Mohawk College offers Cert in Art and Design Foundations, a certificate in Arts, Design & Architecture programme in Hamilton, Canada. The programme runs for 1 year, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 15,268 per year (CAD 1,354 per year for local students).
The one-year programme covers digital arts, typography, photography, graphic design, traditional art and visual communications, building skills intended to lead into further study in animation, game design, graphic design or photography. Coursework introduces game design fundamentals such as character creation, concept development and visual storytelling built for interactive media, alongside traditional illustration and digital design projects. Students work through the workflow and principles of art and design spanning initial concept through to final presentation, building a portfolio of traditional and digital projects and developing skills in drawing, colour theory, printing technology and photography.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Entry requires an OSSD or equivalent (Mohawk Academic Upgrading or GED accepted), with Grade 12 English at C or U level or equivalent. Applicants whose first language is not English must demonstrate proficiency through TOEFL 550 (80 internet-based), IELTS Academic 6.0 overall with no band below 5.5, Duolingo 105-110 (no band below 100), or completion of Mohawk's GAS-English for Academic Purposes program; international applicants are directed to Mohawk's separate International Admission Requirements page for further accepted certificates. Mature-applicant pathways are available. The program's Admission Requirements section states no portfolio, interview or work-experience condition.
Application Details
Start Date:Starts Mohawk lists on this program’s own page, checked 6 September 2026. Domestic applicants: September 2026 at Fennell Campus (FF). Mohawk’s page lists no international intake table for this program, so international applicants should confirm with Mohawk International that the program is open to them before applying. Mohawk runs a Fall term from September, a Winter term from January and a Spring/Summer term from May; not every program runs every term, and the seat status shown beside a start (open, waitlist, closed) moves as intakes fill.
Application Deadline:Mohawk publishes no deadline unique to this program; the dates below are the college-wide ones.
DOMESTIC APPLICANTS (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply through ontariocolleges.ca. Equal consideration date: 1 February for a September start. Applications that reach Ontario Colleges by then are read together in the first round of offers. Applying afterwards is still allowed, but remaining seats go first-come, first-served, and a competitive program is usually full by that point. Where a program draws more qualified applicants than it has seats, Mohawk ranks them on the average of their highest senior-level final grades in the required courses, and offers go to Ontario permanent residents first, then residents of other Canadian provinces and territories, then international applicants.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS (citizens of another country without Canadian permanent residence) do not use the equal consideration dates. Mohawk lists no international intake for this program at the time of writing, so there is no international deadline to quote; contact Mohawk International before assuming a seat exists.
