Master International Design Strategy Studio Montreal

Master International Design Strategy Studio Montreal

The MDes Le Studio Montreal aims to immerse students in the world of technological and cultural entrepreneurship in order to understand how it works and its particularities. Sudents are hosted in North American incubators and work in an international context.

This program taught in French alternates one week of internship in a company and one week of classes during 3 semesters in Montreal, then students will have the opportunity to complete their final internship in Canada or anywhere in the world.

Montreal, Quebec

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.

Prerequisites

3 years of undergraduate studies in design

This program is only open to students who completed their bachelor at L’École de design Nantes Atlantique.

For more information about admission requirements, please visit the university website.

1st year

Semesters 1 & 2

The first year of this Master’s program alternates between one-week internships in companies and one-week courses, with 21 weeks of courses and 18 weeks of internships over the year.

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 the 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 research workshop
• Professionalisation / lab
• Contests
• TOEIC preparation
• Preparation for the end of studies project, complementary seminar
• Memory preparation workshop

2nd year

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 in 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.

Several scholarship options are available. Please visit the university website for more information.

• French students and European Union students: €8,900 per year
• Non-European Union students: €9,900 per year

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.

This program trains students to become global players understanding 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.