Programs &amp; Degrees

Certificate

Arts Leadership

Students receive a 360° view of the arts industry with courses in arts philanthropy and major gifts, arts marketing, cultural policy, strategic thinking and planning, contract negotiation, industrial relations, and an introduction to financial and management accounting. They are exposed to, and taught by, top practitioners in the arts industry who provide a focus on experiential learning through live site research assignments and a final term practicum placement in an arts organization to serve as a capstone project.

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Master's

Arts Management

The Arts Management Graduate Diploma program is designed to broaden a student’s knowledge of arts organizations and to help them acquire an understanding of business theories and management techniques and their application, including those in financial and management accounting, arts marketing, arts philanthropy, strategic planning and leadership, and governance. The program design relies on inquiry-based research, applied learning in live-site analysis, and the rigorous exchange of ideas, producing graduate students who are immediately qualified to assume specialized administrative positions with professional arts organizations and who will eventually assume leadership roles.

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Graduate Diploma

Computing and the Creative Arts

This innovative program is aimed at students with interests and abilities in both Computing and the Fine Arts. You can participate in advanced courses in Art, Drama, Film, or Music while maintaining a solid concentration in Computer Science and Mathematics. Fill out your degree with electives in other Arts areas and interdisciplinary courses of all kinds. Graduates can expect to work in the entertainment industry, in art galleries and museums, in multimedia design and production, and in developing the next generation of software for the Arts.

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Computing

Drama

Acting, directing, music theatre, design, playwriting, theatre technical production, puppets, opera, theatre history, dance. The DAN School of Drama and Music offers a well-rounded program designed to equip resourceful thinkers with the communication, collaborative, and leadership skills that will enable them to excel in any field they choose. A key part of Drama at Queen’s is the enormous range and number of opportunities offered by many exciting productions, both on stage and backstage, as directors, writers, designers or producers.

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Film and Media

With a focus on critical thinking, our students examine a wide variety of media – including film, television, web and social media – in order to better understand and contribute to contemporary visual culture. Our program integrates this material with a diverse range of studies courses in history, theory, and criticism as well as foundational and advanced production courses in digital video, animation, and open media.

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Fine Art (Visual Art)

As a Fine Art (Visual Art) student at Queen’s, you’ll be part of a small group of 30 students benefiting from intensive training in painting, printmaking, sculpture, and new media/installation. Our courses are taught by instructors active in their fields, and supported through insight into the practices of visiting artists from across the country. Along with an internationally renowned artist in residence and courses in art history and the liberal arts, our program provides a broad spectrum of approaches and experiences. It isn’t all about classrooms or studios: Fine Art students make relevant field trips to exhibitions and workshops, including an annual trip to New York.

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Fine Art

Media and Performance Production

MAPP is a distinctive Bachelor of Arts degree specialization co-coordinated by the Department of Film & Media and the Dan School of Drama & Music. This program is ideal for students interested in the creative and production aspects of Film, Drama and Music, paying particular attention to the cross-disciplinary opportunities that are becoming increasingly important in today’s digital age. MAPP focuses on all aspects of mediatization from moving image and sound production to the intermedial integration of “media” into live arts.

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Music

Queen’s Music has earned a reputation across Canada for producing some of the best-prepared graduates: musicians who excel as scholars, composers, teachers and performers. Students in the DAN School of Drama and Music obtain a solid education in music, while pursuing a wide variety of courses in applied study (performance), ethnomusicology, theory and composition, and music education. Music students have many opportunities to become engaged in Drama studies especially in the areas of Music Theatre and Opera. Music students practice and perform in the fantastic Rehearsal Hall and Concert Hall of the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts.

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Music Theatre

The Music Theatre program at the DAN School of Drama and Music provides students with rich opportunities to delve into the critical study of music theatre as a liberal arts subject, along with intense practical training in the three core disciplines of acting, singing and dancing. Industry-focused training through a two-year set curriculum at St. Lawrence College includes personalized instruction and coaching, group creative work, and basic music literacy. Students build on these core competencies by expanding their knowledge in a variety of specialty areas as they complete their final two years of study at Queen’s University.

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Screen Cultures & Curatorial Studies

Housed in the state-of-the-art Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies is unique because of its linkage of adjacent disciplines: film and media studies and, more generally, the study of screen cultures, film and media production, and curatorial studies and practice. This multidisciplinary and professionally oriented program provides students with a wide range of course options and professional opportunities, including academia, arts management, programming, media production (from mainstream media to artistic and activist production), and curation.

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