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Stellenbosch University

Bachelor of Arts with Honours in African Languages

The Bachelor of Arts with Honours in African Languages in Language and Culture Studies is offered by Stellenbosch University.

Program Length: 2 YEARS.

Bachelor of Arts with Honours in African Languages offered by the Stellenbosch University at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

The programme focuses on the development of a reflective language view of the African languages through the study of literature and/or linguistics. Four specialisation fields or streams are offered in the programme:

• Language teaching;
• Communication;
• Literature; and
• Linguistics.

The programme is presented by means of 2 lectures and 1 seminar per week.

Duration of ProgrammeThis programme extends over one year full-time or two years part-time. Lectures begin the first week of February.The programme makes provision for the needs and circumstances of both full-time and part-time students (professional persons):

• Full-time students - one year of study with contact tuition on campus. You take all six compulsory modules in one year.
• Part-time students - two years of study with contact tuition on campus or through modular teaching. You take three modules in the first year and do the remaining three modules in the second year

Programme Content

The programme includes the following research fields in African languages:

• Literature;
• Linguistics;
• Communication;
• Language Acquisition; and
• Language Teaching.

You choose, in collaboration with the Department, themes from one option of five modules in respect to one of the specialisation fields or streams.

Module description
The content of the module is determined by your option:

• Option 1: Communication (elements of human communication, interpersonal and group communication, public communication, pragmatics and discourse analysis, and mass communication).
• Option 2: Language teaching (literacy and language teaching, reading skills and text-linguistic analysis, writing skills and genre analysis, pragmatics and discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics.
• Option 3: Literature (novel, drama, short story, poetry and creative writing, oral literature and folklore).
• Option 4: Linguistics (syntax, morphology/phonology/phonetics, semantics and computational linguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics).

Compulsory modules

Study of African Language (18)

Study of African Language (18)

Study of African Language (18)

Study of African Language (18)

Study of African Language (18)

Research Assignment (African Languages) (30)

 

Assessment and Examination

A system of flexible assessment is followed. The final mark is determined through a series of written and oral assessments.