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In NYFA’s Online Master of Arts (MA) in Entrepreneurial Producing and Innovation program, aspiring Producers learn how to think and operate at an executive level in film and television. In this bold new program, students can expand their knowledge and develop advanced business, creative, leadership, and marketing skills while gaining a global perspective of the film, television, and other emerging entertainment industries.

The program is a great fit for entrepreneurial-minded students who want to start their own media company or wish to create their own entrepreneurial path, from independent creators and influencers to high-level executives.

Graduate (MA) applicants must submit the following materials for admission:

• Completed Graduate (MA) Program Application
• Application Fee ($75)
• Undergraduate Degree Transcript
• Narrative Statement
• Letters of Recommendation
• Creative Portfolio
• Proof of English Proficiency (where applicable)

Digital marketing is fast becoming the dominant tool in marketers’ toolboxes. While “out of home” marketing and mass communication continue to make-up a large part of a company’s marketing budget, the digital components of these budgets are growing rapidly. This is in part due to the fact that digital marketing presents the opportunity to track the ROI on every dollar spent. As such, it is critical that experts in digital marketing build both sound marketing and creativity skills, as well as significant skills in data analysis.

What you will learn:

• How the varied and changing approaches to digital marketing, such as mobile and omnichannel marketing and attribution and marketing mix modeling.
• How to leverage SEO and SEM strategies including web analytics, machine learning and AI/Big Data applications.
• How to harness the power of Customer Lifetime Value Concepts by applying it to firm value, selection of customers and loyalty programming.
• How to develop Online Advertising Ecosystems complete with Social Media /Social Network and Media Big Data analysis for better decision making.

Big data is changing the way businesses operate. Driven by a new scale of data collection that provides massive levels of information, businesses are now able to analyse and gather data insights to make better-informed decisions.

What you will learn:

• How to design algorithms
• Understand fundamental programming concepts including data abstraction, storage and structures
• Understand computational thinking which includes decomposition, pattern recognition and abstraction
• Data-driven problem and algorithm design for big data
• Interpretation of data representation and analysis
• Understand key mathematical concepts, including dimension reduction and Bayesian models
• How to use analytical tools such as R and Java

This MicroMasters program will put you at the front of a digital revolution, where you can design problem-solving systems or guide cutting-edge IoT projects in your industry and area of expertise. Professionals from any field who want to leverage their existing business and/or technical knowledge across IoT-related functions in their workplace will learn exactly what IoT is, how it works, and how to harness its power to improve and streamline your business.

What you will learn:

• Generate IoT concepts and design IoT solutions within your area of expertise.
• Map out the process for an IoT solution, and identify the sensors and other devices required.
• Evaluate different infrastructure components and network systems, and design the basic network for your IoT ideas.
• Apply software solutions for different systems and Big Data to your concept designs, and appreciate how data is managed in the network.
• Identify and analyse IoT security and privacy risks, and concept design secure hardware and software.
• Produce a viable IoT concept design that solves a problem, is ready to prototype and test, and has an identified route to market.

In this program, you will learn:

• Ability to find software and hardware design patterns that may expose secrets via transient execution.
• Understand risks associated with transient-execution attacks and how these can be mitigated.
• How hardware faults can be used in attacks.
• How fault attacks on modern computers can be mitigated.

This program serves as an introduction to quantum computing by teaching learners the foundations. It helps them develop an intuitive understanding of the physics that underlie quantum computation, the basics of the mathematical operations, and the rudiments of programming quantum computers. The program has as prerequisites only algebra and programming.

What you will learn:

• Describe the basic physics that enables quantum computing and how quantum computing will change businesses, governments, and society.
• Identify the problems quantum computing can, and can’t, solve well.
• Solve problems by combining simple one- and two-bit quantum operations.
• Implement quantum software by using quantum programming languages.

Virtual reality (VR) is one of the hottest emerging technologies in the entertainment industry today. Millions of VR devices have been sold in the US alone, but most software developers have no formal training on the technology. This Professional Certificate program will teach you what VR devices exist, how VR technology works, and how to write software, often called VR experiences, for it.

What you will learn:

• To design VR applications with Unity 3D
• How OpenGL works and is used to create realistic looking applications
• To transform coordinate systems for 3D interactions
• Hardware components for VR and how they work
• What makes a VR application successful
• How to create your own VR app
• How to use this VR program to develop augmented reality (AR) applications

This program will teach you all that is needed to release a digital product internationally, to a global audience spread across many different local markets.

What you will learn:

• Explain the rationale for both internationalization and localization
• Identify and distinguish roles of different professionals involved in internationalization and localization
• Explain different resource sourcing models used in the localization industry
• Address a broad range of internationalization challenges for digital products, from proper text encoding and use of regional formats to cultural sensitivity and awareness in the context of translation and localization
• Describe key concepts of project management in localization, including project stages and the balance between quality, schedule and cost
• Explain the peculiarities of translation in the broader context of localization and understand computer-assisted translation tools and the use of machine translation in the localization industry
• Apply quality assurance measures to internationalization and localization

This professional certificate program will introduce you to the field of cybersecurity, as you learn about its landscape, numerous sectors and various roles, competencies and career pathways.

What you will learn:

• Describe the vast array of roles and sectors within the Cybersecurity industry;
• Explain the relationship between management and technology in cybersecurity protection;
• Identify appropriate types of security controls to the actions of different and evolving threat actors;
• Apply terminology and basic concepts of cybersecurity;
• Assess own knowledge, skill, and abilities toward identifying a career path in cybersecurity.

In this program, you will gain insight into the latest data science tools and their application in finance, health care, product development, sales and more. With real world examples, we will demonstrate how data science can improve corporate decision-making and performance, personalize medicine and advance your career goals.

What you will learn:

• The history of data science, tangible illustrations of how data science and analytics are used in decision making across multiple sectors today, and expert opinion on what the future might hold
• A practical understanding of the fundamental methods used by data scientists including; statistical thinking and conditional probability, machine learning and algorithms, and effective approaches for data visualization
• The major components of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the potential of IoT to totally transform the way in which we live and work in the not-to-distant future
• How data scientists are using natural language processing (NLP), audio and video processing to extract useful information from books, scientific articles, twitter feeds, voice recordings, YouTube videos and much more