📖Introduction

Humber College is a publicly-funded college located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1967 and offers a range of certificate, diploma, and degree programs in a variety of fields, including business, technology, health sciences, media, and more.

The college has a diverse student population, with over 33,000 full-time and part-time students enrolled each year, including international students from over 138 countries. Humber College has a strong focus on experiential learning, offering students opportunities for hands-on learning through co-op programs, internships, and work placements. The college has partnerships with over 500 employers, providing students with access to a range of job opportunities and real-world experience.

Humber College is known for its state-of-the-art facilities, including its Centre for Trades and Technology, which offers training in a variety of skilled trades, and its Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation, which provides students with access to cutting-edge technology and equipment. The college is also committed to sustainability, with a number of initiatives in place to reduce its environmental impact and promote sustainable practices.

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📚About the Program

Humber’s Journalism advanced diploma program is designed to produce dynamic storytellers who are immediately ready to work in a variety of media platforms as reporters, broadcasters, editors, producers and digital content managers. Our program is also ideal for those looking to go into communications or public relations. As a journalism student, you’ll gain hands-on skills that are at the forefront of today’s journalism industry including reporting the news, creating broadcast stories, writing feature articles, capturing high quality images and creating compelling digital presentations. You will learn how to report on equity-deserving communities, how to use data to inform news, and choose from electives in your third year that will allow you to focus on radio, TV, magazine, print, online or investigative journalism. You will also have to option to work with industry partners on data-informed and/or investigative journalism projects through Humber’s StoryLab. Our program features: courses with a focus on digital media, online publishing and developing web content including social media entrepreneurial skills advice for today’s highly competitive media communications market experienced faculty working in industry bringing extensive and exclusive media connections hands-on technical and production training including broadcast equipment, digital prepress, TV production and multimedia management real-life experience working on our online news site humbernews.ca, Humber Et Cetera campus news online, Radio Humber 96.9 FM, Humber TV and magazine productions valuable industry exposure and contacts through work placements that help you build your network and resumé Show less
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📖Program Curriculum

Semester 1
GNED 101: An Introduction to Arts and Sciences
MDCP 100: Introduction to Media Studies
MDCP 101: Innovative Design
MDCP 102: Web Design
MDCP 103: Communication Skills
MDCP 104: Digital Imaging
WRIT 100: College Reading and Writing Skills
Semester 2
JRNL 100: Fundamentals of Reporting
JRNL 115: Broadcast Writing
JRNL 119: Photojournalism
JRNL 129: Reporting for Diverse Communities
JRNL 130: Media Law and Ethics
JRNL 219: Introduction to Online Journalism
JRNL 222: Introduction to Research and Investigative Journalism
WRIT 201: Professional Writing Skills: Journalism
Semester 3
JRNL 205: News Reporting 1
JRNL 223: Data Journalism
JRNL 229: Reporting for Diverse Communities 2
JRNL 317: Magazine Writing and Research
JRNL 318: TV News Reporting
JRNL 319: Radio News 1
Select 1 from the following courses
GNED : General Elective
Semester 4
JRNL 316: Online Web Writing and Design
JRNL 324: News Reporting 2
JRNL 400: Magazine Editing and Production
JRNL 414: TV News and Video Production
JRNL 417: Radio News 2
WRIT 401: Cultural and Creative Writing
Select 1 from the following courses
GNED : General Elective
Semester 5
JRNL 326: Professional Practice
Select 2 from the following courses
JRNL : Journalism Elective
Semester 6
JRNL 327: Field Experience - Journalism DA
Select 1 from the following courses
JRNL : Journalism Elective

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🏫About Humber College

Humber College is a public college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It offers more than 200 certificate, diploma, degree, and postgraduate programs in various fields such as Business, Creative and Performing Arts, Health Sciences, Hospitality, and Information Technology.

🏠 Accommodation

You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

How to book:
  • Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
  • Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it
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💰 Fees

Application Fee:

399 RMB

Tuition fee:

16,803 USD per year

50,409 USD in total

❓✅❌ Entry Requirements

You are not eligible to apply to this program because:

The minimum age is 18.

English fluency is required.
You need to be either:
- A native English speaker
- Studied a degree in English before
- Can demonstrate a high level of English
- Having an English certificate such as IELTS level 6 or TOEFL 95 and above is an advantage.

Minimum education level: High School.

The program is competitive, you need to have a high grades of Average A, 70%, or a high GPA.

All students from all countries are eligible to apply to this program.

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📬 Admissions Process

3 Steps to Apply to a University

Application step 1

Application step 2

Application step 3

Please choose the programs here , "You are advised to select 2-3 programs to increase your chances of getting accepted.

Required Documents:

  • Passport
  • Graduation certificate
  • Passport size photo

Preparing documents:

You can start your application now and send the application documents during your application. Some documents you can send later if you don’t have them right away. Some more info about preparing application documents is here

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Application process:

Applying Online is simple in just a few steps. More information is available here.

The first steps are to choose the programs, pay the application fee and upload the application documents.

Once submitted to Global Admissions, we will review your application within 2-3 days and proceed to the university or ask you for further clarification

After it has been processed to the university you will receive your unique application ID from each university.

The university may contact you directly for further questions.

We will then follow up each week with the university for updates. As soon as there is any update we will let you know. If you have made other plans, decide to withdraw / change address at any time please let us know.

After you have been accepted you will receive your admissions letter electronically and asked to pay the non-refundable deposit to the university.

Once you have paid the deposit the university will issue you the admissions letter and visa form to your home country.

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