MA Critical Diversity Studies at University of the Witwatersrand

Enhance your abilities to analyse, interpret, challenge, and contribute to the crucial issues of diversity and their relation to social justice. The MA in the Field of Diversity Studies is an interdisciplinary programme undertaken by students from various disciplines (although most come from disciplines within the Humanities and Social Sciences). The content of the course can be applied to a variety of fields and professions, and the robustly critical approach to issues of diversity, difference, and otherness that the programme teaches will give you an ‘advantage’ to just about any field or profession as diversity is an aspect of just about any contemporary context.

Faculty: Humanities  |  Department: Social Sciences  |  Duration: 1 - 2 years  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

What you will study

MA (Plan code: AFACRIT60): The requirements are that you do two core courses, an elective and a research report. Core courses are: Theories of Diversity, Difference and Otherness (SOSS7074) (Semester 1) This course aims to introduce you to critical ways of theorising diversity with a particular focus on operations of power and difference in social organisation, identity construction and cultural p

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