Quarter Away - Copywriting

BASE SCHOOLS

Enroll at any one of Miami Ad School;'s Base Schools: Miami, Minneapolis, Hamburg, Madrid, San Francisco, and Sao Paulo. In each city, your instructors will be working industry professionals who will teach you what you need to know to be successful in the business today. Check the website for instructors and descriptions of the courses you'll take.

You'll stay at your base School for your first year (quarters 1-4) of school. You can take your entire two year program at your base School or choose the option of spending a second year (quarters 5-8) doing the cool Quarter Away program.

Base Schools, in addition to being the places to get the fundementals down, also make wonderful Quarter Away locations. Absorb a different culture and change your perspective while taking classes from professionals in a new city. It can be a great choice for your first Q.A. experience.

GREEN HOUSES

After spending the first year at a Base School, the Quarter Away program allows students to study and intern in up to four more cities: Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Boulder, Brussels, Budapest, Chicago, Dallas, Dubai, Hamburg, London, Miami, Minneapolis, Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, and Sydney.

You can apply for a Greenhouse during 5th-8th quarters. In a Greenhouse an ad agency gives dedicated space where up to a dozen Miami Ad School students can spend each day of the term working on their assaignments.

Your instructors are creative directors, art directors, copywriters, account planners, photographers and designers from that agency and other agencies in the city. Who better to learn from then the industry's leading professional?

In addition to working on your class projects, and focusing on creative pieces for your portfolio, you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the agency's client projects abd new business pitches. you'll see how an agency functions on a day-to-day basis because you'll be working in the middle of it.

What is in it for the agency, you ask? they get a continually renewed source of fresh thinking and new blood. They also get the first glimpse of the next generation of creative talent. Miami Ad School has Greenhouse partnerships with agencies in many cities.

INTERNSHIPS

In your 8th quarter, you can apply for internships. Miami Ad School has interships for our students in over a dozen cities around the world. There are over 250 intership slots a year to choose from. And these aren't coffee-fetching interships. You'll work alongside agency creatives, many times on the same assaignments. Interning students have created and sold TV commercials, print ads, websites, and radio spots. Some graduates won their first professional awards for work they did as interns. Not tool Shabby,