Full-time Programs

MECP - Media Experience

Program Entry

JANUARY

Program Length

One-Year Ontario College Certificate

Highlights

• Students receive a hands-on, creative introduction to media. 
• Curriculum is project-based. 
• Basic technical skills and theoretical exploration are emphasized. 
• Time is balanced between lab and classroom. 
• Weekly workshops are held with Media Studies faculty and industry representatives. 
• Semester One focuses on design fundamentals, writing, visual/aural storytelling and presentation. 
• Semester Two focuses on chosen field of study in media.

Career Opportunities

Graduates of the Media Experience certificate program are qualified to enter one of Loyalist’s post-secondary media diploma programs. Upon completion of their diploma program graduates are prepared to pursue a broad range of opportunities. Please see the Career Opportunities section within the following program overviews: 

• Advertising
• Animation
• Journalism – Online, Print and Broadcast
• Photojournalism
• Radio Broadcasting
• Television and New Media Production

Program Description

Media Experience is a hands-on, creative introduction to the diverse fields of media. Through a unique integrated learning approach, students create an array of media-based elements and projects, encompassing basic technical skills and theoretical exploration. This program prepares students to enter one of five diploma programs in Loyalist’s School of Media Studies. 

Three major projects are completed via workshops and labs, during which students observe, practice and implement new skills each week under the supervision of faculty and guest instructors. Design fundamentals, media writing, visual storytelling and presentation are emphasized.

In the last eight weeks of the program, students select an area of specialty and create a targeted learning portfolio, under the supervision of a faculty advisor. The portfolio is used in the evaluation and consideration for potential exemption from modules or courses in a Media Studies diploma program at Loyalist.

Approximate Cost

Tuition/Ancillary Fees: $3,393 (two semesters) 

Admission Requirements

Required academic preparation – 

• OSSD/OSSGD or equivalent with courses at the general, advanced, (C), (U), (M) or (O) level, and 
• Grade 12 English (C) level or equivalent 

OR 

• mature applicant 

Curriculum