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FOAD HONOURS FIRST COHORT OF ANIMATION MAGUBANE’S BOOK EXPLORES LOVEIN THE ERA OF
SHORT COURSE GRADUATES
Five students who successfully completed the 13-week Animation Short Course under the Faculty of Arts and Design (FoAD) at the Durban University of Technology were recently
awarded certificates in recognition of their hard work at DUT’s City Campus.
Handing the certificates was Professor Runette Kruger, the FoAD Executive Dean who began by congratulating the students namely; Asiyah Ghumran, Anele Mordecai Cain, Maryam Kotze, Sibongakonke Nkonyeni and Waylin Ashby.
“We are very happy and proud to be handing the certificates of the graduated students of the Animation Short Course to them.We are grateful to the main driver behind this short course, Dr Dianna Moodley and the convenor of the studio, Clare Louis who made all this possible by making her knowledge available to the students,” said Prof Kruger.
Dr Moodley, who initiated this project through the Short Course Unit (SCU) at DUT said this is a double win for everyone that has participated in this project as it is the first ever in Durban for a short course to be run in Animation. She expressed that they are very proud of the first cohort that has completed the course.
“I say double win because we have innovation and entrepreneurship at its best.They are on their way to opening up their own businesses and venturing into unlimited prospects,” she said.
She explained that the Short Course was initiated after her interaction with the Fine Arts and Graphic Design departments who were enquiring as to why DUT does not offer Animation at all. Dr Moodley said she realised that it was not such a huge task to at least
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Pictured:Animation Short Course facilitator Claire Louis and FoAD Executive Dean, Prof Runette Kruger, with the five Animation Short Course graduates.
introduce Animation to DUT. Going forward, she said they plan on developing it into a fuller programme. In the second semester, Dr Moodley said the course will be undertaken by a cohort of lecturers so that they could in turn teach students when the Animation course gets imbedded in the DUT programme formally.
I say double win because we have innovation and entrepreneurship at its best.They are on their way to opening up their own businesses and venturing into unlimited prospects. – Professor Runette Kruger
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