Brookdale Community College

Accounting

Architecture

This degree program is for students wishing to transfer to Bachelor of Architecture schools at accredited colleges or universities. The program provides the equivalent number and type of courses generally required in the first two years of study within a five-year curriculum. Completion of a five-year curriculum is a requirement for licensing as a professional architect.

Automotive Technician

This 43-credit comprehensive certificate will prepare students for entry level positions as automotive service technicians. The students participate in hands-on experiences in testing, diagnosing, and repairing automobiles. Emphasis in class and laboratory is placed on real-world, hands-on experience.

Automotive Technology

This program is designed to meet the continual demand for trained automotive technicians. The student participates in hands-on experiences in testing, diagnosing, and repairing automobiles. Emphasis in class and laboratory is placed on real-world, hands-on experience.

Business

This career program is designed for students who desire entry-level employment in business - related careers. This degree, combined with work experience, may enhance promotion opportunities. The core concentrations provide specialized knowledge in specific areas of Accounting, Marketing and Management.

Business Administration

This program is for students wishing to transfer to four-year colleges that offer Bachelor's degrees in business or business education. It contains a broad range of business-related courses plus the general education studies required for transfer to most four-year schools.

Communications Media

This career option provides students with the skills necessary to take entry-level positions in the field of audio recording. Hands-on experience with an emphasis on digital technology will prepare students for positions in the audio recording industry. Students can apply skills learned to music, television, and multimedia production.

Computer Repair

The certificate prepares students for the A+ certification.

Computer Science (A.A.S.)

Students wishing to gain knowledge of computer programming and design should choose this program. Courses are designed to offer hands-on experience to prepare the student for an entry level computer programming position. Focus is on problem analysis, design, coding, testing and debugging.

Computer Science (A.S.)

This program is designed for students who would like to transfer to a four-year program in Computer Science or related areas, such as Management Information Systems or Software Engineering. Hands-on computer courses are combined with general and mathematics courses to provide the student with the essential coursework needed to succeed beyond the Associate degree.

Criminal Justice

The Criminal Justice program is both a transfer and a career program. Students can go on to earn a B.A. Degree or take courses in an effort to find employment.

Culinary Arts

This program is for the highly motivated career-oriented person who desires to work in a restaurant or other food service establishment as a professional chef. This fast-track, quality training program combines general education studies, career courses and hands-on professional food preparation.

Culinary Arts

This condensed program of study provides the student with skills needed to perform a variety of basic food preparation activities required by the entry-level food service job. The student must successfully pass the SERV-SAFE sanitation examination to receive the certificate. Most credits earned may be applied to the A.A.S.

Cybersecurity

This short program is intended to train students in the high-demand area of Cybersecurity. The target audience for this certificate of achievement includes professionals already working in IT that are hoping to add security skills and knowledge to their education, as well as recent Brookdale graduates seeking to build upon their Networking Information Technology, A.A.S. degree.

Diagnostic Medical Sonography

Digital Animation and 3D Design

Students graduating with the Digital Animation and 3D Design AAS degree will have developed skills in modeling, editing, rendering and storyboarding. They will have gained command of the basic technical skills required in today's highly competitive animation industry. Students will complete courses that provide them with technical skills and aesthetic proficiency.

Digital Drawing for Interior Design and Architecture

Today's graphic communications depend on computers for nearly all steps in the creative process. This certificate is a comprehensive CAD curriculum, from fundamental to complete customization, including 3D design and visualization. The courses are designed to enable graduates of Architecture and Interior Design programs along with professionals to remain current in the marketplace.

Education (A.A.)

This option prepares students for transfer to four-year institutions to pursue Preschool through Third Grade P-3 teaching certification. In addition, many courses prove relevant to the needs of parents and professionals from other fields. Students in this option take courses in education with required field experience, coupled with general education studies required for successful transfer.

Education (A.S.)

The Education AS program is designed to meet current program needs for students wishing to prepare to teach in STEM areas. The STEM choices typically employable at the K-12 teaching environments are as follows: mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, environmental sciences and technology. The objective of the AS degree is to prepare students for teaching licensing in their STEM area of choice.

Electric Utility Technology

Electronics Technology

Computers and electronics have found their way into businesses and homes throughout the world. This option provides the student with the skills required to troubleshoot and repair a wide variety of computer systems and digital electronic equipment. The student learns how peripherals and computers communicate with each other.

Engineering

Engineering is a profession that integrates science and mathematics with design and laboratory study. It is and will continue to be the profession upon which the United States depends for its growth and ability to compete in world markets. "Engineering offers more career options than any other discipline.

Environmental Science

This degree is designed for students who plan to transfer to a four-year institution with a major in environmental science, ecology, geology, natural resource management, or marine sciences. To maximize transfer credits, students must be guided by the transfer institution's requirements and work closely with their counselor in order to select courses wisely.

Fashion Design

This certificate of achievement in fashion design is intended to provide students with job specific education and skills for advancement in the fashion industry. Graduates of this program can move on to careers in apparel design, product development, costume design, retail, freelance work, and other entrepreneurial opportunities. They may work in wholesale or manufacturing establishments, apparel companies, or retailers.

Fashion Design and Merchandising

Students who wish to prepare for a career in the design or wholesale/retail fashion industry should select this program which combines fashion studies with business and general education courses. After graduation, students may choose to transfer to Bachelor degree programs in colleges which offer fashion design or merchandising degrees. Graduates of this program have been accepted with full credit to the upper division of four-year colleges which offer fashion-related Bachelor degrees.

Fashion Merchandising

This certificate of achievement in fashion merchandising is intended to provide students with job specific education and skills for advancement in the fashion industry. Graduates of this program can move on to careers in retail management, entry level buying, merchandiser, inventory control, and visual merchandiser positions.

Fashion Photography

The Fashion + Photography Certificate is a 21-credit, career-focused program designed for students who want to build professional fashion imagery skills alongside a strong foundation in fashion business, textiles, and digital marketing.

Fine Arts

The Associate of Fine Arts Degree in Studio Art provides a well-rounded education with the adequate range of liberal studies required by four-year Bachelor of Fine Arts programs. The Studio Art Option is designed for students seeking to transfer to a four-year college or professional art school.

Game Design

The Game Design degree will allow students to create their own simple grames and apps. Student will walk through the process of creating assets, importing them into a game engine and creating interactivity. By the end of the program, students will have created their own game from start to finish.

Graphic Design

This program is for students who wish to gain employment in the field of graphic art and design. Positions may be available in advertising - print and non-print - and in various visual communication fields. Employment areas may include: design production, print production, display, digital design, illustration, and photography.

Homeland Security and Emergency Management

The Homeland Security and Emergency Management Program will prepare students to continue their education to earn a B.S. degree or to enter the workforce. Students in the program learn about issues and problems in society's response to terrorism and emergency situations.

Hospitality Management

The Hospitality Management A.S. is a transfer program designed for students seeking a management position in the hospitality industry. This industry encompasses restaurants, hotels, event planning, theme parks, beach clubs, golf courses, resorts, cruise lines, casinos and sporting events.

Humanities

This option is designed for the student who is planning to transfer to a four-year institution and for the student who desires two years of collegiate liberal education. There is flexibility in course selection enabling students to select courses that meet requirements of their desired transfer institution and/or explore personal interests.

Human Services

The Human Services A.S. Addiction Studies Option prepares students to transfer to a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) or other closely related program while earning addiction certification credits simultaneously. Human services is a creative, innovative field for persons who work with, and give support to, other human beings who are experiencing problems with addictions.

Human Services-Social Work

Instructional Assistant

This program is designed for students who wish to enter the field of education in a support role of Instructional Assistant. Coursework completes classroom management training and program support concepts for employment opportunities in the New Jersey public or private school systems.

Interior Design

This program provides intensive, job-focused education in order to prepare students for entry-level positions in Interior Design. Career studies courses will provide training in the following categories: manual and computer-aided drafting skills, two- and three-dimensional visualization skills, space planning, universal design concepts, lighting and building systems, codes, historical developments in the built environment, trade information and business practices.

Kitchen and Bath Design

This Certificate of Achievement in Kitchen and Bath Design is intended to provide sudents with job specific education and skills for advancement in the kitchen and bath industry in design and/or sales and can lead to certification by the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA). Graduates of this program will work in kitchen and bath design showrooms and will be involved in working with clients, creating room layouts, preparing accurate cost estimates and overseeing the installation process.

LAN/WAN

This certificate prepares students to take the CCENT and/or CCNA certification exams.

Legal and Social Justice

This program presents an interdisciplinary examination of institutions, policies, society, and culture through a theoretical lens focusing on issues of culture, justice, and democracy. The primary aim of this program is to introduce students to the foundational theories of justice by critcally exploring how conceptions of justice have developed to influence society, politics, the law, and the criminal justice system.

Marketing

The Marketing Certificate provides students with practical skills in understanding consumer behavior, developing brand strategies, and leveraging digital platforms to engage diverse audiences across both traditional and emerging markets. This certificate prepares students for entry level roles in marketing and/or enhances the skill set of professionals seeking to specialize in digital and niche industry marketing sectors.

Math/Science

Students wishing a concentration in science combined with liberal studies needed for transfer to four-year colleges or special professional institutions may choose this option. This option may fulfill the needs of students planning to major in Marine Science, Geology, or Environmental Science at a four-year college. The flexibility offered by this option allows for differences in entrance and transferability requirements of these schools.

Music Technology

This innovative program in Music Technology provides students with the skills and expertise necessary to enter the field of computer-generated music. The curriculum provides a complete education in the software used in the digital music industry such as ProTools®, Digidesign®, Finale® and NOTION Music®. Graduates of this program will have the skills and expertise necessary to obtain employment in music preparation, orchestration, recording, performance and the video-gaming industry.

Network Engineering Technology

Network Information Technology

The network information technology program prepares students as LAN and WAN network administrators. Successful completion of the program provides students with the essential skills of networking (TCP/IP, Routing, Switching, Wireless, Security, and PC Repair and Maintenance).

Nursing

This program prepares students for entry-level nursing positions in hospitals or comparable facilities. Clinical learning experiences are required in some courses. Upon completion of the program, students are eligible to sit for the National Council Licensing Exam for Registered Nursing (NCLEX-RN).

Paralegal Studies

This accelerated program is designed for students who possess a bachelor's or associate's degree and want to complete the requirements necessary to perform as a paralegal in a law office, corporate environment, or government office by offering the necessary paralegal courses to achieve competency in this profession. The purpose of this certificate is to train paralegals/legal assistants. It is not intended to be a program for training lawyers or legal administrators.

Paralegal Studies

This program prepares students for entry level work in the legal field and further study of law through transfer by teaching foundational skills and competencies in the practice of law. Courses provide instruction in areas of substantive and procedural law, legal interpretation, legal writing, logical reasoning and analysis.

Pastry Arts

This option is designed for the culinary student who wants to pursue a career in pastry arts. This program consists of select credits that would benefit the individual who wants to develop their pastry skills into more advanced and elaborate patisserie, cakes, confections, and decorating. The student must pass the SERV-SAFE sanitation examination to receive the certificate.

Public Health

Brookdale Community College, County College of Morris, Mercer County Community College, and Middlesex County College have formed a consortium to offer the Public Health A.S. program that is transferable to baccalaureate degrees in public health. Graduates of bachelor's degree programs in public health have career opportunities in environmental health, state and local health departments, hospitals, educational institutions, and research organizations.

Public Health (with Middlesex, Morris and Mercer County Colleges)

Public History

The Public History Academic Credit Certificate of Achievement is designed for students and/or professionals interested in pursuing a career based on the presentation of history that is consumed by the general public. Public historians work as preservationists, archivists, museum educators and curators, tour guides of historical sites, exhibit producers, oral historians, and more.

Radiologic Technology

This program prepares students for entry-level positions in diagnostic imaging. Students work with patients, performing a full range of diagnostic radiographic procedures. Clinical experience is required of all students.

Respiratory Care

This program prepares students for entry-level positions in respiratory care. Students work with patients in the treatment, management and control of problems and abnormalities associated with the cardiopulmonary system. Graduates work closely with patients, doctors, and nurses to provide diagnostic testing, therapeutics, education, rehabilitation, monitoring, life support and other specialized methods of treatment.

Social Media

This certificate is designed for individuals or businesses to use social media to build a web presence or brand.

Social Sciences

The Social Sciences A.A. degree program is designed for students seeking a broad general education or transfer to a four-year institution. This program also provides personal enrichment in the social sciences.

Studio Art

Teacher Assistant

Technical Education

Career and Technical Education credit cohort. This program is designed for career and technical education alternate route teachers in the Career and Technical Education Teacher Preparation Program (CTETPP) seeking to earn college credit for the CTETPP curriculum and apply the credit toward completion of an Associate's degree. CTETPP curriculum prepares individuals for continuous employment as teachers in New Jersey's career and technical education programs.

Technical Studies

This career program is designed for students with prior work experience and apprenticeship training to earn an Associate's degree and pursue a business career related to their technical expertise. Students may be granted up to 25 college credits from training programs approved by the American Council on Education. Students complete course work that provides management training for employment opportunities in business or in establishing their own business.

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Women's and Gender Studies

The Women's & Gender Studies Academic Credit Certificate of Achievement is designed for students and/or professionals interested in civic engagement, social justice, and advocacy scholarship that centers gender, sexuality, and women's issues, concerns, and experiences across a variety of disciplines and fields.