Program Overview

The ProfCert Digital Policy program at UCD is a full-time, four-month professional certificate program designed to prepare graduates for careers in evaluating, implementing, and studying digital policy issues. The program takes a multi-disciplinary approach to investigating the institutional and public policy dimensions of digital technology, as well as the underlying social conditions that give rise to such technologies and their governance. Students will gain an advanced conceptual knowledge of digital technologies and their implications for socio-political life, as well as the dilemmas and tensions involved in regulating them.