Certificates are intended primarily for working professionals, and provide a "bite-sized" chunk of graduate coursework. See Professional Master of Computer Science (MCS) for additional information.

Required Certificate Prerequisites–must be completed prior to admission.
CSCD 240	C AND UNIX PROGRAMMING
or CSCD 255	C PROGRAMMING FOR ENGINEERS
CSCD 377	INTRODUCTORY COMPUTER GRAPHICS
or MATH 231	LINEAR ALGEBRA
MATH 142	PRECALCULUS MATH II
Certificate Requirements
CSCD 570	3D COMPUTER GRAPHICS PRINCIPLES	4
CSCD 577	VIRTUAL REALITY AND DATA VISUALIZATION	4
CSCD 601	RESEARCH REPORT	4
Total Credits		12

Students who successfully earn a Computer Graphics and Visualization, Graduate Certificate from EWU should be able to do the following:​​​

• demonstrate an understanding of basic and advanced concepts of computer graphics and use OpenGL as a renderer;  
• demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of geometric modeling;
• develop applications and analyze scientific data with Visualization Tool Kit (VTK);
• give visual insights to a large amount of information using software tools like R;
• model and animate a 3D environment with the basic and advanced concepts of transformation, projection, texture, lighting and shading.;
• use force feedback-based virtual devices like Geomagic’s Phantom that can make virtual objects tangible and develop applications using such devices.