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Creative Arts, Language & Literature
Overview of the
program
Creative Arts option
Modern Languages option
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Champlain St-Lambert seeks to provide a high quality of education for its students and to ensure that graduates have the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to function effectively in their personal and professional lives. Champlain St-Lambert places an emphasis on providing education that allows the student to acquire and integrate the general knowledge, intellectual skills, attitudes, and experiences needed by an individual to achieve a level of competency appropriate to a two-year CEGEP pre-university graduate, preparing for advanced studies at a university, while functioning more fully as a person and as a member of society. As such, through knowledge and experience, students will develop their abilities to work as members of groups and work with people who are different from themselves. Students will also be encouraged to take specific courses in English, Humanities, and Physical Education that will be more relevant to their field of study.
In designing the Creative Arts, Literature and Languages program at Champlain St-Lambert, every effort was made to create options that would best prepare the graduate for studies at the university level. Decisions on option configurations were based on the academic needs of our current student base entering local universities, specifically Concordia University for Creative Arts graduates and McGill University for Language graduates.
The application deadline for both programs is:
- March 1st for the Fall Semester.
- November 1st for the Winter Semester.
Note: "Level One" language courses for students in the Modern Languages option may not be available in January.
ABOUT THE CREATIVE ARTS
OPTION
The Creative Arts option was designed to give students ample opportunity to perfect their technical abilities and master the media tools in use today, while at the same time developing conceptual skills. They learn how to read and interpret images, and, through analysis of historical movements, they explore and understand their own artistic and creative values and motivations. They gradually move from learning how to use a preferred medium into taking a position about their own work. Realizing that many of the graduates from this program would be continuing in digital media programs at the university level, a profile in digital media was created to complement the more traditional profiles of film and photography. In the film and photography profiles, students are also introduced to digital image making and manipulation.
The Creative Arts option at Champlain St-Lambert has three profiles:
- Digital Imaging and Studio Arts
- Film/Video/Communications
- Photography/Design
After a common first semester during which students will be given a broad overview of traditional and new media as well as an introduction to the three areas of specialization, students will choose the profile which best meets their university and/or career aspirations. Choosing a profile doesn't necessarily mean that the student has no interest in the others, therefore, the program has been designed to permit students to continue to take option courses from the other profiles while developing a specialization.
For more about the Creative Arts option including course descriptions, click here.
To see the type of work our students can produce, we proudly invite you to visit the virtual gallery by clicking here.
To ask a question about the Creative Arts option, click here.
ABOUT THE (MODERN)
LANGUAGES OPTION
The Modern Languages option is designed to give students a thorough study of French, Spanish, and Italian. Students are introduced to the culture and civilization of the languages that they study as they master grammar, critical reading and writing. The languages in this option were selected to provide students a proper preparation for advanced studies in domestic and international business, journalism, government, historical and medical research, architecture, teaching, interpretation and translation.
The Modern Languages option emphasizes critical awareness of cultural variations and issues in world civilizations and global regions. Students are introduced to cultural and literary analysis and research using primary texts, secondary literature, and computerized data resources. Italian was chosen because for many centuries, it has been the language of culture, and in recent times Italy has become one of the world's leading industrial and economic powers. Spanish was chosen because it is the second most popular language of business after English and because of the economic and cultural development between Canada and the United States. And French was chosen to ensure that our students leave the college with a mastery of both of Canada's official languages.
The Modern Languages program fulfills the basic entrance requirements for most Bachelor of Arts programs. Graduates often pursue university studies in the following areas:
- Communications
- Creative Writing
- Comparative Literature
- Education
- Languages
- Linguistics (phonetics, psycholinguistics, speech therapy, audiology)
The Modern Languages program will also enable students to choose among careers in the following areas:
- Copywriting
- Diplomacy
- Interpretation
- Journalism
- Law (International relations)
- Media (TV and Radio)
- Public Relations
- Teaching
IS THIS THE PROGRAM FOR YOU?
The Modern Languages student:
- has good basic skills in English or French
- is creative and imaginative
- enjoys intellectual work
- is a keen and curious observer
- works methodically
- is disciplined
- appreciates the power and magic of spoken and written language
- enjoys reading
- is open-minded
- is curious about other cultures.
If you can identify with several of these characteristics, you are a good candidate for the Modern Languages program.