BA Honours German Studies at University of the Witwatersrand

Programme overview

Improve your understanding of German and explore its literature. The German Studies Honours programme at Wits is designed to further students’ knowledge and critical thinking skills. Students will be introduced to various literary texts set both in the Global South and North across four modules (Literature and Society, Contemporary German Literature, Canonical Texts and, Fantasy, Science Fiction and the Fiction of the Unreal).

Faculty: Humanities | Department: Literature, Language and Media | Duration: 1 - 2 years | Study mode: full-time | Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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Application information

Entry requirements

Honours: A bachelors degree or equivalent with 65% course mark aggregate in a third year major. At least an upper second class pass in the final undergraduate course in the subject. Please check with department for any additional requirements.

Tuition is charged per module, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Postgraduate applications are made online at www.wits.ac.za/applications; the closing date for each programme is listed in its course finder entry. The application fee is R200 (not payable by current Wits students applying online), paid via the Self-Service Portal or by EFT to the Wits University Application Fees account at FNB.

Apply through the official page: https://www.wits.ac.za/applications

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