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Enable graduates to demonstrate having make a considerable contribution to the discipline of anthropology, through the completion of a detailed research project involving a period of practical fieldwork as well as library research. The results of the project should have advanced intellectual knowledge and be to the benefit of society.

The purpose of the qualification is to provide an opportunity for candidates to develop skills to do independent research in Anthropology. This will assist the South African nation with highly qualified people who are competent to do research.

To equip learners as advanced, Doctoral-Level, producers of scholarly knowledge in the discipline and Profession of Anthropology.

1. To endow students with advanced mathematical concepts for applications and further studies.

To develop and empower postgraduate learners who are going to (i) pursue a career in mathematics lecturing, (ii) do Post-Doctoral studies and research in mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences,

The primary purpose of the qualification Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics is to facilitate learners with the necessary skills that will enable them in using their highly specialised knowledge, specific skills and applied competencies in addressing complex and challenging problems within the field of Applied Mathematics. Furthermore, the Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics will enable learners to either develop or propose new solutions through models or theoretical amendments to Applied Mathematics related problems for continued personal intellectual growth, gainful economic activity and valuable contributions to society. A second purpose of the qualification is to provide South Africa (and other countries) with specialists in the discipline in order to ensure that the leadership base of innovative and knowledge-based economic and scholarly activity is widened. A third purpose of the qualification is to provide South Africa (and other countries) with intellectual leaders.

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The purpose of this qualification is to train to a higher level, statisticians who will be able to work as academics at both universities and other tertiary institutions in this country. As such they will be able to lecture in both Applied Statistics and Statistics and will also be able to work as researchers in these disciplines, extending the frontiers of Statistics in all directions. These statisticians will also be able to work in any sector of the South African economy including Health related fields and many of the Government Departments.

The purpose of the qualification is to provide an opportunity for learners to develop skills to do independent research in Arabic. This will assist the South African nation with highly qualified people who are competent to do research.

The purpose of this qualification is to develop researchers who can make independent and innovative contributions to the advanced development of knowledge in Archaeology. This is done through the successful production of a research project wherein adequate understanding of the sub-discipline(s) under study are demonstrated through the two-fold process of developing a research proposal and secondly, an extended length research project in the form of a thesis. In the thesis, the learner must demonstrate that they can pursue research through the scientific methods of enquiry, interpretation, analysis of relevant data, critical reflection and other discipline-specific techniques, all of which must be in keeping with recognised academic standards, linguistic skills and data collection competencies.

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This qualification requires learners to undertake independent research at the most advanced academic level culminating in the submission, assessment and acceptance of a thesis. The defining characteristic of this qualification is that learners will demonstrate high-level research capability and make a significant and original academic contribution at the frontiers of the discipline and practice of Visual Arts.

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The primary purpose of the qualification Doctor of Philosophy in Astronomy is to provide learners with the necessary skills that will enable them in using their highly specialised knowledge, specific skills and applied competencies in addressing complex and challenging problems within the field of Astronomy. Furthermore, the Doctor of Philosophy in Astronomy will enable learners to either develop or propose new solutions through models or theoretical amendments to Astronomy related problems for continued personal intellectual growth, gainful economic activity and valuable contributions to society. A second purpose of the qualification is to provide South Africa (and other countries) with specialists in the discipline in order to ensure that the leadership base of innovative and knowledge-based economic and scholarly activity is widened. A third purpose of the qualification is to provide South Africa (and other countries) with intellectual leaders.

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To become conversant regarding the execution of independent original basic and applied research.

The qualification allows professional biochemists to specialise in Biochemistry in research on a selected relevant topic preferably related to the Departmental programme of biomass utilisation. The knowledge, skills and applied competence acquired during graduate and Honours and Masters qualifications are utilised and developed for specialisation in an individually selected research field. The qualification will form a basis for innovative individual postgraduate specialisation, as well as an established career in Biochemistry.

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