Media for Global Professionals at Sheridan College
Media for Global Professionals breaks new ground by breaking down old boundaries. The first media program of its type in Canada, it celebrates diversity in both the cultural and technological senses - and channels graduates into the journalism and media careers of the future. After just a year of intensive study, you'll be well equipped for the brave new world of online media, ready to tell new stories to new audiences locally and internationally.
- Create blogs, wikis and podcasts
- Learn to use social media
- Work with digital storytelling
Just as important, Media for Global Professionals takes a broad international perspective. You’ll examine Canada’s increasingly diverse population and its changing role in the world via courses on diversity, global conflict and cultural studies. An outgrowth of the acclaimed Canadian Journalism for Internationally Trained Writers Program, this new media program reaches out not only to recent immigrants but also to children of immigrants and Canadians with a global outlook.
In an era of cultural and technological convergence, adaptability is the key to a successful media career. Media for Global Professionals provides unique new ways to help you adapt and thrive.
Sheridan Media for Global Professionals graduates will have a broad range of options to enter online journalism and digital media careers. They will be equipped for freelance media careers that combine traditional and online journalism, or for full-time employment in public relations, communications and related fields.
PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
- Postsecondary diploma or degree (International credentials will be assessed by ontariocolleges.ca)
- 3-5 years experience in the journalism/writing profession; or a complementary profession
- 500-word autobiography
- 250-word document stating why you wish to be in the program
- Résumé
- Sample of your work such as maximum of five published writing samples. One unpublished essay or article (maximum five pages) will be accepted for this requirement.
Applicants will be required to take a Canadian English proficiency exam to enter the program or provide notarized proof of passing such an exam. Those who do not pass the test will be directed to English as a Second Language support.
Postsecondary transcripts indicating courses completed to date must be submitted to ontariocolleges.ca at the time of application.
Applicants who do not meet the admission requirements for this program will be assessed and advised individually and may be considered for other, related programs.
Applicants who do not meet the admission requirements for this program will be assessed and advised individually and may be considered for other, related programs.
Media for Global Professionals program will be housed in Sheridan's Mississauga Campus, set to open in the fall of 2011.
The state-of-the-art campus is located on: 
4180 Duke of York Boulevard,Mississauga,
ON L5B 0G5
It is at the corner of Duke of York Boulevard and Prince of Wales Drive in the heart of Mississauga's downtown. Just 40 minutes from downtown Toronto, the campus is a short walk from the Square One GO bus station as well as Mississauga Transit bus station. Convenient and frequent connecting routes to the TTC subway (both Kipling and Islington stations) are avaialable from the Mississauga transit hub located at Square One.
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