Undergraduate studies

Afrikaans & Nederlands: Letterkunde/Linguistics
Afrikaans & Dutch: Literature/Linguistics

1st year

LAB111/112 AFRIKAANS FOR BEGINNERS
This course is aimed at students with no prior knowledge of Afrikaans.
 
ATLS101 AFRIKAANS LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 101
First semester course. Continuous Assessment.
 
CORE CONTENT
  • The concepts text, verbal and nonverbal communication.
  • The functions of language.
  • The linguistic norms when writing a text.
  • Dictionary terminology and how to use a dictionary optimally.
  • Use the correct word in context (style and tone).
  • Write a letter of complaint, a letter to the press, an application letter, a précis.
  • Write an academic essay.
  • Historical overview of Afrikaans literature 
  • Genres and their characteristics 
  • Literary and visual theory
    • Close reading
    • Visual textual analysis
    • Narratology 
    • Poetry theory
 
ATLS102 AFRIKAANS LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 102
Second semester course. Continuous Assessment.
 
CORE CONTENT
  • Sociolinguistic terminology and background.
  • Sociolinguistic variants.
  • Reasons for the varieties of Afrikaans.
  • Description of sociolinguistic research methodology.
  • Description of the varieties of Afrikaans.
  • Introduction to Afrikaans literature:
    • Novel 
    • Play 
    • Poetry
 
ALS2O1 AFRIKAANS LANGUAGE STUDIES 2
First semester course. Continuous Assessment
 
CORE CONTENT
  • The words and sentences of Afrikaans and the dynamics according to which the speakers are able to form new words and sentences
  • The sound system of and pronunciation questions in Afrikaans. 
  • The role of meaning in language and how meaning can be manipulated.
 
ATS202 AFRIKAANS LITERATURE STUDIES 2
Second semester course. Continuous Assessment.
 
CORE CONTENT (not all are offered every year):
  • Contemporary Black poets in Afrikaans: Ronelda Kamfer, Nathan Trantaal, Jolyn Phillips
  • Contemporary Afrikaans Fiction: Representative texts from the period after 1994
  • Contemporary Afrikaans Drama and Film 
 
ALS301 AFRIKAANS LANGUAGE STUDIES 3
First semester course. Continuous Assessment.
 
CORE CONTENT:
 
Sociolinguistic variants.
  • Reasons for the varieties of Afrikaans.
  • Description of sociolinguistic research methodology.
  • Description of the varieties of Afrikaans.
 
ATS302 AFRIKAANS LITERATURE STUDIES 3
Second semester course. Continuous Assessment.
CORE CONTENT
  • Aspects of Afrikaans literature to be studied (not all are offered every year):
    • The pre-colonial literature of the Khoisan
    • Afrikaans Poetry of the 1920s and 1930s : Leipoldt, Marais, Van Wyk Louw, Eybers
    • Afrikaans Fiction – The “Sestiger” movement: Jan Rabie, Etienne Leroux, André P Brink
    • Protest literature in Afrikaans during the State of Emergency (1980s)
    • Representation of Africa in Afrikaans literature: Elsa Joubert, Opperman, Brink, Stockenström

NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF AFRIKAANS

  1. LAB 111/112 Afrikaans for beginners

2nd year

  1. Afrikaans song and lyrics: the study of major Afrikaans poets, such as Breytenbach or Jonker’
  2. Afrikaans fiction: excellent novels by mainstream novelists, with the accent on cultural interaction (LA213)
  3. Intro to Dutch poetry (LD201)
  4. Syntax and Morphology (LA211)
  5. Phonology and Semantics (LA212)

3rd year

  1. Afrikaans poetry: oeuvre study of one or more mainstream poets, such as Krog, Breytenbach, Van Wyk Louw or Opperman (LA313)
  2. Afrikaans fiction: excellent novels and main traditions, current debates and trends in recent Afrikaans fiction (LA314)
  3. Intro to Dutch fiction (LD301)
  4. Book review writing for media & journalism: practice and theory (LA311)
  5. Sociolinguistics (LA312)