33 Bachelors Degree Programs in Cape Town South Africa

The BCom in Business Innovation at AFDA is a project-based degree designed to future-proof, stimulate and build capacity in students to drive digital transformation and advancement in the South African and African markets to compete globally. BCom students apply market research and entrepreneurial strategies to real digital outcomes for testing and a greater probability of release to the marketplace.

The AFDA Postgraduate school is focused on developing innovative research, origination, production, and distribution of entertainment concepts for both local and international markets. Over the last fifteen years, the AFDA Postgraduate School has produced a large network of graduates who have made a significant contribution to the South African entertainment industry. A large percentage of commercials, feature films, television series, music, and retail content is produced by AFDA Honours graduates.

This 3-year undergrad degree is designed for future-forward creatives who want to shape how the world sees and experiences ideas. Red & Yellow equips you with cutting-edge visual skills in graphic design, illustration, photography, art direction, and digital design, while sharpening your thinking through marketing communications and visual studies.

Most Creative Writing programs are in the postgraduate domain. The Bachelor of Creative Writing at AFDA is one of the few fully-fledged undergraduate degrees in this field on offer in the country. The Bachelor of Creative Writing provides a project-led qualification in the art of writing. At the heart of all work in the industry is story – and the AFDA Creative Writing program focuses on developing students to create strong stories in a variety of formats.

The AFDA Bachelor of Arts in Motion Picture Medium is renowned for providing students with a rigorous, well-rounded, comprehensive education in motion picture production. The program is designed to equip students with the necessary conceptual, practical, and contextual skills to produce multiple forms of film, TV, stage, and emerging media content. What defines the program and sets it apart is its experiential approach to learning, allowing graduates to thrive in the creative economy of the 21st century.

This 3-year undergrad degree blends rigorous academic grounding with real-world industry application to prepare future marketing leaders. Students tackle practical projects and real challenges while mastering marketing strategy, consumer behaviour, digital marketing, business law, and more.

This qualification helps students gain an in-depth understanding of sociological theories. The student would be able to analyse and evaluate these theories with reference to issues such as poverty, globalisation, conflict, the environment and gender, with a special focus on South Africa and the African continent. The qualification also provides the students with practical community, cross-cultural and social research skills.

The aim of this programme is to equip students with a Christian, interdisciplinary approach to engaging real-world crises and opportunities. With an emphasis on skillful biblical interpretation and theological understanding, students engage a broad set of contextual issues facing South Africa today and develop an integrative response (drawing from psychological, theological and sociological perspectives). A sense of personal vocation is therefore nurtured, with an emphasis on practical application.

The aim of this programme is to educate students in the theory and practice of psychology and counseling, with a focus on personal development, family studies and broader mental health interventions. The programme helps students develop an integrated and relevant counseling praxis within the South African context. It also prepares students for further studies in psychology and trains them in foundational social research skills. During their first year, the students will also take the foundational set of modules, referred to as the ‘Cornerstone Core’. These include History, Sociology, Ethics, Philosophy, Economics and Leadership Studies. These modules are embedded in Cornerstone’s core values of inclusivity, excellence, integrity, unity, respect and creativity.

This degree introduces students to the process of independent qualitative research. Students learn how to put together their research questions and proposals, understand how to construct a literature review as the basis for good, theoretically-informed research, train in how to conduct ethnographic research, and how to write up that research into an essay form.

The Bachelor of Social Work is a professional qualification that provides an understanding of roles, functions, principles and characteristics of management and administration within social service delivery.

Modern-day marketers integrate the principles of marketing with technology to communicate messages in a rapidly changing environment. The Marketing and Communication specialisation offers students an integrated approach to the traditional marketing principles in: Marketing strategy and analysis, consumer behaviour, integrated marketing communications, trends and segmentation, economics, organisational and...

An idea generator understands global issues and wants to debate them. They are curiously intellectual, highly collaborative and good at communicating. A design researcher works as part of a multidisciplinary team to identify needs and requirements, define strategy and solve problems for clients.

The Bachelor of Economics (BS) program objective is to help professionals develop an understanding of business, markets, trade, government policies and international issues, globalization, health, development, and the environment; so that they can become economists and analysts in the public and private sectors leading to careers in business, finance, international development, health, human resource management, marketing, management, and research.

This programme develops Christian leaders with a broad theoretical and practical foundation in Christian ministry. Graduates will be grounded in Biblical texts and equipped with the knowledge and skills to serve in churches and faith-based organisations. Academic study and personal faith are integrated to produce leaders with a mature, holistic spirituality.