Industry professionals recognize Sheridan as the best interactive multimedia college in Canada. In the Interactive Multimedia Program, students learn to create, manage and develop Web and mobile content leveraging a curriculum in usability, interactivity, Web programming, social media, and emerging mobile technologies in an interdisciplinary, interprofessional collaborative learning environment.
Creative innovation and problem solving typify all interactive multimedia courses at Sheridan. You’ll develop superior new media skills in this intensive one-year graduate program, learning to combine graphics, text, animation, audio and video to produce:
- Web and mobile applications
- Games and puzzles
- Rich media
- Artistic and experimental work
- Simulations for education and entertainment
- Interactive television
Build Environments from the Ground Up
Students learn to build interactive multimedia environments from the ground up, using the latest versions of Flash, DreamWeaver, PHP, MySQL, Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects. The curriculum covers traditional digital media as well as emerging technologies and alternative interfaces such as multi-touch surfaces, gesture capture and mediated reality.
Students acquire valuable experience by working with real-world clients, managing a complete project through all phases—from needs analysis to conceptualization, visual design, prototyping, development, testing and on-time delivery. Past clients have included the Canadian Football League (CFL), Ontario Block Parent, Halton Region Police Services, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, TV Ontario and the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
Classes are small and intimate, ensuring plenty of direct student-instructor interaction. There’s no better place to prepare for an interactive multimedia career. Come see why Sheridan is widely recognized as the best.
Interactive Multimedia Program courses are held at the Trafalgar Road Campus in Oakville, Ontario.
An Interactive Multimedia graduate certificate from Sheridan is a huge advantage in the job market. Employers seek out our graduates for their combination of technical skill and creative problem-solving ability. Graduates find employment with multimedia and web development companies; advertising agencies and new media companies; corporate environments (including creative, technical, marketing and training divisions); the increasingly important freelance market; education and government agencies; and the entertainment industry.
Examples of the companies in which graduates are employed include:
- The Globe and Mail
- Research in Motion (RIM)
- CBC Kids
- Disney Online Studios Canada
- Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
- The Halton Region
- Queen's University
- Grip Limited
- Baby Robot
- Shaw Communications
- IBM Interactive
- Cossette
- Taxi
- Blast Radius
- Epiculture
- Critical Mass
- MacLaren McCann
- Westjet Airlines
- TVOntario
Stitch Media and Jam3 are industry regarded and award-winning media companies whose founders and principals are graduates of the Interactive Multimedia Program.
For graduate testimonials and an online tour see
http://imm.sheridancollege.ca
PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
- Postsecondary diploma or degree
and/or - Demonstrated competence through related work and/or educational experience
Students are expected to have computer literacy skills prior to admission (Microsoft Windows, image editing software, Web page tools).
Applicant Selection
Eligible applicants are selected on the basis of:
- Demonstrated competence through related work and/or educational experience
and- Response to a questionnaire
- Review of portfolio which may include:
- Design or visualization work (such as graphic art, posters, paintings, drawings)
- Programming work (such as sample code in JavaScript, ActionScript, etc.)
- Website work (such as HTML and interface work)
Preferably, the work should be on CD or DVD. If you have collaborated on work then please outline what you did. If you have managed or provided marketing or editorial elements of websites or discs, please provide details. The portfolio will be returned if requested.
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.
For More Information:
Trafalgar Road (Oakville): 905-845-9430, ext. 2339
| CODE |
TITLE |
CREDITS |
| |
|
|
| TERM 1 |
|
|
| APPL 51489 |
IMM Web Authoring 1 |
5 |
| APPL 55738 |
IMM Web Application Development 1 |
4 |
| DSGN 53871 |
IMM Web Design 1 |
3 |
| INFO 59306 |
IMM Multimedia Pioneering 1 |
2 |
| MEDA 59196 |
IMM Audio Video 1 |
2 |
| MGMT 53567 |
IMM Project Management 1 |
2 |
| VDES 55861 |
IMM Visual Design |
3 |
| |
|
|
| Total: |
|
21 |
| |
|
|
| TERM 2 |
|
|
| APPL 55256 |
IMM Web Authoring 2 |
5 |
| APPL 54579 |
IMM Web Application Development 2 |
4 |
| DSGN 52652 |
IMM Web Design 2 |
2 |
| ANIM 56859 |
IMM Motion Graphics |
2 |
| INFO 59724 |
IMM Multimedia Pioneering 2 |
2 |
| MEDA 52976 |
IMM Audio Video 2 |
2 |
| MGMT 55305 |
IMM Project Management 2 |
2 |
| |
|
|
| Total: |
|
19 |
Note: Courses subject to change.