Diploma & Certificate Courses in Kelowna, BC

Centre For Arts And Technology - Kelowna:
Located in Kelowna, the largest city in interior British Columbia, The Centre for Arts and Technology is one of Canada's leading digital arts and technical training colleges. The Centre delivers unique Diploma and Certificate programs designed in consultation with industry employers and working professionals. This ensures your education is completely aligned with evolving career opportunities in the employment marketplace.

Accredited Diploma & Certificate Programs in Digital Art, Design, Entertainment, and IT:
All of our programs are delivered with a mix of teaching and learning methods by industry professional instructors and mentors, to give you a competitive edge and a portfolio of experience leading up to graduation. This makes you job ready in just 6, 9, 12, 18, or 24 months, depending on which program you choose.

Courses include:

Animation for Game, Film & Visual Effects
Duration: 24 months
This program takes you from scratch to screen in 24 months, combining highly robust technical and artistic training. Students graduate with a polished demo reel to prepare them for entry into the professional animation industry.

2D Animation & Digital Art
Duration: 12 months
If you love to draw and create, then this 12 month hands-on program could be for you. Grounding you in the foundations of art and design for 2D Animation and Digital Art, students are prepared for a career in classical and digital animation, character design, interface design, storyboarding, visual communication, digital painting, life drawing, and layout and production.

Audio Engineering & Production
Duration: 18 months
This 18 month program gives you professional training to prepare you for a career in music engineering, audio-post, editing, ADR and Foley, sound design, audio for game production and multimedia, location audio, live sound reinforcement, and independent audio production.

Digital Filmmaking
Duration: 18 months 
Using a combination of lecture, lab, and on-site shoots, this 18 month program prepares students to be confident in procuring entry-level positions in the industry or following the route of independent filmmaking.

Digital Fusion Filmmaking
Duration: 12 months
Our intensive 1 year Digital Fusion Filmmaking program in Kelowna, BC, immerses you in the process and practice of creating multimedia productions utilizing skills in the photographic, film, and audio disciplines. 

Digital Photography
Duration: 12 months
This in-depth, full-time, 1 year diploma program provides you with the skills, expertise, business understanding and industry insight necessary for success in photography, photo journalism, and related visual arts fields.

Electronic Music Artist
Duration: 6 months
The program equips you with the necessary tools providing the foundation to build your career as a digital audio composition and performance artist. You’ll be taken through the art of production while learning the business and entrepreneurial side of the industry. 

Electronic Music Production 
Duration: 12 months
This 12 month program focuses on computer based audio software and hardware, equipping graduates with relevant skills that can be applied to Audiovisual and Multimedia Production, Game Audio, MIDI Programming, Live Sound, Assistant Engineering, and more.

Event & Promotions Management
Duration: 12 months
This 1 year in depth program provides you for a career in the business and management side of the event planning and promotions industry, by providing a broad-based business education coupled with specific industry intelligence and practical real-world experience.

Fashion Design & Merchandising
Duration: 24 months
This 24 month program prepares you for a wide variety of roles in the fashion industry, from sole proprietorships to local, national, or international corporations. Students graduate with a strong portfolio as well as industry and business insight for career success.

Graphic Design & Web Development
Duration: 18 months
Explore graphic design, web design, digital  maging and publishing, interactive multimedia, and web development in this 18 month diploma program. Students acquire a foundation in art and design, software skills, and the career development needed for building your future in rapidly changing digital media environments.

Graphic & Digital Design
Duration: 12 months
Our 12 month Graphic and Digital Design program focuses specifically on the graphic design, digital imaging, and publishing side of the digital arts and media industry.

Interior Design
Duration: 24 months
This 24 month program prepares you to become a professional Interior Designer. Exceptional educators, talented staff, and practitioners with a passion for design enhance student learning by sharing their wisdom and expertise. Offered in Kelowna and Fredericton only.

Interior Decoration and Residential Design
Duration: 9 months
Our Interior Decorating & Residential Design program develops your skills and abilities to work as a professional Interior Decorator in an exciting creative industry. Interior Decoration and Residential Design plays an integral part in our day-to-day surroundings. Interior Decorators contribute in surprising ways to our physical world where we live, work, play, and interact. 

Network Security Specialist/Administrator
Duration: 9/18 months
Hackers and viruses have reached epidemic proportions and companies face a plethora of accelerating security threats. Our 9 and 18 month programs prepare graduates to be highly trained network security professionals in a wide variety of industries.

Studio Production
Duration: 12 months 
This 12 month program allows you to learn in high-end dedicated studios, concentrating on audio engineering for all applications including music, theatre, concerts, broadcasting, internet, gaming, video and film, and more.

Veterinary Hospital Assistant
Duration: 9 months
This 9 month program equips you with the foundation of knowledge and skills essential to the success of primary animal care so you can become an integral member of any veterinary care environment.

Web Programmer Specialist
Duration: 6 months
Designed by working web professionals, our 6 month career driven Web Programmer Specialist program equips students with specialized training in interactive content development for the web and mobile devices.