AOD-Northumbria University UK Creative Design Education transfer programme
Early Exploration of Design Careers through AOD Design Foundation programme leading to direct entry to BA Hons programmes in partnership with Northumbria University UK, helps students get on their chosen higher education track right after O/Ls.
AOD’s Design Foundation Programme allows students to explore a variety of design careers through an all-inclusive curriculum that walks them through several creative disciplines with the help of an expert international faculty. After completing the programme, the students have a guaranteed place in a 100% internal Northumbria UK design degree of their choice, which can be completed at AOD. These international degrees in Fashion, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Fashion Marketing and 3D Animation Design carry worldwide recognition, and have guaranteed job placement in Sri Lanka, through AOD’s 100% employment policy.
Foundation studies in design are important for most students who consider design for higher education, but have no previous experience in art and creativity. AOD Design Foundation Programme bridges this initial knowledge gap and prepares students for higher education in design with guaranteed placement in a Northumbria UK design degree in Sri Lanka. With introductions to major design disciplines and hands-on experiments that allow the students to get a taste of working in each creative sector, the AOD Design Foundation Programme serves as a practical and easy-to-understand pre-university course. The AOD Design Foundation Programme is delivered at AOD’s high-tech design studios and industrial standard computer laboratories along with unlimited access to Sri Lanka’s largest dedicated design library situated at the campus. This allows students to learn and experiment within standards accepted by university degrees and the industries that they will be employed in eventually.
The AOD Design Foundation is an important course for personal discovery; at the end of the programme students always discover that they have understood their strengths, weaknesses, addressed their challenges and discovered personal career pathways too. Because of the comprehensiveness of the programme and because it allows early access to younger students, AOD graduates who started with this programme have gone on to do great things at a very young age. It is a course that sets the foundation for students to find great success wherever they go in design.
The start of a successful career is marked with a decisive step towards realising your dreams and a desire to follow your passion. Design is a modern day career path which presents an incredible future for those that possess an exciting mix of skills, knowledge and an attitude to make a difference in the world with design. Design is already making a difference in business both locally and internationally as industries such as apparel, fashion e-commerce, hospitality, tourism, real estate, advertising, and entertainment look to designers to enhance and even reinvent their businesses. Each aspiring designer possesses a unique blend of skills and this teamed with the right education will create a design professional that will be able to provide custom, design based solutions that add value and improve the face and the process of a business. To identify and nurture these skills at a young age AOD presents its Design Foundation programme for students after O/L’s to get a head start on their path towards a successful design career.
The Design Foundation programme is delivered in a way which introduces students to several design disciplines leading to in-demand careers—such as fashion design, fashion marketing, interior design, visual communication design and animation design—with the help of an expert international faculty. After completing the programme, the students have a guaranteed place in a 100% internal Northumbria UK design degree of their choice, which can be completed at AOD. Currently enrolling for its 2021 March intake, this unique programme will be closing its last remaining positions within the next few weeks.
AOD invites all O/L graduates with a passion for all things design to enrol for the March 2021 intake of the Design Foundation Programme. For more information on how to stake claim to a successful future in a burgeoning industry, please reach AOD Colombo on 0775727772, email info@aod.lk or walk in between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday – Colombo Innovation Tower, No 477, R A De Mel mawatha, Colombo 4 www.aod.lk