Cégep André Laurendeau offers Diploma in Arts, lettres et communication : option Médias, a diploma in Journalism programme in Montréal, Canada. The programme runs for 2 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition is CAD 3,740 per year for local students.
Arts, lettres et communication – Journalisme multimédia is a pre-university DEC (500.AJ) at Cégep André-Laurendeau focused on multiplatform journalism practice. Students research information, conduct interviews, write articles, produce radio segments, and create documentary reports, alongside creative work in photography, digital publishing, interactive web projects, and podcasting; the program also develops media literacy, the ability to distinguish reliable from unreliable information, journalistic writing fundamentals, and critical thinking with the ability to defend a point of view. The page describes specialized facilities such as a sound console, an amphitheatre, a filming studio, editing suites, and an immersive lab, a personalized course path with electives in later sessions, an annual colloquium on media (Jours Intercom), and the requirement to build a university-admission portfolio. Students may complete a credited workplace placement, including a possible fourth-session placement in France, and projects are shared through an end-of-year student festival and web, video, or radio platforms. Graduates pursue university programs such as journalism, communication, media studies, digital media, film production, screenwriting, law, and teaching, with some requiring additional prerequisites. It suits students interested in multiplatform reporting and media production who want practice-based training ahead of university journalism or communication studies.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Prerequisites (préalables), exactly as published on the program's own page: DES (Diplôme d'études secondaires); the program page states no further subject-specific prerequisite beyond the diploma. No minimum grade, interview, portfolio, or language test beyond the general Quebec-college process is stated on the program page. Admission follows the college's general process: apply online through the Service régional d'admission du Montréal métropolitain (SRAM) at admission.sram.qc.ca, which handles admission for every Montreal-area Cégep, with the college making the final decision. First-round deadlines are 1 March for Fall (applications open mid-January) and 1 November for Winter (applications open mid-September); where more qualified applicants apply than there are seats, the Cote R (R-score), based on cumulative average, ministerial-exam results and program prerequisites, ranks candidates.
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through SRAM: Fall 2027 entry opens mid-January 2027 with a first-round deadline of 1 March 2027; Winter 2027 entry opens mid-September 2026 (SRAM: 15 September 2026) with a deadline of 1 November 2026. International applicants also use SRAM: the Fall 2027 deadline is 14 March 2027; the Winter 2027 international window already closed 31 May 2026, so the live one is Winter 2028 entry, closing 31 May 2027. Only a handful of technical programmes (Soins infirmiers, Techniques d'éducation à l'enfance, Techniques de travail social, Gestion des opérations et de la chaîne logistique, and one more) admit international students. Admission is not rolling beyond SRAM's rounds. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
