Diploma - Music and Digital Media
- 2 years
- Duration
- 18,943 CAD/year
- Price
- Sept 2023
- Start
- Rolling admission
- Deadline
- Diploma
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Kingston / Canada
- Location
- St. Lawrence College, Canada
- School
Program description
The MDM Program is unique in Canada. This demanding program promotes music, video, and audio recording skills. MDM equips students for careers in music and media and subsequent education.
The curriculum focuses on integrating art mediums creatively. Music studies include video production and audio recording. Students receive 10 private application sessions every semester on their primary instrument (or voice). Second-year students learn composition, entrepreneurship, and integrated arts projects like performance, sound design, and installation art.
Results:
- Develop personal and professional vocal and/or instrumental skills.
- Use music history, theory, and/or visual form to interpret a work's structure, style, content, and aesthetic aspects.
- Create digital music recordings for creative, promotional, or multimedia use.
- Create music videos for creative or advertising use.
- Translate musical composition parts into visual surroundings utilizing digital technologies and industry standard tools.
- Manage and promote music and multimedia projects using creative-industry entrepreneurial abilities.
Program structure
Semester 1
- Musical Language and Form 1
- Video Production 1
- Applied Music 1: Workshop
- Recording 1
- Keyboarding I
- Vocal Ensemble and Ear Training Lab
- Integrated Arts
Semester 2
- Musical Language and Form 2: Visual Media
- Video Production 2
- Applied Music 2: Workshop
- Recording 2
- Theory and Analysis
- Vocal Ensemble and Ear Training Lab 2
- General Education Course
Semester 3
- Video Production 3
- Applied Music 3: Ensemble Workshop
- Sound Design
- Musical Composition for Visual Media
- Integrated Arts Projects
- Entrepreneurial Skills 1
- Online General Education Online
Semester 4
- Integrated Arts Performance
- Applied Music 4: Ensemble Workshop
- Audio Project
- Integrated Arts Installation
- Entrepreneurial Skills 2
- General Education Course
Price
- Tuition 15,500 CAD
- Program Fees 1300,00 CAD
- Ancillary Fees 2,143 CAD
Total tuition per 2 semester (one year) 18,943 CAD
Fees are estimates only
Requirements for applicants
Admission requirements
- Ontario Secondary School Diploma, or equivalent
- Grade 12 English at the C or U level
- Grade 11 Math at the C, U or M level
- Successful performance recording and musical background
English Proficiency requirements are:
- International English Language Testing System (IELTS)-Academic - Overall 6.0 with no band less than 5.5 (SDS requires an overall 6.0, with no band less than 6.0)
- TOEFL Internet-based Test (iBT) or Home Edition - 78
- TOEFL Computer-based Test - 213
- Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL. In-person or Online)* - overall 60
- EIKEN (Test in Practical English Proficiency)* - pre 1
- The Michigan English Test* - Overall 58 with no individual score below 56, ECCE/ECPE 650 or higher
- Cambridge English Proficiency* - 173
- Duolingo (Temporarily accepted)* - 105
- Pearson Test of English -Academic (Online & In-person) - 55
*Note: Students from India are not eligible to submit the results of this test as proof of English proficiency.
About the university
St. Lawrence College has campuses in Kingston, Brockville, and Cornwall, Ontario. Our secure neighborhoods combine small-town atmosphere with big-city attractions, like shopping, eating, and nightlife.
The institution has 6,700 full-time and 20,000 part-time students in 89 academic programs and 829 full- and part-time employees, including 414 professors.
With modern, expansive facilities in three vibrant eastern Ontario cities and a solid track record of excellence, St. Lawrence College still combines all the benefits of a world-class education with the advantages of small-town living and personal attention to detail.
