18 NQF credits at NQF level 5

Convener: A/Prof. Chris Ouma/ Dr. J Gibson

Course entry requirements: None

Course outline: This course will focus on the ways in which Africa has been imagined and represented across the ages. Drawing on key texts from the creative and performing arts, the course will explore specific depictions of Africa and Africans in each era and open up questions about the relationship between arts and society. It will examine African self-representations alongside representations that focus on Africa as a site of difference or ‘othering’. Topics include: Introduction - What is representation?; Images of Slavery; Travel writing and tourism; Visual Arts; Anti-colonialism/ nationalism in film. Lecture times: Monday and Tuesday 6th period.

DP requirements: None.

Assessment: Coursework: tutorial hand-ins (20%), 1st essay (20%), 2nd essay (30%).

10 NQF credits at NQF level 5

Convener: Ms. I Adams

Course entry requirements: None (extended programme students only).

Co-requisites: ASL1201F

Course outline: The purpose of this course is to augment and support its co-requisite course: ASL1201FS Representations of Africa. It aims to improve students’ performance by enhancing their grasp of key ideas and concepts, and by developing their mastery of the disciplinary discourse. It provides additional pedagogic enrichment in the form of regular Plus Tuts that extend into Writing Hub exercises and consultations. In these tutorials, students will receive explicit support around the co- requisite course assignments and detailed feedback on their written work.

Lecture times: 6th period.

DP requirements: 80% tutorial attendance plus successful completion of coursework assignments.

Assessment: This course will be assessed on a Pass/Fail basis. In order to receive a pass grade, students will be required to complete: coursework 100% comprising of tutorial assessment, other written work and participation.

18 NQF credits at NQF level 5

Convener: Dr. M Thompson

course entry requirements: None

Course outline: This course provides an introduction to the main branches of Linguistics. On completion of the course students would have covered topics such as: phonetics (the production and classification of speech sounds, the International Phonetic Alphabet, suprasegmentals); phonology (how speech sounds are organised in language; the phoneme-allophone distinction); morphology (form–meaning pairs; morphemes and word-formation; syntax (the rules that govern the phrase, structures of language; elements of generative grammar); and semantics relations, semantic features; an introduction to psychological and neurobiological aspects of how humans acquire language.

Lecture times: 3rd period, Monday – Wednesday.

DP requirements: All written work to be handed in and at least 75% attendance at lectures and tutorials.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (essays, projects, tests, etc.) counts 100%.

18 NQF credits at NQF level 5

Convener: Dr. S Mpendukana

Course entry requirements: None

Course outline: This course focuses on the study of language in its social context, a branch of Linguistics that is referred to as sociolinguistics. The course includes topics such as: introduction (basic concepts and issues in sociolinguistics); regional variation; social variation; language change, language and social media; multilingualism; language and interaction; gender and language; language contact; pidgins, creoles and new Englishes; language planning and policy; language and education; the sociolinguistics of sign language.

Lecture times: 3rd period, Monday – Wednesday.

DP requirements: All written work to be handed in and at least 75% attendance at lectures and tutorials.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (essays, projects, tests, etc.) counts 100%.

10 NQF credits at NQF level 5

Convener: Ms. I Adams

Course entry requirements: None (extended programme students only).

Co-requisites: ASL1301S.

Course outline: The purpose of this course is to augment and support its co-requisite course: ASL1301S (Introduction to Applied Language Studies). It aims to improve students’ performance by enhancing their grasp of key ideas and concepts, and by developing their mastery of the disciplinary discourse. It provides additional pedagogic enrichment in the form of regular Plus Tutorials that extend into Writing Hub exercises and consultations. In these tutorials, students will receive explicit support around the co-requisite course assignments and detailed feedback on their written work.

DP requirements: No DP requirements.

Assessment: This course will be assessed on a Pass/Fail basis. In order to receive a pass grade, students will be required to complete at least 80% of all course requirements (attendance at tutorials, submission of exercises, etc.)

24 NQF credits at NQF level 6; Three lectures and one compulsory tutorial per week.

Convener: Dr. Z Msomi

Course entry requirements: Students must be in their second or subsequent year of study.

Course outline: In the context of the current level of globalisation, this course explores Africa’s position in and relations with other parts of the globalising world. The course highlights Africa’s experience of globalization, focusing on the challenges and opportunities which globalisation presents, particularly on cultures and identities in the continent.

Lecture times: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 6th period.

DP requirements: Attendance at lectures and tutorials is compulsory, failing which students’ papers may not be marked.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (essays, projects, tests, etc.) counts 100%.

(Not offered in 2023)

10 NQF credits at NQF level 6

Convener: Professor H Chitonge

Course entry requirements: None (extended programme students only).

Co-requisites: ASL2200S.

Course outline: The purpose of this course is to augment and support its co-requisite course: ASL2200S Culture, Identity and Globalisation in Africa. It aims to improve students’ performance by enhancing their grasp of key ideas and concepts, and by developing their mastery of the disciplinary discourse. It provides additional pedagogic enrichment in the form of regular Plus Tuts that extend into Writing Hub exercises and consultations. In these tutorials, students will receive explicit support around the co-requisite course assignments and detailed feedback on their written work.

DP requirements: 80% tutorial attendance plus successful completion of coursework assignments.

Assessment: This course will be assessed on a Pass/Fail basis. In order to receive a pass grade, students will be required to complete: coursework 100% comprising of tutorial assessment and other written work.

24 NQF credits at NQF level 6

Convener: Dr. D Jethro

Course entry requirements: Second-year status.

Course outline: This course explores African political systems and thought, from precolonial Africa through to postcolonial political systems. In so-doing, the course examines the forms of African political thought that emerged across three periods: the pre-colonial; the era of colonisation and political forms of resistance against it; and the postcolonial/neo-colonial period. The course ends with current critiques of postcolonial governance, which argue that, in many important ways, decolonisation of our political systems has not yet occurred.

Lecture times: Monday and Tuesday, 6th period.

DP requirements: None.

Assessment: Coursework 100%

10 NQF credits at NQF level 6

Convener: Ms. I Adams

Course entry requirements: None (extended programme students only).

Co-requisites: ASL2202F

Course outline: The purpose of this course is to augment and support its co-requisite course: ASL2202F African Political Thought. It aims to improve students’ performance by enhancing their grasp of key ideas and concepts, and by developing their mastery of the disciplinary discourse. It provides additional pedagogic enrichment in the form of regular Plus Tuts that extend into Writing Hub exercises and consultations. In these tutorials, students will receive explicit support around the co-requisite course assignments and detailed feedback on their written work.

Lecture times: 6th period.

DP requirements: 80% tutorial attendance plus successful completion of coursework assignments.

Assessment: This course will be assessed on a Pass/Fail basis. In order to receive a pass grade, students will be required to complete: coursework 100% comprising of tutorial assessment, other written work and participation.

24 NQF credits at NQF level 6

Convener: Mr. J Brown

Course entry requirements: This course is open to students who either (a) have successfully completed ASL1300F or ASL1301S (b) are deemed by Senate, on the recommendation of the Head of Department, to be equivalently qualified. Students wishing to be considered for admission to the course under (b) should arrange to see the Head of Department as early as possible.

Course outline: The course consolidates and extends the work of first-year linguistics and focuses on the more advanced and detailed study of structural linguistics and sociolinguistics. The aim of the course is to introduce students to on-going debates about language as a meaningful sign, as well as language as a structured and rule-governed system. Topics may include: morphology and syntax; phonetics and phonology; sociolinguistics and/or semantics. The discussion will draw on a wide range of languages and linguistic situations within South Africa, on the continent, and in the world.

Lecture times: 5th period, Tuesday – Wednesday. Lab session Thursday 5th period.

DP requirements: All written work is to be handed in. Attendance at lectures, lab sessions and tutorials as indicated by the department.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (essays, projects, tests, etc.) counts 100%.

24 NQF credits at NQF level 6

Convener: Dr. M Thompson

Course entry requirements: This course is open to students who either (a) have successfully completed ASL1300F or ASL1301S and ASL2300F or (b) are deemed by Senate, on the recommendation of the Head of Department, to be equivalently qualified. Students wishing to be considered for admission to the course under (b) should arrange to see the Head of Department as early as possible.

Course outline: The course builds on ASL2300F and further consolidates the work of the first semester, delving deeper into the study of structural linguistics and sociolinguistics. Topics may include more advanced work in: morphology and syntax; phonetics and phonology; sociolinguistics; and/or semantics. The discussion will draw on a wide range of languages and linguistic situations, within South Africa, on the continent and in the world.

Lecture times: 5th period, Tuesday – Wednesday. Lab session Thursday 5th period.

DP requirements: All written work to be handed in. Attendance at lectures, lab sessions and tutorials as indicated by the department.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (essays, projects, tests, etc.) counts 100%.

30 NQF credits at NQF level 7

Convener: Dr. Z Msomi

Course entry requirements: Third-year status.

Course outline: This course will focus on critical debates on the political economy of Africa, with specific reference to Sub-Saharan Africa. It will be anchored in the works of Archie Mafeje.

Lecture times: 6th period.

DP requirements: None.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (essays, projects, tests, etc.) counts 100%.

30 NQF credits at NQF level 7

Convener: Dr. Z Msomi

Course entry requirements: Third-year status.

Course outline: This course introduces students to the field of critical linguistics which addresses the linguistic effects of political and cultural oppression, marginalization, colonialism and coloniality. It is also a field interested in articulating a new view of language that emphasizes the experience of language as intimate and lived, implied in structures of hegemony of power, as well as its potential for liberation, freedom and creativity.

Lecture times: Monday and Tuesday, 6th period.

DP requirements: None.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (essays, projects, tests, etc.) counts 100%.

Course outline: This course introduces more advanced work in selected areas of linguistics. The topics cover structural/ formal linguistics, as well as sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. The particular focus of the course is on the interplay between theory and application, thus also introducing students to the field of (critical) applied language studies and consolidating the work covered in first and second year. The discussion will draw on a wide range of languages and linguistic situations within South Africa, on the continent and in the world.

Lecture times: 8th period, Monday – Tuesday. Lab session Wednesday 8th period.

DP requirements: All written work to be handed in. Attendance at lectures, lab sessions and tutorials as indicated by the department.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (essays, projects, tests, etc.) counts 100%.

30 NQF credits at NQF level 7

Convener: Professor A Deumert

Course entry requirements: This course is open to students who either (a) have successfully completed ASL3300F or (b) are deemed by Senate, on the recommendation of the Head of Department, to be equivalently qualified. Students wishing to be considered for admission to the course under (b) should arrange to see the Head of Department as early as possible.

Course outline: This course builds on ASL3300F and further consolidates the work of the first semester, delving deeper into the study of, especially, formal linguistics and critical sociolinguistics/linguistic anthropology. As in the first semester, the focus of the course is on the interplay between theory and applications, and students will be introduced to advanced work in the field of linguistics. The discussion will draw on a wide range of languages and linguistic situations, within South Africa, on the continent and in the world.

Lecture times: 8th period, Monday – Tuesday. Lab session Wednesday 8th period.

DP requirements: All written work to be handed in. Attendance at lectures, lab sessions and

Assessment: Continuous assessment (essays, projects, tests, etc.) counts 100%.