Honours Bachelor of Photography

An industry-focused professional photography program
With its entrepreneurial focus, this program prepares you for a dynamic professional photography career in communications. You’ll create conceptually and visually compelling still and moving images, and explore photography's potential in existing and emerging fields. Through your studies and a hands-on internship, you’ll be prepared for work in the expanding world of image-based storytelling.
Our equipment and facilities are unmatched in Canada, and among the best in the world. Our studios are outfitted with state-of-the-art DSLR, medium format digital and video cameras. Students also work with advanced strobe and LED studiolocation lighting. Sheridan’s labs have advanced displays and printers, the full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite and Capture One Pro software.

Additional information
Sheridan's Honours Bachelor of Photography program provides many opportunities for you to immerse yourself in image-based communications and creative visual problem solving. Through hands-on project work you will learn to manage problems and issues; research, collect, and evaluate ideas; synthesize and express concepts and communicate effectively with diverse audiences.

Career Opportunities
The entrepreneurial mindset developed in Sheridan's Honours Bachelor of Photography program prepares graduates to work in diverse areas of photographic practice. Graduates begin their photography careers as assistants, retouchers or freelance photographers, and then work their way into full-time employment or operate their own studios.
Sample employment areas- Advertising photography, Wedding and family photography, Fashion and editorial photography
Retouching and post-production, Studio and brand photography, Producing and studio management, Documentary photography
Social media management

Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, including these required courses:

One English, Grade 12 (ENG4U) plus

One Grade 11 or 12 (M or Open level) Visual Arts credit, Communications Technology (TGJ) or Photography and Digital Imaging (TGP)

Four other Grade 12 subjects at the U or M level

Minimum 65% overall average or

Two semesters of postsecondary education including required courses with minimum 65% overall average

English Proficiency Requirements

IELTS - overall score 6.5 with no individual band below 6.0

TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language) and TOEFL iBT Home Edition (DI Code: 9117) - overall score 88 with no individual section below 21

iTEP Academic - overall score 3.9

PTE Academic (Pearson Test of English) online or in person - overall score 60 with no individual section below 57

Duolingo English Language Test - overall score of 115 with no individual subscore lower than 95

Cambridge English Test Exams (B2 First/C1 Advanced/C2 Proficiency score) - overall Cambridge English Scale score 176 with no individual score below 169

CAEL (Canadian Academic English Language) online or in person - overall score 70 with no individual section below 60

Sheridan EPA test - Listening Band - 4.5 Reading Combined Band - 4.5 Writing - CLB 8

Sheridan's ESL program EAP level - A minimum score of 75% in listening and speaking and 75% in reading and writing. General Education courses and Navigating Digital Environments (INFO) minimum required grade of 50%.