The Course Structure

NO EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED. AWARD School students are chosen purely on the merit of their ideas in their application, not what they are currently doing with their lives!

This years curriculum has been revitalized to reflect the changing needs of the industry, with an even greater lean towards core skills and idea generation in the first semester; a three week break in the middle and stronger focus on the implementation of ideas in the second half. Double lectures will be introduced in the second semester covering idea generation and strategy giving you the ability to recognise good ideas.

Each week all students must attend a Monday evening lecture and a Thursday evening tutorial session, both commence at 6.30pm. All lecturers are leaders in their field within the advertising industry. They cover topics ranging from idea creation, print, television, radio and new media.

Tutorials are held at selected advertising agencies. All tutors are professional art directors and copywriters. Each week students are given a brief to work on (there are 10 briefs in all) and tutors critique the work accordingly.

Most importantly tutors are there to encourage students in the creation of great ideas.

Important dates in Australia 

 2010 Course Dates in Australia

Sydney opening lecture - Thursday, March 11th 

Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth Opening lecture - Tuesday, April 6th 

Hobart Opening lecture - Wednesday, April 7th 

Sydney Mid course break - Thursday, April 22nd 

Sydney course resumes - Monday, May 10th 

Interstate mid course break - Thursday, May 13th 

Interstate courses resume - Monday, May 31st 

Sydney portfolios due to agencies - Thursday, July 1st 

Interstate portfolios due to agencies - Thursday, July 22nd 

AWARD School heads 2010

Sydney, NSW - Rebecca Carrasco, CRC Sydney & Dustin Lane, BMF

Melbourne, VIC - Jason Hynes, SapientNitro Melbourne 

& David Ponce De Leon 

Perth, WA - Murray Laird, Marketforce

Adelaide, SA - Jim Robinson, Jamshop

Brisbane, QLD - Cristian Staal & Marianne Harvey SapientNitro Brisbane

Hobart, TAS - Adrian Bell, Clemenger Tasmania