Diploma - Visual Content Creation
- 2 years
- Duration
- 18,044 CAD/year
- Price
- Rolling admission
- Start
- Rolling admission
- Deadline
- Diploma
- Degree
- Mixed
- Format
- Toronto / Canada
- Location
Program description
After completing this two-year diploma program, you will be well-equipped to strike out on your own as a creative entrepreneur in any number of fields that value original, high-quality visual material. Incorporating visual communication strategies—with a heavy focus on social media—it builds on the fundamentals of photography, videography, and narrative to equip you for a prosperous career.
Studios and on-location photography are just two parts of the program's cutting-edge curriculum, which also covers a broad variety of current applications and technologies. As a result, you may build a solid grounding in both analogue and digital media. Virtual reality (VR), AI-generated images, and drone photography are just a few of the new visual content technologies that you'll learn about.
A one-of-a-kind capstone project combining photography, moving images, and alternative media will allow you to hone your abilities, unleash your imagination, and build a solid portfolio that can be utilized for your professional journey.
Program structure
Semester 1
- Communicating Across Contexts
- Capture Lab - Photography
- Capture Lab - Video
- Content Editing I
- Creativity and Visual Communications
- Visual Foundation Professional Practices
- Reading Visual Culture
Semester 2
- Capture Lab - Sound
- Capture Lab - Lighting
- Introduction to Business Practices
- Content Editing II
- Project Production
- Emerging and Alternate Technologies
- plus: General Education Course
Semester 3
- Specialized Advanced Skills Training
- Multi-Platform Strategy Design
- Content Editing III
- Capstone Project Pre-Production
- Personal Branding
- plus: General Education Course
Semester 4
- Capstone Project: Mentoring and Feedback
- Capstone Project: Production
- Capstone Project: Presentation
- Networking: Strategies and Career Preparation
- Entrepreneurship
- plus: General Education Course
Price
Tuition fees - 18,044 CAD
Books and Supply Costs - 0 CAD
Please note: All costs are approximate, may vary by campus and are subject to change at any time without notice.
Requirements for applicants
Academic Requirements:
- Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD), or equivalent, or a mature applicant
- English: Grade 12 C or U, or equivalent course
English Proficiency Requirements:
If English is not your first language, show one of the following:
- Minimum of two years full-time study in an English-speaking nation
- Minimum one year of full-time postsecondary education in an English-speaking nation
- Successful completion of an intense English program like the English Language Institute
- English proficiency exam results from one of the international testing agencies. Only two-year-old tests are valid.
English language test score requirements
- CAEL CE and CAEL online - Minimum 60
- Cambridge English Exams (B2 First/FCE, C1 Advanced/CAE or C2 Proficiency/CPE) - Minimum 169 with no skill below 162
- Duolingo - Minimum score 105 to 110
- IELTS Academic - Minimum 6.0 with no skill below 5.5
- PTE Academic - Minimum score 58
- TOEFL iBT (including MyBest TOEFL and Home Edition) - Minimum 80 with no skill below 20
- TOEFL Revised Paper Delivered - No skill below 20
About the university
A public institution with many campuses in Peterborough, Ontario, and the Greater Toronto Area is called Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology. At the bachelor, diploma, certificate, and graduate levels, it provides both full-time and part-time programs.
Seneca has been involved in foreign education for many years and today draws over 10,000 students from over 130 different nations each year. Through intense language instruction that may last anywhere from two months to more than a year, Seneca's English Language Institute helps overseas students become ready for post-secondary education. The college has a number of alliances with schools abroad and is growing its efforts in collaborative applied research and work/study abroad opportunities.
Seneca in a Nutshell
- With 30,000 full-time students and more than 70,000 registrations for continuing education each year, this institution is among the biggest in Canada.
- 7,000 foreign students from more than 150 nations make up a diversified student body.
- In terms of connections to other postsecondary institutions, Ontario colleges rank first.
- In Toronto, York Region, and Peterborough, there are ten campuses.
- Every year, on average, 8,000 bursaries and 2,600 Seneca scholarships/awards are given out.
