DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA SKILLS CERTIFICATE

The Digital and Social Media Skills Course offers practical digital and social media skills to students, working journalists, media professionals, as well as ongoing support to think, prepare and produce innovate multimedia content, products and platforms. The training is meant to empower a generation of digital media users with the skills, knowledge and strategic implementation and production of digital media content for web and mobile access. Learners will get equipped with the best practices and tools for creating content to an online audience—through social media, on the web and to a mobile audience. They will learn to produce and engage with video, digital photography, audio, writing/ packaging for online and data visualizations. They will be exposed to the tools and storytelling skills to produce, edit and post content 24/7 well optimized for online and mobile access. Upon completion of this program, participants will have the knowledge and tools necessary to apply their new skill set immediately to their careers and professional work in their respective areas. At the end of the course, learners will get a Certificate in Digital and Social Media  Skills from Makerere University. Course Objectives:

1. Equip learners with practical multimedia skills for effective 21^st content creation
2. Enrich the debate and solutions towards social media usage and utilization.