CERTAD offers an Advanced Diploma in Design in Education with a focus on Arts Education, Environmental Education and Communication for graduates and postgraduates who are interested in innovations that can transform elementary education.

Why should I consider an Advanced Diploma in Design in Education?

The Advanced Diploma in Design in Education programme is intended for those who want to tap the creative potential of design thinking to innovate new solutions that can transform elementary education. Students will acquire rich input from artists, designers, teachers, educators, researchers, animators, technologists and film makers and combine it with live field experience to create new thinking and practices in education and educational materials.

What career options would emerge after this advanced diploma?

The Advanced Diploma will capacitate professionals to become

1. Professional Educational Practitioners or Teachers who can work across a wide range of elementary grades, of needs and/or within community based learning contexts.
2. Designers of educational materials who can develop, in a range of medias and languages, content that has universal value and local and contextual relevance..
3. Curators and/or Interaction cum Exhibition Designers, who can create or curate exhibitions, festivals, and other interactive learning environments especially for children.

Course Structure

YEAR 1:


Semester 1:


Graduate Seminar (4 credits)


Field experience (3 credits)


Independent Research (6 credits)

Total (13credits)




Semester 2:


Graduate Seminar (4 credits)


Field experience (3 credits)


Independent Research (6 credits)

Total (13 credits)


End of the Year Jury


Summer Independent Project: Internship: 4 credits

YEAR 2:


Semester 3:

Graduate Seminar (4 credits)


Field experience (3 credits)


Independent Research (6 credits)


Total (13 credits)




Semester 4:

Graduate Seminar (4 credits)


Field experience (3 credits)


Independent Research (6 credits)


Total (13 credits)


End of the Year Jury


Summer Independent Project: Internship : 4 credits

YEAR 3 (Half Year):


Semester 5:


Field experience (5 credits)


Thesis (10 credits)


Total (15 credits)

Total curriculum hours in each area are as follows:


Independent Research (24 credits)


Field Experience (17 credits)


Internship (8 credits)


Graduate Seminar (16 credits)


Thesis (10 credits)

TOTAL (75 credits)