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University of Pretoria - Faculty of Humanities

You can choose to enroll for a professional degree in any of a variety of fields, such as psychology, social work, communication, and audiology—our Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology is equipped with Africa’s only Specialist Neuro-Otologic Test Centre. These programs will train you in skills that are scarce and essential, especially now.

Another option is to study music, drama, or visual arts at our School of the Arts, which offers Africa’s only art therapy program. The JavettUP Arts Centre is keen to expose new creative talent to internationally renowned artists and scholars.

If you wish to become multilingual—another key skill—there are a range of language courses to choose from, and our programs in the social and applied social sciences will introduce you to the complexities of a broader world. We are proud to say that several of our UP-trained social scientists are internationally recognized and celebrated with appointments to the UN and other key international bodies.

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Pretoria, South Africa

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3 years

This program focuses on the main disciplines in fine arts, ie painting, sculpture, graphic printmaking, drawing and new media, as well as on the theories and concepts of art. Graduates qualify as professional artists. The program is aimed at the promotion of aesthetic awareness and the broadening of visual, critical and creative thinking. The program also incorporates art management, art communication and marketing, digital training and the use of a wide range of artists materials, media and techniques.

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Full time

BA (Fine Arts)

This program qualifies candidates for entry-level positions into the mass communications industries such as graphic design, branding and advertising as well as broadcast design. With a strong social underpinning, the program incorporates design strategies, design applications and design products in print, ambient and screen-based media and technologies.

BA (Information Design)

This program is aimed at equipping the learner with communication skills as well as in-depth knowledge of the language, literature and culture of at least two languages. Through the study of language, students are guided towards critical reflection on and well grounded participation in (cultural) discourses, and they acquire perspectives on different aspects of people and their interaction with the world.

BA (Languages)

This program provides graduates with specific knowledge of the law and law-related skills and schools them in selected language discipline(s) and selected social sciences. The skills acquired may be applied in either the private or public sectors. The program serves as an alternative route for ultimately obtaining the LLB degree.

BA (Law)

The purpose of this four-year degree package is to provide qualifying students with in-depth knowledge of the speech- and language development and related processes in the context of human communication. This knowledge inculdes the causes and symptomatology of speech, language, swallowing difficulties and the scientific basis of intervention with a person with a speech, language or swallowing disorder or those at risk of developing such pathology due to the high burden of disease in South Africa.

BA (Speech-Language Pathology)

This program aims to promote visual literacy by offering instruction in the analysis, interpretation and evaluation of various aspects of visual culture, in both an historical and contemporary context.

BA (Visual Studies)

The BA (Audiology) program is aimed at acquiring in-depth knowledge of the normal and pathological hearing and balance process within the framework of human communication. From the second year, in addition to theoretical modules, students do hands-on clinical training with patients (from infants to adults) in clinics, hospitals, schools, and at outreach centres.

BA Audiology

This program is directed at a general formative education in the humanities. It provides the student with a broad academic basis in order to continue with postgraduate studies and prepares the student for active involvement in a wide variety of career possibilities.

BA Extended Program

Bachelor

Politics is a part of human existence, and social interactions invariably involve political relationships. Politics is essential for a just and humane way of life. The study of politics helps us understand the dynamics of power and how this directly and indirectly effects the state. This program will help you understand politics within state borders. It will develop key analytical skills that will help you explain political events and how politics affects society. Political studies take into account a variety of non-political or related influences that affect politics. This program provides a description of political facts, an explanation of how and why politics occurs, and a prescription of what should happen in the political world.

BPolSci (Political Science)

This program focuses on tourism as one of South Africa’s largest and fastest growing industries. Students are trained to play an important role in tourism, especially as far as heritage and cultural tourism is concerned. Graduates can follow careers as tour guides, tour operators (entrepreneurs), heritage resource managers, and publicity agents.

BSocSci (Heritage and Cultural Tourism)

This program aims to equip graduates with understanding, critical knowledge and the thinking abilities to respond to the many problems and challenges of and in the workplace, in a proactive, creative and useful fashion.

BSocSci (Industrial Sociology and Labour Studies)

The purpose of this program is to provide students with an in-depth knowledge and analytical understanding of contemporary political and economic issues. All three disciplines – political science, philosophy, and economics – focus on the social world and social phenomena, each from a different perspective.

BSocSci (Philosophy, Politics and Economics)

The purpose of this program is to provide students with an in-depth knowledge and understanding of contemporary world politics and related changes in the international system. This will enable them, once they are employed in the public or private sector, to respond in an innovative and proactive manner to the problems and challenges of globalisation.

Bachelor Political Science (International Studies)

This program is directed towards the study of performance in relation to theatre, drama/theatre in education, performing arts management, film and television and the interface between technology and performance. The program guides the student towards an understanding of the academic discourses and the practical skills required to interrogate, create, manage and promote multiple forms of performance.

Bachelor of Drama

This program is aimed at the acquisition of specialist music skills and knowledge. The program can be compiled in such a way that, on its completion, students are qualified for a wide variety of music-related occupations, including the following: solo performer, orchestral or chamber musician, music teacher at all levels (for individual and group tuition), musicologist, music technologist, entrepreneur and impressario.

Bachelor of Music

This BMus degree is a five-year program (extended curriculum program) and consists of the existing number of regular courses for the standard four-year degree in addition to four foundational courses in the first year of study. The first year of the program offers foundational support in Academic and Quantitative Literacy and Academic Information Management and competence in music performance and music (theory and aural) literacies which are critical and unique skills required in music studies.

Bachelor of Music Extended Program

The program entails theoretical and professional training that leads to a professional career in social work. The discipline of social work studies social systems and people’s wellbeing in relation to the environment.

Bachelor of Social Work (BSW)

1 year

A student must work under the guidance of a study leader for at least one academic year.

MA (African Languages)

2 years

MA (African Languages) (Coursework)

Students select one of the following five fields of specialisation:

MA (African-European Cultural Relations) (Coursework)

Relevant honours degree with specialisation in a language, linguistics or a language-related discipline

MA (Afrikaans)

Depending upon their interest and area of specialisation, students may choose one of the following options:

MA (Ancient Languages and Cultures Studies)

Dissertation: Applied language studies 890

MA (Applied Language Studies)

A student for a master’s degree must complete his or her studies within four years after first registering for the degree. The study comprises a 30 000-50 000 word dissertation based on an research proposal approved by the Research Proposal and Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Humanities (see requirement for preparatory year).

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