YEAR 1:
Students will demonstrate a basic understanding of the required conceptual, perceptual, technical and craft skills in all 8 disciplines on offer, and will produce the following work:
YEAR 2:
Students will demonstrate an intermediate understanding of the required conceptual, perceptual, technical and craft skills in 4 disciplines of their choice, and will produce the following work:
YEAR 3:
Students will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the required conceptual, perceptual, technical and craft skills in 2 disciplines of their choice. They will dedicate their year to prepare for a capstone project that will be either be produced, or pitched at a professional marketplace with the intent to be acquisitioned.
Students will produce the following work:
The legislated minimum admission to degree programmes provides the admission requirements for the programme (as per Government Gazette No 37902 and 41473), and no other additional criteria are applied. The admission requirements are therefore:
IDEATION STUDIES
CONTEXTUAL STUDIES
REFLECTION STUDIES
During the development phase and at the conclusion of the project, students are guided in a structured way to reflect on their work.
Disciplines on offer:
Fiction:
Faction:
Discipline selection:
Key Skills and learning outcomes:
Professional writers for a variety of commercially viable media texts, such as:
Study this course at these campuses
Johannesburg, Cape Town
Course type
Undergraduate Degrees
Duration
3 years, Full Time
2020 FEES request information apply nowWriting courses have existed at AFDA in both Film and Television, but the creative industries are undergoing massive growth and diversification. There is a clear need to advance the core business of Creative Writing in such a way that the new platforms and media technologies which are emerging will have highly trained content providers. At the heart of all work in this industry is Story. This new degree is conceived to provide a high level intervention in the entertainment industry as it exists, but will be structured to be responsive to the rapidly changing landscape. Digital Convergence and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is affecting the way the new audiences across the whole African continent and the world consume entertainment products.
South Africa has a very important role to play in this burgeoning creative arts industry. This programme has been designed to deliver multi-skilled writers that can create content for a variety of existing and emerging platforms.
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