Certificate Programs

Pratt Institute's School of Continuing and Professional Studies proudly collaborates with Cinquième Sens to be the exclusive New York City provider of the Certificate Program in Advanced Perfumery. The certificate requires successful completion of 36 hours of classroom time.

Reimagine design work in the age of AI. Enhance your design approach by seamlessly integrating the latest AI-tools and methods for research, idea generation, and project execution. Merge your current skills with Generative AI skills through best practices and newly developed design methodologies. You will learn to craft AI prompts for maximum results, incorporate AI into your design workflows, and improve the human-machine experience as it relates to responsibility, equity, and safety.

Create a fragrance brand. Meet beauty marketing professionals and famous perfumers. Deepen your understanding of the art of perfumery to perfect a fragrance brand identity. Analyze the global fragrance market. Identify the key elements of success in niche, luxury, and mass market perfumery through a comprehensive study and evaluation of top fragrance brands that are resonating in the market today. Prior experience is not necessary, but the courses in the Advanced Perfumery course are recommended. Fragrance professionals and enthusiasts welcome. Materials: Students pursuing the certificate are recommended to purchase an olfactorium (a kit of fragrance vials) for $350 plus a shipping fee ($60 standard, $115 express).

Understand who your audience is and how to reach and persuade them. Build a brand story from the ground up, or grow an existing brand. Use brand positioning to cut through the noise of the marketplace. Understand why some campaigns thrive while others fail. Design, package, and sell your ideas to brand stakeholders and clients. Activate your brand/marketing strategies through online outreach channels. Develop a portfolio.

Hone the CAD tools needed to deliver designs to both contractors and clients. Learn the fundamentals of drafting. Then create CAD drawings using industry standards: Autodesk® AutoCAD®, Autodesk® Revit Architecture, and Rhino. This program features small, interactive classes, real-time instruction (either in-person, or on Zoom), and free access to designated campus labs. Online classes require students to provide their own equipment and software. Students will earn a certificate upon successful completion of all required courses. Approximate cost of the certificate is $4000.

Arm yourself with the knowledge and strategies needed to succeed in a creative career. Discover career options while learning best practices in business, marketing communications, copyright law, and licensing. Hone a craft in a creative field of choice. Position yourself strategically with a professional design portfolio.

Transform interior spaces with the technical skills used by professionals. Use CAD software to design floor plans and more. Get your foot in the door with an optional credential in CAD design while completing a Certificate in Creative Interiors. This program features small, interactive classes, real-time instruction (either in-person, or on Zoom), free access to software for remote use, and free access to designated campus labs. Students will earn a certificate upon successful completion of all required courses. Approximate cost of the certificate is $6,000.

Digital tools empower designers to blur the lines between fields. Take an interdisciplinary approach to Pratt's Digital Design certificates. Combine elective classes across digital design fields with a foundation in graphic design to enter one of the multidisciplinary roles today's designers occupy. Grow your network while building a professional design portfolio. Please note: additional elective classes towards the completion of the Digital Design Certificate can be taken from the following certificate programs: AI Design, Branding and Digital Marketing; CAD Design; Creative Interiors; Digital Product Design; Exhibition Design; Fine Art; Graphic Design; Human-Centered Design; Photography and Video Production; UX/UI Design; Web Design.

Enter a dynamic role in the UX/UI landscape through the Pratt SCPS Digital Product Design Certificate. Create digital products that traverse end-user and business needs. Integrate research, design, and presentation into your work and oversee the entire product lifecycle from conception to execution. Develop a core skill-set that addresses the multi-phases of product design across platforms and the know-how of which tools to use and when to use them. Build key portfolio pieces. Please note: UX/UI Portfolio/Project Development is recommended, but not required.

Tell a story in English. Create a digital portfolio documenting your language learning process and experiences outside the classroom on virtual class trips to museums, galleries, and other creative spaces throughout New York City and elsewhere. Improve the English of your design portfolio for college admission, or career advancement.

Shape memorable exhibition design experiences. Learn how to create and document the design of an exhibition from concept to installation. Special focus is on creating interpretive environmental experiences that include storytelling, sustainability and environmental design. The exhibition designer often works in a collaborative team process, integrating the disciplines of industrial design, architecture, graphic design, audiovisual, digital media, architecture, lighting design, as well as content specialization. At the end of the semester, students will complete and present an exhibition design proposal with models, photographs and drawings of original work toward their portfolio.

Jump into fashion brand creative marketing through the certificate program in fashion new media. Examine the digital landscape. Develop a vision. Create deliverables for target audiences. Finish with a market-ready, professional design portfolio and build your network in the world's fashion capital: New York City (all in-person classes are held in the Pratt Manhattan Center).

Build foundational art skills. Explore new mediums. Refine an art practice. This program features small, interactive classes, real-time instruction (either in-person, or on Zoom), free access to software for remote use, and free access to designated campus labs. Students will earn a certificate upon successful completion of all required courses.

Survey the professional landscape of contemporary furniture design. Cultivate both conceptual and technical competencies through hands-on making and critical inquiry. Prepare for real-world opportunities by developing a full scale furniture prototype that considers brand positioning and market demand.Learn key design principles such as form, proportion, composition, scale, ergonomics, and materiality. Complete a design process, integrating research, ideation, sketching, model making, prototyping, and final presentation. Finish with the design and fabrication of a full-scale seating prototype supported by a portfolio entry that includes mood boards, technical drawings, product photography, and complementary graphic materials to tell your furniture product story.

Communicate your message with typography, layout, color, and image. Master an industry standard: Adobe CC. Choose from a wide selection of electives and develop a multidisciplinary practice. Build a professional design portfolio and launch your career. Please note: additional elective classes towards the completion of the Graphic Design certificate can be taken from the following certificate programs: AI Design; Branding and Digital Marketing; CAD Design; Digital Product Design; Fashion New Media; Human-Centered Design; Photography and Video Production; UX/UI Design; Web Design.

Go beyond UX for interfaces and digital products through Pratt SCPS's Human-Centered Design Certificate. Construct a deep understanding of a user's needs and challenges. Develop a methodology that places those needs and challenges central in the design process. Create solutions for any touch point where people and industry intersect. From services to management frameworks, through both digital and physical applications, let empathy drive your designs to meaningful end-user experiences.

Become a photographic and video content creator through Pratt's Photography and Video Certificate. Shoot and retouch photographs for a wide range of genres. Create videos for commercial and art applications. From pre-production to post-production, develop a workflow while building and refining your portfolio/showreel.

Enter the fast-growing field of experience design for services, native apps, and responsive web interfaces through Pratt's Certificate in UX/UI Design. The program will provide you with all of the building blocks to get started as a designer. Commencing with an introduction to the field, through best practices and methodologies in user research, you'll finish knowing how to manifest your designs so they are deliverable both to clients and developers.