Digital Literacy Requirement
KCTCS defines digital literacy as the ability to locate, evaluate, and ethically create and share information using digital technologies to enhance one's quality of life and vocation.
Before completing an AA, AS, AFA, AAS or any diploma with KCTCS, students must demonstrate digital literacy by one of the following means:
- Passing the IC3 Global Standard Fast Track exam (using the most current Global Standard available), or
- Achieving the IC3 Certification, or
- Articulating credit from another institution which has demonstrated compliance with the above course criteria as identified by the registrar of the receiving college in cooperation with faculty of the receiving college, or
- Receiving credit for an approved KCTCS digital literacy course, or
- Completing a KCTCS program that has been given Digital Literacy status for the program, or
- Providing documentation of successful completion of other certification exams as approved by KCTCS.
Documentation of digital literacy will be recorded as course credit, program completion, transfer course or external exam credit.
Approved KCTCS Digital Literacy Courses
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CAD 100 | Introduction to Computer Aided Design | 3 |
| CIT 105 | Introduction to Computers | 3 |
| DLC 101 | Digital Literacy | 3 |
| DMI 228 | Seminars in Radiography | 3 |
| DMS 119 | Ultrasonic Physics and Instrumentation | 6 |
| DPT 100 | Introduction to 3D Printing Technology | 3 |
| EDU 204 | Technology In the Classroom | 3 |
| IMD 100 | Digital Information & Communication Technologies | 3 |
| OST 105 | Introduction to Information Systems | 3 |
| VCC 125 | Computer Graphics I | 3 |
| VCC 150 | Mac Basics | 3 |
Approved KCTCS Programs with Digital Literacy Status
In addition to the courses listed above, the following KCTCS AAS programs are approved for Digital Literacy Status.
Students who complete these programs will not need to take an additional course to fulfill the Digital Literacy requirement.
- Cybersecurity AAS
- Nursing Associate Degree Program – Standard Pathway and Modular Pathway
- Nursing – Academic/Career Mobility AAS Program
- Nursing – Integrated Nursing AAS and Integrated LPN Diploma Program
- Nursing – Practical Nursing Diploma, all Pathways
- Orthotics and Prosthetics AAS