Stellenbosch University
Postgraduate Diploma in Disability and Rehabilitation Studies
The Postgraduate Diploma in Disability and Rehabilitation Studies in Health Professions is offered by Stellenbosch University.
Program Length: 2 YEARS.
Subjects: 5.
Postgraduate Diploma in Disability and Rehabilitation Studies offered by Stellenbosch University at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Programme description
The focus of the Postgraduate Diploma in Disability and Rehabilitation Studies programme will be to strengthen and deepen your knowledge and theoretical understanding of disability and rehabilitation, with the aim of promoting the development of current thinking, response and practice in disability and rehabilitation studies. In addition, the programme will facilitate in-depth, advanced reflection on
- the latest international and national instruments and policies for disability, rehabilitation and health, as well as other, social-related policies;
- how these instruments and policies affect you as a disability and rehabilitation practitioner in your scope of work; and
- how you as practitioner can develop sustainable disability and rehabilitation models of best practice to effectively respond to national needs in this regard.
Programme outcomes
As a graduate with a Postgraduate Diploma in Disability and Rehabilitation Studies you will be able to:
- have acquired and will continue to sharpen essential advanced, higher-order cognitive, psychomotor and affective skills;
- accept responsibility for your own learning and for continuously being as self-driven as possible;
- be able to utilise appropriate learning strategies and emphasise the development of thought processes both to analyse and to synthesise information;
- be able to think critically and do independent research;
- understand the need to remain conversant with the latest research, developments and practices in rehabilitation programmes;
- strive for lifelong continuing professional development;
- critically question and appraise models, theories, principles, policies and phenomena in the field of disability and rehabilitation programmes;
- practise self-criticism and accept the feedback of others;
- have acquired and will continue to practise advanced scientific communication skills;
- be able to provide rehabilitation-related preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative programmes to persons at any point on the health-disease-impairmentdisability continuum and in any life phase; and
- commit yourself unconditionally to serving the community (and people’s lives).
Programme content
The following are theoretical modules and are all compulsory.
Disability and Rehabilitation: Theory and Practice (30)
Ethical and Community Constructs (30)
Community Integration of the Disabled Person (30)
Policy Analysis on Health, Disability and Rehabilitation (30)
Assessment and examination
- The modules are assessed on a flexible basis by means of tests and assignments.
- You must take an examination at the end of each module
- A minimum mark of 50% is required to pass each module.
