There are certain requirements that a student has to have in order to get their certificate when they are in the graphic design certificate course. The required classes that have to be taken are Beginning Graphic Design, Intermediate Graphic Design, Introduction to Typography, and Fundamentals of 2-D Design. There are also elective classes that the student has to take and they are Design Sketchbook, Digital Imaging Immersion: Introduction, Graphic Design: Professional Directions, Image Manipulation and Collage in Photoshop, Introduction to Adobe Photoshop, and Introduction to Adobe Illustrator. The class names for each individual school may be different but all revolve around the same topic.