AFDA launches two new degrees to prepare graduates for Disruptive Busine

Business is changing, and its changing fast, says Garth Holmes, co-founder and Chairman of AFDA, South Africa's No 1 Film & Performance school, recently listed by iD Magazine as one of the top ten off-the-grid art institutions in the world.

We want to create a spirit and a culture that encourages people to start companies all the time and everywhere, much like in the Silicon Valley, Israel, Tech City in London and Berlin today. he continues, paraphrasing from Bill Aulet's book Disciplined Entrepreneurship'.

The AFDA School of Business Innovation and Computer Technology has been designed to prepare smart, ambitious, and creative graduates with the necessary skills to deal with the way which we do business in the world today and in the future.

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.

I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world - Steve Jobs

In short, the business innovation, computer technology and arts students collaborate on projects to create teams that are capable of identifying & expediting disruptive business opportunities.

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.

Those who have the ability to imagine new services, new opportunities and new ways to recruit work are the new untouchables - Thomas Friedman, Paraphrased from The World is Flat'

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 please do not hesitate to contact AFDA Co-Founder and Chairman Garth Holmes:

garth@afda.co.za

021 035 0359

www.afda.co.za | www.facebook.com/afda.filmschool | www.twitter.com/afda_filmschool

Johannesburg | 011 482 8345 | jhbcampus@afda.co.za Cape Town | 021 448 7600 | cptcampus@afda.co.za

Durban | 031 569 2252 | dbncampus@afda.co.za Port Elizabeth | 041 363 2377 | pecampus@afda.co.za

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