BEdHons (Language Education)

Please note that for this programmes there are additional admission requirements that apply specifically. You may be admitted to the BEdHons programme if you have:

A relevant university degree and a secondary education diploma or certificate (e.g. SED, HDE, PGCE, UED, LSED);
or
A relevant university degree and a primary education diploma (e.g. PES, PGDE, HPED, etc.);
or
A relevant university degree and an education qualification deemed adequate for such purpose by Senate;
or
A four-year integrated Education degree;
or
(Where the applicability and academic relevance of your job experience warrants it) some other relevant combination of studies, both academic and professional which, for purposes of admission, is deemed by Senate to be equivalent to an integrated four-year bachelor’s degree or a bachelor’s degree (supplementary Education studies may be required of such candidates prior to admission);
or
Recognised four-year post-school training, including a professional education qualification.

Further provisions regarding admission to the BEdHons programmes
• You must have obtained an average of at least 65% in the final year of your relevant undergraduate study.
• The Faculty expects you to at least have access to a computer and the internet to be able to perform the following activities:
o accessing SUNLearn modules and participating in the various learning activities
o using the electronic resources of SU’s library
o sending and receiving email
o generating assignments and submitting them electronically

The additional specific admission requirements for this programme:
A high level of achievement (60%+) in the final-year language modules of your undergraduate studies.

Please note: The elective modules are not necessarily all offered every year. As a rule, a limited number of students is required. Because of the structure of the programme, only students who follow the programme over two years will have the option of offering two languages as Curriculum Studies modules. Please contact the programme coordinator should you want to do this.

If you enrol to complete this programme in one year:

Anchor module

Language Education 778(120)

Compulsory year modules

Research Project (Language Education) 771(30)

Compulsory first-semester modules

Educational Research 711(10)

Language Teaching Research 711(5)

Knowing, Acting and Being: Framing the Study of Education 711(15)

Language Policy and Multilingual Education 711(15)

Elective modules

Choose one elective module from Group A and two elective modules from Group B.

First-semester electives
Group A

Afrikaans Curriculum Studies 711(15)

English Curriculum Studies 711(15)

IsiXhosa Curriculum Studies 711(15)

Second-semester electives
Group B

Teaching Creative Writing 744(15)

Pedagogical Lexicography 744(15)

Digital Pedagogy for Language Learning 744(15)

If you enrol to complete this programme in two years:
Anchor module

Language Education 778(120)

First year of study:
Compulsory first-semester modules

Knowing, Acting and Being: Framing the Study of Education 711(15)

Language Policy and Multilingual Education 711(15)

Elective modules
Choose one elective module from Group A and two elective modules from Group B.

First-semester electives
Group A

Afrikaans Curriculum Studies 711(15)

English Curriculum Studies 711(15)

IsiXhosa Curriculum Studies 711(15)

Second-semester electives
Group B

Teaching Creative Writing 744(15)

Pedagogical Lexicography 744(15)

Digital Pedagogy for Language Learning 744(15)

Second year of study:
Compulsory year module

Research Project (Language Education) 771(30)

Compulsory first-semester modules

Educational Research 711(10)

Language Teaching Research 711(5)