PGDip (Higher Education)(Teaching and Learning)
The Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education in Teaching and Learning is designed to develop and strengthen your knowledge, as a lecturer or learning facilitator, of teaching and learning in higher education, and to enable you to reflect and develop on an advanced level. The programme offers a systematic survey of current thinking, practice and research methods in teaching and learning in higher education. The programme is offered through a blended environment: block contact sessions combined with online activities.
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Please note that selection for postgraduate programmes is highly competitive. Meeting the minimum admission requirements does not guarantee admission to the programme.
Minimum admission requirements
• You must have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification approved for this purpose by Senate.
• You must have a minimum of two years’ teaching experience in higher education and/or you must be appointed in a teaching-related post.
• The Faculty recommends that you have a master’s degree in your discipline. Preference will be given to such candidates and to candidates from the abovementioned three institutions: Stellenbosch University, the University of the Western Cape and Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
• The programme will be capped at 40 and candidates will be admitted on a first-come-first-served basis.
Programme structure
Anchor module
Higher Education in Teaching and Learning 778(120)
Submodules: Compulsory core modules
You must pass the two core modules Teaching and Learning and Assessment before proceeding to the core module Research for Enhancing Teaching and Learning, and the elective module.
Teaching and Learning 791(30)
Assessment 791(30)
Research for Enhancing Teaching and Learning 791(30)
Elective modules
Choose one of the following:
Academic Leadership and Management 791(30)
Citizenship, Social Inclusion and Difference 791(30)
ICTs for Teaching and Learning 791(30)
Postgraduate Supervision 791(30)
Service-learning in Community Engagement 791(30)
Work and Learning 791(30)