§ Tier 1 · Foundations

The foundation that prepares you — or stands on its own.

WIATech Foundations is a catalogue of short, focused courses — each with its own certificate. They clear the floor into an Elite Diploma, and they carry real, standalone value for the engineer who takes one and stops there.

A gate, not a wall

Sit the WIATech technical assessment. Clear every gate your target diploma needs and you enter directly. Miss one and you're routed to exactly the foundation that closes it — never rejected.

Self-decoding codes

A code tells you what it is. The prefix names the subject; for Tier 1, the number encodes the length in weeks. FND 60 is a ten-week Foundations course; FND 25, three weeks.

Credentials that count

Each course ends in its own assessment and a WIATech certificate in that subject — evidence you can show an employer whether or not you go on to a diploma.

DGL 304 weeks

Before Tier 1 · Digital readiness

Digital Literacy & Computer Readiness

A four-week, lab-first bridge for capable, phone-first applicants who are new to the laptop — so the first technical foundation is never a computer-basics rescue class.

Diagnostic-routed: every applicant entering a foundation pathway sits a short digital-literacy check, and those who don't yet clear it take DGL 30 first.

See the readiness bridge →

The catalogue

Eleven foundations across the subjects WIATech teaches. You take only the ones your target diploma and your assessment route you to.

FND 25Gated foundation

Version Control with Git

A three-week intensive that builds working fluency in Git and GitHub — the daily collaborative floor every WIATech diploma rests on.

3 weeksFor SWE 200 · AIE 300 · CLD 200 · NET 200

FND 30Gated foundation

Computer Systems Fundamentals

A four-week intensive that builds the mental model underneath the code — bits, the CPU, memory and the operating system — so failures three layers above the metal become reasoning, not mystery.

4 weeksFor SWE 200 · AIE 300 · SEC 200 · CLD 200

FND 35Gated foundation

Data Structures & Algorithms

A five-week intensive that builds algorithmic literacy — the structures, their costs, and the judgement calls that make engineering decisions automatic.

5 weeksFor SWE 200 · AIE 300

FND 40Gated foundation

Foundations of Databases with SQL

Fluent SQL and competent relational modelling — the data floor every WIATech diploma assumes.

6 weeksFor SWE 200 · AIE 300 · DAT 200 · CLD 200

FND 45Gated foundation

Linux & Command Line Foundations

Make the Linux command line the engineer's default working environment — the shell, the filesystem, processes, permissions, and Bash.

7 weeksFor SWE 200 · AIE 300 · CLD 200 · SEC 200 · NET 200

FND 55Gated foundation

Networking Foundations

Working networking competence — the layered stack, IP and subnetting, TCP/UDP, DNS, TLS, and hands-on packet analysis.

9 weeksFor SEC 200 · CLD 200 · NET 200

FND 60Gated foundation

Foundations of Programming with Python

A ten-week intensive that builds deep fluency in the Python language itself — the universal foundation every WIATech diploma is built on.

10 weeksAll 6 diplomas

DAT 45Gated foundation

Foundations for Analysts

A seven-week intensive that builds the analyst's craft — Excel, SQL and statistical literacy as working tools — and the orientation DAT 200 assumes from day one.

7 weeksFor DAT 200

MTH 85Gated foundation

Mathematics for Machine Learning

The mathematical floor of AI.

15 weeksFor AIE 300

WEB 35Recommended

Foundations of Web Programming

A five-week, framework-free bridge that builds the web-platform fluency SWE 200 assumes on day one — HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript, by hand.

5 weeksFor SWE 200

ENG 70Universal · parallel

Professional Communication in English

First, learn to defend meaning itself.

14 weeks · in parallelAll 6 diplomas

Foundations enrolment opens after the Cohort 01 diploma intake. Diploma applicants who need a foundation are routed to it automatically through the application.