UNIVERSITY

OF CAPE TOWN Faculty of Humanities

AFRICAN STUDIES UNIT GRADUATE PROGRAMME 2012

www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za email: casafricas@uct.ac.za

African Studies Section (and see Centre for African Studies)

The African Studies Section is housed in the Harry Oppenheimer Institute Building, located on Engineering Mall. Associate Professor and Head of Section: N Shepherd, PhD Cape Town Emeritus Professor: B Cooper MA Birmingham PhD Sussex Honorary Professors: A Bogues, PhD West Indies P Zeleza, PhD Dalhousie Associate Professor: H O Garuba, MA PhD Ibadan Administrative Manager: L Jacobs

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Graduate programmes
The Centre offers the following graduate programmes: Postgraduate Diploma in African Studies (AXL02) Honours in African Studies (AXL02) Honours and Masters in Heritage and Public Culture (AXL06) Taught Masters in African Studies (AXL02) Research Masters in African Studies (AXL02) Doctorate in African Studies (AXL02) * The Honours in African Studies is also offered with a specific focus on African Literature and Culture.

Postgraduate Diploma in African Studies (120 HEQF credits)

Convener: Associate Professor H Garuba. Admission requirements: (a) Faculty requirements are set out under Rule FG3. (b) Programme requirements: The undergraduate record must demonstrate that the candidate has promise as a future postgraduate. Programme requirements: Candidates are required to take five courses at the 4000level. The choice of courses is to be discussed with the Diploma convener. Compulsory course: HEQF credits HEQF level AXL4201 Debates in African Studies 2 8 F 4 Assessment: (a) All work must be handed in on time. In the interests of fairness to all students, it is not the policy of the Centre for African Studies to grant extensions. Late work will be submitted to the Academic Committee of CAS and may be penalised. The Academic Committee may refuse to accept late work for grading, in which case a mark of zero will be given. (b) To be awarded the diploma not less than 50% must be obtained for each course. (c) To be awarded the diploma with distinction an overall average of 75% and not less than 70% in any course must be obtained.

Honours and Masters Programmes in African Studies

Conveners: Associate Professors H Garuba and N Shepherd Admission requirements: (a) Faculty requirements are set out under Rules FH3 and FM3. (b) Programme requirements: Honours A Bachelors degree with a major in a field relating to the study of Africa; A multidisciplinary research project. Masters An Honours degree or its equivalent in a field relating to the study of Africa; A multidisciplinary research project. Acceptance is on the recommendation of the Head of Department. Honours (126 HEQF credits) Students have the option of combining core courses in African Studies with relevant

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core courses from a discipline taken to thirdyear level in the undergraduate degree, or of following an area of specialisation offered in the Centre, e.g. Heritage Studies or African Literature and Culture. Programme structure: The Honours programme comprises four taught courses (96 HEQF credits) and a research essay/project (30 HEQF credits). Compulsory components: HEQF credits HEQF level AXL4201 Debates in African Studies 2 8 F 4 3 8 AXL4200 Research Essay/Project 0 W Elective courses: Two electives from African Studies or other programmes offered within the Faculty. One of these should be either the core course or an elective from the disciplines or programmes specialised in during the students undergraduate studies. As stated above, one should provide a comparative continental concentration in a chosen field. One of these electives may be based outside the broad area of African Studies, providing the course contributes to the overall design of the research project as a comparative case study. Please consult the list of courses at the back of the handbook for descriptions of courses offered. Note: To progress to Masters level, an overall average result of not less than 60% must be achieved.

Honours with a focus on African Literature and Culture

This Honours specialisation is designed for students whose core interest is in questions of literature and culture in Africa. Students with an interest in music, film, art, literature and culture and the theories and methodologies which underpin and guide representations of Africa will find this particularly satisfying. Apart from two required courses on Images of Africa and Literature and Language Studies, students are allowed to structure their other courses to reflect their own interests. Programme structure: The Honours programme comprises four taught courses (96 HEQF credits) and a research essay/project (30 HEQF credits). Compulsory components: HEQF credits HEQF level AXL4201 Debates in African Studies 2 8 F 4 3 8 AXL4200 Research Essay/Project 0 W ELL4062 Literature and Language Studies I 2 8 F 4 Elective courses: Two electives from African Studies or other programmes offered within the Faculty. One of these should be either the core course or an elective from the disciplines or programmes specialised in during the student's undergraduate studies. As stated above, one should provide a comparative continental concentration in a chosen field. One of these electives may be based outside the broad area of African Studies, providing the course contributes to the overall design of the research project as a comparative case

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study. Please consult the list of courses at the back of the handbook for descriptions of courses offered. Note: To progress to Masters level, an overall average result of not less than 60% must be achieved.

Masters (192 HEQF credits)

Programme structure: Masters students are required to complete a minor dissertation (96 HEQF credits) and four taught courses (96 HEQF credits each) of which no more than two can be at HEQF Level 8 (4000 level). Compulsory components: HEQF credits HEQF level AXL5202 Problematising the Study of Africa 2 9 F 4 9 9 AXL5201 Minor Dissertation W 6 Electives: One course from a recommended list which provides a comparative continental concentration in a chosen field. Two electives from African Studies or other programmes offered within the Faculty. One of these should be either the core course or an elective from the disciplines or programmes specialised in during the student's undergraduate studies. As stated above, one should provide a comparative continental concentration in a chosen field. One of these electives may be based outside the broad area of African Studies, providing the course contributes to the overall design of the research project as a comparative case study. Please consult the list of courses at the back of the handbook for descriptions of courses offered.

Honours and Masters Programmes in Heritage and Public Culture

Convener: Associate Professor N Shepherd The language of heritage has become ubiquitous in postapartheid South Africa. From former president Mbekis speeches, peppered with references to a deep history of indigenous achievement at sites like Mapungubwe and Timbuktu, to struggles around cultural rights and the role of traditional leaders, to debates around language and the role of local and indigenous knowledges, speaking of heritage has become a way of addressing complex issues of culture, identity and citizenship. At the same time, the South African experience post1994 with questions of public history, memory and heritage is widely understood to have been paradigmatic. The postgraduate programme in Heritage Studies in Africa in the Centre for African Studies 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. It differs from other heritage programmes, locally and internationally, in a number of respects. First, in being critical and interdisciplinary in nature, and in drawing on expertise across a range of subject areas. Second, in taking seriously questions of performance, orality and the intangible and embodied aspects of heritage, as a way of moving beyond a tradition of heritage studies focused on sites and buildings. And third, in contextualising questions

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of heritage in relation to questions of knowledges, archives and the formation of the disciplines in Africa. Students may choose to specialise in any one of the following three areas: Public Histories Performance Archives and Knowledges In addition, students will do a compulsory methods elective and may choose to do a guided internship in a heritage institution. The programme offers training and a practical orientation for work as heritage professionals in a variety of arenas and institutions, as well as for further research. Students with good first degrees with a broadly appropriate range of subjects are invited to apply. Programme structure: Students are required to do compulsory courses in the African Studies and in the School of Architecture and Planning (in Masters year). In addition, they can choose elective courses from a range of departments and disciplines. All students are encouraged to craft a specialisation particular to their own research interests and future world of work.

Honours (126 HEQF credits):

Compulsory courses: HEQF credits HEQF level AXL4200 Research Project/Essay 3 8 W 0 AXL4203 Public Culture in Africa 2 8 F 4 AXL4205 The African Studies Archive 2 8 S 4 Electives: Two methodologyfocused courses chosen from one of the Heritage disciplines

Masters (188 HEQF credits):

Compulsory courses: HEQF credits HEQF level AXL5202 Problematising the Study of Africa 2 9 F 4 AXL5201 Minor Dissertation 9 9 W 6 AXL5203 Critical Issues in Heritage Studies 2 9 S 4 APG5064 Law of Conservation, Heritage F Management and 1 9 Development 0 APG5067 Researching and Assessing Heritage 1 9 S Resources 0 Together, the courses APG5064F and APG5067S count the equivalent of one full course in the Humanities. Elective (24 HEQF credits): Students are encouraged to do one of these within the African Studies Section. Students interested in photography and visual culture are encouraged to do FIN5012F Imaging the World in Photographs. Research Masters in African Studies (180 HEQF credits)

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PhD in African Studies (360 HEQF credits)

Admission requirements: (a) Faculty Rule FM3, FDA16 and University General Rules apply. (b) Applicants must have the required academic background and submit an acceptable research proposal for which supervision is available. Research degrees are encouraged where the field of research is clearly defined, the student wishes to concentrate on a specific research topic and has demonstrated the ability to do so. Degree structure: Examination is by dissertation/thesis alone. A Masters dissertation should not exceed 50,000 words in length. A Doctoral thesis should not exceed 80,000 words in length.

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CENTRE FOR AFRICAN STUDIES

A C Jordan Chair and Director: L Ntsebeza, MA Cape Town PhD Rhodes Contact details: lungusile.ntsebeza@uct.ac.za Associate Professors: H O Garuba, MA PhD Ibadan N Shepherd, PhD Cape Town Emeritus Professor: B Cooper, MA Birmingham PhD Sussex Honorary Professors: A Bogues, PhD University of the West Indies P Zeleza, PhD Dalhousie Research Lecturer: H Chitonge, PhD KZN Administrative Manager: L Jacobs/NA Maseti The Centre was constituted in 1976 and built on the work of the School of African Studies which had been in existence for over fifty years and was one of the oldest in the world. Current scholarship takes place within the context of the mission of CAS, which promote scholarship in the various fields concerned with people in Africa. The brief remains focused on providing a critical comparative perspective between Southern Africa, Africa, and the globalizing world. The mission remains urgent, given the longstanding and continuing dominance of Western models and discourses. The Centre houses research projects, organizes a range of seminars, conferences, and talks, and runs a gallery open to a wide variety of cultural performances.