POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES IN AFRICAN STUDIES

The African Studies Unit offers an exciting range of Degree Programmes designed especially for students from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, who have an interest in Africa. These degrees are intended to broaden critical skills and to equip postgraduate students with an interdisciplinary set of ‘tools to think with’.

Programmes on offer include:

A Multidisciplinary taught Honours and Masters degree, offered to accommodate candidates’ individual interests and academic backgrounds. Students design and develop a research topic and select courses, relating to that topic, normally including options from within the area of their undergraduate majors, and work with a CAS supervisor. The Centre offers an interdisciplinary coursework programme in the specialised area of African Literature and Culture.

Postgraduate Diploma in African Studies - CAS also offers a quite unique and specially developed one-year . This diploma is ideal for students, whose first degree is not in African Studies or for those promising students, who are improving their grades with a view to further postgraduate work.

Heritage and Public Culture - Students may be interested in the new postgraduate programme that was launched in 2009, which engages with the richness of local heritage sites, archives and institutions and the central role that formulations Heritage have come to play in emergent notions of culture and identity. for more info.

and, Masters and PhD studies by dissertation.