Master International Design Strategy / Le Studio Montréal

The MDes programs, established over two years, are organized in four semesters validated by 30 ECTS each. A consequent and increasing personal working time is expected for each module.

Due to immigration regulations, only students of nationalities benefiting from the IEC (International Experience Canada) program, a young professional permit, are eligible to attend Studio Montreal.

Curriculum

Located on a campus combining technology and entrepreneurship, the program is designed to immerse students in the field of technological entrepreneurship so that they understand its inner workings and peculiarities. With a strong professional emphasis, this French-language MDes is a cross between a work-study program and academic training.

Design students will be immersed in the startups of the 8th best incubator in the world: Centech, or Zú, a creative incubator at the heart of the future of entertainment.

Centech is a world-class incubator dedicated to deep tech companies with high growth potential that stands out in the fields of medical technologies, microelectronics, and other smart objects, among others. The Centech has the opportunity to host in its premises the innovation cells of Canadian and international corporations with which the students will be able to collaborate.

Zú supports and propels creative entrepreneurs using technology to develop products and content that revolutionize the cultural, creative, and entertainment industries by generating innovative projects and world-class intellectual properties

Semester 1 & 2

The first two semesters are combined in order to allow joint progress in the educational program and work experience.

During the first year, students learn how to manage complex design projects, deepen their knowledge of the economic, social, and cultural aspects of the field covered in their program, build and apply a methodology and support their end-of-term project studies, the subject of which they themselves define.

Teaching is delivered in the form of projects in partnership with industry, workshops, lectures, conferences, and professional meetings.

In addition to the pedagogical content, the goal for students is to highlight and expand their professional achievements in the context of another culture.

Courses:

• Design and complexity project
• Workshop to define the end of studies project
• Prospective design project
• Seminar methodologies
• Innovation seminar
• Intellectual property
• Seminar specific to the theme of the program
• Introduction to the research workshop
• Professionalisation / lab
• Contests
• TOEIC preparation
• Preparation for the end of studies project, complimentary seminar
• Memory preparation workshop

Semester 3

Always on a rhythm combining work-study and academic training, continuation, and finalization of the end-of-studies project summarizing all the professional skills acquired. It can be conducted in collaboration with a company and/or research laboratory of a partner university. This personal end-of-studies project must be related to the program in which students are enrolled.

Supervision is ensured in the form of workshops under the direction of a referent designer, to which punctual speakers are associated. Writing a thesis on the theme of the project.

Courses:

• Initiation to law
• Introduction to management
• End of studies project workshop
• Memory Workshop
• Professionalization & lab
• Competitions

Semester 4

The study program ends with a minimum of sixteen weeks (and a maximum of six months) internship within a company, in Canada, or anywhere in the world.

Trainees work as junior designers and support all or part of a project.

The student must demonstrate his ability to integrate into a team, manage a project and develop all the sequences of the project for its smooth running. It allows the student to articulate all of his studies with what will be his first professional experience.

Depending on the professional project of the student, this internship can also take place within a company that the student will create, or even within a research laboratory.

Montréal, Québec

Montreal is a very attractive city, renowned for its quality of life, its openness to diversity, its many festivals, its affordable housing, and its dynamic ecosystem of startups.

An international program focused on innovation and entrepreneurship

This program aims to immerse students in the world of technological and cultural entrepreneurship in order to understand how it works and its particularities.

This professionalizing program is halfway between work-study and school-based training.

The program is taught in French.

The program is established over four semesters organized on the basis of 30 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credits per semester.

Diplôme de design Bac +5 : master’s level degree

The Master’s level degree confers the "Grade de master", and you can pursue your education at a PhD level.

Job prospects and further education

International career prospects

This program trains students to become global players understand the Canadian context better, and most of all, improve the ability to design for clients and employers from other cultures. It is a living experience that will change its participants, often opening up unexpected, exciting international career opportunities.

Master’s degree in design

As all our master programs, the Master International Design Strategy / Le Studio Montréal leads to the Master’s level degree in design, certified by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and registered in the Registre National des Certifications Professionnelles (the French directory for vocational qualifications or RNCP) as a Level 7 Master’s degree.

Further education

The Master’s level degree confers the "Grade de master", and you can pursue your education at a Ph.D. level.