PERFORMING ARTS / FILM / MUSIC
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Fanshawe College
Music industry arts program focusing on the music business and recording technology, curriculum includes contracts, song and composition analysis as well as production techniques.
Niagara College
Acting for film and television Two-year program training actors for big-and-small screen work.
Music Two-year diploma providing academic and performance training in rock, pop and jazz.
Theatre arts Two-year diploma training students in acting, singing and dance.
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
Bachelor's in applied music Four-year degree combining training in performance and composition with electives such as recording and production.
Comedy writing and performance Unique two-year diploma in the art of comedy.
Sheridan Institute of Technology
Music theatre. Advanced diploma course.
Theatre arts Three-year diploma training students for work as actors in theatre, TV and film.
Cambrian College
Music performance The only college program (two years) in Ontario to focus on classical music.
Music performance Two-year diploma in jazz or classical.
Langara College
Theatre arts Renowned program, known as Studio 58, that trains actors, stage managers, technicians and designers.
Film arts Eight-month program for those with experience or education. Three streams: acting, writing or directing.
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Film and video production Two-year program that draws students from around the world.
Grande Prairie Regional College
Interactive digital design (music) Two-year program trains students for the music industry with courses including digital music production, arranging, electronic notation, and performance.
Northwest Community College
First Nations fine arts Unique two-year program in aboriginal art, training students in technique, art history and the legacy of Haida artist Freda Diesing.
Fleming College
Museum management and curatorship Unique post-graduate, three-semester program includes training at the local Peterborough Museum and Archives.
Collections conservation and management Post-graduate certificate four-semester program trains students in the conservation of museum artifacts such as ceramics, glass, stone, metals, textiles, works of art and books.
St.Clair College
Entertainment technology A new three-year program trains students in lighting, staging, sound, audio visual and scene construction allowing them to work in theatres, theme parks, audio visual companies, etc..
Red Deer College
Motion picture arts Bachelor's degree program trains students for work in the film and TV industry, with two streams acting and production.
FASHION
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
Fashion management A new four-year bachelor of applied business program to prepare graduates for the fashion industry; training in business management, wholesale and retail operations and import/export management.
Fashion Arts Three-year program trains students to enter the business in design, production management, quality control, product development and pattern making. ƒo
Fashion Business Two-year program sends graduates into the fashion retail industry.
Olds College
Fashion apparel technology Two-year program offers tailoring and custom design training.
Fashion Management Two-year program on the business of fashion, from manufacturing to marketing and retail. A one-year diploma on the international fashion business is available.
Vancouver Community College
Fashion arts One and two-year diploma programs in design.
Fanshawe College
Fashion design Three-year co-op program trains students in all areas of garment design.
DESIGN / COMPUTER ANIMATION
Sheridan Institute of Technology
Applied arts (animation) Arguably Canada's most renowned bachelor's program for training animators.
Design Renowned four-year joint degree program with York University.
Loyalist College
Animation Three-year advanced diploma program includes internships and entrepreneurial training for graduates wanting to set up own shop.
3D animation Eight-month graduate certificate training in 3D computer-based modelling and animation.
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
Multimedia design Two-year program that focuses on interactive media design and development.
Comic design and scripting Unique, one-year program trains students to be artists in the comic-book industry and related publishing fields.
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Graphic communications technology Diploma program prepares students for the print and publishing industry in such areas as pre-press, press, bindery, finishing, management, sales, marketing, and customer service.
New Brunswick Community College (NBCC)
Animation and Graphics Assorted programs.
Langara College
Display and design Two-year program encompassing 3-D design for retail, exhibit and special events, interior design theory and graphic presentation, plus advertising, marketing, and small business management.
Winnipeg Technical College
Production art The well-regarded program combines graphic design and printing and is one of only a few to train students in flexographic printing.
Dawson College
3-D animation and computer generated imagery A new three-year program trains students as graphic artists for the animation industry and related fields.
Medicine Hat College
Visual communications Four-year degree program with a stated aim of blurring the boundaries separating the fine arts from design and industry
John Abbott College
Publication design and hypermedia technology Three-year program trains students in website creation, publication design and graphic design.
MEDIA / JOURNALISM
Niagara College
Broadcasting, radio, television and film Three-year program leading to careers on-air as reporters/ announcers or off-air as technicians/ producers/ directors.
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
Journalism print and broadcasting Two-year graduate program in either specialization in state-of-the-art newsroom and studios.
Broadcasting Two-year program trains graduates for radio, television, production facility, or web-based environments
Fanshawe College
Radio broadcasting Graduates of the two-year program become announcers, producers, writers, programmers, sales and marketing and promotional professionals.
Loyalist College
Photojournalism Billed as Canada's only dedicated two-year program. Graduates find work as photojournalists, reporter/ photographers, picture editors, photo technicians or digital publishing specialists.
Documentary production A two-semester program in the business of independent documentary production and the Canadian policy landscape of documentary funding, marketing and distribution. Prepares for careers as researchers, scriptwriters, camera operators, sound recordists, video editors, field producers, directors, and production managers. Plus programs in print and broadcast journalism
Centennial College
Books and magazine publishing Graduate certificate program.
Langara College
Journalism Two-year diploma or one-year certificate (for university graduates) programs oriented toward print journalism with some exposure to Internet and broadcasting skills.
Camosun College
Applied Communication Two-year media-generalist program includes theory and production skills for television, radio, electronic and print publication, photography and graphics and public relations.
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Broadcast systems technology Two-year program supplies graduates to the TV, radio, post-production, equipment manufacturing and other audio-visual industries
More Colleges Reports
- Nursing shortages make colleges get creative in training RNs
- Centennial helped REGEN get its devices to market
- Creating prototypes and testing fills a research gap
- Filling a skills vacuum in the West
- Sought-after programs
- One-stop shopping for postsecondary students
- Big family on campus
- Crossover colleges
- Double-team degrees
- School touts global citizenship to set itself apart
- Come from Jamaica, and feel all right
- The skilled trades dilemma
- Moving to the front lines of applied research
- Laid-off workers go back to school, creating challenges for colleges
- A select list of college programs
- ENVIRONMENT / NATURAL RESOURCES / ENERGY
- PROFESSIONS / SERVICE INDUSTRIES
- HEALTH CARE/HEALTH SCIENCES
- ENGINEERING / TECHNOLOGY
- BUSINESS / MANAGEMENT
