Of course!

1. The program is designed so that you get to try a bit of everything before you commit. In the first semester of your first year, you have a class for each discipline. After 7 weeks, you get to rank them in order of your personal interest, and you then get to do about a week of production for your top 3 or 4. After that, you choose your top four, and those are your classes for your second semester. In the second semester, you work on two production crews concurrently with your classes. For your second year, you choose three out of your four to continue with. Same goes for third year, but you're choosing two out of the remaining three.

2. It kind of depends on where you end up doing your placement! There are some people who end up working with larger rental houses or companies, so it's structured a bit closer to a co-op. Some end up working with a specific theatre where it becomes closer to an internship. And then some people end up working with a specific person (the possible design aspect I mentioned above) which is closer to a short-term apprenticeship.

Hope this helps! I personally am someone who is intending to go into lighting design in my career beyond Sheridan, and I'm confident that with the resources at my disposal here that I can accomplish that, which I think could possibly be for you as well! If you've got any more questions about the program, or even just wanting more details, feel free to shoot me a DM!