Technology Studies Degree
Lead the technology evolution.
Rising from the astronomical growth cycle of technology, University of Advancing Technology (UAT) students are challenged to critique and weigh in on emerging technologies.
The Technology Studies degree is the foundation for a wide variety of career paths, including marketing, management and entrepreneurial endeavors. Technology Studies creates opportunity for tech generalists to graduate with meaningful skills and become professionals capable of building strategic, entrepreneurial policy and forward-thinking competencies.
Data Science Degree
Create new understanding with data
The Data Science degree at University of Advancing Technology (UAT) provides students with the understanding and skills necessary to discover new ways to use data, analyze big data and IoT, create new data-centric technology and innovate how data is collected and understood.
The Data Science degree encompasses the fundamentals of math, programming and statistics, which provides a basis for machine learning, text analysis, natural language processing and deep learning.
Advertising Art Degree
Design for the consumer's eye
Study and practice topics like visual art design, photography, drawing and digital media. Students will learn about the history and evolution of advertising as it relates to art and creating within agency production environments.
This degree allows students to blend their art skills with marketing to create compelling ads that motivate consumers. UAT teaches students how to use the most advanced production tools and how to apply design and advertising to new technology.
Digital Marketing Degree
Transform the digital age
University of Advancing Technology’s (UAT) Digital Marketing degree combines technology skills with marketing, target awareness and messaging in a field that is both analytic and creative.
As a digital marketer, every day is new and unique. Businesses are in dire need of those who have mastered the combination of digital marketing, web analysis and social media engagement—reliance on digital marketing, web and social media skills outweighs the number of people with this combination of skills.
Digital Video Degree
Innovate in a new world of digital filmmaking and video production
21st Century audiences expect 21st Century content. Students earning UAT’s digital video degree, a film production degree. Apply new technological solutions in digital filmmaking to the age-old challenge of storytelling to achieve true contemporary relevance in digital video production. This film production degree emphasizes film production methods, preparing tomorrow’s content creators to deliver the best of today’s and tomorrow’s technology.
Recognized throughout the industry as a new class of digital filmmaking and video production degrees, the digital filmmaking program immerses students in leading-edge technologies and environments essential in today’s film, television, video production, newsgathering, animation, visual effects, gaming, web and interface design industries. Upon completion of UAT’s film production degree, students possess the capability and insight to succeed in this dynamic medium of digital filmmaking.
Game Art and Animation Degree
Create the look and feel of innovative gaming with a computer animation degree
Students with UAT’s Game Art & Animation degree master all levels of game development to create 3D art assets for multiple video game platforms. With a degree in animation, they learn to incorporate the artistic principles used in 3D video games art asset creation such as color theory, lighting, shading, anatomy, life drawing, perspective, scene staging, modeling low polygon and high polygon, 3D mesh topology, texturing, rigging, hand key character and prop animations, as well as motion capture and facial animation.
UAT's computer animation degree prepares them to be: character artist modeler, texture artist, character artist animator, rigger, environment artist modeler, texture artist, environment artist animator, texture artist, mechanical mesh modeler, mechanical mesh animator and rigger.
Game Design Degree
Master skills and fuel gaming innovation with game design degree
UAT’s Game Design degree focuses on the design principles, skills and techniques required to create mechanics, and design documents and functioning prototypes for innovative game projects. Video game design degree coursework emphasizes strong initial concepts, design documentation, game balancing and play-testing, interactive storytelling and interface design. Game Design degree students take critical approaches to game play, player interaction, community dynamics, and the unique features of various game platforms in the marketplace.
In team-based projects, the future video game designer works with artists and programmers to create comprehensive projects. Game Design degree students develop the leadership skills necessary to take projects from initial concept to publisher-ready final product.
Virtual Reality Degree
Designing games for life-changing applications
Be the future of how we see the world with a Bachelor of Science degree in Virtual Reality (VR) from University of Advancing Technology (UAT). Because gaming technology and practices have become part of everyday life, there is a growing emergence of gaming-based technologies and interactions being embraced by mainstream businesses and organizations. VR designers also work as programmers, so students earning this seriously relevant game development degree develop the skills to work in the worlds of aesthetics and software development, equipped with the tools linking to the created worlds we can see, touch and interact with – all virtually. With UAT’s Virtual Reality degree, graduates enter the fields of entertainment, new product design, environment simulation and experience recreation.
Advancing Computer Science Degree
Computer science degree advances software development
Conceive, develop and deploy applications within advancing frameworks and environments across a variety of platforms with an Advancing Computer Science degree from UAT. Graduates with
this respected degree in computer science are fully prepared to embrace new programming languages, architectures and paradigms that create applications for advancing code architectures.
Students with a Bachelor of Computer Science will achieve an in-depth understanding of advancing software paradigms, and develop new ways to create and interpret data that generate robust, effective applications.
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Artificial Intelligence Degree
Programming degree shapes future of intelligent software applications
UAT’s Artificial Intelligence degree derives inspiration from biology to design and build software systems that solve complex problems. Concepts of this computer programming degree compliment the traditional computer science approach with additional problem-solving methods. Students pursuing this specialized degree in computer programming develop applications using evolutionary and genetic algorithms, cellular automata, artificial neural networks, agent based models, and other artificial intelligence methodologies.
Graduates with an Artificial Intelligence computer programming degree excel in architecture, autonomous systems, computer games, distributed systems, economics/market dynamics, machine intelligence, self-assembly/self-organization, and sociology.
Game Programming Degree
Drive the future of games with video game programming degree
UAT’s Game Programming degree prepares students to take the controls in their careers. With this prestigious video game programming degree, students develop a broad skill set, and are comfortable with many platforms and languages. Video game programmers develop games for web, console, PC and mobile devices. Video game programming has wide-ranging applications in the entertainment, business, research and training industries.
Game Programming degree graduates master the programming principles and techniques in all video game programming disciplines, in addition to C++ programming, scripting, data handling, DirectX/Open GL development, game engine architecture, game play interaction, artificial intelligence, networking and the use of middleware and industry APIs.
Human Computer Interaction Degree
Move human computer interaction and interfaces into the future
UAT’s Human Computer Interaction degree is based on the interfaces and interactions between electronic devices and the users that rely upon them. The University’s HCI degree focuses on the rapid acceleration and future design of technologies for user interface software. The interdisciplinary field of human computer interaction attracts researchers, educators and practitioners.
One current expression of human computer interaction design is the user experience. The Human Computer Interaction degree emphasizes use of design principles to create a positive, lasting experience as devices become smaller, services become more integrated, and the interaction becomes more contextual, proactive and needs based.
Computer Networking Degree
Contribute to the evolution of software with network engineer degree
Today's Internet/data dependent society demands the expertise of a computer network degree from UAT. Highly skilled network engineers are responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of our networked systems. They must be proficient in both networking and the IT systems. UAT’s network engineer degree provides a well-rounded knowledge base graduates can utilize as a springboard into this rapidly expanding career field.
A strong foundational knowledge of network and systems engineering concepts form the base on which the advanced topics for this computer networking degree are built. Key elements of this computer networking degree include routing, switching, server operating systems, email systems, IP Telephony, wireless and virtualization will be explored in detail.
Network Security Degree
Secure information, and future, with a cyber security degree
As technology continues its speed-of-light evolution in commerce and culture, the theft and corruption of information expands as well. UAT’s Network Security degree prepares students to design networks using diagrams and documentation that secures cyber communication within an organization and throughout the outside world. Students with this cyber security degree develop a comprehensive understanding of how to create, maintain and defend secure networks.
Designated as a Center for Academic Excellence in Information Systems Security Education, UAT offers this cyber security degree to provide the advanced industry-standard tools and skill development necessary that propels information network technology initiatives and ensures success in the network security field.
Software Engineering Degree
Shape the evolution of technology with software engineer degree
The open source technology degree is about community involvement in software development. As the open source culture has matured, it has become ubiquitous in the software development industry. Students in UAT’s open source technologies, a software engineering degree program will be immersed in this rapidly expanding environment and contribute to real-world, open source software projects.
Future open source technology innovators will gain valuable experience as they work toward their software engineer degree credentials, utilizing technology that includes open source tools, languages and frameworks to prepare them for exciting careers in software development.
Robotics and Embedded Systems Degree
Engineer robots and program embedded systems
UAT’s robotics engineering degree provides students the engineering foundation for the design, implementation and analysis of embedded systems, with an emphasis in autonomous robotic systems. This robotics degree encompasses Embedded Systems: Digital Hardware Design and Software (Programming), Electronic Design: Digital and Analog circuit design and analysis, and Autonomous Systems: Small, mobile platforms.
Students with a robotics degree are prepared for mechanical design, controls, electronics, digital logic design, embedded systems programming, machine vision, and adaptive algorithm development and design of autonomous robotic systems. The more math students have before entering this mechanical engineering degree program, the greater their opportunities to explore this discipline in depth.
Business Technology Degree
Lead the evolution of technology with business technology degree
UAT’s business information technology degree prepares students for top jobs in today's technology infused business world. With a dynamic curriculum from the business technology degree program, students learn technical, strategic, critical, financial, analytical and managerial skills. This business technology education allows them to excel in such high-demand areas as strategic management, global business, innovation, technology product development, and project management in start up, private and public sector firms.
New advances, business models, regulatory issues, strategic management and "go-to-market strategies” provide expanding opportunities for graduates with a business technology degree.
Computer Forensics Degree
Prevent digital data crimes with computer forensics degree
Technology’s explosive evolution is becoming ever more pervasive in commerce and culture, increasing the need to investigate and analyze digital data and assist in the prevention and prosecution of malicious information, theft and corruption. UAT’s computer forensics degree fully prepares students for this exciting career field in which demand is escalating for graduates with this specialized technology computer forensic degree.
The student seeking a computer forensics degree develops a mastery of methods to obtain and document digital information, determines how information was compromised and provides expert testimony concerning the information by uncovering data in computers, networks and hand-held devices; recovering deleted, encrypted, corrupted or hidden information.
Digital Maker and Fabrication Degree
Lead the next technological revolution in a university-wide open lab environment
Digital fabrication is about to revolutionize how we invent and create, changing the way we design and bring to market new technology products for all time. The Digital Maker Movement is opening new doors of opportunity for UAT’s advancing computer technology students who are accepted into the first fully accredited Bachelor of Science degree in Digital Maker and Fabrication. Graduates of the incoming freshman class of 2014 will become among the first to lead this new revolution with a prestigious degree from an elite technology University.
In the first year of the new degree program, only 45 students will get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become the first educated experts to enter an era of technological change that will reshape this nation and the world.
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Masters in Software Engineering
Lead software development into the future with computer science masters
Software development and computer science are moving in exciting new directions. In order to capture these movements, today’s software developer needs to stay abreast of these changes with UAT’s masters in computer science. Students in this software engineering masters degree program learn the algorithmic structures, code metaphors and programming languages being developed to capture new architectures and paradigms in software development.
Curriculum for the software engineering master degree aims to capture and propel the fluid movement of software development. Graduates with a masters in computer science stand ready to innovate and advance the field further by developing cutting edge research and innovative applications.
Network Security Degree
Secure information, and future, with a cyber security degree
As technology continues its speed-of-light evolution in commerce and culture, the theft and corruption of information expands as well. UAT’s Network Security degree prepares students to design networks using diagrams and documentation that secures cyber communication within an organization and throughout the outside world. Students with this cyber security degree develop a comprehensive understanding of how to create, maintain and defend secure networks.
Designated as a Center for Academic Excellence in Information Systems Security Education, UAT offers this cyber security degree to provide the advanced industry-standard tools and skill development necessary that propels information network technology initiatives and ensures success in the network security field.
Video Game Degree
Lead the way to gaming’s future with a graduate video game degree
Open new doors in video game production management when you pursue your game production and video game degree from UAT. Here, video gaming degree students master the skills needed to analyze and produce complete works in the electronic gaming arena, as well as build leadership, business, and production expertise applicable to the gaming industry. The video game production curriculum provides students the background and experiences necessary to navigate the game industry and lead an effective production team in either entertainment or serious based games.
For those who’ve ever considered a video gaming degree or game art degree, UAT’s Game Production and Video Game Degree focus on the full spectrum of video game production and prepares students to implement and maintain complete production pipelines.
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Masters in Cyber Security
Become a white hat innovator with an information security degree.
With a masters in information security from UAT, students become leaders in their field and work with those at the top of their craft. UAT’s Cyber Security degree aligns the most forward-looking theory with clear industry standards and guidelines to optimize career success. Curriculum for the Masters in information security includes everything from Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems to Security Assessment Methodology.
Designed to create the next generation of "white hat" innovators, this Cyber Security degree provides the tools and develops the skills necessary to transport information security degree graduates to the leading edge of the industry.
Technology Management Masters Degree
Lead the way with a technology management masters degree.
It takes a master degree in technology management to understand fully how the changing technology landscape affects the strategic planning of an organization. This advanced level of education is a necessity in today's business world. UAT’s technology management masters degree focuses on technology leadership and hardwires the skills and thinking needed to move into management and technology administration.
With a master degree in technology management, students expand their skills into the business realm, enabling them to manage projects and collaborate with teams, be entrepreneurial and understand legal issues associated with business and technology.
