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.
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. Graduate thesis films are produced in the M.F.A. program. Teaching staff consults with film unions to help students make the transition to professional work.