The AFDA Bachelor of Arts in Live Performance is renowned for providing students with a rigorous, well-rounded, comprehensive education in live performance. The program is designed to equip students with the necessary conceptual, practical and contextual skills to perform on stage, screen, TV, or within the music industry. What defines the program and sets it apart, is its project-led experiential approach to learning, allowing graduates to thrive in the creative economy of the 21st century.
AFDA Drama School Courses
- Ideation Studies
- Contextual Studies
- Discipline Studies
- Project Studies
- Reflection Studies.
AFDA Drama School Requirements
FIRST YEAR: JUST STARTING OUT
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.
OR the student may write an Entrance Exam at AFDA.
The AFDA Entrance Exam is a selection process approved by AFDA Senate for degree access.
To give a candidate alternative access to degree, s/he can sit for the Entrance Exam and there must be record of it, the recommendation on the individual student from the registered psychometrist must be signed off by Senate or its subcommittee, as per AFDA Entrance Exam policy (in accordance with Higher Education Act (Act 101 of 1997) Amendment No 1317 in Government Gazette of 5 Dec 2008 number 31674 clause 31).
Such access will apply only to AFDA’s programmes, its entrance exam is not valid to another university, and vice versa.
SECOND YEAR: RECOGNISED PRIOR LEARNING
You need to have completed your first year degree studies at a recognised institution and have a portfolio or evidence of work to motivate your discipline choices. You will also have to have a full interview.
Contact Details For AFDA Drama School
JOHANNESBURG
Tel +27 (0) 11 482 8345
E-mail [email protected]
Address 41 FROST AVENUE, AUCKLAND PARK 2092 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
CAPE TOWN
Tel +27 (0) 21 448 7600
E-mail [email protected]
Address 18 LOWER SCOTT ROAD, OBSERVATORY 7925 CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
DURBAN
Tel +27 (0) 31 569 2252
E-mail [email protected]
Address 2A HIGHDALE ROAD, GLEN ANIL 4051 DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA
PORT ELIZABETH
Tel +27 (0) 41 582 1266
E-mail [email protected]
Address 28 BIRD STREET CENTRAL 6006, PORT ELIZABETH
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