AFDA launches two new degrees

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Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:10

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AFDA, the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, is expanding its educational offerings to include business innovation and computer technology. These additions have been designed to prepare smart, ambitious, and creative graduates with the necessary skills to deal with the way which business is done in the world today and in the future. Business is changing, and it s changing fast, says Garth Holmes, co-founder and chairman of AFDA. The business innovation, computer technology and arts students will collaborate on projects to create teams that are capable of identifying and expediting disruptive business opportunities.

The newly accredited Bachelor of Commerce Degree and Bachelor of Science degrees will utilise AFDA S unique integrated and outcomes-based curriculum structure that it has so successfully developed over the last 20 years. The Computer Technology degree is a critical aspect of AFDA s strategy to create authentic learning environments which challenge traditional business models in our fast- changing economy.

While the business students are responsible for identifying opportunities in the market and creating business and marketing models and the arts students provide the creative content, the computer technology students are responsible for creating the necessary technology for the business product or service to be expedited online (online fund raising, marketing, shopping, streaming, security, monetisation and data collection).

The programs have a strong but not exclusive bias to the creative, entertainment and media industries. However, the primary focus will be on creating business content, products and services that disrupt existing and traditional business models.

The triumvirate and collaboration of business, arts and science is what makes the AFDA offer unique, says Holmes. The project based collaborative and market related learning system allows graduates to become formally connected with a skilled peer group which is diverse and educated.

Requirements: The minimum requirement to enter an AFDA Bachelors degree is a National Senior Certificate (matric) or National Certificate (Vocational) with exemption/admission to Bachelor s degree, or equivalent.

Bachelor of Commerce degree in Business Innovation & Enterprise components:

Business leadership

Marketing and sales

Finance

Business management

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Technology proposed learning components & outcomes:

Data analysis and management

E-commerce technologies

Programming

Data streaming and display technologies

New technologies and developments

For more information visit the AFDA website.

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