Cinema & Media Arts - Media Arts
Advance the evolution of new media art forms like social media, mobile experiences and online streaming, by combining digital creation and media culture studies. Explore and create new media content, including virtual production, 3D animation, virtual reality (VR), interactive documentary, social media for community engagement, and transmedia crossing film and game experiences on-site in BetaSpace co-working lab.
Program Overview
The Cinema and Media Arts - Media Arts (BFA) program creates critical thinkers by doing, making, and collaborating. The program centres on a hands-on approach where students will build upon their unique passions. With guidance from industry-leading instructors, students will craft digital multimedia publications, render 3D for animation, create virtual reality or a gaming environment, and produce interactive documentaries.
The program is framed around a series of flexible media practice courses taken concurrently with media history, theory, and criticism, culminating in a capstone project and a media industry placement. Students gain a broad and expansive view of contemporary practice, including television, Internet practices, mobile media, gaming, interactive media, and cutting-edge digital technologies such as 3D and virtual reality (VR). Graduates are prepared to blend curatorial, production, and media-making abilities with the historical investigation of contemporary media, especially screen-based and social media.
Program Details
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Degrees Offered
Fall Entry
Winter Entry
Summer Entry
Ways to Study
Sample Schedule (First-year)
- Making Media
- Film Art: An Introduction
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Media Practice I
Possible Career Paths
- social media strategist
- digital content manager
- media critic
- television, film, video producer
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Admission Requirements
I am a high-school student I have completed at least one year of full-time study at college or university I have been away from high-school for at least two years I have never studied in a formal academic high-school environment Returning / Reactivating student (previously York) Visiting StudentsYou are required to provide official evidence of academic achievement in secondary education. This can be demonstrated through:
- Final grades under the Ontario curriculum (obtained through correspondence, night school or through TVO)
- Credentials through other curricula, such as results from Advanced Placement (AP) or Advanced-level courses in the General Certificate of Education (GCE). (Students may register to sit for the AP and GCE examinations as private candidates.)
In the absence of final grades in courses:
- You must submit the results of standardized tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) with a minimum combined total of 1170 on the Critical Reading and Math components or a composite American College Testing (ACT) score of 24.
- Your application will be reviewed by an admissions sub-committee. If admitted, you will not be eligible for entrance scholarships. You will be considered for continuing student scholarships at the end of your first year of study, if you satisfy those criteria.
You may also be required to provide proof of language proficiency. You will be considered for entrance scholarships on the basis of your overall averages in the six 4U/4M (Ontario curriculum) or equivalent courses.