Bachelor's in Media, Film and Communications

Media, Film and Communications is a Bachelor program taught at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time options.

Lakehead University’s Media, Film and Communications program provides a well-rounded education that emphasizes both critical analysis and production of media, including Video / Film, Social Media, TV, Radio, Podcasts, Sound Design, Artificial Intelligence, Digital media, and Scripts. You work under the direction of experienced media makers and internationally renowned instructors to produce analog and digital media with industry standard technology and software.

Students complete hands-on labs and use media to challenge systemic problems and social injustices, representing ideas in visually innovative ways. The program includes internship opportunities at places such as the Orillia Museum of Art and History, Rogers TV, and the South Georgian Bay Media Association. The program culminates in a Capstone Project with two semesters of developing and creating a long-term creative digital media project on a topic of your choice.

Modules

• Alternative New Media
• Anti-Racist and Indigenous Media in Canada
• Cinematography
• Media, Art, and Activism
• Media and Environmental Justice Movements
• Sound Production and Post-Production
• Special Topics in Production (e.g. Documentary Film, Professional Blogs and Podcasts, Screenwriting)
• Strategic Digital Communications
• Website Design
• Capstone Project

The minimum requirements for admission in Media, Film and Communications at Lakehead University for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by Lakehead University.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Lakehead University as pre-requiste for admission in Media, Film and Communications.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

Completion of the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD); a minimum of 6 Grade 12U or M courses, or equivalent, including program specific prerequisite courses; and a minimum 70% overall final average. Higher averages may be required for admission to programs in which the demand for places by qualified applicants exceeds the supply of available spaces. Admission averages are calculated using the top 6 Grade 12 U or M courses.

• Other Canadian High School Students: Completion of Grade 12 and the Secondary School Diploma; program specific prerequisite courses; and a minimum 70% overall final average. Higher averages may be required when demand exceeds available spaces.
• International Secondary School/ College or University: Successful graduation from an academic secondary school program or equivalent; program specific prerequisite courses; and equivalent of a minimum 70% overall final average (Canadian).
• Canadian College: Completed a minimum of 1 year of full-time academic studies at an accredited community college since leaving high school; completed the appropriate program-specific prerequisite courses; and achieved a minimum overall average of 70%.
• Canadian University: Attended a university and successful completion of university level course work since leaving high school/college; program specific prerequisite courses; and a minimum overall average of C or 60%.
• Canadian Bible College: A minimum overall average of C / 60% or equivalent; college accredited by the Association of Biblical Higher Education (ABHE); and successfully meets the minimum program specific preparatory course prerequisites at the Grade 12U or M level or equivalent. If not eligible right out of high school, a minimum of two years of full time studies must be completed at the Bible College.
• Program-specific prerequisite requirement includes English (varies by applicant type). A portfolio is required. Refer to https://www.lakeheadu.ca/studentcentral/applying/application-details-for... for more information.

Please check detail of study units at https://www.lakeheadu.ca/programs/undergraduate-programs/media-studies/node/3454

51 fully funded scholarships are listed for Canada. See Canada scholarships.