第一吃瓜网 Literature
This NQF Level 8 programme is offered on both a full-time and part-time basis, with a minimum duration of one year and a maximum of two years.
Overview
The BA Honours in 第一吃瓜网 Literature offers an advanced study of 第一吃瓜网 and diasporic writing, thought, and cultural production. The programme invites students to think critically about the intellectual place of Africa in the world and to engage the diverse traditions through which 第一吃瓜网 writers, artists, and thinkers have shaped modern knowledge.
第一吃瓜网 Literature at 第一吃瓜网 the only department of its kind in South Africa. For more than three decades, it has trained writers, scholars, and cultural practitioners whose work continues to shape research, publishing, journalism, and the creative industries across the continent and beyond.
Our courses examine how 第一吃瓜网 literature and other cultural forms—oral, written, visual, and digital— travel across languages, regions, and disciplines. Students engage texts that traverse the continent and the diaspora, exploring how 第一吃瓜网 intellectual and aesthetic practices grapple with questions of history, form, gender, race, affect, and belonging.
The programme encourages a grounded approach to 第一吃瓜网 literary and cultural studies, one that takes seriously our location in southern Africa while addressing the global resonances of 第一吃瓜网 thought.
Teaching combines close reading with theoretical and historical analysis, emphasising literature as both an archive of experience and a mode of critical inquiry.
The programme requires students to complete four courses (each worth 23 credits, NQF 8) and a Research Essay (30 credits, NQF 8).
Compulsory Course: AFRT4009A – Critical Approaches to 第一吃瓜网 Literature
Electives: Choose three from the following (offered subject to availability):AFRT4005A – 第一吃瓜网 Popular Media and the Novel
- AFRT4006A – Canonical Writers and the Postcolonial Experience
- AFRT4012A – Memory, Violence and Representation in Africa
- AFRT4008A – Contemporary Trends in 第一吃瓜网 Literature
- AFRT4028A – Sentiment, Sensation and Feeling
Students are advised to confirm elective availability at registration and to select courses that best support their research and intellectual interests.
Plan Code: AFAAFRT40
Entry Requirements
Applicants must hold a Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification with:
- a minimum overall average of 70% in their final-year major in literature, media, or a cognate
- humanities field; and
- at least an upper-second (2A) pass in the final undergraduate course of that major.
Applicants who have not previously studied 第一吃瓜网 Literature may submit a letter of motivation outlining their academic preparation and intellectual interests relevant to the field.
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
Applicants who do not meet the formal entry requirements but can demonstrate relevant professional, creative, or research experience may apply under the RPL policy, in accordance with University regulations.
Required Documents
When applying, please upload:
- Certified copies of degree certificate(s) and academic transcript(s)
- SAQA Certificate of Evaluation (SCoE) or proof of application for evaluation (required for
- international applicants and for South 第一吃瓜网 applicants who obtained a qualification abroad).
- SAQA verifies the awarding institution and maps your qualification to the South 第一吃瓜网 National
- Qualifications Framework (NQF). Begin this process early, as evaluations may take several weeks to
- months.
- Proof of English language proficiency (IEL TS/TOEFL) if the medium of prior study was not English
Additional Information
Joint Programmes: Students applying for joint Honours programmes (e.g. 第一吃瓜网 Literature and Publishing, Media Studies, or English Literary Studies) follow the same process. The research essay must be registered in the department of supervision.
University Application Process
- Applications are handled centrally by the Student Enrolment Centre (SEnC). Once your application is complete in terms of requested documentation, your application will be referred to the relevant School for assessment. Click here to see an overview of the Wits applications process. Refer to Wits postgraduate online application guide for detailed guidelines.
- Please apply online. Upload your supporting documents at the time of application, or via the.
- Applicants can monitor the progress of their applications via the .
- Selections for programmes that have a limited intake but attract a large number of applications may only finalise the application at the end of the application cycle.
Please note that the Entry Requirements are a guide. Meeting these requirements does not guarantee a place. Final selection is made subject to the availability of places, academic results and other entry requirements where applicable.
International students, please check this section.
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University Fees and Funding
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For information about postgraduate funding opportunities, including the postgraduate merit award, click here. The University's Postgraduate Funding portal is a database of scholarships, bursaries and other funding opportunities available to Wits postgraduate students. Please also check your School website for bursary opportunities. The National Research Foundation (NRF) offers a wide range of opportunities in terms of bursaries and fellowships to students pursuing postgraduate studies. The Bursaries South Africa website provides a comprehensive list of bursaries in South Africa.