With campuses in Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY, Pratt Institute's Center for Continuing and Professional Studies (CCPS) is continuously committed to creating new learning opportunities for non-traditional students. Whether you seek to expand your career options, refine your professional repertoire of skills and knowledge to be optimally effective in today's work market, or simply explore new fields for enrichment purposes, Pratt's Center for Continuing and Professional Studies offers a rich array of opportunities for personal and professional development.

MacTribe: What are your educational objectives?

Pratt: We are a Center where:

1. Art, design or architecture students can learn to apply their skills to specific professions, vocations, or to the management of creative enterprises that contribute positively to today's and tomorrow's world.
2. Non-major college students can take advantage of summertime to immerse themselves into intensive courses whereby they can gain skills and competencies in art, design, or architecture, while earning elective credits for further academic advancement in the degrees of their choice.
3. Creative professionals in their fields (art, design, or architecture) can further enhance or upgrade their skills: a) for compliance with their professions required standards; b) for innovative project and idea development; and c) for potential new collaborations with other professionals, by leveraging Pratt's dynamic networking community of creative professionals.
4. Adults from all walks of life can keep learning, exploring, and experimenting with time-tested and innovative ideas, skills, and practices, by taking courses for their personal enrichment and/or credit, career advancement. We also prepare students for admission into Pratt's graduate programs if you are non-major student.
5. Middle and high school students from the local community, country, and the world, can explore various majors and prepare for successful admission into the colleges of their choice, through our various pre-college programs and services.

Pratt: The Manhattan Campus offers four non-credit certificate programs in the following areas:

• Fine and Decorative Art Appraisal program, which encompasses a broad range of collectible items, such as jewelry, china, antiques and rugs. Growing popularity through television programs has generated high interest in personal property appraisal. Pratt Institute's CCPS, in an exclusive collaboration with the American Society of Appraisers (ASA), is pleased to offer a certificate program in Fine and Decorative Art Appraisal. This program will prepare you to become skilled appraisers, and/or develop a thorough appreciation of collectable items. For more information contact Karen D'Angelo.
• Photography and Digital Imaging program is designed for photographers, artists, designers, architects or anyone else who would like to take their photographic techniques, vision and current knowledge to another level or those interested in changing careers, preparing for a Master degree, or pursuing personal growth. The coursework for this program offers beginning fundamentals, intermediate, and advanced classes in black and white and digital photography.
• Computer Graphics program is designed to provide graphic and fine artists with the skills necessary to utilize the computer as a graphics tool, enabling them to incorporate computer graphics technology into their work. The curriculum includes terminology, software instruction, conceptual development, and hands-on experience. Students work on state-of-the-art equipment, using the latest software. The certificate provides a firm grounding in the basic elements of this fast-moving field, and an opportunity to use, learn, and understand the various types of specialized equipment that exist in today's electronic design offices. Through collaboration with leading hardware and software vendors involved with computer graphics, the Center for Continuing and Professional Studies offers its students the latest in computer graphics education. Pratt's commitment to professional education and commercial applicability is stressed in course planning, faculty selection, and the latest equipment. Pratt's approach consists of a foundation designed to teach computer literacy, the basic terminology and operating concepts of these machines, and finally, a personalized course of study tailored to the specific educational goals and career needs of different types of students. Students may take these courses individually or as part of the certificate program. Career tracks in: Electronic Imaging & Illustration Electronic Publishing Interactive Media Computer Animation and Video Computer-Aided Design & Visualization.
• Certificate Program in Sustainable Building, Infrastructure Design and Management Designers have long been able to meet the needs of their clients and businesses by using their creativity to blend form and function. Today's world of limited resources and changing economic and environmental values requires a new set of tools to design a sustainable world. This Certificate program brings designers into 21st century design by building on their existing design skills and enhancing them with cutting-edge skills and knowledge, enabling them to meet the new goals and challenges of sustainability. Topics include: Climate Change Fundamentals for Design and Management Professionals, Designing, Renovating, and Operating Carbon Neutral Buildings, Performance Modeling for Carbon Neutral Buildings, Sustainable Standards for Buildings and Infrastructure - LEED, BREAM, Energy Star, Energy, Greenhouse Gas and Weatherization Audits, and Capital Planning, New Technologies - Smart Grid and Smart Buildings, Innovative and Entrepreneurial Planning Design and Management.

Pratt Manhattan CCPS is designated as an Autodesk(r) Authorized Training Center (ATC) and an Autodesk(r) Authorized Training Center Media and Entertainment (ATCME).

The Manhattan CCPS program also offers non-credit courses in the following areas: Art and design, Book Arts, Decorative Arts, design, Fine Arts, Illustration, Jewerly Making, Career Development, Creativity and Artistic Expression, Construction Management, Facilities and Environmental Compliance, Marketing Workshops, Writing Workshops and more including a special summer credit program for the college student. Another popular area of study is the American Institute of Architects (AIA) professional development courses for architects and engineers.

MacTribe: What is your most popular offering for recruiting students?

Pratt: Hands on practical training that leads to a usable skill in the marketplace.

MacTribe: Are your courses classroom based?

Pratt: They are classroom and studio based.

MacTribe: How long is the program typically?

Pratt: CCPS offers a full compliment of formats and schedules, from one day intensive seminars to full semester course offerings to certificate programs that may extend to 18 months. Classes are offered at a variety of time schedules: daytime, evening and weekend.

MacTribe: Are you affiliated with any industry trade organizations?

Pratt: American Institute of Architects (AIA) AutoDesk Training Center American Association of Appraisers

MacTribe: Who is the average student at Pratt?

Pratt: More than 3,000 adults and high school and college students a year enroll in CCPS' 250 courses and special programs. Programs, lectures, seminars and studios are conveniently offered at both Pratt Manhattan and the main campus in Brooklyn.

Pratt's CCPS aspires to pro-actively serve the current and emerging needs of diverse, non-traditional students and alumni, in ways that align with Pratt Institute's overall vision; that complement Pratt's regular program offerings; and that are relevant and useful to today's and tomorrow's society and world.

CCPS intends to keep striving to serve students by ensuring the high quality and relevance of existing programs and courses, and by developing new programs and courses; all of which are to be offered in ways that meet the special needs of non-traditional learners, such as through accelerated degrees (graduate and undergraduate), evening- or weekend certificates (credit or non-credit), stand-alone courses, workshops, and special events (non-credit), and intensive immersion programs (summer college intensives; pre-college programs and services; and study abroad programs). CCPS aspires to expand its outreach to ever wider audiences, primarily by constantly monitoring and improving its internet outreach capacities, as well as through regional and targeted promotional efforts.

MacTribe: Who would be an ideal candidate to enroll in Pratt?

Pratt: CCPS programs offer a wide variety of educational opportunities outside of the traditional degrees offered by other schools. These opportunities are designed for:

• People seeking to enter the professions
• Professionals wishing to update and upgrade their knowledge and skills as well as maintain or obtain professional licensure, including: architects, landscape architects, professional engineers to name a few
• Young people wishing to explore their talents and prepare for successful admission into the college of their choice while earning college credits
• College students desiring to combine studying abroad with earning credits
• Non-Pratt, non- majors seeking to explore a new art, design or architecture major at Pratt in the summer while earning elective credits
• Non-majors who wish to prepare for admission into Pratt's graduate programs in industrial design and interior design
• Individuals seeking self-development and personal enrichment.

MacTribe: How is your offering developing over the next year?

Pratt: We will continue to refine and enhance to provide state-of-the-art experiences for all students.