Prospective Students
Undergraduate Information:
Download the Humanities Guide for information on the Faculty of Humanities and what the faculty offers:
The following PowerPoint presentation contains information for prospective undergraduate students and their parents:
Humanities PowerPoint Presentation
Humanities Extended Studies explained
The Humanities Extended Studies course aims to help empower students who have the potential but just don't meet the Mainstream entry requirements to cope with the demands of university study. In addition to helping students develop good academic language skills through academic reading and writing, the course aims to develop academic vocabulary, speaking skills, computer literacy, research skills and the ability to cope with humanities subjects in general.
This Extended Studies course is a one year credit bearing course which serves as an introduction to academic life at university as part of a four year BA (Bachelor of Arts) or BSocSci (Bachelor of Social Science) degree or a five year BJourn (Bachelor of Journalism) degree. Students wishing to study law can start a BA majoring in Legal Theory and then go to do an LLB (Bachelor of Laws).
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.
Please note that there are very limited spaces for the Extended Studies programme and preference will be given to local school leavers.
Postgraduate Information
Students wishing to apply for Diploma, Honours, Masters or Doctoral studies are encouraged to contact the relevant department directly to discuss the entry requirements for the chosen postgraduate degree. Contact details may be found on each departmental website: https://www.ru.ac.za/academic/departments/
All information regarding the undergraduate and postgraduate application process can be found here:
Last Modified: Tue, 27 May 2025 16:22:05 SAST