Course Structure

The Extended Studies course has been specially designed so that by the time students finish the course, they will have a good understanding of what is required of them in humanities disciplines. The course is made up of two humanities subjects where there are 2 streams.  Students have to choose one of the two streams listed below:

1. Politics and Sociology
2. Journalism & Media studies and Anthropology

The rest of the Humanities Extended Studies course has:

1. Extended Studies courses for each of the two humanities subjects courses.
2. General skills classes
3. Computer literacy
4. Information literacy

Extended studies students take 4 credits in the first year. Two credits are from the mainstream subjects and these credits are Rhodes degree credits. Students are also required to take two extra support credits. One credit is for the Extended Studies courses for their humanities subjects (e.g. Politics Extended Studies and Sociology Extended Studies) and the other credit is a combination of General Skills, Computer literacy and Information literacy.

1. Politics. Politics is about people, resources and power. The first year course includes an introduction to politics, the politics of state theory, comparative politics and international relations
2. Sociology. Sociology examines society, people, social behaviour and social research. The first year course explains what sociology is, looks at social inequality and institutions(e.g. family, media) and topical issues such as violence, urbanisation, gender and cultural changes. South African examples are used during the course.
3. Journalism and Media studies. The first year course is made up of Media theory (History of media and journalism, Media and modernity, Narrative and Genre) and media production (writing). In their third year, students are able to specialise in one of the following media production areas : Writing and editing, Photojournalism, Radio, Television, Design or New media.
4. Anthropology. Anthropology is the systematic study of human beings: past , present and the future; body, mind and spirit. The first year course includes studying human origins, an introduction to socio-cultural anthropology, identity and diversity (e.g. race, gender, age) ; socio-cultural institutions (e.g. kinship, religion) and case studies (examining one or two societies in greater detail)