Current public courses
Languages Spoken in Africa series
The Centre for Open Learning, in conjunction with the School of Languages & Literature and the Multilingualism Education Project, is offering five language learning courses in May and June 2012. The Languages Spoken in Africa series includes the following language courses:
- Introduction to Arabic (Course description) (Registration form)
- Portuguese for beginners (Course description) (Registration form)
- kiSwahili for beginners (Course description) (Registration form)
- isiXhosa for beginners (Course description) (Registration form)
- Intermediate isiXhosa (Course description) (Registration form)
For the intermediate isiXhosa course, we suggest that you download and listen to this audio clip (text) to see if you can comprehend and respond to the questions. If you find that you can do this without much difficulty, we think you will benefit from joining the intermediate level class. If you find that it is problematic to understand the questions, you may find it more useful to join the introductory class to refresh your knowledge of the language, and later move to the intermediate level the next time we offer it.
Navigating Research Literacies short course
The Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) is offering a short new course in June aimed at assisting those about to enter post-graduate studies. Th course consists of an intensive 5 day face-to-face teaching week blended with a three week follow up of optional online support which will assist you to write a 1200 word pre-proposal concept paper.
Doing research as a postgraduate demands that we read, write and engage in ways that are different to how we communicate as undergraduates or in the workplace. This engagement with research can be particularly challenging for students in transition between the workplace and university, or between countries, languages or disciplines. For the first time at UCT, we are offering a week long intensive course to orient prospective postgraduates to writing-related concepts and skills essential to becoming a confident researcher. The course would be suitable for all prospective postgraduate students from any discipline. Download leaflet for details.
Citizen Science courses
Watch this space for Citizen Science courses coming in August and September on:
- Weaver birds
- Penguins
In addition to our open enrolment courses, the Centre is able to design new courses for particular contexts or adapt courses which have already been run to suit your organisational learning needs. Our aim is to offer programmes with a conceptual content that can be applied to real-world situations and meet the needs of changing work environments.
Examples of customised courses that have been offered include:
- Specialist Professional Writing
- Critical Thinking and Analytical Writing
- Applied project management for development contexts
- Basic Xhosa language
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Chemistry for museum curators
- Writing reports
- Mentoring
- Creating social HIV/AIDS change agents (SHACA)
- Communicating about science
For more details on customised courses contact Janet Small or telephone 021 650 4088.