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Postgraduate Qualifications

Open Window offers two Postgraduate qualifications (NQF Level 8) tailored for advancing creative professionals:

Bachelor of Arts Honours in Visual Communication

NQF Level 8 | SAQA ID: 62991
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Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Practice

NQF Level 8 | SAQA ID:62991
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Advance their practice within a focused, supportive environment
Build a compelling and industry-ready portfolio
Expand into new or complementary creative disciplines
Gain strategic and business insight to support long-term creative success

Postgraduate Pathway

Continue Your Academic & Creative Journey

How it works

  1. Complete your Undergraduate Degree
  2. Graduate with a specialised Bachelor’s Degree from Open Window.
  3. Choose your Postgraduate pathway
  4. Continue into:
    • Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Practice
    • BA Honours in Visual Communication Design
    • Masters of Applied arts in Creative Arts & Technologies
  1. Develop advanced conceptual thinking, professional practice and specialised portfolio work.
  2. Refine your industry or academic focus
  3. Expand your expertise through research-led projects and interdisciplinary collaboration.
  4. Graduate with an advanced qualification
  5. Position yourself for senior industry roles, entrepreneurship, lecturing or further research opportunities.

Best for students who:

  • Want to specialise further in their creative field
  • Are interested in research and conceptual development
  • Want to strengthen their professional portfolio
  • Aspire to leadership or senior creative roles
  • Want to pursue lecturing, academic or research careers
  • Want to expand interdisciplinary creative practice
Research. Refine. Lead.
Your Postgrad Pathway
★ Virtually-mediated ■ Hybrid (rotational campus/virtual-mediation) ▲ Campus-mediated ● Self-study
Rules of Combination
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA YEAR 1 POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN CREATIVE PRACTICE
Full year Cohort YEAR 1 - Primary Specialisations connect directly to your undergraduate qualification. Secondary subjects are for new skills development, and students should not have specialised in the chosen field previously.
A professionally focused qualification designed to deepen industry skills and creative specialisation.
JanuaryJune
JulyDecember
Semester 1
Semester 2
★ Research & Reflection
★ Creative Business Practice
▲ Creative Production: Primary
▲ Creative Production: Secondary

Primary
Specialisation

  • ■ Communication Design
  • ■ Illustration
  • ▲ Photography
  • ■ User Experience Design
  • ★ Interactive Development
  • ▲ Industrial Product Design
  • ▲ Film & Television
  • ▲ Screen Acting
  • ■ Production Design
  • ★ Screenwriting
  • ▲ Sound Design
  • ★ 3D Animation
  • ★ Game Design
  • ★ Motion Design
  • ■ Visual Effects
  • ★ Game Development

Secondary
Subjects

  • ■ Communication Design
  • ▲ Illustration
  • ▲ Photography
  • ★ User Experience Design
  • ★ Interactive Development
  • ▲ Film & Television
  • ★ Motion Design
BA HONOURS YEAR 1 BACHELOR OF ARTS HONOURS IN VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN
Full year Cohort YEAR 1 - The Creative Production specialisation connect directly to your undergraduate qualification.
An advanced academic qualification focused on research, conceptual development and specialised creative practice.
JanuaryJune
JulyDecember
Semester 1
Semester 2
★ Research Methodologies
★ Critical Discourses
▲ Creative Production
★ Research Essay

Creative Production
Specialisations:

  • ■ Communication Design
  • ■ Illustration
  • ▲ Photography
  • ■ User Experience Design
  • ★ Interactive Development
  • ▲ Industrial Product Design
  • ▲ Film & Television
  • ▲ Screen Acting
  • ■ Production Design
  • ★ Screenwriting
  • ▲ Sound Design
  • ★ 3D Animation
  • ★ Game Design
  • ★ Motion Design
  • ■ Visual Effects
  • ★ Game Development
MASTERS YEAR 1 & 2 MASTERS OF APPLIED ARTS IN CREATIVE ARTS & TECHNOLOGIES
The Master of Applied Arts in Creative Arts & Technologies is methodologically flexible, providing a research structure that accommodates three distinct pathways for candidates to engage in. These include Practice-based research, Practice-led research and Practice-as-research
An advanced academic qualification focused on advancing knowledge through creative practice, combining independent research, examinable creative work, and a research treatise within a flexible framework that supports multiple rigorous research approaches in creative arts and technologies.
JanuaryJune
JulyDecember
YEAR 1
Semester 1
Semester 2
■ Preparation Phase
■ Research & Development Phase
YEAR 2
Semester 1
Semester 2
■ Research & Development Phase

Creative Output
Specialisations:

  • ■ Communication Design
  • ■ Illustration
  • ▲ Photography
  • ■ User Experience Design
  • ★ Interactive Development
  • ▲ Industrial Product Design
  • ▲ Film & Television
  • ▲ Screen Acting
  • ■ Production Design
  • ★ Screenwriting
  • ▲ Sound Design
  • ★ 3D Animation
  • ★ Game Design
  • ★ Motion Design
  • ■ Visual Effects
  • ★ Game Development

The Research & Development
Phase Consists Of:

  • Treatise
  • Creative Output 1
  • Creative Output 2

Candidates may complete these components in any order, depending on their chosen research methodology and what is appropriate according to the Proof of Concept outline completed as part of the Preparation Phase.

Student Work Showcase

Explore our exceptional postgraduate students’ work in design, film, animation, and digital arts.

Amor Armstrong
Carla-Marie Brits
Ema Downs
Angelique du Toit
Vicki Venter
Berno van der Lith
Claire Donnelly
Reandri Visser
Amor Armstrong
Anya Klopper
Vicki Venter
Mabeka Katleho
Lehakwe Nhlapo
Chinouk Domann
Sebastian Van Den Brink
Denise van Deventer
Keelan Smillie
Mia Burwise
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