Certificate Program in Digital Storytelling

The Digital Storytelling certificate is specifically designed to help individuals and organizations bridge the meaning gap to students, trainees, clients and others by utilizing personal narrative within a technological context. This is the only university certificate program whose curriculum is co-authored and co-taught in conjunction with The Center for Digital Storytelling.

The approach across classes emphasizes personal voice and facilitative teaching methods as pioneered by CDS. Through these highly interactive workshops, you will create, produce, and use digital stories to enhance your work effectiveness in education, non-profit and/or business environments. You will also learn to lead others in digital story use within your organization or institution.

The certificate consists of four courses, totaling ten credit hours, and may be earned in one year. Credits from INTE 5340 may be applied as an elective toward a UC Denver master’s degree in Information and Learning Technologies.  INTE 5330 and 5340 should be taken in sequential order.  Then either INTE 5345 or 5350 can be taken in either order. 

Face-to-face workshops (INTE 5330 and 5350) are offered world-wide; current schedule and locations may be found at The Center for Digital Storytelling. Please contact Daniel Weinshenker at daniel@storycenter.org with any questions about workshop content. For any questions on the certificate itself, the courses offered by UCD, and registration on their website, please contact Kevin Poole, University of Colorado at Denver School of Continuing Education, 303-315-4984.

All of this information and Certificate registration can be found on the University of Colorado's website.

Details and Downloads:

You can take any three-day Standard or Educator Workshop, at any location, to fulfill INTE 5330.

You can take any five-day Facilitator in Training, in any location, to fulfill the INTE 5350.

Please visit our Master Schedule for dates and locations of these workshops.

If you’ve already taken Standard, Educator, and/or Facilitator in Training workshops in the past two years, you may use them towards your certificate, but you still need to pay and register for university credit for these courses. To inquire about this please contact Kevin Poole, University of Colorado at Denver School of Continuing Education, 303-315-4984.

When you are ready to begin the Certificate Program, please email cpe@ucdenver.edu and state your intent to take the certificate. Once you have registered through UC Denver for all four required courses, including the two workshops through the Center for Digital Storytelling, and have successfully completed the courses with a grade of B or better, the certificate will appear on your transcript. Certain exemptions may apply. For questions on the certificate, please email cpe@ucdenver.edu.

Contacts:
If you have additional questions about the Center’s three-day or five-day workshops, please email workshop@storycenter.org.

If you have additional questions about the certificate program, transfer of credits, registering for the online course, or paying for credits for either the online course or the three-day or five-day workshops, please contact Kevin Poole, University of Colorado at Denver School of Continuing Education, 303-315-4984.