艺术，媒体和传播学副学士课程选项专注于信息研究-信息的创建，打包，分发和使用方式。您将了解不同的媒体行业，包括社交网络，以及它们如何变化。您将学习广告和其他商业形象如何影响您，加拿大人如何适应这个全球村庄，以及在新媒体中进行识字的意义，简而言之，您将学习您的生活和社会如何随着通信创新而发生变化。 。在媒体制作技术领域寻求职业的学生会发现这些课程非常有价值，但需要其他地方的课程来提供制作技巧方面的指导。例如，在研究音乐产业时，没有进行录音。
The Associate of Arts, Media and Communication Studies option, focuses on the study of information how it is created, packaged, distributed, and used.<br><br>Students will learn about different media industries, including social networks, and how they are changing. Students will learn how advertising and other commercial images affect them, how Canadians fit into the global village and what it means to be literate in the new media, in short, students will learn how their lives and society are changing in response to innovations in communication.<br><br>Students seeking careers in the technical areas of media production will find these courses very valuable, but will need courses from elsewhere to provide instruction in the mechanics of production. For example, while the music industry is studied, sound recording is not.<br><br>Graduates of the Associate of Arts, Media and Communication Studies option are prepared to seek employment, to transfer to one of the many degree programs in Canada, or to ladder into the Bachelor of Arts (MACS minor or extended minor) at UFV. Graduates are also eligible to apply to enter into the third year of the Bachelor of Arts in Professional Communication at Royal Roads University.