AFDA Undergraduate Bachelor of Commerce
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE IN BUSINESS INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
SAQA ID NUMBER: 94705 (NQF LEVEL 7)
Campuses: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Botswana
AFDA is a private higher education institution which offers higher certificate and degree programmes that are registered by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). Our programmes are accredited and we participate productively in the ongoing reaccreditation and quality assurance processes of the Council on Higher Education (CHE) to ensure the quality of our programmes. The DHET certificate number for AFDA is 2001/HE07/012.
AFDA reserves the right to make changes or withdraw information or course offers without prior notice. Where possible, AFDA will endeavour to notify all persons and/or organisations affected as a result.
AFDA’s programme’s utilise a unique, integrated and outcomes-based that it has so successfully developed over the last 20+ years. While the institution is established with programmes in the Arts including Film, Television and Performance, along with Radio as a recent addition, the AFDA School of Business & Innovation is a new stream of programmes offered in two degrees that disrupt how business and IT qualifications been shaped for the past few decades:
– BCom Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship
– Bachelor of Computer Technology (BCT) – Go to: URL for BCompTech
All of AFDA’s programmes integrate with each other at various points in the curriculum. Please contact your nearest campus to book a consultation with the Head of School or BCom lecturer to discuss the details of how and when BCom students may integrate with BA and BCT students.
The School of Business & Innovation is designed to train young creatives, entrepreneurs and technology-savvy graduates to deal with the rapid changes and disruptive technologies that will continue to change the way we do business and perceive opportunity in the world today.
Requirement
UNDERGRADUATE BACHELORS DEGREE (BA/ BCOM/ BCT)
ENTRY INTO FIRST YEAR
– National Senior Certificate (South African Grade 12 / Matric) with endorsement for entry into a Bachelor’s degree.
– You may enter an AFDA Undergraduate degree if you have successfully completed an AFDA Higher Certificate course.
– The National Skills Certificate / National Certificate (Vocational) (NCV) on NQF level 4 with 3 fundamental subjects (incl English) above 60% and 4 vocational subjects above 70%.
– A technical N5 certificate with 4 subjects passed on N5 level incl Maths and English.
– The ACE School of Tomorrow (Accelerated Christian Education) on an achievement level similar to matric exemption.
– If you don’t have matric exemption but have passed the first year of an accredited programme on NQF 6 or 7 (first year of a diploma or degree).
– Should you not have any of the above, you may be able to qualify to complete and pass the AFDA Entrance Exam – go tohttp://www.afda.co.za/apply/degreeapply/requirements/ to read more or contact your nearest AFDA campus to find out more.
– If you do not have matric exemption, but are 23 years or older, you can apply for exemption to study a degree at AFDA with HESA. See their website > Alternatively you can do the Entrance Exam – go to http://www.afda.co.za/apply/degreeapply/requirements/ to read more.
– Please contact your nearest AFDA campus to find out more.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:
Please go to http://www.afda.co.za/apply/degreeapply/requirements/ to read more.
ENTRY INTO SECOND YEAR
– Please go to http://www.afda.co.za/apply/degreeapply/requirements/ to read about RECOGNISED PRIOR LEARNING.
Core Course
Like the Bachelor of Arts degree at AFDA, the core course modules for The AFDA School of Business and Innovation’s BCom and BCT degrees are a unique and progressive approach to deal with the vast expanse of knowledge and theories that are accessible today. More importantly, it is an approach to learning that is designed to stimulate innovative, conceptual and perceptual thinking; in doing so, allowing students to model and align existing knowledge to their integrated production outcomes. Shared production projects, team-based outcomes and evaluation act as the ’glue’ between various degrees and disciplines. Students from various disciplines integrate and share creativity and innovation in a networked, concrete, outcomes-based manner. Core course runs over the 3 years in the BCom and includes the following 5 components:
1) Assessing the Dissipation of a Value Flow
2) Determining Market Need for the Dissipating Value Flow
3) Originating a Sustainable Business Model
4) Establishing Brand and Product/Service Appeal
5) Business Presentation & Effective Delivery Control
Course Disciplines
There are four compulsory disciplines (areas of specialisation) in the first year of the BCom. From second year, the student will pursue two disciplines according to their aptitude and by third year, the student would major in one of those disciplines:
– Business Leadership
– Marketing & Sales
– Finance
– Business Management
FIRST YEAR [DISCOVERY]
1st Year is about identifying a dissipating value in an existing product and develop a business concept around monetising it. e.g. Film Archive or Talent Management and Exhibition system.
SECOND YEAR [TRAINING]
2nd Year is about online streaming platforms and monetizing immersive experiences using Virtual Reality in entertainment events.
THIRD YEAR [EXPERT / ENTREPRENEUR]
3rd Year involves integration with all schools at AFDA around the Experimental and Graduation Festival events and identifying value opportunities for capitalising on the value of the products leading up to and/or for the festival event.