threats. Attacks from outside the organization using probing techniques and malicious software will be explored.

IAE-677 Malicious Software
IAE-679 Vulnerability Mitigation
IAE-680 Perimeter Protection
IAE-682 Internal Protection

Security Management
This certificate is designed to meet the needs of technical and security staff who must conduct analyses and ensure that security strategies properly address and employ countermeasures to reduce infrastructure risks to an acceptable organizational level. In addition, this certificate addresses all threats to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of organizational information assets. Students who complete this certificate will be able to identify organizational security issues and plan and deploy a security infrastructure.

IAE-670 Network Systems Security Concepts
IAE-673 Secure Information Transfer and Storage
IAE-674 Security Risk Management
IAE-675 Computer Forensics and Incident Handling

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