The Media Arts Division offers courses in photography, film, sound, installation, performance, video, interactive and web media and printed matter. Undergraduate degree programs include a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in photography, film or intermedia, and an Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Fine Arts, combining media arts courses with programming from other divisions.

Photography Students opting for a major in photography examine technical, historical and theoretical issues related to contemporary photography. We offer workshops in black and white and colour photography, large-format photography, lighting, documentary practice, computer image-making, non-silver processes, special topics courses, and seminars in historical and contemporary issues. While gaining expertise in both conventional and digital image-making, students develop their own artistic practices and a critical understanding of the aesthetic and social discourses within photography.

The major in film allows students to explore film as an art form while preparing for the complex industry of filmmaking. With a focus on hands-on learning, the program weaves together currents of dramatic, documentary and experimental film practice. In collaborative projects, students rotate among many roles: writing, acting, directing, producing, cinematography, production design, editing, and sound design. Assignments progressively challenge students to create more ambitious work while gaining experience in location and studio processes, leading to a final-year thesis project.

Intermedia students investigate non-traditional media such as sound, installation, performance, video, interactive and web media and printed matter, choosing combinations of courses to help form a personal artmaking practice. Emphasizing subjective and theoretical approaches through language, image, time, site and technology, studio work is pursued in a context of social and theoretical understandings of technology, art and culture.