Offered by Vanier College in Montréal, Canada, Diploma in Arts, lettres et communication : option Arts is a diploma in Visual Arts programme. The programme runs for 2 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition is CAD 3,740 per year for local students.
Communications, Media and Studio Arts (500.AF) is a two-year pre-university Diploma of Collegial Studies at Vanier College, part of the Arts, Letters and Communication family, admitting students in both the autumn and winter semesters. The program applies art, media, and cultural theory across a range of practical disciplines, including photography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, video production, and theatre, balancing conceptual coursework with studio-based practice. Students have access to dedicated facilities described on the program page as fully equipped media labs, a makerspace studio, a cinema screening room, and fine arts studios, and are taught by faculty whose backgrounds span installation art, filmmaking, painting, and related disciplines. The breadth of disciplines lets students either sample widely across the arts or start specializing in a particular medium while still pre-university level. It suits creatively oriented students preparing for university study or careers in fine arts, graphic design, film, communications, or art education, giving them both a portfolio of practical work and a grounding in the theory that connects those fields.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Communications, Media and Studio Arts states no specific course, grade, portfolio or interview prerequisite beyond a Diploma of Secondary Studies (DES), Diploma of Vocational Education (DVS), or equivalent schooling completed outside Quebec, matching Vanier's college-wide baseline; admitted students are advised to consult an Academic Advisor on university-transfer prerequisites. No IELTS/TOEFL-style English score is required for admission: Vanier's admissions pages confirm English-proficiency testing is no longer an admission requirement, while a CEFR B2 French test (TCF, DELF, DALF or TEF) is required only of out-of-province or international applicants who did not complete Quebec secondary schooling.
Application Details
Start Date:Autumn and Winter
Application Deadline:Domestic and international applicants to Vanier College apply through the shared SRAM portal (admission.sram.qc.ca) serving Montréal-region cégeps. For Winter 2027, applications opened 15 September 2026, Round 1 closes 1 November 2026 and Round 2 closes 25 November 2026, with unfilled seats carried forward. SRAM has not yet posted Fall 2027 domestic dates. Internationally, SRAM's Fall 2027 window runs 15 March 2026 to 14 March 2027; its next window (Winter 2028) runs 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2027. Admission is rolling by round, not a single fixed date. Vanier's own international-applicants page confirms international students use the same SRAM system as domestic ones, bound by the same round deadlines. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
