BA (Cinema and Media Studies)
Are you passionate about cinema and media storytelling culture and practices? Explore our NEW Cinema and Media Studies major.
The new flexible BA (Cinema and Media Studies) program is a broad, general program of study. You'll complete courses in various aspects of cinema and media including theory and history as well as studio-based courses. Build and customize the program based on your specific interests.
Enhance your critical and professional practices and combine theoretical work with practical, applied opportunities in film and media making, preparing you for a career in the arts or further education in filmmaking.
Students enrolled in the program will enjoy a highly distinctive approach to the study of moving image and media culture, both in terms of using and making media. This new major incorporates offerings from a variety of pre-existing programs, connecting students from a range of academic cultures in a completely unique, and forward-thinking way.
Dr. Aaron Taylor, Professor of Cinema Studies
FAQs
In this program you learn how to situate film and digital media within various aesthetic, social, cultural, political, economic and ethical contexts. As a student, you'll critically assess production processes and industry expectations, while also applying technical and creative skills to the production of your own video and digital media works.
We're looking for students who are:
- passionate about different types of media (games, videos, movies, TV, web and digital)
- entrepreneurs and self-starters
- budding creators interested in the why behind their creative impulses
You'll put theory to practice through a hybrid of studio, seminar and “studies”-based courses. With an emphasis on discussion and team-based learning, elements of hands-on media making and close contact with individual instructors, you'll take a wide variety of fascinating courses — including subjects taught by world-renowned New Media, Cinema, Indigenous Studies scholars and more!
As a graduate of the program you can look forward to career opportunities in a variety of fields, such as:
- leadership roles within the moving image and digital arts
- careers in communications and social media production
- digital entrepreneurship
- social policy research
Individual courses from other institutions may transfer to the University of Lethbridge, and University of Lethbridge courses may transfer to other institutions as per the Alberta Transfer Guide. Students transferring to the University of Lethbridge may complete as much as half of the degree and major at another institution.
If you're a current ULethbridge student, you can request to switch to the BA with a major in Cinema and Media Studies by completing the Request to Change Program or Major on The Bridge. Students are strongly encouraged to meet with an Academic Advisor in the Fine Arts Advising Office (W600) to see how their previously completed and current courses will fit in the Cinema and Media Studies program.
This new program blends traditional and cutting-edge approaches to the study of media and combines it with studio-based practice. The University of Lethbridge is close to large-scale media production hubs as well as local, emerging creative communities.
Prospective ULethbridge students should send questions to finearts.admissions@uleth.ca.
Current ULethbridge students can send inquiries to finearts.advising@uleth.ca or visit the Fine Arts Advising Office (W660).
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Want to speak to a human about this program?
Contact Nick! He's our Fine Arts Recruitment & Retention Specialist and will answer any Fine Arts admissions-related questions you have.
Nick is also an alumnus of the University of Lethbridge and gives awesome tours of our Centre for the Arts building!
Dr. Nick Sullivan
Fine Arts Academic Advising
Recruitment & Retention Specialist, Studio Teacher