Bachelor of Social Science Honours
To achieve proficiency in both scholarship and professional training at all undergraduate and postgraduate levels within the general field of the social sciences.
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Qualification type
Honours Degree
Credits
120
Sub-framework
HEQSF - Higher Education Qualifications Sub-framework
Providers listed
0
Qualification snapshot
Official qualification identity fields captured from the qualification record.
Originator
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Quality assurance functionary
CHE - Council on Higher Education
Field
Field 07 - Human and Social Studies
Subfield
General Social Science
Qual class
Regular-Provider-ELOAC
Recognise previous learning
N
Important dates
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Registration start
2024-07-01
Registration end
2027-06-30
Last date for enrolment
2028-06-30
Last date for achievement
2031-06-30
Purpose and entry context
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Purpose and rationale
To achieve proficiency in both scholarship and professional training at all undergraduate and postgraduate levels within the general field of the social sciences.
The aim is to realize graduates who are equipped with generic skills and have acquired substantial knowledge in a range of disciplines, that will enable them not to have an enhanced understanding of their society and the world, but will also prepare them to embark on a career and to create opportunities for themselves.
Entry requirements and RPL
At least a good second class level (more than 60%) record of achievement in obtaining a Bachelors degree from a recognized university; or a substantial equivalent deemed adequate by the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Structure and assessment
Qualification rules, exit outcomes, and assessment criteria from the SAQA record.
Exit level outcomes
- To gain a thorough understanding of issues, problems, ideas, discourses, structures and trends pertaining to the social sciences, especially in relation to South Africa and comparable societies.
- To comprehend different qualitative and quantitative research methods, techniques and methodologies applicable to the social sciences.
- To have achieved an acceptable level of proficiency in key basic and generic skills: information literacy; written and spoken English.
- To have acquired a critical awareness and capacity for research so as to be able to investigate and understand issues, problems and trends in the social sciences. Independent and original research that can advance scholarship would be the ideal here.
- To present research findings that meet appropriate academic and professional standards.
- To become a scholar: to inculcate a passion for learning, and to appreciate the necessity for accuracy, honesty, fairness, generosity, and integrity.
- To appreciate the virtues of being an independent learner, as well as the value in cooperating and collaborating with others.
- To respond to the challenges of democracy and development in South Africa.
Associated assessment criteria
- Knowledge of issues, problems, ideas, discourses, processes, structures, and trends pertaining to the social science.
- Competence in presenting arguments, data analysis, reports and other written and oral assignments.
Integrated assessment appropriately incorporated to ensure that the purpose of the qualification is achieved
Exercises (research methods, policy designs)
Visual material
Oral presentation
Essays
Reports
Portfolios
Research project, dissertation, thesis
Examinations
These are the various methods that will be deployed. Different assignments are assessed differently in a system of continuous assessment. The final examination of modules is holistic, seeking to see how learners are able to integrate content and skills more generally.
Progression and comparability
Articulation options
Entry and Exit
Exit points
Bachelor's degree; Postgraduate diploma; Honours degree; Masters degree; PhD
Credits obtained for modules could readily be granted in other programmes; and qualifications acquired could be used as a means of entry to another programme.
Entry to the programme at any level is possible, provided the requirements for admission have been met. In some instances, it will be possible for learners to given the opportunity to attain the entry requirements should their prior qualifications not have enabled them to do that.
Other programmes
On the Pietermaritzburg campus, links at various levels with other programmes in
General Studies (Arts)
Government, Business and Ethics
Heritage Studies
Information Studies
P and Development Studies
African Studies
Environment and Development
Nutrition
Food Security
Education
Business
Psychology
Rural Community (Systems) Development
Notes
As per the SAQA Board decision/s at that time, this qualification was Reregistered in 2009; 2012; 2015.
Providers currently listed
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