Welcome to JIKA

ADMISSION

For admission to the programme, the student must be in possession of a National Senior Certificate (NSC) as certified by Umalusi with a minimum of four recognized subjects passed and achieved. These four subjects must include English.

ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

For admission to the programme, the student must, in addition to the possession of the minimum entrance requirement as stated above, pass an audition where he/she must present a monologue, a poem and a dance, song or mime etc. of his/her own choice. Additionally, he/she must pass the call back audition proving his/her aptitude in improvisation, movement, set monologues and poems, communication skills and interview

FURTHER ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

Further to the requirements specified in the General Requirements, applicants need to complete a personal interview and Departmental selection test to the satisfaction of the Departmental Selection Committee

Programme offered in this College, upon successful completion, leads to the following accredited qualification:

PERFORMING ARTS CERTIFICATE - JPAC offers an accredited qualification underwritten by Trinity College of London. For you to have this qualification you have to pay the EXAM REGISTRATION, this will allow you to receive exam time tables and sit for your examination. JPAC can be an Exam Centre only if we have 25 students registered for the examination with Trinity College of London. If JPAC account register 25 students, you will have to write exams either in Johannesburg or Cape Town.

PERFORMING ARTS CERTIFICATE - This is a non accredited certificate but the exam results carry number of credits that can make your registration in any accredited institution easier. The certificate also come with the alumni status where JPAC ensures that after completion of the certificate you are placed in productions.  

Twelve (12) Months

• A student is required to attend a minimum of 80% of lectures in each subject by writing tests and completing and submitting assignments on the due dates. Exceptions will only be permitted in the event of illness for which a valid medical certificate is supplied, specifying the exact nature and duration of the illness, or circumstances of a personal nature that in the opinion of the Departmental Committee were beyond the students control at the time.
• As students are marked under continual assessment, each student is required to attend a minimum of 100% of all practical lectures and tutorials. Exceptions will only be permitted in the event of illness for which a valid medical certificate is supplied, specifying the exact nature and duration of the illness, or circumstances of a personal nature that in the opinion of the Departmental Committee were beyond the students control at the time.

During the programme, a considerable amount of practical experience (involving participation in production, and/or attachment in a venue) is required and students may not refuse to undertake such an experience as may be arranged or considered desirable for them. Wherever possible the type and extent of practical work will be individually planned in the best interests of the student. 

Performing Arts Certificate  is a continuous assessment course. As such, assessment is conducted by means of formative and summative assessments in line with TRINITY COLLEGE and SETA Models.  There will be at least one formative assessment and at least one summative or integrated assessment for each module or area of knowledge, followed by an examination.

By its very nature, entertainment-related work involves activities outside normal office hours and students must be prepared to make themselves available until late in the evening or over the weekends if necessary. Anyone unable to be available on Friday evenings, Saturdays or Sundays - whether for religious or other reasons - must make this clear when applying for admission.

Both non-accredited and accredited qualifications provides qualifying learners/students with the underlying performing arts knowledge, skills and values in order to become competent and professional practitioners of the performing arts; be employed or self-employed within the performing arts industry and apply for further learning in specific areas of the performing arts.

The purpose of this Qualification is NOT to give you a PAPER and hope for that paper to get you employed, the purpose is to ENSURE that you get proper knowledge and skills for employment and the paper shows your area of knowledge and skills.

RPL takes place through a process of assessment of previously obtained competence. This qualification can be achieved wholly or in part through recognition of prior learning, which includes formal, informal and non-formal learning and workplace experience, in terms of the criteria laid out. Any learner wishing to be directly assessed may arrange to do so, without participating in further training or education.

This has particularly important ramifications for entry into Further Education and Training. The use of auditions or other practical assessments to ascertain whether learners have the competencies implied by the learning areas can be used to determine entrance into the qualification.

RPL will be recognised through a process of assessment of previously obtained skills and knowledge.

The aim of this qualification is to produce qualified, professional performing artists who will contribute to the South African Performing Arts Industries in creative and meaningful ways. It will equip qualifying learners with basic competencies in the performing arts in order to work successfully as actors, dancers, composers, choreographers, directors, writers, collaborators, administrators and technical staff.

Qualifying learners should be innovative, multi-skilled and competitive in the competencies necessary to ensure employment in the performing arts and be able to manage their own careers in ways so as to generate income and to reinvigorate the performing arts in South Africa. For JPAC, it is important that learners are equipped with a range of competencies across possible roles or areas of activity, as in South Africa, performing artists are usually required to fulfil a range of functions in order to sustain their career.