Master of Arts in Tshivenda Literature
To provide South Africa with a group of people who will have a clear and continuously growing understanding of the methods and appreciation, understanding of Tshivenda literary works concluding different views of different literary writers.
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Qualification type
Master's Degree
Credits
180
Sub-framework
HEQSF - Higher Education Qualifications Sub-framework
Providers listed
1
Qualification snapshot
Official qualification identity fields captured from the qualification record.
Originator
University of Venda
Quality assurance functionary
CHE - Council on Higher Education
Field
Field 04 - Communication Studies and Language
Subfield
Communication Studies
Qual class
Regular-Provider-ELOAC
Recognise previous learning
Y
Important dates
These dates are carried directly from the qualification record.
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 provide South Africa with a group of people who will have a clear and continuously growing understanding of the methods and appreciation, understanding of Tshivenda literary works concluding different views of different literary writers.
Entry requirements and RPL
Entry Requirements
- Bachelor of Arts Honours in Comparative African Languages and Literatures, NQF Level 9.
Structure and assessment
Qualification rules, exit outcomes, and assessment criteria from the SAQA record.
Exit level outcomes
a. Learners would be able to understand how different genres could be critically analysed.
b. Learners would be able to understand different genres e.g. prose (Novels and short-stories), poetry, drama and traditional literature.
c. Learners would be able to compare Tshivenda literary genres to literary features of other languages and related African languages in Africa.
d. Learners would be able to acquire knowledge, understanding, appreciation of Tshivenda literary works; book reviews worldviews of different literary writers.
Associated assessment criteria
- Advanced study and research on the delimitation of the field of literature.
- Independent study and capacity for further research on the field of literature of Tshivenda at an advanced level.
- Be in possession of great depth of knowledge in complex and specialised areas and or across specialised or applied areas in Literature.
- Capacity for dealing with complexity and or contradictions in the knowledge base, and making confident selections of tools for the job.
- Autonomous synthesizing of information and creation of responses to problems that expand to a defined existing knowledge.
- Independent evaluation of and argument of alternative approaches and accurate assessment of and reporting on both own and others work, with justification, isolation, assessment, and resolution of problems of all degrees predictability in an autonomous manner, full professional and academic communication with others in the field of study, working with, within a group towards defined outcomes assuming leadership, negotiation and conflict resolution, and effective mention of others, capacity for, actual, production of dissertation that places research within broader context of the field, is capable of withstanding international intellectual scrutiny, and contributes original knowledge to the field in question.
Integrated Assessment
- Project.
- Assignments; tests, presentation and projects.
- Examinations.
- External examination.
- Module examination.
- Dissertation / Project report.
Progression and comparability
Articulation options
This qualification allows possibilities for both horizontal and vertical articulation.
Horizontal Articulation
- Master of Arts in Comparative African Languages and Literature, NQF Level 9.
- Master of Arts in South African Literature, NQF Level 9.
Vertical Articulation
- Doctor of Literature, NQF Level 10.
Notes
As per the SAQA Board decision/s at that time, this qualification was Reregistered in 2006; 2009; 2012; 2015.
NOTES
N/A
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