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Overview
Key facts
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg's Communications and Learning Skills For Academic Purposes course aims to: • Develop skills in processing, evaluating, understanding and analysing texts. • Cultivate awareness of the linguistic features, structural requirements of different texts and functioning in certain contexts. • Develop students’ academic writing skills. • Improve students’ ability to develop and present arguments.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Communication and learning skills.
- Note-taking: Quoting, paraphrasing, summarising, language varieties and interactive reading.
- Summarising Strategies: Text to self, double entries, alpha box, graphic organisers.
- Academic Literacy: Technical terms, referencing, plagiarism, evidence, cohesion and coherence.
- Oral presentation: Preparation workshop.
- Drafting academic essays: Preparation for assignment
- Reflective writing: Argumentative essay
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 4 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Education Corporate Communication Digital Media View 4 other Short Courses in Digital Media in South AfricaAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
Mature age applicants (older than 23 years) who did not obtain a complete exemption in matric. They should have passed Matric or National Senior Certificate (NSC), English on Higher Grade or NSC with at least a D symbol; and three other subjects with at least D symbol.
Tuition Fee
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International
10350 ZAR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 10350 ZAR for the full programme during 4 months. -
National
10350 ZAR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 10350 ZAR for the full programme during 4 months.
Living costs for Johannesburg
8434 - 12036 ZAR /month
Living costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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