CEPT Foundation Program

CFP is designed to equip students with fundamental skills, analytical approaches, and modes of understanding that prepare them for advanced study in their respective disciplines.

Throughout the Foundation year, students are encouraged to learn collaboratively from peers and faculty. The teaching team provides continuous feedback and guidance, helping students identify and build on their strengths while offering support to those who face challenges.This constructive environment fosters confidence, curiosity, learning, and helps students develop the intellectual and practical grounding necessary for advanced study in their chosen fields.

The course curriculum develops both cross-disciplinary and discipline-specific skills that are essential across design, architecture, planning, and technology. The curriculum has two components, Studio and ROWC, organized as five modules – Visualize and Draw, Make and Learn, Analyse and Interpret, Conceptualise and Represent, and Read and Communicate.

The Studio builds core skills through intensive weekly exercises, expert lectures, and ongoing feedback, preparing students to engage critically and collaboratively across faculties at CEPT University.

The Studio is closely linked with Reading Objects, Writing Craft (ROWC), a course that introduces students to critical reading and professional as well as academic writing within their disciplines. The Perspectives lecture series includes experts from diverse fields – art, science, and the social sciences – and broadens their understanding of the interconnections between knowledge domains.

The Field Studio, held at the end of the first semester, enables students to engage with a new city – observing, recording, and representing it through the skills developed earlier in the program. Guided by tutors with diverse approaches, students explore the city’s stories through direct encounters with its people and places, gaining deeper insight into what animates its spaces.

At the end of the second semester, the program culminates with a Design Module where students learn about the design process and engage with designing and solving a problem relevant to their discipline. The Design Module acts as a bridge between the L1 and L2 studios.