Graduate Certificate In Children’s Media
Centennial College
Key Information
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Campus location
Online Canada
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 semesters
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
CAD 16,539 *
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* for 2 semesters for international students / fees include incidental fees and health insurance for the first year of study
Introduction
- Program Code: 6424
- School: School of Communications, Media, Arts, and Design
- Credential: Ontario College Graduate Certificate
- Program Type: Graduate Certificate program
- Program Length: 1 years/ 3 semesters
- Location: Story Arts Centre
You’re sitting at home, flipping through the channels on a lazy Sunday morning. You pause on a commercial for a new cartoon that will be premiering the following week and a smile creeps across your face. As you continue to watch the commercial, your smile gets wider as a sense of pride puffs your chest out a little. The commercial ends and you turn off the TV to take at the moment.
You just witnessed the very first commercial for a show you helped to produce, and you can’t help but feel elated.
Children’s media is a key component of the Canadian entertainment industry. With the rapid growth of the market, the demand for trained professionals is growing with it. Luckily, Centennial College offers a one-of-a-kind program that allows you to build and develop just the right skills to enter this line of work. The Children’s Media program provides you with hands-on experience and prepares you for various career paths in the industry.
In only 3 semesters, you will build the capabilities to create content for children’s media, as well as learn how to manage and market various products. You’ll learn and master the true art of storytelling and put it to work with scriptwriting. Video production and project coordination will come by as second nature after you complete your first two semesters at Centennial College.
Your final semester is where all your skills get to shine during your work-placement period. This is your opportunity to find the area of children’s media that speaks to you! Whether it be in licensing and merchandising, or in the writer’s room, the Centennial College Children’s Media program will put you on the right path to getting there.
While in the program, you will receive front line experience in:
- Creating a brand plan
- Starting and developing content for a YouTube channel
- Working alongside a client relevant to the industry – Scholastics Canada being just one of the clients who partner with the students
- And so much more!
This will allow you to enter the workplace with a variety of experience in different sectors and completely understanding what to do in any situation. Graduates of this program have been known to be hired into the field within six months to a year of graduation, and two alumni received Daytime Emmy nominations in 2018!
That moment you felt earlier after watching your first tv commercial will become a daily experience, and that experience will lead to so many more magical moments. With the Centennial College Children’s Media program, there are endless possible ways of how you can create the best moments for someone’s childhood.
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Curriculum
Program Outline
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Program Outcome
Program Vocational Learning Outcomes
Program Vocational Learning Outcomes describe what graduates of the program have demonstrated they can do with the knowledge and skills they have achieved during their studies. The outcomes are closely tied to the needs of the workplace. Through assessment (e.g., assignments and tests), students verify their ability to reliably perform these outcomes before graduating.
- Develop, design, and present a multi-platform project in Children’s Entertainment.
- Formulate an effective business and marketing plan for addressing international markets through the analysis of cultural variations.
- Write proposals witch identify traditional and non-traditional sources of financing for CE projects.
- Integrate and internationalize your thinking regarding Children’s Entertainment products.
- Write for a variety of professional Children’s Entertainment media: on-screen, new media, toys, and publishing.
- Write and create a marketable proposal for a television production for children’s entertainment.
- Research and write about the history of Children’s Entertainment.
- Develop Children’s Entertainment products and programs which reflect community ethical standards.
- Research and apply recognized standards of developmental psychology to Children’s Entertainment projects.
- Research and analyze classical sources of Children’s Entertainment for the production of contemporary versions.
- Manage a creative team from concept to prototype to production.
- Formulate new proposals based on analysis of previous Children’s Entertainment "hits"
Career Opportunities
Career Outlook
- Children's writer
- Marketing specialist
- Project manager
- Content manager
- Children's TV producer
- Children's multi-platform producer
Education Pathways
Successful graduates have the opportunity to apply their credits towards further study at the degree level. Listed below are the degrees from partnering institutions that are available for this program.
Please note that each partner pathway has a specific minimum grade requirement in order to qualify for transfer credits, which are assessed by the receiving partner institution.
Program History
Centennial College launched its Children's Media graduate certificate program in September 2009. It was born through the recognition that Canada has, for many years, been a leader in the creation and production of internationally successful children's entertainment properties. The School of Communications, Media, Arts, and Design program was formulated and developed by some of the very best and most respected contemporary producers, writers, and industry leaders in Canada. As well, it is continuously guided by an active program advisory committee with members from across the spectrum of areas that involve and affect children's entertainment — from education and early childhood specialists to toy manufacturers to interactive digital media producers.
Through the program, students gain a solid developmental understanding of their audience, a strategic and entrepreneurial approach to their careers, a global perspective, and the passion and commitment to become tomorrow's industry leaders.
Areas of Employment
- The independent television production sector
- Industry funding bodies
- Freelance writing for television
- Cross-platform production
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