The aims of the module are to:

• To contribute towards the development of Humanities students who are equipped with the appropriate knowledge, skills, values and conceptual framework to critically analyse various forms of social oppression, discrimination and violence in the South African context.
• To help students understand, reflect on and explore how their own social positioning, interactions and experiences are informed by the wider context in which they are embedded. It further aims to motivate students to align their own attitudes, values, and every-day and professional practices (within their specific discipline)with a critical social justice perspective and, therefore, their development as democratic citizens who believe they can contribute towards a socially just world.
• To develop a basic level of conceptual competency around social justice that can be further developed in subsequent years of studies in a discipline specific way.
• To develop students’ academic skills while they engage with the content of the module.
• To provide students with the choice to engage with learning material, lectures and tutorials that are in either English or IsiZulu.
• To contribute to the broader process of decolonising South African higher education by centring Africa-centric epistemology..

• The module covers the principles, values, concepts, and practices associated with critical social justice perspectives, from an Africa(n)Black feminist, depatriarchal and a decolonial perspectives.
• The module covers various forms of social oppression and discrimination, including, racism, ableism, classism, sexism and heterosexism and their intersections as they manifest within the African context. It foregrounds the ways in which social oppression and discrimination manifests in various forms of violence, including systemic violence, normative violence and various forms of physical violence.
• The module focuses specifically on how different forms of oppression intersect and contribute towards relevant social issues that South Africa is facing such as implicit and explicit gender-based violence.
• The module will introduce students to a range of emancipatory practices that they can use to address relevant social issues as they manifests in their daily lives on campus and in their residences.
• The module will include content on how, inter alia, to define, discuss, compare and evaluate. The aim being to build important academic skills that will assist them in constructing critical and logical arguments.

This is a module strictly for students registered for qualifications in the College of Humanities

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While there are not practicals, there will be tutorials.

Continuous assessment 100%

13 weeks