AMPD Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, you will need to complete an audition as part of the process.

After you apply on the Ontario University or YorkU website, if your program requires an evaluation, you will be asked to submit your supplementary evaluation. If not, you will receive a decision on your acceptance. For more details, visit the How to Apply page.

Top two reasons students can’t enroll even though they were granted permission:

1. The class is full (often this relates to Fire Code Regulations). Keep trying to enroll because other students might drop the course.
2. Outstanding fee (check your student account http://sfs.yorku.ca/fees/your-student-account).

In the Film BFA Screenwriting Program, the first two years include basic courses in production and screenwriting, and survey courses in cinema and media studies. In third and fourth year, screenwriting students take up to 36 (but at least 18) credits in screenwriting, including up to 12 credits in feature film screenwriting, 9 credits in writing for television, and courses in story editing, transmedia storytelling, scene writing, and the history of screenwriting. Screenwriting students may also choose to take some advanced cinema and media studies courses. You will also take courses outside of the Cinema and Media Arts Department, drawn from the rich offerings of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (visual arts, theatre, music, design, digital media, dance) and the University at large.

In the Film BA/Cinema and Media Studies Program, The first two years focus on survey courses, which introduce students to a broad knowledge of film history and theory. The upper level courses specialize in a range of topics. Students can take courses in such areas as the role of film in society, gender and sexuality studies, national cinemas (for example Asian studies) , digital film and new media, television studies, Canadian cinema, film history, experimental and alternative cinemas, documentary, contemporary theory and more. You will also take courses outside of the Cinema and Media Arts Department, drawn from the rich offerings of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (visual arts, theatre, music, design, digital media, dance) and the University at large.

Students own their own film works. They are required only to acknowledge the department’s participation in an on-screen credit.

All students in an AMPD degree program or an Honours Major/Minor program must complete a number of credits in fine arts but outside their major discipline (which is where the term in/out comes from). For more specific information about degree requirements visit the Academic Calendar from the year you started your degree.

Add – Add a course using Cat#

Exchange – Select a course that you want to drop if the new course you want to add is available. Using this option means if the new course you are trying to add does not go through, you will not be de-enrolled from the course you were about to drop.

Transfer – Used to transfer among various sections/tutorials/labs in the same course.

Only private lessons taken from the Department of Music at York can fulfill private lesson requirements.