University degrees: Courses, Postgraduate, Short-Courses, Summer University, Workshops
Ryerson’s School of Image Arts is internationally recognized as a top undergraduate school offering specializations in film and photography with a balance of studio, lecture, and lab courses that include work in both fine arts and commercial production. Students in film studies develop documentary, fiction or experimental films and videos in each year of the four-year program. They gain skills in all aspects of filmmaking including writing, directing, cinematography, production design, and editing. Graduates have gone on to careers in producing, directing, editing, cinematography, as well as many of the craft positions that form the backbone of filmmaking.
Toronto, or Tkaronto as it was traditionally known, occupies a place that has been home to Indigenous peoples for over 15,000 years: the Huron-Wendat, Petun First Nations, the Seneca and most recently the Mississaugas of the New Credit River. This territory is subject to the “Dish with One Spoon Wampum Treaty” between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share and protect this land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and Peoples, and settlers from all over the globe have been welcomed into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect.
Tkaronto is now home for many First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. Recognizing where we stand is not to historicize the experiences of Indigenous peoples or to offer platitudes. It is but one of many intentional acts for acknowledging injustices and committing ourselves individually, and collectively as a university, to the path of truth and reconciliation.
Graduate education at Ryerson University is overseen by The Council of the School of Graduate Studies. The council deals with such issues as the development and evaluation of new graduate programs and policy that is relevant to graduate programs and students. The council is comprised of the dean of graduate studies as well as affiliated faculty members from each of Ryerson’s faculties, graduate program directors and students.
