Courses
Advanced Live Digital Media Production-2025/2026
| Level 1 | ||||
| Take all of the following Mandatory Courses: | ||||
| BUSI-6015 | Entrepreneurship & Career Development | 3 | ||
| Students will create promotional and pricing material to market their services. Students will participate in interviews with potential clients or employers. This course will instill entrepreneurship and professional business practises, including pricing for jobs, setting deadlines, and providing good customer service. This course will include a research component, services, and marketing strategies. Students will be required to attend and/or participate in industry trade shows. | ||||
| TELE-6002 | Standards & Distribution | 2 | ||
| This course will introduce students to advanced aspects of broadcast engineering to help students prepare their broadcasts for transmission. Routing, audio mapping, and accessibility standards are all paramount importance to the transmission of a show (regardless of platform) and students will gain experience in production situations to how best implement and conform their productions to these standards. | ||||
| INFO-6142 | Networking & File Based Workflows | 2.5 | ||
| Students will learn about the infrastructure that makes up a local network. They will understand the importance that configuration and topology makes when interconnecting equipment. They will also engage in understanding how files move across a network and engage in basic editing to prepare files to transfer between machines. They will develop understanding on how the codec they choose for a project affects outcomes. | ||||
| PROD-6002 | Live Production Planning 1 | 3 | ||
| This is a course designed to provide students with fundamental production theory and techniques commonly used in planning Live Productions. Emphasis will be placed on operational practices, documentation, and personnel responsibilities related to production. | ||||
| SFTY-6013 | Technical Fundamentals & Safety | 1.5 | ||
| Productions are not without risks; and safety is paramount. This course is designed to show students how to work safely to ensure that as many risks are mitigated and made redundant. Students will learn the fundamentals of power distribution, set safety in setting up, and cover the various tools and protective measures that one can take when working on-set. | ||||
| PROD-6003 | Introduction to Live Production | 3 | ||
| The student will receive hands-on practical training in live production and operations, field camera integration, and operational techniques. Students will integrate industry policies and procedures with practical operational practices. | ||||
| Level 2 | ||||
| Take all of the following Mandatory Courses: | ||||
Group 1 | ||||
| HIST-6002 | Evolution of Media Broadcasting | 3 | ||
| In this course, students will explore at a graduate level, the power and influence of media by examining the creation and distribution tools that have developed over time. Through exploration of media's revolutionary influence and evolution throughout history, students will develop their understanding of the platforms that surround us and how technical limitations of preceding eras influenced modern tools and technical standards. | ||||
| INNV-6006 | Emerging Technology | 1 | ||
| Media technology is constantly changing and evolving. In this graduate level course, students will explore new technology and techniques related to the live production, live streaming, and live television industry. The student will develop and expand adaptive and innovative problem-solving skills through a combination of workshops, lab-based activities, research, and exercises. Students will work in industry situations and be encouraged to develop creative and exploratory thinking skills. | ||||
| PROD-6004 | Live Production Planning 2 | 3 | ||
| Building on Live Production Planning 1, students will further develop production skills and techniques commonly used in planning Live Productions. Emphasis will be placed on operational practices, documentation, and personnel responsibilities related to production. | ||||
| FLDP-6031 | Internship | 5 | ||
| During this course the students will complete an Industry Internship (work placement) with a minimum requirement of 160 hours between Week 8 and 14 of the semester. The course emphasizes experiential learning, professional communication skills, media industry preparation and networking skills. During the Internship, students will report back to the professor of the course through reflective journals and time logs. The host company for the internship will complete a performance evaluation for the student. | ||||
Group 2 | ||||
| Students will be enrolled in one of the following courses: PROD-6005 or INNV-6001 | ||||
| PROD-6005 | Live Production Execution | 2 | ||
| This course provides the student with elevated practical experience in the creation of program content. This course incorporates a variety of industry production formats and approaches. The emphasis of this course is to advance the student through the many diverse production elements, areas of career interest, and the various crew roles in the process of content creation. | ||||
| INNV-6001 | Innovation Applications | 4 | ||
| Organizations and individuals need to be innovative to succeed in the complex and rapidly-changing global market place. In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of innovation and how innovation applies to your discipline or field. Using this foundational knowledge, you will select and apply the novel and adaptive thinking processes and tools presented in the course to complete an innovative learning project in collaboration with other students. The project will be based on a real-world scenario involving an external live client identified in consultation with your professor, and you will interact directly with the client. The project may involve a multi-disciplinary approach. Throughout the course, novel and adaptive thinking skills and collaboration skills will be evaluated through self assessment and peer assessment. This course is designed to give students in graduate certificate programs the opportunity apply innovative thinking to a real-world problem presented by an external client. | ||||
| Program Residency | ||||
| Students Must Complete a Minimum of 8 credits in this program at Fanshawe College to meet the Program Residency requirement and graduate from this program | ||||