Interactive Arts and Technology (Honours, BA) at Simon Fraser University

Programme overview

The School of Interactive Arts and Technology offers a BA honours in interactive arts and technology, a human-centred programme that combines design, media and computing to create interactive systems.

Faculty: Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology | Department: School of Interactive Arts and Technology | Study mode: full-time | Location: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

What you will study

Lower division courses include Digital Image Design, Graphic Design, Design Communication and Collaboration, Spatial Thinking and Communicating, Digital Games: Genre, Structure, Programming and Play and Media Across Cultures, with upper division options such as Human-Computer Interaction and Cognition, Visual Storytelling for Content Creators, Spatial Design and Information Design. The honours degree requires 48 upper division IAT units, at least two 400-level IAT courses, and Honours Project I and II, with 24 units of arts courses.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Please refer to the admission requirements section.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the courses you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Fall (September), Spring (January) and Summer (May) terms; most students start in the fall term.

Fall 2027: high school applications open 1 October 2026 and close 31 January 2027; other post-secondary transfer applications open 1 March 2027 and close 15 April 2027. Summer 2027: all applications open 1 December 2026 and close 15 January 2027. Spring 2027: all applications opened 1 July 2026 and close 15 September 2026.

The non-refundable application fee is 86 CAD for domestic students and 130 CAD for international students, payable online by credit card. Applications are submitted through EducationPlannerBC.

Apply through the official page: https://www.sfu.ca/students/admission.html

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