Children's Entertainment: Writing, Production and Management Ontario College Graduate Certificate
ObjectivesThe Children's Entertainment: Writing, Production and Management program is a new and one-of-a-kind post-graduate program preparing you for a new career as a highly-skilled children's content producer. You will learn to create a wide range of entertainment products - film, TV, books, education products, games, and interactive media - for the rapidly growing children's market. From Sesame Street to the Dora the Explorer, children's entertainment is a multi-billion dollar industry around the world. You will hone your creative storytelling abilities, business skills and production management practices for the development of unique and innovative children's media content for education or entertainment genres. The program is project-driven and collaborative and designed to provide you best practices in a diverse and gender inclusive environment.
Practical experienceYou'll complement your in-class training with an industry field placement in a media organization in Canada.
Academic titleChildren's Entertainment: Writing, Production and Management Ontario College Graduate Certificate
Course descriptionSemester 1 Courses
Course Code Course Name Lecture Lab
CHLD-401 Intro. to Child Development
CHLD-402 Develop a Project
CHLD-403 Integrated Media for Children's Entertainment
CHLD-404 Know Your Buyer
CHLD-405 Survey of Children's Entertainment 1: The Classics
CHLD-406 Survey of Children's Entertainment 2: Anatomy of a Hit
CHLD-407 Team Building
CHLD-408 Writing for Children's Entertainment 1 Semester 2 Courses
Course Code Course Name Lecture Lab
CHLD-411 Producing the Project
CHLD-412 Marketing Integrated Media for Children's Entertainment
CHLD-413 Project Management
CHLD-418 Writing for Children's Entertainment 2
CHLD-414 Television Production Semester 3 Courses
Course Code Course Name Lecture Lab
CHLD-428 Advanced Writing for Children's Entertainment
CHLD-422 Professional Practice
CHLD-421 Industry Field Placement
Note: Students are responsible for obtaining their own field placement.