BCIT Trades Training offers Carpentry, Millwright, Steel Fabricating, Painting, Construction, Mechanics, Welding, Ironworking, Electronics, Auto Mechanics, Machinist, Plumbing and Robotics. Scene Construction, Carpentry, Lighting, and Scenic Painting. Design students may transfer credits to a university. Second year students with an interest in Media specialize in Film and Video, Animation, Photography, Intermedia or Electronic Communication Design. Electronic Communication Design offers courses in props, set painting and art direction as well as broadcast film and video graphics and high-end computer animation.
Graduates work in interactive software design and digital effects.
Since 1965, Studio 58 has been preparing students for careers in theatre and related fields, including film and television. Certain Studio 58 courses are offered as workshops through Continuing Studies. Both film programs include courses from Art and Culture Studies, and other studio disciplines. Admission to Film is highly competitive, and requires special application, due mid-March. Students with a B.A., or in their last two years of a four-year B.A. program, study film production and theory.