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About Interactive Media Management in Sheridan College (Ontario)

Prepare for your career

In the Interactive Media Management program, you'll learn to create, manage and develop web and mobile content, leveraging a curriculum in usability, interactivity, front-end coding, social media, user experience (UX) and emerging mobile technologies in an interdisciplinary, inter-professional collaborative learning environment.

The most up-to-date new media skills

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
• Physical computing and augmented reality
• Immersive experiences and installations
• Visual communication and visualization work
• Games and puzzles

Learning Outcomes

The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

• Facilitate effective completion of both individual and collaborative interactive media projects.
• Use and evaluate best practices and tools to design and develop dynamic, rich-media content.
• Conduct and evaluate a thorough assessment of the requirements of a complex interactive media project.
• Coordinate the development, budgeting, planning and professional presentation of a complex interactive media project.
• Design and coordinate a complex media project (interface, navigation, graphics, text treatment) using best practice design and development principles and development principles and applying conceptual and theoretical frameworks.
• Manage the building of effective and dynamic complex websites and/or mobile applications.
• Propose solutions to ethical and professional issues arising in an online environment.
• Apply research and conceptual skills to propose optimal solutions for mobile/multimedia/web development problems and facilitate these skills within the project team.
• Provide creative leadership that results in the effective design, development and implementation of complex interactive media projects.
• Evaluate the financial, technical and artistic success of a complex interactive media project and present recommendations for improvement.

Career Opportunities

An Interactive Media Management graduate certificate from Sheridan is a huge advantage in the job market. Employers like The Globe and Mail, IBM Canada, BlackBerry, CBC Kids, Disney Online Studios Canada, the ROM, McCann Canada, Train with Push and startups seek out our graduates for their combination of technical skill and creative problem-solving ability.

Recent graduates have moved into the following careers:

• Product Designer
• User Experience Designer, Researcher or Engineer
• Digital Strategist
• Creative Technologist
• Interactive Designer or Producer
• Front-end Designer or Developer
• Full Stack Developer
• Mobile Designer or Developer

Academic qualification equivalents

• Postsecondary diploma or a degree or 2–3 year diploma (media-related is desired)

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS       :    6.5 – Overall Band Score with no Band below 6.0
• TOEFL      :    88 (21L,W,S,R) iBT (Internet-based TOEFL) or 570 Paper-based
• PTE           :    60 – Overall Minimum Score (57L,W,S,R)

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