Online Graduate Certificate: Youth Informatics

Looking to gain knowledge or expand your role in youth services? With the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s online Graduate Certificate in Youth Informatics, graduate or current graduate students of a master’s program can study how youth use and apply technology in diverse settings. Youth informatics explores the connection between youth, technology and community. During our fully online program, you will learn how youth interact with technologies and digital learning spaces, as well as how to foster digital literacy education and conduct research.

Advance Your Career With a Graduate Certificate in Youth Informatics

The Youth Informatics Graduate Certificate Program (YIGC) is an online program that provides valuable information, leadership training, and credentialing to any professional or practitioner engaged or interested in working with youth in various settings, such as school or public librarians, MakerSpaces, and STEM coordinators; teachers, researchers, education administrators, youth group leaders (e.g., YMCA, Boys and Girls Club), and more!

Explore how youth use and apply technology and learn how to promote digital literacy education, conduct and analyze research about youth, and learn how youth interact with and use technologies and digital learning spaces, with the online YIGC program from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, School of Information Sciences.

Program Unique Features

The Youth Informatics Graduate Certificate is an accredited, unique program in library and information science school programs nationwide that provide opportunities for learners and professionals interested in working with youth in various settings.

The courses taken during the certificate include options for experiential learning, similar to the type of hands-on learning that takes place in internships and field placements. Even though fieldwork is not a requirement of the Youth Informatics Graduate Certificate program, the same benefits and learning outcomes have been incorporated into the curriculum. Experiential learning in these courses may include completing projects that may include field visits to organizations that serve youth in various settings, interviewing or surveying information professionals and organization leaders that serve youth in these various settings, conducting and analyzing research, or other forms of learning. Learners gain skills to identify, adapt, and respond to youth needs, challenges, and social issues in an evolving digital landscape.