Duration:
3 Years
Cost:
R79000
Start date:
07 February 2021
Credit:
Payment options available
Speaking a visual language is about more than graphic design. In our BA Degree in Visual Communication, you’ll learn to apply your talents in both strategic and creative subjects from the get-go. Highly practical projects in graphic design, art direction, illustration, photography, and digital design give you a solid foundation in knowledge and skill, while marketing communications and visual studies build your strategic and critical-thinking ability.
3 Years
NQF 7
R93500
R9 500
07 February 2022
A valid National Senior Certificate with degree endorsement / a Bachelor’s pass, Visual Art and/or Design as a subject are advantageous but not required.
In an increasingly visual world, visual thinkers and communicators thrive. Our BA degree in Visual Communication is a 3-year full time, face to face programme where you’ll walk away with an internationally recognised qualification and a highly competitive portfolio that will grant you access to higher levels of learning or open the doors to the industry.
Unlike a typical graphic design degree, the course is highly practical and you’ll be exposed to all disciplines of Art Direction, Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography and Digital Design, from first year which gives you a strong background in each and enables you to confidently choose a major and one minor subject in second year followed by just focusing on a your major in third year, creating a highly specialised portfolio. The theoretical subjects are there to arm you with strategic and critical thinking skills relevant to staying ahead in the ever-changing business landscape.
You will work hard, have fun and make lasting friends. You’ll gain a wealth of real-world, practical experience, and the theory and practical skills to back your creative genius. Industry-relevant practical projects coupled with theory and skills-based learning is what you’ll work on with one-on-one interaction with experienced lecturers. Guest speakers from the industry and a work-integrated learning component (internship) in the final year will give you the practical experience you need to develop a highly sought-after skill set. You’ll be industry-ready and firmly ahead of the pack.
3 years of Marketing Communications and Visual Studies provides the logic (strategic and critical-thinking) component of the programme. We’ll test your abilities via recognised academic assessments of research, referencing, essay writing, presentations and formal examinations. This ensures that you’re a strategic and critical thinking force to be reckoned with, and gives you a solid academic backing that will grant you access to Honours-level programmes upon completion of the course.
Meet our amazing team of lecturers who are equipped with industry knowledge and skills to prepare students for the dynamic changes in this 21st Century world
Please have the following ready to complete your online application
1. Signed application form
Download the application form2. Completed skills assessment
Download the skills assessment form3. Your latest academic results
A certified copy of your most recent academic results.4. Skills test & portfolio
This is for applications requiring a skills test and portfolio
Degrees, diplomas and certificates that cater for everyone and the high employability of our graduates have earned us close to 142 awards
Education that conbines knowledge and practical skills, providing our 15 392 alumni with traits they can use in all aspects of their lives
87% of our students find employment on graduating due to a combination of experiential learning and know-how.
What's cool? 27 Years of focus placed on preparing our students for amazing careers in the spaces robots can't even invade!
The notion of choice is what sets us apart from the rest. In your first year, you delve into all the disciplines, which informs your choice of major and minor for your second year. In your final year, you focus on your major subject choice only, allowing you to enter industry with an individualised, industry-applicable portfolio.
Some of you might want to work or study further overseas, we get that. Our accreditation will be recognised internationally – so all you need to ascertain is how this aligns with the particular requirements of the school you want to study at.
Creative thinking is the way of the future – it’s going to become the most important skill for the 21st Century. Don’t think of ‘design’ as only about expertise, it’s about a way of thinking. One that industry sectors across the board are starting to incorporate into cross-disciplinary teams.
If you’re talented, you’ll have many choices – from agencies, to in-house corporate brand teams, to starting your own small business.
We have a great, centrally-located campus that is designed to ensure students have constant access to staff and our industry-guests. Class-sizes are small to ensure personal attention, and our dedicated lecturers spend inordinate amounts of one-on-one time with students, who are treated as individuals.
Our students enter their work into highly-respected national awards, and to date, have amassed outstanding wins – from Loeries, to Ad Focus, to Pendorings and more.