Portfolio + Supporting Material | Graduate Admissions

Master of Design Application Requirements

As an applicant to the Master of Design (Interdisciplinary) and Master of Design (Interaction) program streams, you are required to submit:

Portfolio

Your portfolio will provide the Admissions Committee with a set of examples of your studio work to evaluate your readiness to pursue a graduate education at Emily Carr University.

Submit five to seven examples of your design projects on Slideroom. Be selective. Curate and edit your portfolio to present your strongest, most imaginative and recent work.

Further guidelines are available on Slideroom.

Written Response

Your written response (500 words maximum) will provide the Admissions Committee with a sense of the direction you plan to take while pursuing graduate studies.

Prompts and further guidelines are available on Slideroom.

Video Response

Your video response (up to three minutes) will provide the Admissions Committee with a sense of your community involvement and personal interests. Pre-record a video of yourself, and upload it to the media section on SlideRoom.

Prompts and further guidelines are available on Slideroom.

Keywords Exercise

Contextualize your work by providing five to ten keywords to describe your practice, creative process and/or research.

Further guidelines are available on Slideroom.

Curriculum Vitae/Resume

List of relevant professional and academic experiences. Include any publications, volunteer and community work, awards and honours or other achievements.

Further guidelines are available on Slideroom.

Recommendation Forms

Three recommendation forms are required. Your referees should be familiar with or design practice and research.

Reach out to your referees early, to allow them sufficient time. Recommendation Forms are filled in electronically, directly by the referees, to SlideRoom. Referees must use an official email address associated with an academic institution, or company.

Once an applicant enters an email address of a referee on Slideroom, the referee will automatically receive a message with instructions. The applicant will receive a confirmation from Slideroom once the recommendation form is filled successfully.

Master of Fine Arts Application Requirements

As an applicant to the Master of Fine Arts (Full-residency) and Master of Fine Arts (Low-residency) program streams, you are required to submit:

Portfolio

Your portfolio will provide the Admissions Committee with a set of examples of your studio work to evaluate your readiness to pursue a graduate education at Emily Carr University.

Submit ten examples of your artwork on Slideroom. Be selective. Curate and edit your portfolio to present your strongest, most imaginative and recent work.

Further guidelines are available on Slideroom.

Application Prompts

Your answers to a series of questions will provide the Admissions Committee with a sense of your critical thinking, articulation, level of interpersonal skills and more.

Alternative response formats of acceptable: reply in either written form, audio or video.

Prompts and further guidelines are available on Slideroom.

Curriculum Vitae/Resume

List of relevant professional and academic experiences. Include any publications, volunteer and community work, awards and honours or other achievements.

Further guidelines are available on Slideroom.

Recommendation Forms

Three recommendation forms are required. Your referees should be familiar with or artistic practice and research.

Reach out to your referees early, to allow them sufficient time. Recommendation Forms are filled in electronically, directly by the referees, to SlideRoom. Referees must use an official email address associated with an academic institution, or company.

Once an applicant enters an email address of a referee on Slideroom, the referee will automatically receive a message with instructions. The applicant will receive a confirmation from Slideroom once the recommendation form is filled successfully.

SlideRoom Details

You must submit your portfolio and supporting documents online through SlideRoom.

Before you use SlideRoom please make sure that:

  • You have applied through the EducationPlannerBC Application Service.
  • You have used the same name on both EducationPlannerBC and Slideroom.
  • You selected the right program. There are several programs listed on our SlideRoom portal; it is very important that you upload your work into the correct program that you are applying for.

You may upload images (jpg, png, gif) or video (mov, wmv, flv, mp4), music (mp3) and PDF documents.

Using the 'Submit' function in SlideRoom

SlideRoom allows you to log in, upload, and edit your portfolio as much as you like prior to pressing the 'Submit' button. However, once you click the submit button, you will no longer be able to make changes.

You must click the submit button if you want us to review your portfolio. Unsubmitted or pending portfolios will not be reviewed.

Fees

A small fee will be charged at the time of submission.

SlideRoom offers additional instructions and technical assistance

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