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FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT AND COMMERCE
VISION
Faculty of Management and Commerce is a vibrant centre of learning and
innovation to build an entrepreneurial, sustainable and caring African social and
economic system.
MISSION
To provide learning, research and community engagement opportunities that
enable intellectual and personal growth, and the development of a critical learning
community.
ORGANIZATION
Our programmes are offered by two Schools of the Faculty, namely:
• The School of Business and Enterprise, and
• The School of Public Management and Development
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FACULTY OFFICE
Executive Dean: Thakhathi, D.R. Diploma in PA (UNIN); B Admin, B
Admin (Hons), M Admin (UNIVEN), PhD (UNISA)
Faculty Manager: Mr M Ndlovu B Ped (Commerce) B Ed (Hons) PGDE
(Education Mgt) (UFH); M Ed (Adult Learning & Global
Change) (UWC)
Assistant Faculty Manager: Mcako, N., B Admin (Unisa) B Admin Hons
(UNISA); A.I.M. (UCT)
Senior Administrative Officer: Magocoba, N. P., N. Dip. (EL College); B Admin
(HRM) (UFH)
Foundation Programme Administrator: Magocoba, N. N6 Certificate in Mngt
Assistant (Ikhala FET college)
Executive Secretary: Vacant
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CONTACT DETAILS
Alice (Main) Campus: Faculty of Management and Commerce
Private Bag X 1314
ALICE
5700
Tel +27 40 602 2533 / 2184/ 2382
Fax +27 86 627 6539/+27 40 6022514
Bhisho Campus: Faculty of Management and Commerce
P O Box 1153
King William‟s Town
5600
Tel +27 40 6083407/ 6352982
Fax +27 40 6083408
East London Campus: Faculty of Management and Commerce
P O Box 7426
East London
5200
Tel +27 43 704 7000/7196/7236/7364
Fax +27 43 704 7095
GENERAL ENQUIRIES
All enquiries and correspondence should be addressed to the Faculty Manager:
Alice (Main) Campus: Faculty of Management and Commerce
Private Bag X 1314
Alice
5700
Tel +27 40 602 2020/2533 / 2382
Fax +27 86 628 2644
E-mail: [email protected]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
School of Business and Enterprise
1. Faculty Office Staff & Contact Details 2-3
2. SBE Academic and other staff members 6-9
3. Description of programmes offered 10-13
4. Rules for the School of Business and Enterprise degrees 13-17
5. Description of Curricula
5.1 Bachelor of Commerce 17
5.2 Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) (60001) 17-19
5.3 Bachelor of Commerce (General Accounting) (60014) 19-20
5.4 Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) (60006) 20-21
5.5 B Com Business Management and Industrial Psychology (60002) 21-24
5.6 Bachelor of Commerce (Economics & Business Mang.) (60003) 24-27
5.7 B Com General (60005) 28-30
5.8 B Com Inter-faculty (60009) 30-32
5.9 B Com Law (60004) 33-34
5.10 B Com Information Systems (60011) 35-40
5.11 B Economics (Business Science) (60008) 41-42
5.12 Bachelor of Administration 42-47
5.13 Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting (60506) 47-48
5.14 Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting Preliminary (60505) 48-49
5.15 Postgraduate Diploma in Economics (60508) 49-51
6. Higher degrees 51
6.1 The degree of Bachelor of Commerce (Hons)
& Bachelor of Administration (Hons) 51-60
6.2 The degree of Master of Commerce & Master of Administration 60-65
6.3 PhD (Information System) 65-66
6.4 DCom (IPS) 66-67
6.5 DCom (Economics) 67-68
7. Detailed syllabi of the School of Business & Enterprise 69-126
8. Service modules offered by the Faculty of Law 126-127
9. Service modules for B Com Accounting and B Com Degree 128-130
School of Public Management and Development
10. Organization 131
11. Vision and Mission statement & General enquiries 132
12. Academic and other members of staff 133-135
13. Rules for the SPMD degrees 135- 137
14. Bachelor of Administration (62001) 137- 145
15. The Grounding Programme at UFH 146
16. Public Administration Certificated Programme 147-150
17. Postgraduate offerings/programmes in Public Administration 150-151
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17.1 Public Administration Honours 151-153
17.2 Master of Public Administration programme (31010) 153-160
17.3 M Admin (Public Administration by Research) (63003) 160-161
18. Development Studies offerings/programmes 161-163
19. Postgraduate offerings/programmes in Development Studies 164-166
20. Master of Social Science in Development Studies (31001) 167-168
21. Doctor of Philosophy (Social Sciences) (61502) 168-169
22. Doctor of Administration (Public Administration) (61504) 169-170
23. PFSA staff & contact details 170-171
24. Special Projects at PFSA 171-180
25. Faculty Admission Requirements 181-182
26. Timetable for lectures and examinations 182-183
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SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE
VISION
We excel in the empowerment of business professionals and entrepreneurs from
developing communities.
Our motto is “from the bush to the globe”.
MISSION
Through our “quadripartite alliance” between the School and three major stakeholders: the
government; organised black business formations and some of the major banks, we
endeavour to develop cutting edge solutions to the challenges of doing business in Africa,
via relevant research; unique and appropriate teaching methods; financial and advisory
services as well as meaningful developmental engagements with our communities. This is
our main value proposition and its uniqueness will deliver value to our students; course
participants; staff and to the Southern African Development community over time.
ORGANISATION
The programmes of the School of Business and Commerce are offered at both the Alice
and East London Campuses under the Departments of Accounting, Business
Management, Economics, Industrial Psychology and Information System.
GENERAL ENQUIRIES
Location: University of Fort Hare (Alice Campus)
Private Bag X1314
Alice, 5700
Telephone: +27 40 602 2241/ 2118
Fascimile: +27 40 6022514
Location: University of Fort Hare (East London Campus)
P O Box 7426
East London, 5200
Telephone:+27 43 704 7236/7196
Fascimile: +27 86 620 7873
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ACADEMIC AND OTHER MEMBERS OF STAFF
DIRECTOR OF SCHOOL
Mr D Vlok (Acting) BA (US); BA (Hons.) (UPE); MBA (Rhodes)
Professor (Nedbank Chair in Ecomnomics)
Ikhide S I B.Ed (Econs/Ed)(Ibadan); M.Sc.; M.Sc. (Financial Management) (London);
PhD (Econs) (Ife)
Brown, W. B Com (Hons) CTA (UCT) M Com, PhD(Stell)
Associate Professors
Prinsloo, KS M Com (Rhodes) CTA (Wits), CA (SA)
Bartlett, G, B. Compt. (Hons.), CTA (Transkei); M. Com. (Potchefstroom); ACMA, Adv.
Cert. Tax (UNISA)
Flowerday, S. BSc (Century, USA), MBA (Oxford Brookes, UK); D Tech (NMMU)
Elliott, R B Com, LLB (Rhodes), MBA (Cape Town), PhD, PGDHE (Rhodes)
Tsegaye, A, BA (Addis Ababa); PG Dip, MA, PhD (Economics)(Kent, UK)
Senior Lecturers
Chipunza, C, BSc (Hons.), Cert. Ed. (UZ); B. Com. (Hons.), M. Com., MPA (UFH); PGD
(HIV/AIDS Mgmt, cum laude) (Stell); RPP ; DTec (HRM) (NMMU)
Hanner, L, B Compt. (Hons.) (UNISA), CA (SA)
Harbottle, D O, Dip in Accounting Studies (Rhodesia); CA (Zim); CA (SA)
Jordaan, B D, B.Com. (Hons.), M. Com., HED (UPE)
Krug, L, B. Com., PG Dip Acc (Rhodes); CA (SA)
Murugan, C, MA (UDW), HED (UNISA), (Reg. HPCSA)
Rowles, M, B. Com. (UNISA); B. Sc. (Hons.) (Rhodes); MBA (Cape Town)
Smit, P, B. Com., B. Com. (Hons.), M. Com. (RAU), NHOD
Terblanche, W, B. Com. (Hons.), PG Dip. Acc. (Cape Town); CA (SA)
Weldon, S, B. Com., PG Dip Acc (Rhodes); CA (SA)
Zakuza, T., B. Com. PGDM (Fin Acc), PGDA (Cape Town); CA (SA) CIA
Whitfield, S B Com (Hons) CTA (Rhodes) CA (SA)
Majova, L, B. Compt (Hons) (Unisa); CA (SA)
UFH / Samlam Chair in Entrepreneurship
Shaw, G.K., BSc ( Hons) ( Hertfordshire. UK), MSc (PMI), MPhil (Pret); PhD (NWU)
Lecturers
Gcaza, N I, STD (G. Mxenge College); Adv. Cert. Ed (cum laude) (NMMU); B Com, B Com
(Hons cum laude); M Com (UFH)
Boggis, K R, B. Com. (UNISA); HDip in Tax Law (WITS),
Boucher, D. B Com (RU), B Com Hons (RU)
Chikandiwa, C, BSc Hons, M.Com (UFH)
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Fatoki, O, BSc Hons (OAU); MBA (OSU); M.Com (UFH), ACA; PhD
Feketha,T, BA Econ (UCT); MA, Econ (USA), MS.Econ (SOAS),
Heath, U, B. Com.(Rhodes); B.Com (Hons) (Acc) (UPE); CA (SA)
Hubbard, K, B. Com., PG Dip Acc (Rhodes); CA (SA)
Lockyear, M, B. Com., PG Dip Acc (Rhodes); CA (SA)
Nel, A, B. Com. (PU vir CHO); B. Com. (Hons.), M. Com. (UP); HED (PU vir CHO)
Nonxuba, PZ, B Com. (Hons.) (UPE); M.Com (Rhodes)
Piderit, R. B Com (Rhodes) B Com Hons (cum laude) (UFH), M Com (IS) (UFH)
Stevens, N., B. Com., CTA (Natal), CA (SA)
Watson, J M G, B. Soc. Sc. (Soc. Wk.), M. Soc. Sc. (Soc. WK.) (Rhodes)
Choga, I, BCom (UFH), BCom (Hons) (UFH), MCom (UFH)
Wayi, N. B. Com (Rhodes), B Com Hons (UP), MCom (Informatics) (UP)
Junior Lecturers
Baqo, Z., B. Admin., B. Admin. (Hons.) (UFH)
Puchert J.I. BA (Hons) (Rhodes)
Dwesini, N, B. Com., B. Com. (Hons.) (UFH)
Makhetha-Kosi, P, B.Com. B.Com (Hons.); M Com (UFH)
Taylor, NM, B Soc Sc (Rhodes); B Com (Hons) (UFH)
Isabirye, N, B Sc (UFS), B Com Hons (UFH), M Com (IS) (UFH)
Tarwireyi, P. B Sc (UFH) (cum laude), B Sc Hons (Rhodes), M Sc (CS) (UFH)
Rungani, E, C. B.Com (Cum laude), B.Com (Hons); M Com (UFH)
Full Time Tutors
Bomba M, B. Com (UFH); Intermediate Cert. in Accountancy (UN)
Project Coordinator (Thuthuka B. Com Accounting)
Nobuya, X, B. Com., PGCE (UFH)
School Administrator
Vacant
Support Staff (Alice)
Zosela, C, Pitman Certificates in Word Processing & Typewriting
Support Staff (EL)
Ellis, I.
Nkwinti, L.
Mxotwa, N Payroll Certificate
Gojela, S, B Com Marketing (Damelin)
Matiwane, L.Diploma in Financial Management (East London College)
ADJUNCT PROFESSORS
Kusi, NK, BA (Hons) Econ, M Sc Econ (Univ of Ghana) PhD in Economics (New England,
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Australia)
Mayende, G., BA (Univ. of Botswana); MA (Univ. of Hull, UK), Ph D (Univ. of Hull, UK)
Mokgoro, J., B.Sc. (UFH); BPA (Hons.) (Univ. North West); MPA (Toledo, Ohio, USA)
Moyo, S, PhD (Sociology) New Castle (UK)
Nengwekhulu R.H BA (UNISA), M.A (University of Dare Salaam), D.Phil (UP)
Afolabi, B Adv Dip: Transport Planning (Univ of London, UK) M Sc Marine Transportation
(State Univ of New York – Maritime College, USA) PhD, (Univ of Port Harcourt, Nigeria)
Fowler, S MA (Distinction), University of Potchefstroom) PhD(University of Potchefstroom)
Nkem-Abonta, E. B. Sc (University of Nigeria); MBA (University of Port-Harcourt); M.Phil
(University of Paris-Dauphine); PhD in Applied Economics (University of Paris-Dauphine).
Herselman, ME, Bed (Potch); Med (Vista); MBIS (NMMU); PhD (UP)
Associate Professors
Guma X BA (Univ. Of Botswana & Swaziland), MA (Economics) (Univ of Toronto, Canada)
PhD (Economics) (Victoria Univ of Manchester, UK)
Associative Fellows
Mazwai, T. MBA (Henley Management College)
Visiting Academics
Prinsloo, F.E. M Com (UPE) CA (SA)
Forsythe, D.B Com (Natal) CTA (Rhodes) CA (SA)
Stack, E. (Professor of Accounting – Rhodes), D Compt (UNISA); CA (SA)
Brettenny, J.N. M Acc (Natal), CA (SA)
Rowlands, J.E. M Com (Rhodes)
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DESCRIPTION OF
PROGRAMMES OFFERED
1. Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com) Accounting (East London) (60001) (Three year
programme)
This programme, as well as the following one (60006), are designed for students who
wish to become professional accountants. This is a three year programme designed for
learners who meet the normal entrance requirements. All modules are core to the
programme. Note that students who wish to write the qualifying examination of the
South African Institute of Chartered Accountants must complete either of these
programmes, including amongst others, the following modules: Accounting 1A,
Accounting 1B, Accounting 2A, Accounting 2B, Accounting 3A and Accounting 3B. The
prerequisites for these modules are outlined on pages 59-61. Note also that students
who register for the General Accounting modules may under certain circumstances
proceed to the relevant Accounting modules (see Accounting Department module
outlines for details).
In order to obtain the B. Com (Accounting) degree without entrance to the Post
Graduate Diploma in Accounting, students need only complete two of Auditing 3,
Financial Management 3 or Taxation 3. Accounting 3 is compulsory. In order to gain
entrance into the Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting, students must pass all four
major subjects with a pass rate of 55% for Accounting 3 and an average of 55% for the
other 3 major subjects.
2. Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com) Accounting (Alice and East London) (60006)
(Four year programme)
This is a programme aimed at growing the number of black Chartered Accountants in
South Africa and the SADC region.
This is a four year programme designed for students who do not meet the entrance
requirements for the three year programme.
Alice: This programme includes a foundation year, which must be passed in order to
proceed to the second year.. Students migrate to East London in their third year of
study subject to academic progress.
Students may be placed with various employers in commerce and industry during
holiday periods, to gain practical work experience, while they are studying.
3. Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) General Accounting (60014)
This programme is aimed at at students who may wish to become a member of an
accounting professional institute (other than SAICA), or who do not wish to become
professional accountants yet wish to major in accounting.
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In order to obtain the B. Com (General Accounting) degree students need only complete
two of Auditing 3, Financial Management 3 or Taxation 3. General Accounting 3 is
compulsory.
Note also that students who register for the General Accounting degree may under
certain circumstances proceed to the relevant Accounting modules in the Accounting
degree (see Accounting Department module outlines for details).
4. Bachelor of Administration in Human Resource Management (HRM), Honours, &
Master of Administration in Industrial-Organisational Psychology
The B. Admin degree in HRM is a reconfigured structure of the B. Admin degree in the
Public Sector HRM programme and aims to develop skilled people-managers who can
serve both the private and public sectors. The aim of the programme is to introduce
educational opportunities that will provide learners with advanced knowledge of human
behaviour, equip them with life, research, and work-related skills, and provide them with
career exploration opportunities which will contribute to their personal growth and
development as well as enhancing their employment opportunities.
The B Admin programme has been re-designed to provide for the needs and
requirements of Human Resource Managers in order to function effectively in a dynamic
and culturally diverse South African workplace. Furthermore this programme is focused
on pioneering approaches to training in Human Resource Management (HRM) that
equip our graduates for global competitiveness while meeting the daily challenges of a
rapidly changing South Africa. It is broadly conceived as a life-long learning experience.
Students will also be able to specialise in the various areas of the field of I-O
Psychology at their senior degree levels.
Graduates with qualifications in I-O Psychology or Human Resource Management can
proceed to do a masters degree in I-O Psychology by research or coursework (see
below for details).
5. Bachelor of Commerce, Honours & Master of Commerce degrees in majors such
as Economicsand Business Management
Learners exiting from this programme will be able to demonstrate management
knowledge, skills and applied competency in a large number of fields of the Economic
and Management Sciences specifically directed to the private sector. Learners could
enter various employment opportunities as business managers as well as self-employed
entrepreneurs in highly competitive multi-cultural business environments.
6. Bachelor of Economics (B. Econ)
This programme is designed for learners who wish to specialize in the field of
Economics, either for the ordinary degree or the honours degree. It is expected that
learners completing the programme will pursue careers such as in Banking and
Finance, Industry, the Public Sector and Development requiring applied economic
research.
7. Honours degree, Post Graduate Diploma in Economics, Master of Commerce in
Economics, PhD in Economics
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These programmes aim to develop skilled economists for the needs of both the private
and public sectors.
Applicants for the PG Diploma and Honours should be in possession of an
undergraduate qualification with a sufficient grounding in base subjects for Post
Graduate study in economics. Normally candidates will not be admitted to the Honours
course unless they have obtained at least a second class pass in the final year in
Economics. The Master‟s and PhD degree in Economics by dissertation are currently
offered. These degree programmes enable candidates to choose a research topic from
any field of specialization in Economics, such as general economics, transport
economics, and financial markets. Admission requirements are indicated under item
B.2.6. (Please also refer to the GMRDC Postgraduate Guide).
8. Bachelor of Commerce, Honours and Master of Commerce degrees in Information
Systems (East London)
The Degree of Bachelor of Commerce (Information Systems) is designed for learners
who wish to specialize in one of the five computing related disciplines, namely,
Information Systems. Information systems specialists focus on integrating information
technology solutions and business processes to meet the information needs of
businesses and other enterprises, enabling them to achieve their objectives in an
effective, efficient way. This discipline‟s perspective on “Information Technology”
emphasizes information, and sees technology as an instrument to enable the
generation, processing and distribution of needed information. Admission requirements
are discussed under Item B.14.7. This degree is offered on a full-time basis only.
Applicants for the Honours degree in Information Systems (offered on a full-time and
part-time basis over a one year and two-year period respectively) should be in
possession of a relevant undergraduate qualification (e.g. B.Com Information Systems
or equivalent). Admission requirements are discussed under Item B.24.4.
A Master of Commerce (Information Systems) by dissertation is currently offered. A
Master of Information Systems by coursework will be available in the near future.
Admission requirements are discussed under Item B.26.2.3 for admission requirements
9. Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting
A candidate must first obtain a B.Com degree by completing the Accounting curriculum
and then obtain the Diploma after one more year of full-time study.
This diploma is accredited by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants as
fulfilling part of the entry requirements for part 1 of the qualifying examination.
Admission to the Diploma is subject to the candidate obtaining 55% for Accounting 3
and an average of 55% for the other three major subjects. Candidates with a
Bachelor‟s degree other than a B.Com (Accounting) may be admitted after obtaining
credits in certain essential pre-requisite courses during a preparatory period of one
year. This course will be known as the Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting
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(Preliminary).
10. Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting (Preliminary)
This programme is designed for students with a Bachelor‟s Degree of Commerce in
Accounting and certain Technikon qualifications from non-accredited universities.
Admission to the programme is at the discretion of the Head of Department and will be
based in the main on prior academic performance. The purpose of the programme is to
enable students to advance to the Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting.
RULES FOR THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE DEGREES
The following cluster rules and regulations are to be read in conjunction with the provisions
of the Higher Education Act (as amended), the Statute and the general rules and
regulations of the University. Where a student includes a module(s) from another cluster in
his/her curriculum, the rules and regulations of that cluster apply to that module(s).
Applicants wishing to study for the degrees of this School should have obtained the
required pass marks in Mathematics and English Language.
Degrees and Diplomas conferred
B.1 The following degrees are conferred in the School of Business and Enterprise
by the Faculty of Management and Commerce:
In Commerce:
Bachelor of Commerce: B Com (60002/60003/60004/60005/60009/60011)
Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) (60001/ 60006)
Bachelor of Commerce (General Accounting) (60014)
Bachelor of Commerce (Honours): B Com (Hons) (60501/60502/60503/60504)
Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Taxation (60510)
Bachelor of Economics: B Econ (60008)
Master of Commerce: M Com (61001/61003/61005/61006/61007/61008)
Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting (Preliminary) (60505)
Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting (PGDipAcc) (60506)
Post Graduate Diploma in Economics (PGDEcon) (60508)
In Administration:
Bachelor of Administration: B Admin (62002 / 62003)
Bachelor of Administration (Honours): B Admin (Hons) (62501)
Master of Administration: M Admin (63001/63002)
B.2 Composition of Curricula:
B.2.1 A “module”, as used in these rules, is any part of a subject and has a specified
code. The “weighting” of a module is expressed in terms of credit hours (or
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“credits”), which is usually determined by the duration of the module. Different
structured curricula are offered of not less than 384 credits which must be
distributed as follows:
100 Level - At least 128 credits
200 Level - At least 128 credits
300 Level - At least 128 credits
Students may not deviate from the specified curricula without the approval of the
Faculty Board.
B.2.2 The first digit of the module code indicates the level (100, 200, etc.) at which the
module is offered.
B.3 Entrance Requirements
Except as provided in Rules G.2 to G.3 of the General Rules no candidate shall be
admitted to any of these degrees unless they have attended approved courses
subsequent to their first registration as matriculated students for at least the
minimum time specified for each degree.
B.3.1 To be admitted directly to the three year B Com Accounting degree (60001), a
learner must have obtained four subjects at level four and two at level three. Two of
the subjects at level four must be Mathematics and English.
B.3.2 To be admitted to the four year B Com Accounting degree (60006), a learner must
have obtained a minimum of three subjects at level four (one being English), two at
level three and Mathematical Literacy at level six or higher.
B.3.3 To be admitted to the B Economics degree, prospective students must have
obtained Matriculation Exemption with a D symbol at standard grade (SG) level or E
symbol at higher grade (HG) in Mathematics and an E symbol at standard grade
(SG) in English Language, and overall 35 unweighted Swedish rating points. For
admission to the BCom Information Systems Degree refer to paragraph B14.7. For
other B Com degrees, prospective students must have obtained Matriculation
Exemption with an E symbol at standard grade (SG) level both in Mathematics and
English Language. However, for the B. Admin (HRM) prospective students must
have obtained Matriculation Exemption with an F symbol in Mathematics at standard
grade (SG) level.
B.3.4 Applicants who have passed matric with 25 to 34 Swedish rating points and
obtained satisfactory marks in Maths and English Language may be admitted into
an extended curriculum requiring them to take no more than 60% of the regular load
in the first year of study. This category of applicants may be considered subject to
fulfilling an interview, test and other (e.g., other post matric studies, work
experience, mature age & RPL) selection criteria.
B.4 Restriction on the Number of Credits per Semester
Except with the permission of the Dean, a student in any semester of study may
register for only 16 credits in excess of the number of credits prescribed for that
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semester of study.
B.4.1 Candidates may not present themselves for examination in courses amounting to
more than 160 credits in the first academic year and 140 credits in the second
academic year.
B.5 Level of Study
In a three-year degree programme, a student is deemed to be at the 100 level of
study until s/he has obtained less than 120 credits at the 100 level and at 200 level if
s/he had between 120 and 240 credits. A student is at the 300 level of study when
s/he has obtained over 240 credits, of which at least 96 credits must be at the 200
level. All other students will be regarded to be at the 200 level of study. A student is
not allowed to take a module, within a prescribed curriculum, that is at a higher level
of study than that which s/he is registered for.
B.6 Special Curriculum
Senate may, on the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Management
and Commerce, give credit towards the degree for a module not included in a
particular curriculum.
B.7 Choice of Modules
The selection of options and choice of modules must be done in consultation with
the Dean, Director of School and/or Head of Department and all registration
formalities must be completed within two weeks after the commencement of the
semester except as may be permitted by the office of the University Registrar. The
onus is on students to ensure that they register for a curriculum which will lead to a
degree or diploma as the case may be. The Dean‟s approval of a curriculum does
not imply permission to obtain a degree or diploma following a curriculum different
from those contained in these Rules. Choices of subjects offered for a degree or
certificate may be limited by the University timetable. Students who wish to take a
degree over more than the minimum period of time are urged to consult the Dean or
Director of School, to ensure that their choice of curriculum is feasible on the
timetable of the relevant campus.
B.7.1 Credit shall not be given for:
Commercial Law 1, and also Legal Studies 1 or 2 or Legal Theory 1 or 2;
Commercial Law 2 and also any course in Legal Theory or Legal Studies;
Sociology 2 and also Industrial Sociology 2;
Sociology 3 and also Industrial Sociology 3;
Professional Communications and English 1.
B.7.2 Candidates shall not be admitted to the courses Business Mathematics and
Statistics (Theory of Finance and Statistics 1D) unless they have obtained at least
an E symbol in Mathematics Higher Grade or a D symbol in Mathematics Standard
Grade at the matriculation examination, or a pass in Mathematics at another
examination deemed to be equivalent thereto.
B.7.3 Candidates who have credit in Management 1 may register for Management 2 only
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if they have credit in, or are concurrently registered for, Accounting 1.
B.8 Examinations
B.8.1 In order to complete a degree, a student must comply with the requirements laid
down in the general rules for a bachelor‟s degree.
B.8.2 The semester class mark and the examination mark shall be combined in equal
proportions to obtain the final mark.
B.8.3 A student must obtain a final mark (examination and semester class component) of
50% to pass a semester course.
B.8.4 A student must obtain a minimum of 40% in the examinations in order to obtain an
overall pass for any semester module.
B.8.5 When 2 semester courses comprise a full year‟s course, credit for the full year‟s
course will be given according to the following rules, which apply to East London
joint and pipeline students:
B.8.5.1 A student will be given credit if both semester courses have been passed
irrespective of the year or examination in which they were passed.
B.8.5.2 An aggregated credit (ACR) will be given if the student has an aggregated mark of
at least 50% for both semester courses and has obtained at least 45% in the
course failed, provided also that the provisions of 8.4 are complied with.
B.8.5.3 A non-continuing credit (NCR) will be given if the candidate has an aggregated
mark of at least 50% for both semester courses and has obtained between 40%
and 44% (inclusive) in the semester course failed, provided also that the
provisions of 8.4 are complied with.
B.8.5.4 Aggregation as above will only be permitted in respect of examinations written in
the same academic year.
B.8.6 If students miss a test or other assessment without reason, they will be awarded a
0 mark.
B.8.7 A student shall be admitted to a supplementary examination in a module failed if:
B.8.7.1 s/he obtained a minimum final mark of 45% in the normal examination, or
B.8.7.2 the module concerned is the last outstanding module towards the degree
offered in the semester concerned.
B.8.8 The final mark for a supplementary examination shall not exceed 50%.
B.8.9 Due Performance (DP) requirements: class marks made up of tests and
assignments of 50% and attendance regulations as per each Programme.
B.8.10 At the discretion of the Dean and/or Registrar, students may be allowed to register
for a module at another university, e.g., Unisa, if that module is not offered by the
University, provided that it is not a major, and/or if there is a timetable clash, or as is
consistent with General Rule G3.10.
B.9 Pass with Distinction/Degree with Cum Laude
B.9.1 A final mark of 75% or more in a particular module shall be regarded as a distinction
in that module.
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B.9.2 A degree will be awarded Cum Laude if a student qualifies for the degree in the
prescribed period of study, obtains at least 64 credits (4 modules) at the 300 level
simultaneously with distinction and achieves an average of 75% or more in all the
compulsory modules taken in that candidate‟s prescribed programme of study. This
section should be read in conjunction with General Rule G5.8 of the General
Prospectus of the University.
B.9.3 A B Com Accounting degree will be awarded Cum Laude if a student qualifies for
the degree in the prescribed period of study, obtains at least 75% for Accounting 3
and an average of 75 % for the other three major subjects. This section should be
read in conjunction with Faculty Rule B.9.2 and General Rule G5.8 of the General
Prospectus of the University.
B.10 Exclusion
B.10.1 Students will be excluded if:
B.10.1.1 They do not pass more than 6 semester credits (96 credits) or 3 full
courses in 2 years.
THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF COMMERCE
B.11 Duration
The curricula shall extend over a minimum period of six semesters of full-time study.
B.12 Options:
The degree may be obtained in any of the following options:
B.13.1 Accounting (60001 / 60006)
General Accounting (60014)
B.12.2 Business Management and Industrial Psychology (60002)
B.12.3 Economics and Business Management (60003)
B.12.4 General (60005)
B.12.5 Inter-Faculty (60009)
B.12.6 Law (60004)
B.12.7 Information Systems (60011)
B.13 Curricula
The curricula for each of the options shall be as follows:
B.13.1a BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (ACCOUNTING) (60001) (EAST LONDON)
This programme, as well as the following one (60006), are designed for students
who wish to become professional accountants. All modules are core to the
programme. Note that students who wish to write the qualifying examination of the
South African Institute of Chartered Accountants must complete either of these
programmes, including amongst others, the following modules: Accounting 1A,
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Accounting 1B, Accounting 2A, Accounting 2B, Accounting 3A and Accounting 3B.
Note also that students who register for the General Accounting modules may
under certain circumstances proceed to the relevant Accounting modules(see
Accounting Department module outlines for details).
Level First Semester - Title of Module Module Code Cr
100
Accounting 1A
Commercial Law 1A
Economics 1
Computer Literacy
Business Mathematics
Business Management 1
Professional Communication
ACC 111E
ACL 111E
ECO 111E
CLT 111E
TFN 111E
BEC 111E
CMP 111E
16
16
16
8
16
16
16
200
Accounting 2A or General Accounting 2A
Auditing 2A
Commercial Law 2A
Financial Management 2A
Life, Knowledge and Action
ACC 211E /
ACG211E
AUD 211E
ACL 211E
AFC 211E
LKA 111E
16
16
16
16
16
300
Accounting 3A/General Accounting 3A
Auditing 3A
Taxation 3A
Financial Management 3A
ACC 311E / ACG
311E
AUD 311E
ATV 311E
AFC 311E
16
16
16
16
Level Second Semester - Title of Module Module Code Cr
100
Accounting 1B or
General Accounting 1B
Commercial Law 1B
Economics 1
Business Statistics
Business Management 1
Information Systems
Professional Communication
ACC 121E/
ACG121E
ACL 121E
ECO 121E
STD 121E
BEC 121E
IFS121E
CMP121E
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
200
Accounting 2B or General Accounting 2B
Taxation 2A
Financial Management 2B
ACC 221E/ ACG
221E
ATV 221E
AFC 221E
16
16
16
300
Accounting 3B or
General Accounting 3B
Auditing 3B
ACC 321E/
ACG 321E
AUD 321E
16
16
19
Taxation 3B
Financial Management 3B
ATV 321E
AFC 321E
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B.13.1a BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (GENERAL ACCOUNTING) (60014)
(EAST LONDON)
This programme is aimed at students who may wish to become a member of an
accounting professional institute (other than SAICA), or who do not wish to
become professional accountants yet wish to major in accounting.
In order to obtain the B. Com (General Accounting) degree students need only
complete two of Auditing 3, Financial Management 3 or Taxation 3. General
Accounting 3 is compulsory.
Note also that students who register for the General Accounting degree may under
certain circumstances proceed to the relevant Accounting modules in the
Accounting degree (see Accounting Department module outlines for details).
Level First Semester - Title of Module Module Code Cr
100
Accounting 1A
Commercial Law 1A
Economics 1
Computer Literacy
Business Mathematics
Business Management 1
Professional Communication
ACC 111E
ACL 111E
ECO 111E
CLT 111E
TFN 111E
BEC 111E
CMP 111E
16
16
16
8
16
16
16
200
General Accounting 2A
Auditing 2A
Commercial Law 2A
Financial Management 2A
Information Systems
ACG211E
AUD 211E
ACL 211E
AFC 211E
IFS 211E/ IFS212E
16
16
16
16
16
300
General Accounting 3A
and two of:
Auditing 3A
Taxation 3A
Financial Management 3A
ACG 311E
AUD 311E
ATV 311E
AFC 311E
16
16
16
16
Level Second Semester - Title of Module Module Code Cr
100
General Accounting 1B
Commercial Law 1B
Economics 1
ACG121E
ACL 121E
ECO 121E
16
16
16
20
Business Statistics
Business Management 1
Information Systems
Professional Communication
STD 121E
BEC 121E
IFS121E
CMP 111E
16
16
16
16
200
General Accounting 2B
Taxation 2A
Financial Management 2B
ACG 221E
ATV 221E
AFC 221E
16
16
16
300
General Accounting 3B
and two of:
Auditing 3B
Taxation 3B
Financial Management 3B
ACG 321E
AUD 321E
ATV 321E
AFC 321E
16
16
16
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(1) Pre-requisites for Information Systems courses are provided in B. 13.7.2
B.13.1b B.Com (ACCOUNTING)(60006) (ALICE/EAST LONDON CAMPUS) 4 YEARS
Level
First Semester - Title of Module
Foundation Year
Module Code
Cr
Business English for Accounting
Computer literacy
Economics 1
Fundamentals of Business Mathematics
1A
Business Management 1
BEA 111/ BEA 111E
CLT 111
ECO 111/ ECO 111E
AMB 111/ AMB 111E
BEC 111/ BEC 111E
0
8
16
0
16
100
Accounting 1A
Commercial Law 1A
Financial Management 1A
Business English for Accounting
AAC 111/ACC111E
ACL 111/ ACL 111E
AFM 112/ AFM 112E
BEA 211/BEA 211E
16
16
16
0
200
Accounting 2A or
General Accounting 2A
Auditing 2A
Commercial Law 2A
Financial Management 2A(*)
AAC 211E/
ACG 211E
AAD 211E
ACL 211E
AFM 211E
16
16
16
16
300
Accounting 3A or
General Accounting 3A
Auditing 3A
Taxation 3A
AAC 311E /
ACG 321E
AAU 311E
ATA 311E
16
16
16
21
Financial Management 3A AFM 311E 16
Level
Second Semester - Title of Module
Foundation Year
Module Code
Cr
Business English for Accounting
Introduction to Accounting 1A
Economics 1
Fundamentals of Business Maths 1B
Business Management 1
BEA 122/ BEA 122E
AIA 121/ AIA 121E
ECO 121/ECO 121E
AMB 121/AMB 121E
BEC 121/ BEC 121E
0
0
16
0
16
100
Accounting 1B /
General Accounting 1B
Commercial Law 1B
Business Statistics
Fundamentals of Information Systems
AAC 121/ AAC 121E
ACG 121/ACG 121E
ACL 121/ACL 121E
STD 121/STD 121E
IFS 121/ IFS 121E
16
16
16
16
16
200
Accounting 2B or
General Accounting 2B
Taxation 2A
Financial Management 2B
AAC 221E/
ACG 221E
ATA 221E
AFM 221E
16
16
16
16
300
Accounting 3B or
General Accounting 3B
Auditing 3B
Taxation 3B
Financial Management 3B
AAC 321E/
ACG 321E
AAU 321E
ATA 321E
AFM 321E
16
16
16
16
16
(1) Pre-requisites for Information Systems courses are provided in B. 13.7.2
AFM 112 or TFN111E is a prerequisite for AFM221E and AFM211E, AFC221E and
AFC211E
B.13.2 BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (BUSINESS MANAGEMENT & INDUSTRIAL
PSYCHOLOGY) (60002) (ALICE)
Level First semester - Title of module Module Code Cr Group
100
Business Management 1
Industrial Psychology 1
Economics 1
Financial Accounting 1
Statistics 1
Life, Knowledge and Action
BEC 111
IPS 111
ECO 111
ACG 111
STA 111
LKA 111
16
16
16
16
16
16
F
A
B
E
D
22
200
Core modules:
Business Management 2
Industrial Psychology 2
Economics 2
BEC 211
IPS 211
IPS 212
ECO 211
16
8
8
16
G
B
B
C
Electives - Two of the following
subjects:
Financial Accounting 2
Commercial Law 1
Labour Law 3
AFA 211
LCM 111
LEL 312
16
16
16
D
A
B
300
Core modules:
Business Management 3
Industrial Psychology 3
BEC 311
BEC 312
IPS 311
IPS 312
8
8
8
8
A
A
G
G
Electives - One of the following
subjects:
Financial Accounting 2
Commercial Law 1
Commercial Law 2
Labour Law 3
Computer Science 1
AFA 211
LCM 111
LCM 211
LEL 312
CSC113
16
16
16
16
16
D
A
B
B
C
Level Second semester - Title of module Module Code Cr Group
100
Business Management 1
Industrial Psychology 1
Economics 1
Financial Accounting 1
Statistics 1
BEC 121
IPS 121
ECO 121
ACG121
STA 122
16
16
16
16
16
F
A
B
E
D
200
Core modules:
Business Management 2
Industrial Psychology 2
Economics 2
BEC 221
IPS 221
IPS 222
ECO 221
16
8
8
16
G
B
B
C
Electives - Two of the following
subjects: Financial Accounting 2
Commercial Law 1
Labour Law 3
AFA 221
LCM 121
LES 422
16
16
16
D
A
B
23
300
Core modules:
Business Management 3
Industrial Psychology 3
BEC 321
BEC 322
IPS 321
IPS 322
8
8
8
8
A
A
G
G
Electives - One of the following
subjects:
Financial Accounting 2
Commercial Law 1
Commercial Law 2
Labour Law 3
Computer Science 1
AFA 221
LCM 121
LCM 221
LLL 321
CSC 121
16
16
16
16
16
D
A
B
B
C
FOUNDATION PROGRAMME BACHELOR OF COMMERCE ( BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY (60002) (ALICE)
Level First semester - Title of Module Module Code Cr Group
100
Core Modules: Academic Reasoning Skills Computer Literacy Business English Business Management 1 Industrial Psychology 1
APR 111 F CLT 111 AEB 111 F BEC 111 IPS 111
Value added 8 8 16 16
F A
Second Semester
Core Modules: Academic Reasoning Skills Computer Literacy** Business English Business Management 1 Industrial Psychology 1
APR 121 F CLT 121** AEB 121 F BEC 121 IPS 121
Value added 8 8 16 16
F A
First Semester
Core Modules: Academic Reasoning Skills Business English Economics 1 General Accounting 1 Statistics 1 Life, Knowledge and Action
APR 112 F AEB 112 F ECO 111 ACG 111 STA 111 LKA 111
Value added 8 16 16 16 16
B E D
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Second Semester
Core Modules: Academic Reasoning Skills Business English Economics 1 General Accounting 1 Statistics 1
APR 123 F AEB 123 F ECO 121 ACG 121 STA 122
Value added 8 16 16 16
B E D
NB: For 2rd and 3th year (which will be your 3rd and 4th year) please refer to your respective Degree. (AUGMENTED)
B.13.3 BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT)
(60003) (ALICE)
Level First semester - Title of Module Module Code Cr Group
100
Core modules:
Economics 1
Business Management 1
Financial Accounting 1
Statistics 1
Life, Knowledge and Action
ECO 111
BEC 111
ACG 111
STA 111
LKA111
16
16
16
16
16
B
F
E
D
Electives - One of the following
subjects:
Industrial Psychology 1
Commercial Law 1
Computer Science 1 (Literacy)
IPS 111
LCM 111
CSC113(CLT111)
16
16
16(8)
A
A
C
200
Core modules:
Economics 2
Business Management 2
ECO 211
BEC 211
16
16
C
G
Electives-Three of the following
subjects:
Mathematical Economics 2
Financial Accounting 2
Industrial Psychology 1
Industrial Psychology 2
Commercial Law 2
ECO 212
AFA 211
IPS 111
IPS 211
IPS 212
LCM 211
EDE 211
16
16
8
8
16
16
16
A
D
A
B
B
B
F
25
Development Economics 2
Labour Law
Agricultural Economics
LEL 312
AGE 211
16
16
B
C
300
Core modules:
Economics 3
Business Management 3
ECO311, and one
of ECO312,
ECO313,
ECO314
BEC 311
BEC 312
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
F
F
F
F
F
A
A
Electives - One of the following
subjects:
Industrial Psychology 3
Financial Accounting 3
Commercial Law 2
Computer Science 1
Development Economics 2
Labour Law
Agricultural Economics
Development Economics 3
IPS 311
IPS 312
AFA 311
LCM 211
CSC 113
EDE 211
LEL 312
AGE 311
AGE 312
EDE 311
8
8
16
16
18
16
16
8
8
16
G
G
D
B
C
F
B
E
F
G
Level Second semester - Title of module Module Code Cr Group
100
Core modules:
Economics 1
Business Management 1
Financial Accounting 1
Statistics 1
ECO 121
BEC 121
ACG 121
STA 122
16
16
16
16
B
F
E
D
Electives - One of the following
subjects:
Industrial Psychology 1
Commercial Law 1
Computer Science 1
IPS 121
LCM 121
CSC 121
16
16
16
A
A
C
200
Core modules:
Economics 2
Business Management 2
ECO 221
BEC 221
16
16
C
G
Electives-Three of the following
subjects:
ECO 222
16
A
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Mathematical Economics
Financial Accounting 2
Industrial Psychology 2
Industrial Psychology 2
Commercial Law 2
Development Economics 2
Labour Law
Agricultural Economics 2
AFA 221
IPS 121
IPS 221
IPS 222
LCM 221
EDE 221
LES 422
AGE 221
16
8
8
16
16
16
16
16
D
A
B
B
B
H
B
D
300
Core modules:
Economics 3
Business Management 3
Two of
ECO321,
ECO 323,
ECO 324,
EOC 325,
ECO 326
BEC 321
BEC 322
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
F
F
F
F
F
A
A
Electives - One of the following
subjects:
Industrial Psychology 3
Financial Accounting 3
Commercial Law 2
Development Economics 2
Labour Law
Agricultural Economics
Development Economics 3
IPS 321
IPS 322
AFA 321
LCM 221
EDE 221
LES 422
AGE 321
EDE 321
EDE 322
8
8
16
16
16
16
16
8
8
G
G
D
B
E
B
B
G
G
FOUNDATION PROGRAMME BACHELOR OF COMMERCE ( ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT) (60003) (ALICE)
Level First semester - Title of Module Module Code Cr Group
100 Core Modules: Academic Reasoning Skills Computer Literacy Business English Economics 1 Business Management 1
APR 111 F CLT 111 AEB 111F ECO 111 BEC 111
Value added 8 8 16 16
B F
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Electives: One of the following subjects Industrial Psychology 1 Commercial Law 1 Computer Science 1
IPS 111 LCM 111 CSC 113
16 16 16
A A C
Second Semester
Core Modules: Academic Reasoning Skills Computer Literacy Business English Economics 1 Business Management 1 Electives: One of the following subjects Industrial Psychology 1 Commercial Law 1 Computer Science 1
APR 122 F CLT 121 AEB 121F ECO 121 BEC 121 IPS 121 LCM 121 CSC 121
Value added 8 8 16 16 16 16 16
B F A A C
200 First Semester
Core Modules: Academic Reasoning Skills Business English General Accounting 1 Statistics 1 Life, Knowledge and Action
APR 112 F AEB 112 F ACG 111 STA 111 LKA 111E
Value added 8 16 16 16
E D
Second Semester
Academic Reasoning Skills Business English General Accounting 1 Statistics 1
APR 123 F AEB 123 F ACG 121 STA 121
Value added 8 16 16
E D
NB: For 2rd and 3th year (which will be your 3rd and 4th year) please refer to your respective Degree.
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B.13.4 BACHELOR OF COMMERCE GENERAL (60005) (EAST LONDON)
Level First Semester - Title of Module Module Code Cr
100
Core Modules:
General Accounting 1A or
Accounting
Commercial Law 1
Economics 1
Business Management 1
Business Mathematics (5)
Computer Literacy
ACG 111E /
ACC 111E
ACL 111E
ECO 111E
BEC 111E
TFN 111E
CLT 111E
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
200
Core Modules:
Economics 2
Life, Knowledge and Action
ECO 211E
LKA111E
16
16
Electives: Three of the following:
Accounting 2A or General Accounting 2A
Commercial Law 2A
Business Management 2
Information Systems
Or two from above and 2 semester credits
of one of the following:
English 1a
Psychology 1
Sociology 1
ACC211E/
ACG211E
ACL211E
MNG211E
MNG212E
IFS 211E / IFS212E
ECL 110E
PSY 111E
SOC 111E
16
16
8
8
16
16
16
16
300 Core Modules:
Prof. Communication
CMP 111E
16
Electives - Two of the following
Accounting 3A or General Accounting 3A
Economics 3
Business Management 3***
Information Systems 3
ACC 311E/ ACG
311E
ECO 311E
and one of
ECO 312E
ECO 313E
ECO 314E
BEC 311E
BEC 312E
IFS 311E/312E
16
8
8
8
8
8
8
16
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Level Second Semester - Title of Module Module Code Cr
100
Core Modules:
General Accounting 1B or
Accounting 1B
Commercial Law 1
Economics 1A
Business Management 1
Business Statistics (5)
Information Systems
ACG 121E /
ACC 121E
ACL 121E
ECO 121E
BEC 121E
STD 121E
IFS121E/
IFS 122E
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
200
Core Modules:
Economics 2
ECO 221E
16
Electives - Three of the following:
General Accounting 2B or Accounting 2B
Commercial Law2B
Information Systems
Business Management 2
Or two from above and and 2 semester
credits of one of the following:
English 1a
Psychology 1
Sociology 1
ACG221E /
ACC221E
ACL 221E
IFS222E/ 223E
BEC 221E
ECL 120E
PSY 122E
SOC 122E
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
300
Electives - Two of the following
General Accounting 3B or Accounting 3B
Economics 3
Business Management 3
Information Systems 3B
ACG 321E/ACC
321E
Two of
ECO 321E
ECO 323E
ECO 324E
ECO 326E
BEC 321E
BEC 322E
IFS321E/322E/323E
16
8
8
8
8
8
8
16
(1) Pre-requisites for Information Systems courses are provided in B. 13.7.2
AFM112 or TFN 111E and STD 121E are prerequisites for Business Management 3
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FOUNDATION PROGRAMME BACHELOR OF COMMERCE GENERAL (60005) (EAST LONDON)
Level Second Semester- Title of Module Code Cr
100 Academic Reasoning Skills Computer Literacy Business English General Accounting 1A/ Accounting 1A Commercial Law 1 Economics 1- Microeconomics
APR 111 L CLT 111 E AEB 111L ACG 111 E/ACC111E ACL 111 E ECO 111 E
Value added 8 8 16 16 16
Second Semester
Academic Reasoning Skills Computer Literacy Business English General Accounting 1B/Accounting 1B Commercial Law 1 Economics 1-Macroeconomics
APR 122 L CLT 121 E AEB 121L ACG 121LE/ACC121E ACL 121E ECO 121E
Value added 8 8 16 16 16
200 First Semester
Academic Reasoning Skills Business English Business Management 1 Business Mathematics Life, Knowledge and Action
APR 112 L AEB 112L BEC 111E TFN 111E LKA 111E
8 8 16 16 16
Second Semester
Academic Reasoning Skills Business English Business Management 1 Business Statistics Fundamentals of Information Systems
APR 123 L AEB 123L BEC 121E STD 121E IFS 121 E
8 8 16 16 16
NB: For 2rd and 3th year (which will be your 3rd and 4th year) please refer to any of the Specialised Degrees.
B.13.5 BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (INTER-FACULTY) (60009)
(EAST LONDON)
Level First Semester - Title of Module Module Code Cr
100
Core Modules:
Accounting 1 A or
Financial Accounting 1*
Commercial Law 1A
Economics 1
ACC 111E
ACG 111E
ACL 111E
ECO 111E
16
16
16
16
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Business Management 1
Computer Science 1A
BEC 111E
CSC 113E
16
16
Electives - One of the following
Psychology 1
Sociology 1
PSY 111E
SOC 111E
16
16
200
Core Modules:
Economics 2
ECO 221E
16
Electives - Two of the following:
General Accounting 2A or Accounting 2 A
Commercial Law 2A
Information Systems 2A
Business Management 2
Business Mathematics
And one of:
Psychology 2
Sociology 2
ACG 211E/ ACC
211E
ACL 211E
IFS 211E
MNG 211E
MNG 212E
TFN 111E
PSY 211E
SOC 211E
SOC 212E
16
16
16
8
8
16
16
8
8
300
Core Modules:
Prof Communication
1 major of:
General Accounting 3A or Accounting 3A
Economics 3
Information Systems 3A
Business Management 3
CMP 111E
ACG 311E/ACC
311E
ECO 311E
and one of
ECO 312E
ECO 313E
ECO 314E
IFS 311E
BEC 311E
BEC 312E
16
16
8
8
8
8
16
8
8
Electives - One of the following:
Psychology 3
Sociology 3
PSY 311E
SOC 311E
SOC 312E
16
8
8
32
Level Second Semester - Title of Module Module Code Cr
100
Core Modules:
General Accounting 1B or Accounting 1B or
Financial Accounting 1
Commercial Law 1B
Economics 1
Business Management 1
ACG 121E/
ACC121E
ACG 121E
ACL 121E
ECO 121E
BEC 121E
16
16
16
16
16
Electives - One of the following:
Psychology 1
Sociology 1
Computer Science 1B
PSY 122E
SOC 122E
CSC 121E
16
16
16
200
Core Modules:
Economics 2
ECO 221E
16
Electives - Two of the following:
General Accounting 2B or
Accounting 2B
Commercial Law 2B
Information Systems 2
Business Management 2
Business Statistics
And one of:
Psychology 2
Sociology 2
ACG 221E/
ACC 221E
ACL 221E
IFS 221E
BEC 221E
STD 121E
PSY 222E
SOC 222E
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
300
Core Modules:
General Accounting 3B or
Accounting 3B
Economics 3
Information Systems 3B
Business Management 3
ACG 321E/
ACC 321E
Two of
ECO 321E
ECO 323E
ECO 324E
ECO326E
IFS 321E
BEC 321E
BEC 322E
16
8
8
8
8
16
8
8
Electives - One of the following:
Psychology 3
Sociology 3
PSY 322E
SOC 322E
16
16
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B.13.6 BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (LAW) (60004) (EAST LONDON)
Level First Semester - Title of Module Module Code Cr
100
Core Modules:
Accounting 1 A or
Financial Accounting 1
Economics 1
Legal Studies 1*
Business Management 1
Computer Science 1A
English 1
ACC 111E
AFA 111E
ECO 111E
LPI 112E
LAC 112E
BEC 111E
CSC 113E
ECL 110E
16
16
16
12
16
16
16
16
200
Core Modules:
Economics 2
Legal Studies 2
Life, Knowlege and Action
ECO 211E
LCL 112E
LPC 212E
LEC 212E
LKA 111E
16
16
16
16
16
Electives - Two of the following:
General Accounting 2A or
Accounting 2A
Information Systems 2
Business Management 2
Business Mathematics
Psychology 1
Sociology 1
ACG 211E/
ACC 211E
IFS 211E
MNG 211E
MNG 212E
TFN 111E
PSY 111E
SOC 111E
16
16
8
8
16
16
16
300
Core Modules:
Prof Communication
Legal Studies 3
CMP 111E
LCE 212E
LCP 212E
LPS 212E
16
12
16
16
Electives - One of the following:
General Accounting 3A or
Accounting 3A
Economics 3
Information Systems 3
Business Management 3***
ACG 311E/
ACC 311E
ECO 311E
And one of
ECO 312E
ECO 313E
ECO 314E
IFS 311E
BEC 311E
16
8
8
8
8
16
8
8
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BEC 312E
* English 1 is compulsory for credit in Legal Studies 1
AFM 112 or TFN111E and STD121E are prerequisites for Business Management 3.
Level Second Semester - Title of Module Module Code Cr
100
Core Modules:
General Accounting 1B or
Accounting 1B
Economics 1
Legal Studies 1
Bus. Management 1
English 1a
ACG121E/
ACC121E
ECO 121E
LPP 122E
LAC 122E
LLS 122E
BEC 121E
ECL120E
16
16
16
16
10
16
16
200
Core Modules:
Economics 2
Legal Studies 2
ECO 221E
LCL 122E
LPC 222E
LEA 222E
16
16
12
16
Electives - Two of the following
General Accounting 2B or Accounting 2B
Information Systems 2
Business Management2
Business Statistics
Psychology 1
Sociology 1
ACG221E/ ACC
221E
IFS 221E
BEC 221E
STD 121E
PSY 122E
SOC 122E
16
16
16
16
16
16
300
Core Modules:
Legal Studies 3
LCE 222E
LCP 222E
LEJ 222E
12
16
12
Electives - One of the following
General Accounting 3B or Accounting 3B
Economics 3
Information System 3
Business Management3
ACG 321E/ACC
321E
Two of
ECO 321E
ECO 323E
ECO 324E
ECO 326E
IFS 321E
BEC 321E
BEC 322E
16
8
8
8
8
16
8
8
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B.13.7 BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (INFORMATION SYSTEMS) (60011) – EAST
LONDON
The Degree of Bachelor of Commerce (Information Systems) is designed for
learners who wish to specialise in one of the computing related disciplines, namely,
Information Systems. Admission into the ordinary degree is subject to a successful
matriculation (NSC prior to 2009) in approved subjects, including a D standard
grade or an E higher grade in Mathematics as well as English. Minimum
requirements for the new NSC include a level 3 achievement (40 -49) in
Mathematics and English Language. However, applicants who have achieved
higher grades, i.e. a higher pass mark in both Mathematics and English Language
will be given preference in the selection process.
Students who have been previously registered for IS modules under the old BCom
(IS) curriculum or any IS module under another degree must ensure that they
register for the correct modules in 2011. Students should seek the assistance of the
Department of Information Systems staff if they are unsure of the modules
applicable to their course. The prerequisites for the Information Systems modules
are outlined after the degree structure.
The Department of Information Systems strives to ensure that the new IS
Curriculum will be presented as shown herein, but reserves the right to amend the
material and courses to be delivered, in so far, as the student majority are in no way
disadvantaged by said action.
B.13.7.1 New Curriculum: B.Com (Information Systems) – applicable to students
who registered in 2009 for the first time or students who change degree in 2009 or 2010
Level First Semester- Title of Module Code Cr
100 Core Modules
General Accounting 1A ACG 111 E 16
Business Management 1A BEC 111E 16
Theory of Finance TFN 111E 16
Microeconomics ECO 111E 16
Essentials of IT IFS 112E 16
Computer Literacy (1) CLT 111E 8
200 Core Modules:
Business & Systems Analysis IFS 212E 16
Networks and Communications IFS 213E 16
Commercial Law 1 ACL 111E 16
Electives - One approved two semester
course at 2nd year level
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Level First Semester- Title of Module Code Cr
Accounting 2 ACC 211E /
ACG211E
16
Auditing 2A AUD 211E 16
Business Management 2 MNG 211E 8
MNG 212E 8
Economics 2 ECO 211E 16
Financial Management 2A AFC 211E 16
300 Core Modules:
IT Project Management IFS 312E 16
Emergent Technologies IFS 313E 16
Professional Communications CMP 111E 16
Level Second Semester- Title of Module Code Cr
100 Core Modules:
Accounting Reporting AFA 121E 16
or
Accounting 1B ACC 121E 16
Business Management 1B BEC 121E 16
Business Statistics
Life, Knowledge and Action
STD 121E
LKA 121 E
16
16
Macroeconomics ECO 121E 16
Fundamentals of IS IFS 121E 16
Introduction to Programming for
Business
IFS 122E
16
200 Core Modules:
Systems Design and Implementation IFS 222E 16
Databases** IFS 223E 16
Commercial Law 1 ACL 121E 16
Electives - One approved two semester
course at 2nd year level
Accounting 2 ACC 221E 16
Taxation 2A ATV 221E 16
Business Management 2 BEC 221E 16
Economics 2 ECO 221E 16
Financial Management 2B AFC 221E 16
300 Core Modules:
Systems Development Project IFS 322E 16
Enterprise Information Systems IFS 323E 16
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For pre-requisites pertaining to all Information Systems modules, refer to Item B.17.4.2.
B.13.7.2 Module pre-requisites for IS degree courses:
Code Cre
dits Description
Link to course
structures Notes
Pre-
requisites
CLT111 8 Computer
Literacy
60006 Requirement for
60006
None
CLT111E 8 Computer
Literacy
60001/60002/600
03/60004/60005/
60008/60011 +
BSocSci
Compulsory for all
EL BCom, elective
for other
None
IFS112E 16 Essentials of
Information
Technology
60011 Compulsory for
BCom IS
None
IFS121 16 Fundamental
s of
Information
Systems
60006 Requirement for
60006
None
IFS121E 16 Fundamental
s of
Information
Systems
60001/60002/600
03/60004/60005/
60008//60011 +
BSocSci
Compulsory for all
EL BCom, elective
for other
None
IFS122E 16 Introduction
to
Programming
for Business
60001/60006/600
02/60003/60004/
60005/60008/600
11 + BSocSci
Replace
CSC121E,
Compulsory for
BCom IS, elective
for other
One of:
CSC113/113
E,
CLT111/111E
or exemption
IFS212E 16 Business and
Systems
Analysis
60001/60006/600
02/60003/60004/
60005/60008/600
11 + BSocSci
Compulsory for
BCom IS, elective
for other
IFS121/121E
IFS213E 16 Networks
and
Communicati
ons
60011 Compulsory for
BCom IS
IFS112E
IFS222E 16 Systems
Design and
Implementati
on
60001/60006/600
02/60003/60004/
60005/60008/600
11 + BSocSci
Compulsory for
BCom IS, elective
for other
IFS212E,
AND
IFS122E or
CSC121E
IFS223E 16 Data bases
Manipulation
60001/60006/600
02/60003/60004/
60005/60008/600
Compulsory for
BCom IS, elective
for other or other
IFS211E/212
E
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Code Cre
dits Description
Link to course
structures Notes
Pre-
requisites
11 + BSocSci
IFS312E 16 IS/IT Project
Management
60001/60006/600
02/60003/60004/
60005/60008/600
11 + BSocSci
Compulsory for
BCom IS and
students planning
to major in IS,
elective for other
IFS212E/211
E
IFS313E 16 Emergent
Technologies
60011 Compulsory for
BCom IS
IFS222E
IFS321E 16 Information
Systems 3B
60001/60006/600
02/60003/60004/
60005/60008/600
11 + BSocSci
Requirement for
BCom IS, elective
for other
IFS311E
IFS322E 16 Systems
Development
Project
60001/60006/600
02/60003/60004/
60005/60008/600
11 + BSocSci
Compulsory for
BCom IS, elective
for other.
IFS312E,
and
IFS222E/223
E
IFS323E 16 Enterprise
Information
Systems
60001/60006/600
02/60003/60004/
60005/60008/600
11 + BSocSci
Compulsory for
BCom IS, elective
for other
IFS312E or
IFS313E
FOUNDATION PROGRAMME
Level Second Semester- Title of Module Code Cr
100 Academic Reasoning Skills Computer Literacy Business English General Accounting 1A / Accounting Economics 1 - Microeconomics IT Essentials
APR111 L CLT111 E AEB111L ACG111 E/ACC 111 E ECO111 E IFS112E
Value added 8 8 16 16 16
Second Semester
Academic Reasoning Skills Computer Literacy Business English General Accounting 1B/ Accounting 1B Economics 1 - Macroeconomics Programming for Business
APR122L CLT121 E AEB121L ACG121E/ACC 121E ECO121E IFS122E
Value added 8 8 16 16 16
200 First Semester
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Level Second Semester- Title of Module Code Cr
Academic Reasoning Skills Business English Business Management 1 Business Mathematics
APR112L AEB112L BEC111E TFN111E
8 8 16 16
Second Semester
Academic Reasoning Skills Business English Business Management 1 Life, Knowledge, Action Fundamentals of Information Systems
APR123L AEB123L BEC121E LKA121E IFS121E
8 8 16 16 16
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (60011) – Augmented Model (EAST LONDON)
B.13.7.3 Old Curriculum: B. Com (Information Systems) – see degree structure under
B.13.7.3.2.
B.13.7.3.1 Rules applicable to students who have registered for a module in
information systems prior to 2009:
Students following the “old” B.Com (IS) curriculum as well those students registered
for other degrees serviced by the IS department prior to 2009, are advised to note
the following rules:
Alice BCom Accounting students who passed CSC113 in 2008, must register for
IFS121 in 2009, and if successful, for IFS212E in 2010 when/if they migrate to
East London.
Alice BCom Accounting students who failed CSC113 in 2008, must register for
CLT111 in 2009.
East London students who failed CSC111E or CSC113E in 2008, must register
for CLT111E in 2009 before continuing with IFS121E. Students who passed
CSC111E but failed CSC112E, may register for IFS121E
EL students who failed CSC121E in 2008, may register for IFS122E.
EL Students who failed IFS211E and/or IFS221E in 2008, may re-register for the
same courses in 2009.
Students who fail the 1st semester module IFS211E in 2009, must register for
the 2nd semester module IFS121E in 2009 and if successful in IFS121E, then
register for 2nd year courses in 2010.
Students who fail IFS221E in 2009, must register for IFS121E in 2010
Alice students who failed IFS211 in 2008 and who are permitted to migrate to
East London in 2009, must register for IFS211E in 2009. Students who are not
allowed to migrate to East London, must register for IFS121 in Alice.
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Alice students who failed IFS221 in 2008 and who migrate to East London in
2009 must register for IFS221E in East London. Students who are not allowed
to migrate to East London in 2009, may register for IFS121E in 2010 in East
London
Students who fail IFS311E in 2010, must register for IFS212E and 312E in
2011.
Students who fail IFS321E in 2010, must register for IFS323E in 2011.
B.13.7.3.2 Curriculum structure (Old B.Com IS) – refer to 2008 Prospectus for Year 1
and 2 Information
Level
First Semester - Title of Module
Code
Cr
300
Core Modules:
Professional Communication
Information Systems 3A
CMP 111E
IFS 311E
16
16
Electives - One of the following:
General Accounting 3A
Economics 3B
Business Management 3
ACG 311E
ECO 311E,
and one of
ECO 312E
ECO 313E
ECO 314E
BEC 311E
BEC 312E
16
8
8
8
8
8
8
Level Second Semester - Title of Module Code Cr
300
Core Modules:
Information Systems 3B
IFS 321E
16
Electives - One of the following
General Accounting 3A
Economics 3
Business Management 3
ACG321E
Two of
ECO 321E
ECO 323E
ECO 324E
ECO 325E
ECO 326E
BEC 321E
BEC 322E
16
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
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B.13.8 BACHELOR OF ECONOMICS (BUSINESS SCIENCE) (60008)
(EAST LONDON)
The Degree of Bachelor of Economics is designed for learners who wish to
specialize in Economics, either for the ordinary degree or the honours degree.
Admission into the ordinary degree is subject to a successful matriculation in
approved subjects, including a D standard grade or an E higher grade in
mathematics
Level
First Semester - Title of Module
Module Code
Cr
100
Core Modules:
Economics 1
Business Mathematics
Computer Science 1A
Accounting 1A OR
Financial Accounting 1
Commercial Law 1A
Business Management 1
ECO 111E
TFN 111E
CSC 113E
ACC 111E
ACG 111E
ACL 111E
BEC 111E
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
200
Core Modules:
Economics 2
Math. Economics 2
Life, Knowledge and Action
ECO 211E
ECO 212E
LKA 111E
16
16
16
Electives - Two of the following:
General Accounting 2A or Accounting 2A
Information Systems 2A **
Business Management 2A
ACG 211E/ACC
211E
IFS 211E
MNG 211E
MNG 212E
16
16
8
8
300
Core Modules:
Economics 3
ECO 311E
And two of
ECO 312E
ECO 313E
ECO 314E
8
8
8
8
Electives - One of the following
General Accounting 3A or Accounting 3A
Information Systems 3A
Business Management 3 ***
ACG 311E/
ACC 311E
IFS 311E
BEC 311E
BEC 312E
16
16
8
8
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AFM 112 OR TFN111E and STD121E are a prerequisite for Business Management 3
Level
Second Semester – Title of Module
Code
Cr
100
Core Modules:
Economics 1
Business Statistics
General Accounting 1B or
Accounting 1B
Commercial Law 1B
Business Management 1
Information Systems
ECO 121E
STD 121E
ACG 121E/
ACC 121E
AFA 121E
BEC 121E
IFS 121E
16
16
16
16
16
16
200
Core Modules:
Economics 2
Math. Economics 2
ECO 221E
ECO 222E
16
16
Electives - Two of the following:
General Accounting 2B or
Accounting 2B
Information Systems 2B
Business Management 2
ACG 221E/
ACC 221E
IFS 221E
BEC 221E
16
16
16
300
Core Modules:
Economics 3
Three of:
ECO 321E
ECO 323E
ECO 324E
ECO 326E
8
8
8
8
Electives - One of the following:
General Accounting 3B or Accounting 3B
Information Systems 3B
Business Management 3
ACG
321E/ACC321E
IFS 321E
BEC 321E
BEC 322E
16
16
8
8
B.14 THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ADMINISTRATION
B.14.1 Duration
The curricula shall extend over a minimum period of six semesters of full-time study.
To be admitted to this degree, prospective students must have achieved a level of 4
in Mathematical Literacy OR a level of 2 in Mathematics. Statistical Methods 1 is a
prerequisites for HRM 3 and IPS 3 (and for graduating with this degree).
NB: Students who matriculated before 2008 must have obtained matriculation
exemption, have done and sat for mathematics examination at matriculation level.
B.16.2 Option
The degree may be obtained in the following option:
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Human Resource Management (62003) (Revised)
B.14.3 Curricula
The curriculum for this option, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Industrial
Psychology Department, shall be as follows:
Bachelor of Administration (Human Resource Management) (62003) (Alice)
Level
First Semester - Title of Course
Module Code
Cr
Group
100
Core Modules:
Human Resource Management 1a
Industrial Psychology 1
Public Administration 1
Statistical Methods OR
Statistics 1
Life, Knowledge and Action
HRM 111
IPS 111
PAD 111
STA 114
STA 111
LKA 111
16
16
16
16
16
16
D
A
G
C
D
Elective Modules - One of the
following
Business Management 1
Economics 1
Financial Accounting 1
BEC 111
ECO 111
ACG 111
16
16
16
F
B
E
200
Core Modules:
HRM 2a
Industrial Psychology 2
Public Administration 2
HRM 211
IPS 211
IPS 212
PAD 211
16
8
8
16
F
B
B
E
Elective Modules - One of the
following:
Business Management 2
Financial Accounting 2/ Accounting
Systems& Special Applications
Development Economics 2
Economics 2
BEC 211
AFA 211
EDE 211
ECO 211
16
16
16
16
G
D
H
C
300
Core Modules:
HRM 3a
HRM 3b
Industrial Psychology 3
Public Administration 3
Labour Law
HRM 311
HRM 312
IPS 311
IPS 312
PAD 311
LEL 312
8
8
8
8
16
16
C
C
C
G
G
D
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Level
Second Semester - Title of Course
Module Code
Cr
Group
100
Core Modules:
HRM 1b
Industrial Psychology 1
Public Administration
Statistical Methods OR
Statistics 1
HRM 121
IPS 121
PAD 122
STA 124
STA 122
16
16
16
16
16
D
A
G
C
D
Elective Modules - One of the
following
Business Management 1
Economics 1
Financial Accounting 1
BEC 121
ECO 121
ACG 121
16
16
16
F
B
E
200
Core Modules:
HRM 2b
Industrial Psychology 2
Public Administration 2
HRM 221
IPS 221
IPS 222
PAD 222
16
8
8
16
F
B
B
E
Elective Modules - One of the
following
Business Management 2
Financial Accounting 2/Financial
Report
Development Economics 2
Economics 2
BEC 221
AFA 221
EDE 221
ECO 221
16
16
16
16
G
D
H
C
300
Core Modules:
HRM 3c
HRM 3d
HRM 3e
Industrial Psychology 3
Public Administration 3
Labour Law
HRM 321
HRM 322
HRM 323
IPS 321
IPS 322
PAD 322
LES 422
8
8
8
8
8
16
16
C
C
C
G
G
D
B
FOUNDATION PROGRAMME BACHELOR OF ADMINISTRATION ( HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT) (62003) (ALICE) Duration The curricula shall extend over a minim period of eight semester of full-time study. To be admitted to this degree, prospective students must have achieved level 3 in Mathematical
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Literacy OR a level 1 in Mathematics. Statistical Method 1 is a prerequisites for HRM 3 and IPS 3 (and for graduating with this degree). The degree may be obtained in the following option: Human Resource Management (62003) (Revised) Curricula The curriculum for this option, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Industrial Psychology Department, shall be as follows:
Level
First Semester - Title of Course
Module Code
Cr
Group
100 Core Modules: Academic Reasoning Skills 1 Computer Literacy Business English Human Resource Management 1a Industrial Psychology 1 Electives: One of the following Business Management 1 Economics 1 General Accounting 1
APR 111 F CLT 111 AEB 111F HRM 111 IPS 111 BEC 111 ECO 111 ACG 111
Value added 8 8 16 16 16 16 16
D A F B E
Second Semester
Core Modules: Academic Reasoning Skills 1 Computer Literacy Business English Human Resource Management 1b Industrial Psychology 1 Electives: One of the following Business Management 1 Economics 1 General Accounting 1
APR 121 F CLT 121 AEB 121F HRM 121 IPS 121 BEC 121 ECO 121 ACG 121
Value added 8 8 16 16 16 16 16
D A F B E
200 First Semester
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Core module: Academic Reasoning Skills Business English Public Administration 1 Statistical methods or Statistics 1 Life, Knowledge and Action
APR 112F AEB 112F PAD 111 STA 114 STA 111 LKA111E
Value added 8 16 16 16 16
G C D
Second Semester
Core module: Academic Reasoning Skills 1 Computer Literacy Business English 1 Public Administration 1 Statistical methods or Statistics 1
APR 123F AEB 123F PAD 122 STA 124 STA 122
Value added 8 16 16 16
G C D
NB: For 2rd and 3th year (which will be your 3rd and 4th year) please refer to your respective Degree.
REVISED BACHELOR OF ADMINISTRATION (HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT) (62003) (Bhisho)*
LEVEL TITLE OF COURSE MODULE CODE (S)
CR EXAM** GROUP
ATTENDANCE** GROUP
100
YEAR 1
CORE MODULES: HR Management Industrial psychology Public Administration Life, Knowledge and Action
HRM 111&121 IPS 111& 121 PAD 111 & 122 LKA111
32 32 32 16
D A G
Z Y V
200
YEAR 2
CORE MODULES: HR Management Industrial psychology Public Administration Statistical Methods
HRM 211 &221 IPS211,212,221,222 PAD 211 & 221 STA 114 & 124
32 32 32 32
F B E C
X W B U
300 YEAR 3
CORE MODULES Business Mgt Industrial psychology Public administration
BEC 111 & 121 IPS311,312,321,322 PAD 311 & 321
32 32 32
F G D
X U Z
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300 YEAR 4
Core Modules HR Management Labour Law & Social Security Business Mgt
HRM311,312,321. 322&323 LLL 312& LES421 BEC 211 &221
40 32 32
C B G
V Y Z
B.15 POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ACCOUNTING (60506) (EAST LONDON)
Level Title of course Code Cr
400
Accounting 4
Taxation 4
Financial Management 4
Auditing 4
ACC 401E
ATA 401E
AFM 401E
AUD 401 E
32
32
32
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B.15.1 Admission Criteria
Candidates for the Diploma shall not be admitted to the programme unless:
15.1.1 They have a Bachelor‟s degree in Accounting obtained from an accredited
university; and
15.1.2 They have obtained the permission of the Head of Department for
Accounting Studies and have obtained at least 55% for Accounting 3 and an
average of 55% for the other 3 major subjects.
B.15.2 Programme Structure
This programme consists of the following subjects that are taught separately, but
are examined in an integrated manner:
Accounting 4
Auditing 4
Financial Management 4
Taxation 4
Successful completion of the course will enable students to sit for the first qualifying
examination of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.
B.15.3 Assessment
Six 4¼ hour DP tests will be held during the year. Each DP test will comprise:
75 minutes Accounting 4 topics
60 minutes Auditing 4 topics
60 minutes Managerial Accounting and Finance 4 topics
60 minutes Taxation 4 topics
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It is contemplated that the year marks for each of the PG Dip Acc courses will count 33
1/3% towards the overall assessment and will be based on the results of the July major
tests and the DP tests as follows:
Marks %
July major test 70 23⅓%
DP test 30 10%
Year mark 100 33⅓%
Year end examination 200 66⅔%
300 100%
The DP test mark for each subject is calculated using the marks achieved for each
subject in the two best overall results of the first three tests and the two best overall
results of the second three tests.
The DP requirements for the PG Dip Acc programme, which will be strictly
enforced, are as follows:
75% of acceptable hand ins up to the end of the second term; or
An average mark of at least 45% for the first three DP tests.
Failure to comply with the DP requirements will lead to exclusion from the
programme in mid-year.
In order to pass the PG Dip Acc, a minimum of 50% must be obtained in each of the
four subjects. To qualify to write the QE (Part 1), all four subjects must be passed
in the same academic year. A maximum of two supplementary exams may be
granted. In order to qualify for a supplementary examination, at least two subjects
must be passed and a sub-minimum of 45% must be obtained for the subject(s) not
passed.
B.16 POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ACCOUNTING (PRELIMINARY) (60505) (East
London)
Students who do not qualify for the Post Graduate Diploma may be accepted on a
preliminary registration which effectively repeats the third year courses of the B Com
(Accounting) and B. Acc.
Prerequisites: B Com or similar degree or Technikon Degree. Entrance is at the
discretion of the Head of Department. Students may receive a Post Graduate Diploma in
Accounting (Preliminary) certificate after successful completion of the course. In order to
gain entry to the PGDip Acc, students would have to obtain at least 55% for Accounting 3
and an average of 55% for the other 3 major subjects.
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Level First Semester - Title of Course Code Cr
300
Accounting 3A
Auditing 3A
Taxation 3A
Financial Management 3A
ACC311E
AUD311E
ATV311E
AFC311E
16
16
16
16
Level Second Semester - Title of Course Code Cr
300
Accounting 3B
Auditing 3B
Taxation 3B
Financial Management 3B
ACC321E
AUD321E
ATV321E
AFC321E
16
16
16
16
Students may be required to register for additional courses to the above, depending
on their previous qualifications.
B.17 POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ECONOMICS – Post. Grad. Dip. (Economics)
(60508) (Alice)
This programme is specially designed for graduates who do not have sufficient
background in Economics, but who want to acquire specialized training in
Economics for employment or further study.
B.17.1 Admission Criteria
B.17.1.1 Applicants should have a Bachelors degree with economics as a
major or minor subject from a recognized University or equivalent
institutions.
B.17.1.2 Recognition of prior learning: Candidates with satisfactory evidence of
prior experiential /work related learning may be exempted from the
normal admission requirements.
B.17.1.3 Learners who do not have adequate economics back-ground must be
ready to register for some under-graduate degree courses in order to
qualify for direct entry to this course.
B.17.2 Curriculum
Learners will be expected to complete the following core and elective modules.
Core Modules (64 Credits)
CODE
TITLE
CREDITS
ECO 502
Project Paper
32
50
ECO 511
Microeconomics Honours
16
ECO 512
Macroeconomics Honours
16
Electives (64 credits)
CODE
TITLE
CREDITS
ECO 212
Mathematical Economics 2
16
ECO 222
Mathematical Economics 2
16
ECO 313
Introduction to Econometrics
8
ECO 326
Money, Banking & International
Finance
8
ECO 516
Monetary Economics
16
ECO 522
Contemporary Int. Trade Theory
and Policy
16
ECO 524
Labour Economics
16
ECO 529
Public Finance
16
ECO 520 Development Economics 16
NB: The School of Business and Enterprise will endeavour to offer as many of the
optional modules as possible, subject to the availability of resources.
B.17.3 Assessment
B.17.3.1 Unless specifically stated, the general rules of the University and the
Faculty shall apply, mutatis mutandis
B.17.3.2 The Post Graduate Diploma in Economics will be offered by course
work and a research essay (project paper).
B.17.3.3 The Program will comprise a minimum period of 1 year of full-time
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study or 2 years by part time.
B.17.3.4 All Post Graduate diploma courses in economics will begin in
February every year.
B.17.3.5 In the course of second semester, each student will be allocated a
promoter for the independent research project. The topic of the project
paper should be associated with either a core subject in Economics or
an elective in the same field, and must be approved by the Head of
Department.
B.17.3.6 All taught courses shall be assessed continuously. The ratio of
continuous assessment to the end –of –semester examination shall
be 1:1.
B.17.3.7 Learners shall be permitted to write supplementary examinations at
the end of each semester, but on no account will learners be allowed
to take supplementary exams in more than 2 modules in a semester.
B.17.3.8 The diploma may be awarded with distinction.
B.17.4 Exemptions
B.17.4.1 Exemption from courses completed at this university or other
university may be granted subject to the approval of Senate.
B.17.4.2 Notwithstanding Rule 19.4.1, learners shall not be granted exemption
from more than 64 credits – i.e., 50% of the total number of prescribed
credits.
B.17.4.3 Notwithstanding the above rules learners shall not be granted
exemption from courses completed at undergraduate level.
HIGHER DEGREES
THE DEGREES OF BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (HONOURS) (60500)
(ALICE & EAST LONDON)
AND
BACHELOR OF ADMINISTRATION (HONOURS) (62500)
(ALICE & EAST LONDON)
(Please refer to the Statute and
General Rules for the Honours Degree)
B.18 Duration
The period of study for the degree will extend over at least two semesters of full-
time study. Except for honours in Accounting, a student may with the approval of the
Head of Department concerned, attend and complete the degree over four
semesters on a part-time basis.
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B.19 Subject fields
The degree of Bachelor of Commerce with Honours may be taken in any major
subject for the degree (excepting Commercial Law and Legal Theory), or in any
subject or combination of subjects approved by the Senate.
The degree of Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) may be obtained in any of the
following subjects: Business Management; Economics; Information Systems or
Industrial Psychology. The degree of Bachelor of Administration (Honours) may be
obtained in any of the following subjects: Economics, Industrial Psychology. The
degree of Bachelor of Economics with Honours may be taken in any major subject
for the degree, or in a combination of any two of these subjects.
B.20 Admission
B.20.1 A student may be admitted to an honours degree in a subject in which an average
mark of 60% in all modules at the 300 level was obtained in a specific
discipline/subject. For Business Management, personal interview will be conducted
with all applicants to the course at a date decided upon by the Head of Department.
B.20.2 Where a student obtained a relevant undergraduate degree at another university,
approval by Senate is required for admission to the degree. Candidates shall not be
admitted to any course in the honours degree unless they have obtained the
permission of the Faculty Board on the recommendation of the Head of Department.
Normally candidates will not be admitted to the honours course unless they have
obtained at least a second class pass in the final year in the subject in which they
wish to take honours.
B.20.3 The honours degree normally requires a period of one year‟s full-time study. Such
candidates may not take up any full-time employment while engaged on the course.
They may, however, on the recommendation of the Head of Department concerned
and with the approval of Senate, take up part-time employment. Candidates may, on
the recommendation of the Head of Department concerned and with the permission
of Senate attend and write the examination in a course in the same or another
Programme concurrently with their honours degree.
B.20.4 Senate may, on the recommendation of the Head of Department concerned,
permit a student to take an honours course as a part-time student, provided
that:
B.20.4.1 the honours classes are attended within the normal (day or evening)
timetable of the Programme; and
B.20.4.2 the honours course is spread over two years, but, except with the
special permission of Senate, not more than two years.
Candidates taking the honours degree may be required to satisfy the
examiners that they have an adequate reading knowledge of an approved
language other than the official languages.
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B.21 Examination
B.21.1 A student will not be admitted to any part of the examination unless, in the opinion
of the Head of Department, the module work was of a satisfactory standard.
B.21.2 The examination will be by means of written theory papers, and/or oral
examinations and/or project work. The examinations will be written at the end of the
first semester for 1st semester modules and at the end of the second semester for
2nd semester or full year modules.
B.21.3 A pass in the examination will require a final average of at least 50% of the marks
and a sub-minimum of 40% of the marks in each module.
B.21.4 The degree will be awarded with distinction if an average of 75% is obtained by
the student for all modules
B.21.5 Subject to any exceptions approved by the Senate, candidates shall not be
permitted to present themselves for the examinations for the degree more than once
in the same subject.
B.21.6 Subject to any exceptions approved by the Senate candidates must write all parts
of the examination at one time, and they shall not be exempted from any part of the
examination, provided that a part-time candidate, or a candidate taking the degree
over two years, may, on the recommendation of the Head of Department and with
the permission of Senate, write part of the examination at the end of the first year of
study and part at the end of the second year of study. In specific instances
candidates may write examinations for semester courses in mid-year.
B.22 Curriculum
The selection of modules for the honours degree will be done in consultation with
the Head of Department.
B.22.1 B. Com. Business Management Honours (60501)
(Alice and East London)
The Business Management honours modules are offered on a full-time basis, that is
over a period of 2 semesters and a part time basis at the East London Campus (that
is over a period of 4 semesters), depending on the availability of resources. The
degree shall comprise of 128 credits. Students must complete 2 modules (64
credits) from Group 2 and also submit a mini-dissertation (32 credits) on an
approved topic at the end of the period of 2 semesters of full-time study.
Group 1
Compulsory module in the Department of Business Management
BEC 501 Mini-dissertaion of ±45 typed pages, 1.5 spacing 32 credits
BEC 506 Marketing Research 32 credits
Group 2
Optional modules offered in the Department of Business Management
BEC 502 Advanced General Management 32 credits
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BEC 503 Advanced Marketing Management 32 credits
BEC 504 Advanced Financial Management 32 credits
BEC 505 Advanced Operations Management 32 credits
BEC 507 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management 32 credits
NB: Presentation of modules will depend on the availability of subject specialists
(lecturers) and the registration of the minimum economical number of students as
determined by the Department.
B.22.2 Economics Honours (60502) (Alice & East London)
Economics Honours is offered on both full-time and part-time basis at the Alice and
East London Campuses. Candidates can specialise either in the General Stream,
Financial Markets Stream or Transport Economics Stream, subject to approval.
Candidates specialising in either the General Stream or Transport Economics
Stream are required to complete 3 core modules (48 credits), three or more
electives (48 credits) plus a mini-dissertation - ECO 501 (32 credits) of 30 typed
pages (1.5 spacing) on an approved topic, selected in consultation with the
Programme Coordinator, over a period of two semesters (full-time) and two years
(part-time). The Honours degree with a specialisation in Financial Markets is
specifically structured and no optional papers are offered.
The degree is offered in two formats and can thus be completed in either one or two
years. Candidates are required to complete the modules offered during the first
semester/year (56 credits), the modules offered during the second semester/year
(56 credits) plus a mini dissertation (ECO 501E, 32 credits). The topics for the
research reports are to be selected in consultation with, and approved by, the
Programme Coordinator. It is intended to ultimately incorporate learnerships during
the second year of the two year programme, but the arrangements have not as yet
been finalised and no commitment in this regard can be given at this time.
ECONOMIC HONOURS – GENERAL STREAM (ALICE & EAST LONDON) –
60502
Core Module (80 Credits)
Code Title Credits
ECO 501 Mini-Dissertation of 30 typed pages (1.5 spacing) 32
ECO 511 Microeconomics Honours 16
ECO 512 Macroeconomics Honours 16
ECO 513 Econometric Techniques 16
Electives (48 Credits)
Code Title Credits
ECO 516 Monetary Economics 16
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ECO 523 Mathematical Economics 16
ECO 522 Contemporary International Trade Theory and Policy 16
ECO 524 Labour Economics 16
ECO 525 Econ. Develop. of the SA Economy in the 21st Century 16
ECO 526 Industrial Economics 16
ECO 529 Public Finance 16
ECO 520 Developmental Economics 16
ECO 514 Environmental & Resource Economics 16
ECO 528 International Finance 16
ECONOMIC HONOURS- FINANCIAL MARKETS STREAM (EAST LONDON) –
being phased-out (no new intake with effect from 2008)
Core Module (80 Credits)
Code Title Credits
ECO 501E Mini-Dissertation of 30 typed pages (1.5 spacing) 32
ECO 511E Microeconomics Honours 16
ECO 512E Macroeconomics Honours 16
ECO 513E Econometric Techniques 16
Electives (48 Credits)
Code Title Credits
ECO 516E Monetary Economics 16
ECF 523E Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets 8
ECF 524E Financial Economics 8
ECF 525E Derivative Markets 8
ECF 526E Financial Market Regulation 8
ECF 527E Debt Markets 8
ECONOMIC HONOURS - FINANCAIL MARKETS STREAM - 60511
(EAST LONDON) – New curriculum
First Semester/Year (56 Credits)
Code Title Credits
ECO 516E Monetary Economics 16
ECF 511E Macroeconomics, Policy and the Financial Markets 16
ECO 511E Microeconomics Honours 16
ECF 512E Financial Market Microstructure and Regulation 8
Second Semester/Year (56 Credits excluding 32 credits in respect of ECO501E)
Code Title Credits
ECF 527E Debt (Money and Bond) Markets 8
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ECF 528E Equity Markets 8
ECF 529E Foreign Exchange Markets 8
ECF 525E Derivative Markets 8
ECO 513E Econometric Techniques 16
ECF 514E Financial Economics 8
ECO 501E Mini-dissertation 32
ECONOMIC HONOURS - TRANSPORT STREAM (ALICE) - 60512
Core Module (80 Credits)
Code Title Credits
ECO 501 Mini-Dissertation of 30 typed pages (1.5 spacing) 32
ECO 511 Microeconomics Honours 16
ECO 512 Macroeconomics Honours 16
ECO 513 Econometric Techniques 16
Electives (48 Credits)
ECO 522 Contemporary International Trade Theory and Policy 16
ECO 525 Econ. Develop. of the SA Economy in the 21st Century 16
ECO 526 Industrial Economics 16
ECO 527 Transport Economics 16
ECO 528 International Finance 16
ECO 529 Public Finance 16
ECO 514 Environmental & Resource Economics 16
ECO 520 Developmental Economics 16
BEC 505 Advanced Operations Management 16
NB: Not all the above streams or the modules listed under each of the streams will
be offered in any one year. Those offered will depend on the specialist qualifications
of available staff. Learners are advised to enquire before registering. Learners
registering for the Honours programme without Econometrics background will be
required to do Year 3 Econometrics for non-degree purposes.
Learners who specialise in Transport Economics and select the transport-related
elective module (i.e., Transport Economics) will be required to write their mini
dissertation on a Transport-related topic and may benefit from a capacity
development sponsorship of the National Department of Transport – (subject to
meeting the qualifying criteria)
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B.22.2.1 Examinations (Economics Honours)
B.22.2.1.1 Unless otherwise specified, in the description of modules, essays
and/or mid-semester tests will be conducted during the semester. If a
number of such essays and/or tests are written during the semester,
an average module work mark will be recorded for the student.
B.22.2.1.2 The semester mark for completed modules and the examination mark
shall be combined in the proportion of 50% each to obtain the final
mark.
B.22.2.1.3 With respect to full time studies, no student shall be allowed to
proceed to the second semester unless he/she has successfully
completed both Microeconomics (ECO 511) and Macroeconomics
(ECO 512). Note that this ruling applies to the General and Transport
Economics streams only
B.22.2.1.4 If a candidate is unable to meet the deadline of submitting his/her Mini-
Dissertation at the end of the second semester (full time students) or
the second year (part-time students), he/she shall apply in writing to
the Head of Department, giving full reasons for the delay in completing
the dissertation. This application will then serve before the Faculty
Board, which will make a recommendation to Senate. This ruling shall
also apply to the individual research reports required in the Financial
Market specialisation.
B.22.2.1.5 Subject to the approval of the Faculty Board, on the recommendation
of the Head of Department, a full-time candidate who has been
awarded the ordinary degree may be permitted to take the Honours
and Master‟s degree in Economics concurrently. The candidate shall
write the full Honours examination in no more than two years, and if
successful may submit the Master‟s thesis at any subsequent date
without further attendance requirements, provided the candidate
remains a registered student.
B.22.3 Industrial Psychology Honours (60503 / 62501) (Alice)
Pre-requisites
STA 111, STA 122 or STA 114 & STA 124. The degree of an accredited university
with Industrial Psychology and/or Human Resource Management as a major,
provided a grade of 60% or equivalent is obtained. The grade of 60% may be
waived at the discretion of the Department. BEC 502 (Advanced General
Management offered in the Department of Business Management - 32 credits) could
be taken in place of IPS 514 (16 Credits) and IPS524 (16 Credits). In terms of Rule
C. 21 above, this degree may be registered, as either a B. Com. or B. Admin. The
degree shall comprise 160 credits.
First Semester Modules
(All modules listed below are compulsory.)
IPS 511 Advanced Organisational Psychology A:
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Individuals and Groups 16 credits
IPS 512 Advanced Personnel Psychology A:
Strategic HRM Issues. 16 credits
IPS 513 Advanced Industrial Relations Theory A 16 credits
IPS 514 Individual Aspects of Consumer Behaviour A 16 credits
IPS 515 Research Methodology 16 credits
Second Semester Modules
(All modules listed below are compulsory.)
IPS 521 Advanced Organisational Psychology B:
The Organisation 16 credits
IPS 522 Advanced Personnel Psychology B:
HRM Functions 16 credits
IPS 523 Advanced Industrial Relations B Practice16 credits
IPS 524 Environmental Factors and Consumer Behaviour B 16 credits
IPS 525 Mini-dissertation 16 credits
B.22.3.1 Examinations (Industrial Psychology Honours)
B.24.3.1.1 Unless otherwise specified, in the description of modules,
essays and/or mid-semester tests will be conducted during the
semester. If a number of such essays and/or tests are written
during the semester, an average module work mark will be
recorded for the student.
B.22.3.1.2 The semester mark for completed modules and the
examination mark shall be combined in the proportion of 50%
and 50% respectively to obtain the final mark.
B.22.3.1.3 Students must obtain a pass marks in both semesters‟
assessments in order to obtain the degree and those who
would wish to proceed to the Masters degree must record an
average mark of 60%
B.22.3.1.4 If a candidate is unable to meet the deadline of submitting
his/her Mini-Dissertation at the end of the second semester,
s/he shall apply in writing to the Head of Department, giving full
reasons for the delay in completing the dissertation. This
application will then serve before the Faculty Board, which will
make a recommendation to Senate.
B.22.4 Bachelor of Commerce in Information Systems Honours (60504)
(East London)
The Information Systems Honours modules will be offered on a full-time or part-time
basis that is over a period of 2 or 4 semesters. The degree shall comprise 128
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credits. Students must complete 6 modules (80 credits) and also submit a systems
development project (24 credits) and mini-dissertation (24 credits). In addition to rule
G.17.4 (Assessment for Honours degrees), students must obtain a 50% pass mark
in IFS 501E and IFS 502E which are assessed continuously.
Admission into the Honours degree is subject to an aggregate of 60% obtained over
IFS311E and 321E on the old Information Systems curriculum (Please enquire at
the Department for admission criteria for 2012). Students with an aggregate below
60% may be accepted at the discretion of the Department following an interview.
Candidates who have not been successful at their first attempt at IFS3, and who
have scored a 60% aggregate will have their academic performance considered as
part of their application, and their acceptance onto the Honours programme is at the
discretion of the Department. Candidates with qualifications in cognizant disciplines
need to apply for an interview with the Department prior to submitting an application
to the University.
Compulsory modules in the Department of Information Systems:
Corporate Communications (IFS511E) 8 credits;
Research Methods (IFS512E) 8 credits;
Requirements Management (IFS513E) 16 credits;
Information Systems Management (IFS527E) 16 credits;
Systems Development Project (IFS501E) 24 credits;
Research Project (IFS502E) 24 credits.
Optional modules offered in the Department of Information Systems:
Knowledge Management (IFS514E) 16 credits;
E-Business (IFS526E) 16 credits;
Information Systems Trends (IFS529E) 16 credits;
Human Computer Interaction (IFS528E) 16 credits;
Advanced Project Management (IFS515E) 16 credits.
*Running of modules subject to demand and/or availability of staff.
22.5 BACHELOR OF COMMERCE HONOURS (TAXATION) - 60510
The entrance requirements are a Bachelor of Commerce degree, with
undergraduate taxation. A minimum mark of 55% is required for the undergraduate
taxation course.
The programme is a one-year programme (full time) or two years (part time).
It comprises four papers as follows:
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Paper
Code
Credits
Taxation IV
Theory of Taxation IV
Introduction to Research Methods
and Design
Research Essay (or paper)
TAX 501E
TAX 502E
TAX 503E
TAX 504E
32
32
32
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THE DEGREES OF MASTER OF COMMERCE
(61000) (Alice & East London)
AND
MASTER OF ADMINISTRATION
(63000) (Alice & East London)
(Please also refer to the Statute and
General Rules for the Masters Degree)
B.23 Subject fields
The degrees may be obtained in the following subjects:
M Com:
Business Management (61001)
Economics (61003)
Industrial Psychology (61005)
Information Systems (61007)
M Admin:
Industrial Psychology (63001/63002)
B.24 Curriculum for Masters Degree
B.24.1 Masters in Economics
A brief research proposal shall be submitted for acceptance to the Head of
Department where after the student will be assigned a supervisor(s). A detailed
research proposal shall be completed within a prescribed period and presented to
the School Research and Higher Degrees Committee for approval to proceed with
the dissertation.
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B.24.1.1 Examination
B.24.1.1.1 If the examination for the degrees M Com and M Admin consists of a
prescribed number of modules, a candidate shall qualify for the degree if
s/he attains at least 40% in each module and an average of at least 50% for
all the modules.
B. 24.1.1.2 Where the examination consists of a dissertation and in addition a written or
oral examination the above-mentioned requirements will apply to the
examinations and dissertation respectively.
B. 24.1.1.1 Pass with distinction
Where the examination consists of individual modules, a student shall pass
with distinction if s/he obtains an average of at least 75% for the
examination as a whole.
Where the examination consists of a dissertation, a candidate shall pass with
distinction if, in the opinion of the examiners, he or she has attained a first
class standard.
Where the examination consists of a dissertation and in addition a written or
oral examination, the above-mentioned requirements will apply to both the
papers and dissertation respectively.
B.25 Curriculum for Masters Degree
B.25.1 Masters other than Industrial Psychology
A research proposal shall be submitted for acceptance to the Head of Department
and Faculty Research and Higher Degrees Committee where after the student could
proceed with research with the aim of writing a dissertation for submission and
evaluation.
B.25.2 Masters in Industrial Psychology
B.25.2.1 Masters degree in Industrial Psychology by dissertation (61005/63001)
Students are required to undertake a study of literature prescribed by the
Programme/Department on the specific field of study in which the student
intends to carry out research. An oral or written examination on the
prescribed literature must be done, not earlier than three months and not
later than one year after first registering for the Masters degree. A
student will not be permitted to continue with his/her studies unless the
outcome of such an examination is to the satisfaction of the promoter and
the Programme Coordinator. A research proposal should be submitted
for acceptance to the Programme Coordinator and/or the Faculty
Research Committee where after the student could proceed with research with
the aim of writing a dissertation for submission and evaluation.
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B.25.2.2 Masters degree in Industrial Psychology by examination (61006/63002)
All the rules regarding Masters degrees by examination apply.
Examinations are written in the normal examination periods of the
University. The degree is intended to be completed within two academic
years. Students are required to pass all the modules of which the Masters
degree in Industrial Psychology is composed. The modules are as follows:
FIRST YEAR MODULES
IPS 601: a) Advanced Psychometrics and,
b) Research Methodology (including Statistics)
IPS 602: Advanced Personnel Psychology
IPS 603: Advanced Organisational Psychology
SECOND YEAR MODULES
IPS 604: Mini-dissertation. Approximately 80 typed pages based on the
research project.
IPS 605 & IPS 606: To be selected by the students from the main and/or
related fields in Industrial-Organisational Psychology and
approved by the Head of Department.
IPS 607 Work Placement/Internship (20-22 weeks in the first semester of
the second year)
(Note: 604 & 607 are not contact/tuition based. They are however evaluated
through strict criteria that would be made available to the students).
B.25.2.3 Master‟s in Commerce (Information Systems) and Masters (Information
Systems) (61007/61008)
Admission/Entry requirements:
A 4-year Bachelors / Honours degree with Information Systems as major
or cognate disciplines and relevant work experience.
Consideration may be given to those with 3-year Bachelor degree plus
extensive (>3 years) managerial / relevant work experience (including
experience from private sector). Note that only a limited number of
learners without a 4-year Bachelors (Honours) degree may be enrolled
after an assessment of work profile, managerial experience and other
professional qualifications. Applications must be accompanied by a
detailed CV and a three page draft research proposal. Applicants may be
required to attend an interview.
Admission into the programme can be obtained at the beginning of the
academic year but application forms are available at the end of the
preceding academic year.
B.25.2.4 Master‟s in Commerce (Information Systems) by dissertation (61007)
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All the rules regarding Master‟s degree by research dissertation apply.
Students are required to undertake a study of relevant literature prescribed
or agreed to by the Department of Information Systems pertaining to the
specific field of study in which the student intends to carry out research. A
research proposal should be submitted for acceptance to the Programme
Coordinator and/or the Faculty Research and Higher Degrees Committee
whereafter the student can proceed with research with the aim of writing a
dissertation for submission and assessment.
B.25.2.5 Master‟s in Commerce (Information Systems) by coursework and mini-
dissertation (61008) – Enquire at the Department
All the rules regarding Masters degrees by examination apply.
Duration of the Programme
The Master of IS is a programme with a minimum duration of two years and
a maximum of three years. A combination of contact and other creative
modes of education are employed for effective learning purposes. Studies
are arranged in part-time sessions for coursework and research. It is
envisaged that part-time students will take three years to complete the
course. Part time students may spread the course work modules over two
years. The coursework component takes place in the student‟s first year.
The exit qualification in the programme is a Master of Information Systems
(obtained after completing two years of study which includes course work
and a research dissertation).
Module Content
Some modules may be offered over a two year-cycle. The elective modules
will be offered depending on the skills available in the Department. It is
important to ascertain from the Head of Department which modules will be
offered in which years.
First year (Coursework)
Title of Module Code Credit
Year 1
Semester 1
Fundamental
Introduction to Information Systems*
Information Systems Theory*
IFS 711E
IFS 712E
8
8
Core:
Research Methods
Strategic Management in IS
IFS 801E
IFS 813E
8
16
Electives:
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Knowledge Management and IS IFS 814E 16
Year 1
Semester 2
Core:
Research Methodology
Information Security Management
IFS 801E
IFS 824E
8
16
Electives - two of
IS for Entrepreneurship**
Advanced Project Management for
IS**
Information Technology for Public
Sector Managers***
IFS 825E
IFS 826E
PAD 814E
16
16
8
Second Year (Mini-Dissertation)
Title of Module Code Credit
Year 2 Core
Research Project / Dissertation
Research Report and article
IFS 800
100
* Required for students who have not studied Information Systems at the
required level
** Choice of 2 of the three electives
*** May be chosen as an elective, dependent on credit value and
consultation with the School of Public Administration.
Assessment
Assessment includes course work and a supervised research project/
dissertation. Continuous assessment will be done through assignments,
essays, presentations, participation on work seminars, and submission of
portfolios. Summative assessment will be done through a 3-hour
examination.
The research project accounts for approximately 55% of the total mark
requirements for the Masters Degree programme. Approximately 100 typed
pages based on the research project
In order to continue with the course after each semester of assessment,
students should have passed the preceding modules at the 50% level. The
course as a whole is passed by aggregating the marks for the courses and
the dissertation. Students need to achieve a 50% pass overall (with sub-
minima of 40% for each course), as well as a 50% pass mark for the
dissertation. The dissertation should consist of a 100 page research report,
and can comprise either:
The application of extant theory to workplace problems
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A unique solution to workplace problems
Addition to existing theory.
Interim deliverables will be required for the dissertation:
A proposal that needs to be approved by the Faculty Higher Degrees
Committee
A literature review
A research methods description and discussion
A journal article for publication
Each of the above is required to be considered acceptable for continuation
with the programme
Students not achieving the required levels may be counselled into exiting
the course.
On completion of the Masters Degree programme, graduates will be able to
pursue Doctoral studies, if they so wish and subject to the availability of
appropriate supervision.
B.26 Phd (in Information Systems) – 61505 – DIS900
B.26.1 Purpose
To equip the student with both theoretical and methodological grasp, towards
building conceptual and empirical oversight. The intended outcome is the ability to
work at the paradigmatic level of development. The PhD is predicated upon the
premise that the student has mastered the ability to translate or operationalise
theory into a research programme at the Masters level.
B.26.2 Mode of delivery
By research only.
B.26.3 Articulation
Qualifiers may enrol for post-doctoral studies. Horizontally, learners can have
access to other PhD programmes in the faculty.
B.26.4 Admission Criteria
A Masters degree with a pass mark of not less than 60% for the major courses (in
the case of coursework Masters) or a good masters and evidence of scholarly
contribution (in the case of a research Masters). A research proposal of less than
600 words indicating the topic, introduction, the problem statement, objectives of the
study and the methodology.
B.26.5 Exit level outcomes
Understanding of the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of
development thinking and action
Ability to understand and to successfully carry out the analysis and
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evaluation of policy and to determine the political economy of policy
paradigm shifts.
Capacity to design and write a thesis that can respectably stand alongside
refereed and published research in the same field and have practical
application in the social context.
Critical Cross-field outcomes
Ability to work in both the urban and rural contexts in investigating and
formulating different strategies and policies for development, including
carrying out institutional policy and strategic planning at all levels of
governance.
Integrated assessment
Seminar presentations, group discussions and debates including written
research proposals which are used to assess mastery of the theory and
conceptual clarity.
Research competence and analytical skills are assessed from the
dissertation and the use of case studies
B.26.6 Programme structure
The programme runs through two to five years. The first year is devoted to the
review of literature and writing of a research proposal undergirded by a series of
seminar presentation for peer assessment. This culminates into a final assessment
of the proposal by the research committee of the Faculty. The remaining years are
for the writing and defending of the research thesis.
B.27 Doctor of Commerce (in Industrial Psychology) – 61503 – DIP900
B.27.1 Purpose
To equip the student with both theoretical and methodological grasp, towards
building conceptual and empirical oversight. The intended outcome is the ability to
work at the paradigmatic level of development. The PhD is predicated upon the
premise that the student has mastered the ability to translate or operationalise
theory into a research programme at the Masters level.
B.27.2 Mode of delivery
By research only.
B.27.3 Articulation
Qualifiers may enrol for post-doctoral studies. Horizontally, learners can have
access to other PhD programmes in the faculty.
B.27.4 Admission Criteria
A Masters degree with a pass mark of not less than 60% for the major courses (in
the case o f coursework Masters) or a good masters and evidence of scholarly
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contribution (in the case of a research Masters). A research proposal of less than
600 words indicating the topic, introduction, the problem statement, objectives of the
study and the methodology.
B.27.5 Exit level outcomes
Understanding of the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of
development thinking and action
Ability to understand and to successfully carry out the analysis and
evaluation of policy and to determine the political economy of policy
paradigm shifts.
Capacity to design and write a thesis that can respectably stand alongside
refereed and published research in the same field and have practical
application in the social context.
Critical Cross-field outcomes
Ability to work in both the urban and rural contexts in investigating and
formulating different strategies and policies for development, including
carrying out institutional policy and strategic planning at all levels of
governance.
Integrated assessment
Seminar presentations, group discussions and debates including written
research proposals which are used to assess mastery of the theory and
conceptual clarity.
Research competence and analytical skills are assessed from the
dissertation and the use of case studies
B.27.6 Programme structure
The programme runs through two to five years. The first year is devoted to the
review of literature and writing of a research proposal undergirded by a series of
seminar presentation for peer assessment. This culminates into a final assessment
of the proposal by the research committee of the Faculty. The remaining years are
for the writing and defending of the research thesis.
B.28 Doctor of Commerce (in Economics) – 61500 – DEC900
B.28.1 Purpose
To equip the student with both theoretical and methodological grasp, towards
building conceptual and empirical oversight. The intended outcome is the ability to
work at the paradigmatic level of development. The PhD is predicated upon the
premise that the student has mastered the ability to translate or operationalise
theory into a research programme at the Masters level.
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B.28.2 Mode of delivery
By research only.
B.28.3 Articulation
Qualifiers may enrol for post-doctoral studies. Horizontally, learners can have
access to other PhD programmes in the faculty.
B.28.4 Admission Criteria
A Masters degree with a pass mark of not less than 60% for the major courses (in
the case o f coursework Masters) or a good masters and evidence of scholarly
contribution (in the case of a research Masters). A research proposal of less than
600 words indicating the topic, introduction, the problem statement, objectives of the
study and the methodology.
B.28.5 Exit level outcomes
Understanding of the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of
development thinking and action
Ability to understand and to successfully carry out the analysis and
evaluation of policy and to determine the political economy of policy
paradigm shifts.
Capacity to design and write a thesis that can respectably stand alongside
refereed and published research in the same field and have practical
application in the social context.
Critical Cross-field outcomes
Ability to work in both the urban and rural contexts in investigating and
formulating different strategies and policies for development, including
carrying out institutional policy and strategic planning at all levels of
governance.
Integrated assessment
Seminar presentations, group discussions and debates including written
research proposals which are used to assess mastery of the theory and
conceptual clarity.
Research competence and analytical skills are assessed from the
dissertation and the use of case studies
B.28.6 Programme structure
The programme runs through two to five years. The first year is devoted to the
review of literature and writing of a research proposal undergirded by a series of
seminar presentation for peer assessment. This culminates into a final assessment
of the proposal by the research committee of the Faculty. The remaining years are
for the writing and defending of the research thesis.
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DETAILED SYLLABI OF THE SCHOOL
OF BUSINESS & ENTERPRISE
(By Programme)
ACCOUNTING
Old Course Codes New Course Codes
AAC ACC
AAU AUD
ATA ATV
AFC AFM
AIA 121 Introduction to Accounting 1A
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to cover the basic concepts of accounting.
Instruction: Lectures, Tutorials
Credits: 0
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: None
ACC 111E Accounting 1A
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to cover the basic concepts of accounting.
Instruction: Lectures, Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: AIA121 for degree 60006/Other degrees None
ACC 121E Accounting 1B
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to demonstrate the preparation of financial
statements, including cash flow statements, for partnerships (including
changes in partners), companies and close corporations.
Instruction: Lectures, Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: 50% in ACC111E /ACC111/ACG111E/ACG111
ACG 121E/ACG 121E General Accounting 1B
The module is aimed at students who do not intend to qualify as chartered accountants,
but who wish to become members of another professional institute or who do not wish to
become professional accountants, yet to include Accounting as a major subject in the
degree.
Purpose: The purpose of the module is to demonstrate the preparation of financial
statements including cash flow statements, for partnerships (including
changes in partners), companies and close corporations
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Instruction: Lectures and tutorials .
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular Class tests and one 3 hour examination.
Prerequisite: 40% in ACC 111 / ACC 111E
ACC211E Accounting 2A
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to introduce South African Statements of
Generally Accepted Accounting Practice and IFRS to ensure that learners
gain a basic understanding of the elements of financial statements, their
measurement, recognition, presentation and disclosure.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: 50% in ACC111E/ACC111 and 55% in ACC121E/ACC121
“Or passed both Accounting 1 modules with an overall average of 55%”
ACG 211E/ACG 211 General Accounting 2A
The module is aimed at students who do not intend to qualify as chartered accountants,
but who wish to become members of another professional institute or who do no wish to
become professional accountants, but want to include Accounting as a major subject in the
degree.
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to introduce South African Statements of
Generally Accepted Accounting Practice and IFRS and to ensure that
learners gain a basic understanding of the elements of financial statements,
their recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: 50% in ACC111E/ACC111 and 50% in either
ACC121E/ACC121 or
ACG121E/ACG121
ACC221E Accounting 2B
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to cover the basic aspects of a company‟s own
shareholders‟ interest and investment with specific emphasis on simple
investments in various financial instruments and investments giving the
investor a controlling interest in the investee.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: 50% in ACC211E
ACG 221E/ACG221 General Accounting 2B
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to cover the basic aspects of a company‟s own
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shareholders interest and investment with specific emphasis on simple
investments in various financial instruments and investments giving the
investor a controlling interest in the investee.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class test and one 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: 40% in either ACC211E/ACC211 or ACG 211E/ACG211
AFA 211 Accounting Systems and Special Applications
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to demonstrate the accounting procedures
required for incomplete records, associations not for gain, manufacturing
concerns, branches and investments, as well as accounting for instalment
sales.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: AFA111 and AFA121
*This course will be discontinued from 2012
AFA 221 Financial Reporting- Financial Accounting 2
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to cover the presentation of company financial
statements in compliance with the Companies Act and generally accepted
accounting practice, including the preparation of the cash flow statement, as
well as accounting for close corporations and more advanced financial
analysis.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: 40% in AFA211
*This course will be discontinued from 2012
ACC311E Accounting 3A
Purpose: The purpose of this module is for learners to develop intellectual skills to be
able to prepare and present advanced and comprehensive financial
statements to fully comply with the requirements of the South African
Statements of Generally Accepted Accounting Practice and IFRS in the
manner required by the Companies Act of South Africa.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination (Open book allowed)
Prerequisites: 50% in ACC211E and 55% in ACC221E
“or passed both Accounting 2 modules with an overall average of 55%”
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ACG 311E/ACG311 General Accounting 3A
Purpose: The purpose of this module is for learners to develop intellectual skills to be
able to prepare and present advanced and comprehensive financial
statements to fully comply with the requirements of the South African
Statements of Generally Accepted Accounting Practice and IFRS in the
manner required by the Companies Act Of South Africa. The module is
aimed at students who do not intend to qualify as chartered accountants but
who wish to become members of another professional institute or who do not
wish to become professional accountants, but want to include Accounting as
a major subject in the degree.”
Institution: Lecturers, Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: 50% in either ACC 211E or ACG 211E or
50% in either ACC 221E or ACG 221E/ACG 221
ACC 321E Accounting 3B
Purpose: The purpose of this module is for learners to develop intellectual skills to be
able to prepare, present and disclose consolidated annual financial
statements for a group of companies to comply with the requirements of the
South African Statements of Generally Accepted Accounting Practice and
IFRS in the manner required by the Companies Act of South Africa.
Instruction: Lectures, Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination (Open book allowed)
Prerequisites: 50% in ACC311E
ACG 321E/ACG321 General Accounting 3B
Purpose: The purpose of this module is for learners to develop intellectual skills to be
able to prepare, present and disclose consolidated annual financial
statements for a group of companies to comply with the requirements of the
South African Statements of Generally Accepted Accounting Practice and
IFRS in the manner required by the Companies Act of South Africa. The
module is aimed at students who do not intend to qualify as chartered
accountants but who wish to become members of another professional
institute or who do not wish to become professional accountants, but want to
include Accounting as a major subject in the degree
Instruction: Lectures, Tutorials
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: 40% in either ACC311E or ACG 311E/ACG311
AFA 311 External Financial Reporting
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to cover the preparation of consolidated
financial statements, including those with associated companies, as well as
the accounting treatment of inter group transactions and the purchase and
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sale of group interests; and accounting transactions of a special nature –
taxation.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: AFA211 and AFA221, LCM111 and LCM121, STA111 and STA122 (or
concurrently).
*This course will be discontinued from 2013.
AFA 321 Accounting Applications and Developments
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to cover accounting for transactions of a
special nature, i.e. foreign exchange and contract accounting; as well as
concepts of financial reporting including a consideration of recognition,
measurement and disclosure of financial information, and also understanding
the standard setting process, including the framework for evaluating these
processes.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: 40% in AFA311
*This course will be discontinued from 2013
AUD211E Governance and Auditing 2A
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to
- introduce the learners to the ethical dimension of economic activities,
managing the ethical dimension of organizations, and ethical decision-
making
- introduce the learners to effective communication in the business
environment, effective writing and presentation skills in order to better
communicate in the corporate environment.
- cover the basic principles of auditing as well as ethical and legal aspects
governing the work performed by an auditor.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and assignments and one 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: 50% in ACC 111E/ACC111 and ACC 121E/ACC121/ACG121/ACG121E
: 50% in ACL 121/ACL 121E
50% in IFS121E
AUD221E Governance and Auditing 2A
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to :
- provide learners with a knowledge of and ability to interpret and apply
various legislation as well as common-law principles applicable to
commerce and industry legislation as well as common-law principles
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applicable to commerce and industry
- provide learners with a practical understanding of accounting systems
and business cycles and the ability to evaluate the effectiveness of these
systems and cycles
- cover the basic overall audit process.
Instruction : Lectures and Tutorials
Credits : 16
Assessment : Regular class tests and assignments and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites : 40% in AUD 211E
AUD 311E Governance and Auditing 3A
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to cover the basic steps in the audit process,
and cover in detail audit planning and risk assessment, and the audit of
various accounting cycles. The audit of the cycles includes the use of
computer assisted audit techniques and an integrated practical.
Instruction: Lectures and tutorials and computer based practical instruction.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and assignments and practical assessment and one
3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: AUD211E and AUD221E
AUD321E Auditing 3B
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to build on the knowledge gained in Auditing
3A and cover in detail the remaining accounting, inclusive of the use of
computer assisted audit techniques and integrated practical assignments.
The evaluating, concluding and reporting stages of the audit process are
covered in detail on a theoretical as well as a group and individual project-
driven practical basis.
Instruction: Lectures and tutorials and computer-based practical instruction.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and assignments, practical assignments and one 3
hour examination.
Prerequisites: 40% in AUD 311E
AFM 111E/AFM111 Financial Management 1A
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to provide the learners firstly with concepts
regarding the time value of flow of money in order to evaluate financial
decisions and secondly to understand and implement basic concepts and
techniques of probability and statistics emphasising where each of these
concepts are related to financial management issues.
Introduction: Lecturers and Tutors
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination.
Prereqiusites: AMB111 and AMB121 or equivalent.
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AFM 211E Financial Management 2A
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to describe and explain the function of
financial management in making long and short term finance decisions as
well as long term investment decisions.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and assignments and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: AFM111E/AFM111
AFM 221E Financial Management 2B
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to cover the basic concepts of cost accounting,
cost classification, cost behaviour and cost management, absorption and
direct costing, the allocation of overheads and the management of
accounting information systems as it relates to types of costing systems.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and assignments and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: AFM111E/AFM111
AFM 311E Financial Management 3A
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to cover the influence of changes in volume on
the nature of cost, cost volume profit analysis, the concept of the learning
curve, the concept of advanced manufacturing environment and
management accounting techniques.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and assignments and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: AFM211E and AFM221E
AFM 321E Financial Management 3B
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to describe and explain the function of
financial management in making long and short term finance decisions as
well as long term investment decisions.
Instruction: Lectures ant tutorials.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and assignments and one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: AFM211E and AFM221E
ATV221E Taxation 2A
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to introduce the concepts and ground rules
regarding Income Tax. This module deals with the inclusion of taxable
amounts and deductions against the gross income of a taxpayer.
Instruction: Lectures and tutorials.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination
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Prerequisites: 50% in ACC111/ ACC111E and ACC121E/ACC121 or
50% in ACC111E/ACC111/ACG111/ACG111E and
ACG121/ACG121E
ATV311E Taxation 3A
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to build on the rules regarding Income Tax, as
well as Value Added Tax as introduced in Taxation 2A. The module deals
with the inclusion of complex taxable amounts and recoupment‟s in the gross
income of taxpayers as well as the deductions and allowances available to
them. The module also covers the taxation principles regarding Capital Gains
Tax.
Instruction: LECTURES and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination (open book allowed)
Prerequisites: ATV221E
ATV321E Taxation 3B
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to apply the basic concepts of taxation
(including capital gains tax) to individuals, companies, partnerships and
estates as well as the rules and regulations regarding the administration and
payment of taxation
Instruction: Lectures and tutorials.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 3 hour examination (open book allowed)
Prerequisites: 40% in ATV311E
AMB111 Business Mathematics 1A
Purpose: The purpose of this course is to provide basic mathematical knowledge for
students doing the extended 4 year B.Com (Accounting).
Instruction: Lectures and tutorials.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 2 hour examination.
Prerequisites: None
AMB121 Business Mathematics 1B
Purpose: The purpose of this course is to provide students with an understanding of
the time value of money, how to read and prepare graphical financial
information, the South African Securities exchange and basic financial ratios
and analysis techniques.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 2 hour examination.
Prerequisites: None
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AEB111 Business English 1A
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to identify areas of strength and those needing
attention in regards to students reading, thinking and problem-solving skills,
and to build on the areas of strength and address the weaknesses identified.
Instruction: Lectures and tutorials.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 2 hour examination.
Prerequisites: None
AEB121 Business English 1B
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to provide students with further thinking and
time management skills.
Instruction: Lectures and tutorials.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 2 hour examination.
Prerequisites: None
AAT211 Fundamental Accounting Principles
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to cover the basic concepts of accounting, as
well as the preparation of financial statements for attorneys.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 2 hour examination.
Prerequisites: None
AAT322 Accounting Procedures and Trust Accounting
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to cover particular accounting procedures and
trust accounting relevant to attorneys.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests and one 2 hour examination.
Prerequisites: None
Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting
Purpose: The purpose of this qualification is to confer the Certificate in the Theory of
Accountancy on successful students, thus enabling them to sit part I of the
qualifying examination of the South African Institute of Chartered
Accountants.
Content: This programme is the prescribed CTA curriculum as formulated by the
South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and consists of the
following subjects:
ACC 401E Accounting 4
FIM 401E Financial Management 4
ATV 401E Taxation 4
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AUD 401E Governance and Auditing 4
Instruction: Formal Lectures, tutorials and case studies
Credits: 128
Assessment: Refer to p.62 - 63 (page numbers may vary)
Prerequisites: B Com (Accounting) from an accredited university, or Post Graduate
Diploma in Accounting (Preliminary) with the following minimum marks –
Accounting 3 55% and an average of 55% for Governance and Auditing 3,
Taxation 3 and Financial Management 3
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1
IFS112E Essentials of Information Technology
Purpose: Provides foundational networking knowledge, practical experience in
networking. Teaches networking based on information technology
architectures covering the types of practical networks students may
encounter, from simple home or small office networks
Instruction: Lectures, Practical Session and Computer-based Training
Credits: 16
Assessment: Assignments, Tests and Examination
Prerequisites: None
IFS121E Fundamentals of Information Systems
Purpose: Information Systems fundamentals is a broad introduction to the field of
Information Systems and information technology as well as providing
instruction designed to improve personal productivity in an organization
through the effective and efficient use of information technology tools.
Instruction: Lectures, Tutorials, Practical Session, and Blackboard
Credits: 16
Assessment: Class tests, practical assignments, and theory examination.
Prerequisites: None
IFS122E Programming for Business Applications (New curriculum – available from
2009)
Purpose: To introduce students to programming with the goal of developing good
programming skills suited to the business environment. The language used
will be determined by the Department, but will be either the latest versions of
C#.Net or another Object Oriented Event Driven Language such as Java.
Instruction: Lectures, Tutorials, Practical Session, and Blackboard
Credits: 16
Assessment: Class tests, practical assignments, practical / theory examinations.
Prerequisites: CSC113/CSC113E/CLT111/CLT111E or exemption
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IFS212E Business and Systems Analysis
Purpose: This course examines the front end of the System Development Life Cycle
(SDLC). It emphasizes the factors for effective communication and
integration with users and user systems. It encourages interpersonal skill
development with clients, users, team members, and others associated with
development, operation, and maintenance of the system. Structured and
object oriented analysis and design, use of modeling tools, adherence to
methodological life cycle and project management standards are the main
focus of this course.
Instruction: Lectures, Tutorials, Practical Session, and Blackboard
Credits: 16
Assessment: Class tests, assignments, and examination.
Prerequisites: IFS121/121E
IFS213E Introduction to Networks and Communications
Purpose: Teaches networking based on information technology architectures covering
the types of networks students may encounter in more complex enterprise
models. This module builds on the foundational networking knowledge and
skills gained in IFS112E.
Instruction: Lectures, Tutorials, Practical Session, and Computer-based Training.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Class tests, assignments, and examination.
Prerequisites: IFS112E
IFS222E Systems Design and Implementation
Purpose: To cover the physical design and implementation of information systems
applications, with specific focus on emerging distributed computing
environments using traditional and contemporary development
methodologies.
Instruction: Lectures, Tutorials, Practical Session, and Blackboard
Credits: 16
Assessment: Class tests, assignments, and examination.
Prerequisites: IFS212E and IFS122E/CSC121E
IFS223E Data Manipulation
Purpose: To cover information systems design and implementation within a database
management system environment. Students will demonstrate their mastery
of the design process acquired in earlier courses by designing and
constructing a physical system using database software to implement the
logical design.
Instruction: Lectures, Tutorials, Practical Session, and Blackboard
Credits: 16
Assessment: Class tests, assignments, and examination.
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Prerequisites: IFS211E/212E
Information Systems 3
IFS312E IS/IT Project Management
Purpose: This course covers the factors necessary for successful management of
information systems development or enhancement projects. Both technical
and behavioural aspects of project management are applied within the
context of an information systems development project. This course is also
suitable for those students wanting a general understanding of Project
Management.
Instruction: Lectures, Tutorials, Practical Session and Blackboard
Credits: 16
Assessment: Class tests, assignments, and examination.
Prerequisites: IFS211E/212E
IFS313E Emergent Technologies
Purpose: To develop an understanding and the skills for systems development within
new and emergent technologies, such as web development principles and
practices, Web Services, e-Commerce and m-Commerce applications.
Instruction: Lectures, Tutorials, Practical Session, and Blackboard
Credits: 16
Assessment: Class tests, assignments, and examination.
Prerequisites: IFS222E
IFS322E Systems Development Project
Purpose: It focuses on engaging in and completing a major system development
project. Within the project context, management of IS, systems integration is
an explicit requirement for students to address. The project is a team effort
and allows a final opportunity to practice personal and interdependence skills
to ensure team member empowerment and success.
Instruction: Project meetings/feedback sessions and Blackboard
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous Evaluation
Prerequisites: IFS222E/223E and IFS312E
IFS323E Enterprise Information Systems
Purpose: To familiarise students with enterprise resource planning systems and the
challenges associated with enterprise architecture.
Instruction: Lectures, Tutorials, Practical Sessions, and Blackboard
Credits: 16
Assessment: Class tests, assignments, and examination.
Prerequisites: IFS312E
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS HONOURS
IFS501E Systems Development Project
Purpose: To implement a working system, appreciate the relevance of processes that
have been taught at an academic level, gain project management
experience, an enhanced team dynamics. : A te
Instruction: Team-based supported by supervision.
Credits: 24
Assessment: Continuous Evaluation
IFS502E Research Project
Purpose: To apply knowledge and skills gained in the research methods module.
Content: Research methods
Instruction: Workshops and presentations, research supervision
Credits: 24
Assessment: Continuous Evaluation
IFS511E Corporate Communications
Purpose: Instil the skills to manage people effectively, and to communicate effectively.
Content: business-related communication skills; array of organisational
communication tools; team and group dynamics
Instruction: Lectures
Credits: 8
Assessment: Continuous Evaluation.
IFS512E Research Methods
Purpose: To provide learners with the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct
research in a specific area and to prepare the student for studies towards a
higher degree The module aims to create an understanding of where
research fits into the overall knowledge acquisition process perspective.
Content: Scientific method; research methodologies. Analysis of information resources
(traditional and electronic). phases of research
Instruction: Lectures
Credits: 8
Assessment: Continuous Evaluation.
IFS513E Requirements Engineering
Purpose: To establish the importance of requirements engineering and management,
consolidate techniques for requirements elicitation; and model and assess
the efficacy of different modelling techniques.
Content: Tools and techniques for requirements elicitation and specification,
requirements management and validation, and scope, change, risk and issue
management.
Instruction: Lectures and student-led workshops and presentations
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Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests, practical assignments; one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: IFS322E or an equivalent degree with relevant experience
IFS514E Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence
Purpose: This module attempts to explore knowledge management as an emerging
paradigm. Explores associated technologies used by organisations to create,
store and extract information and knowledge
Content: Knowledge management, organisational learning and intellectual capital,
technologies, data warehousing and data mining
Instruction: Lectures
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests, practical assignments; one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: IFS322E or an equivalent degree with relevant experience
IFS515E Advanced Project Management
Purpose: Understanding the use of project management in managing a diversity of
Information Systems and Information Technology projects
Content: Advanced use of a project management software tool. Examination of the
complexity associated with managing multiple projects. Examination of the
specific requirements for IS/ICT project management and risk assessment.
Credits: 8/16
Assessment: Regular class tests, practical assignments; one 1.5 / 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: IFS322E or an equivalent degree with relevant experience
IFS526E E-Business
Purpose: Understanding of intranet and extranet technology and its use in the
corporate environment, generally and for eCommerce
Content: Techniques and tools to create professional web pages and web sites with
the emphasis on integration with business processes. It includes an
understanding of Intranet and Extranet Concepts and eBusiness, and use of
development tools such as Hypertext Markup Language, Java, PHP and
ASP. Practical issues of IS project management.
Instruction: Lectures and student-led workshops and presentations
Credits: 16
Assessment: Regular class tests, practical assignments; one 1.5 hour examination.
Prerequisites: IFS322E or an equivalent degree with relevant experience
IFS527E Information Systems Management
Purpose: Give learners an understanding of the issues relevant to managing
Information Systems, Information Technology and people
Content: Strategic Information System Management
Instruction: Lectures and student-led workshops and presentations
Credits: 16
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Assessment: Regular class tests, practical assignments; one 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: IFS322E or an equivalent degree with relevant experience
IFS528E Human Computer Interaction
Purpose: To inculcate an understanding and practical knowledge of the importance of
the interface design of computers and the changing technology requirements
such as mobile computing etc.
Content: Impact of design, design methods, evaluations and frameworks.
Instruction: Lectures and student-led workshops and presentations
Credits: 8/16
Assessment: Regular class tests, practical assignments; one 1.5 / 3 hour
examination
Prerequisites: IFS322E or an equivalent degree with relevant experience
IFS529E Information System Trends and Information Management
Purpose: To bring students up to speed in the latest trends in Information Systems
Development and Management and the need for Information management.
Content: Tools and techniques and the risks associated with them. Societal aspects
of introduction of Information Systems. Risks associated with Information
management.
Instruction: Lectures and student-led workshops and presentations
Credits: 8/16
Assessment: Regular class tests, practical assignments; one 1.5 / 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: IFS322E or an equivalent degree with relevant experience
MASTERS DEGREES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Master of Commerce in Information Systems - by Research (61007)
Purpose: To generate new theories and insights through a thesis and research in an
appropriate area.
Master of Information Systems by Course work and mini-dissertation (61008)
(enquire at the Department)
Fundamental Modules
IFS 711E Introduction to IS/ICT
For those without a IS/ICT background / experience. The purpose of this module is to
enable the learner who does not have the relevant work experience / training to acquire
basic knowledge of Information Systems and Management and the concept of
governance. A pass (50%) in this course is a prerequisite for continuation.
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IFS 712E Information Systems Theory
The purpose of the module is to provide students with a solid background knowledge of
the theories informing the discipline of Information Systems. A pass (50%) in this course
is a prerequisite for continuation of the programme
Core Modules (Compulsory)
IFS 801E Research Methods in IS (PART I & II)
Learners will become familiar with the epistemological and ontological problems in the
natural and social sciences generally and in Information Systems and Information
Technology in particular. They will gain greater knowledge about research designs;
selecting, planning and proposing research projects. A pass (50%) in this course is a
prerequisite for continuation to IFS 800
IFS 813E Strategic Management in IS/ICT (Compulsory Module)
The purpose of this module is to examine the strategic management of the IS/ICT function
and the relationship between the IS/ICT and the organisation at strategic level. Strategic
planning and analysis will in particular be focused on.
IFS 826E Information Security Management (Compulsory Module)
The purpose of this module is to provide students with the necessary knowledge to
manage the security and risk aspects of IS/ICT.
Elective Modules
IFS 814E Knowledge Management and Technology
The purpose of this module is to provide learners with the necessary skills required to
establish the relevance of Knowledge Management in organisations in conjunction with
IS/ICT support.
IFS 827E Advanced Project Management for IS/ICT
The purpose of the Project Management module is to introduce the learner to Project
Management with respect to IS projects. The module builds on the skills and knowledge
obtained at undergraduate level.
IFS 825E IS/ICT and Entrepreneurship
This is a module designed for examination of the challenges of harnessing IS/ICT for
entrepreneurs.
PAD 814E Information Technology for Public Sector Managers (Possible Elective
Module)
This is a module designed for those in public sector management positions to better
prepare and assist them utilise current technological trends in the management process.
TOTAL CREDITS (excluding IFS 711 & IFS 712): 80 Credits
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Second Year
IFS 800 Research Project: 100 Credits
This project accounts for 50% of the total requirement for the Masters degree programme.
The learner must present an academically sound report on an approved research subject.
Steps in the process of undertaking this research project include:
Development of Research Proposals
Presentation of proposals to the relevant school / stream
Presentation of a detailed design plan
Undertake in-depth, guided research
Development of a journal article or presentations at „peer reviewed‟ conference
Scientific reporting or writing up of the dissertation
TOTAL CREDITS: 100 Credits
ECONOMICS – UNDERGRADUATE
ECONOMICS 1
ECO111 Introduction to Economics (Microeconomics)
Purpose: To develop an understanding of basic microeconomic theory and analysis,
and insight into the functioning of the economy at a micro level.
Content: Introduction to Economics; Demand Supply and Market Equilibrium;
Elasticity of Demand and Supply; Government Intervention and applications
of Price Theory; the Household and Consumer Behaviour; the Firm,
Production, and Costs; Market Structures.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures (3 hours per week, approx 12 weeks), voluntary Supplemental
Instruction.
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, tutorial attendance and
participation, and essays. Summative assessment through a 3 hour
examination.
Prerequisites: None
ECO121 Introduction to Economics (Macroeconomics)
Purpose: To develop an understanding of how the various sectors of the economy
interrelate, through the use of elementary macroeconomic tools and theories.
Content: Introduction to Macroeconomics; National Income and Aggregate
Expenditure; National Income and the Price Level in the Short Run/Long
Run; Money and Monetary Institutions; the role of Money in
Macroeconomics; Monetary Policy; Inflation; International Trade;
International Finance.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures (3 hours per week, approx 12 weeks), voluntary Supplemental
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Instruction.
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, tutorial attendance and ]
participation, and essays. Summative assessment through a 3 hour
examination.
Prerequisites: None
ECONOMICS 2
ECO 211 Microeconomics
Purpose: To expand on the concepts learned in the first year course and provide a
more complex analysis of micro economic fundamentals.
Content: The theory of consumer behaviour: preferences, utility and consumer choice;
consumer demand, consumer‟s surplus and elasticity; Theory of production;
Theory of costs; Pricing and output decisions, and equilibrium conditions
under different market structures, perfect competition, monopoly,
monopolistic competition and oligopoly.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures (3 hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
voluntary Supplemental Instruction.
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, tutorial attendance and
participation, and essay; Summative assessment through a 3 hour
examination.
Prerequisites: ECO 111
ECO 212 Mathematical Economics 2A
Purpose: To introduce learners to various mathematical tools and techniques that can
be used to analyse and understand economics. .
Content: Linear functions and their economic applications. Non-linear functions and
their applications in economic theory. Equations and inequations. Linear
simultaneous equations. Economic applications of linear simultaneous
equations. Derivatives and differentiations; Economic applications of
derivatives and differentiation.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures (3 hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
voluntary Supplemental Instruction.
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, tutorial attendance and
participation, and essay; Summative assessment through a 3 hour
examination.
Prerequisites: Economics 1 or ECO 111 & ECO 121
ECO 221 Macroeconomics
Purpose: To provide a thorough understanding of the structure and functioning of the
macro-economy, its theoretical framework and polices
Content: Review of national income accounts and measurement; Classical
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Macroeconomics and the Free Market System; The Simple Keynesian model
of Income Determination and the Role of Aggregate Demand in the
Economy; Fiscal Policy and Economic Stabilization; IS-LM model of Income
Determination and the role of Money and Interest Rate in the Economy;
Effectiveness of Fiscal and Monetary Policy policies in the IS-LM Model;
Open Economy Macroeconomics; Money and Monetary Policy; The Budget
and Fiscal Policy; Inflation and Unemployment; the Growth Debate in South
Africa.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures (3 hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
voluntary Supplemental Instruction.
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, tutorial attendance and
participation, and essay; Summative assessment through a 3 hour
examination.
Prerequisites: ECO 121
ECO 222 Mathematical Economics 2B
Purpose: To extend the learners understanding of the mathematical tools and
techniques that can be used to analyse and understand economics. .
Content: Integration; economic application of integration; unconstrained optimization;
economic application of unconstrained optimization; maxima and minima.;
economic applications of maxima and minima; matrix algebra.; economic
applications of matrix algebra
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures (3 hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
voluntary Supplemental Instruction.
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, tutorial attendance and
participation, and essay; Summative assessment through a 3 hour
examination.
Prerequisites: Economics 1 or ECO 111 & ECO 121
ECONOMICS 3
ECO 311 Micro and Macroeconomic Theory (Compulsory)
Purpose: To enhance learner‟s understanding of economic theory, real world issues
and how these interact with various policy issues.
Content: Microeconomics: Introduction to general equilibrium; Welfare economics and
microeconomic policy; Market failure; Government and microeconomic
policy; Choice under uncertainty and risk; Markets with Asymmetric
Information; Risk, uncertainty and demand for risky assets. Macroeconomics:
IS-LM model revisited; Aggregate Supply and Demand Model and the role of
Aggregate Demand in the economy; Effectiveness of Policy under Alternative
Assumptions with regards to Supply, Prices and Wages; Short run Economic
Fluctuations: Consumption and Investment; Economic Forecasting and
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Stabilization Policy; Growth Models.
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, tutorial attendance and
participation; Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: Economics 2 or ECO 211 & ECO 221
ECO 312 Public Finance
Purpose: To acquaint learners with the principles of and other aspects of public
finance and their applications to real issues
Content: Introduction to the Scope of Public Finance: The Rationale for the
government sector: Market failure and rationale for government. Efficient
Provision of public goods, Partial Equilibrium analysis, General Equilibrium
Analysis. Impure Public goods, Externalities. Social choice rules, Voting
models. Theories of public expenditure. Project appraisal: Cost benefit
analysis. Taxation: Overview of the tax system, Principles of taxation, Equity,
Efficiency and Productivity, Partial equilibrium analysis, Income taxation:
Taxation and consumption/savings choices. Taxation of goods and services,
Taxation of corporation. Tax policy. Public Finance in South Africa.
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
class participations and presentations
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, essay, tutorial attendance and
participation; Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: Economics 2 or ECO 211 & ECO 221
ECO 313 Econometrics
Purpose: To equip learners with the ability to apply statistical techniques to economic
data in order to analyse the relationships suggested by economic theory
Contents: Statistical review; simple linear regression; estimation and hypothesis
testing; multiple regression, estimation and goodness of fit and hypothesis
testing; functional forms of regression models – non-linearity in variables;
dummy variables; regression in practice: multicollinearity, hetroscedasticity,
autocorrelation, a spurious regression.
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
class participations
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, practical assignments, tutorial
attendance and participation; Summative assessment through a 3 hour
examination.
Prerequisites: Economics 2 or ECO 211, ECO 221 and either ECO 212 and ECO 222
or TNF 111 and STD 121 or STA 111 & STA 122.
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ECO314 Economic History
Purpose: To expose students to the evolutions of the modern economic systems, such
as the industrialization system, from pre industrialization times to the present.
Content: Historiography; industrialisation in historical perspective; the industrial
revolution; why Europe?; change in social structures; technological change;
labour and capital in historical perspective; concept of growth revisited;
development and underdevelopment; imperialism; late industrialization.
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
class participations
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, essay, tutorial attendance and
participation; Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: Economics 1 or ECO 111 & ECO 121
ECO321 International Trade Theory and Policy
Purpose: To provide an introduction to the theoretical, applied and policy aspects of
international economics.
Content: Trade Theory: Classical Trade Theory: Mercantilism; Absolute Advantage
and Comparative Advantage in Trade; Extensions and Tests of the Classical
Model; Neoclassical Trade Theory: Increasing Costs and Gains from Trade;
Offer Curves and the Terms of Trade: Trade Based on Factor Endowments
(H-O theorem); Empirical Tests of H-O model; Post H-O theories for Trade in
Manufactures: Technological Differences and Trade; The role of Demand;
Economies of Scale, Product Differentiation, Monopolistic Competition and
Trade. Trade Policy: Trade Restrictions: The Instruments and effects of
Trade Restrictions (nominal and effective rates of protection); Non-tariff
Barriers in Trade; Arguments for Trade Restrictions; Economic Integration:
Types of Economic Integration; Economic Integration in Africa; The Static
Trade Creation and Trade Diversion Effects of Integration; Economic
Integration in Practice (Southern African Customs Union); Alternative Trade
Strategies: Import Substitution vs. Export Promotion.
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
class participations
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, tutorial attendance and
participation; Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: Economics 2 or ECO 211 & ECO 221.
ECO 323 Labour Economics
Purpose: To acquaint learners with labour market issues, and the institutions and
policies affecting labour market outcomes.
Content: Overview of the South African labour market; the Supply of labour; the
demand for labour; wage and productivity; labour market discrimination;
labour market institutions; employment and unemployment; employment
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policies
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
class participations
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, essay, tutorial attendance and
participation; Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: Economics 2 or ECO 211 & ECO 221
ECO 324 Environmental Economics
Purpose: To acquaint learners with the core ideas of environmental economic theory
and to enable them to apply economic principles to environmental issues.
Content: scope and development of environmental economics; a model of the
economy and the environment; the economics of pollution; measuring
economic impacts on the environment; resource economics; sustainable
development and applications.
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
class participations
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, essay, tutorial attendance and
participation; Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: ECO 111
ECO 325 Comparative Economic Systems
Purpose: To expose learners to frameworks that underpin different economic systems.
This module enables learners to understand the basic foundations on which
different economies operate.
Content: Traditional Economies: Success and Failures; Various aspects of Centrally
Planned Economies, such as Nationalization of Land and Capital; Non –
Price Allocation of Goods and Services; Rapid Industrialization; Full
Employment and Social Equity; Weaknesses; Market Economic Systems;
Recent Expansion of Markets - Collapse of Communist Planned Economies;
Privatization, and Globalization; Mixes Economic Systems; Role and
functions of Governments.
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
class participations
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, essay, tutorial attendance and
participation; Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: ECO 211 and ECO 221
ECO 326 Money, Banking and International Finance
Purpose: To enhance learners knowledge in the field of money and money maters, as
well as various aspects of banking and financial institutions
Content: money and interest rates; the demand for money; interest rate behaviour;
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transmission mechanism; rational expectation theory (traditional, new
classical and new Keynesian models); financial institutions and markets;
central banking and depository institutions; Foreign exchange markets and
the balance of payments accounts (monetary, portfolio balance; price
adjustments approaches to the external balance); National income and
current account; and macroeconomic policy in the open economy.
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
class participations
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, essay, tutorial attendance and
participation; Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: Economics 2 or ECO 211 & ECO 221
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
This option will be offered only if at least 15 students register for it in each year.
(To be taken after Economics 1)
EDE 211 introduction to Development Economics
Purpose: Growth and development. Development and under-development. Factors in
the development process. Obstacles to development. Financing economic
development. International aspects of development.
Prerequisites: ECO111 &ECO 121. 3 Lectures per week; 16 credits.
Examination: One paper of three hours duration.
EDE 221 Regional and Urban Economics 1
Purpose: Regional aspects of development. Spatial distribution and social problems.
Development of a city or region. Trade, migration and spatial flows.
Development theory and social welfare analysis. Coalition analysis and
conflict resolutions.
Prerequisites: ECO111 & ECO 121. 3 Lectures per week; 16 credits.
Examination: One paper of three hours duration.
EDE 311 Regional and urban Economics
Purpose: Spatial price theory. Location. Regional growth. Growth-Pole analysis. Policy
issues.
Prerequisites: EDE 211 & EDE 221. 3 Lectures per week; 16 credits.
Examination: One paper of three hours duration.
EDE321 Economic Planning and Programming
Purpose: Principle of planning programming. Typology of and planning of
underdeveloped areas. Application to Southern Africa.
Prerequisites: EDE 211. 3 Lectures per week; 8 credits.
Examination: One paper of two hours duration.
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EDE322 Regional and Urban Policy Analysis
Purpose: Demographic models. Economics activity and employment analysis. Land
use and travel demand. Programming models.
Prerequisites: ECO111 &ECO 121. 3 Lectures per week; 16 credits.
Examination: One paper of three hours duration.
ECONOMICS HONOURS – General Stream
COMPULSORY MODULES
ECO 501 Mini Dissertation
Purpose: To enable learners to demonstrate the ability to produce a well-researched
and applied piece of work on a topic in economics.
Content: Literature Survey; Research paper for conference/seminar presentation,
showing research methodology and empirical analysis and findings; final
research document
Credits: 32
Instruction: Regular supervision
Assessment: regular submission of the work/findings; incorporation of
comments/feedback; conference/seminar presentation; internal and external
examiners assessment.
ECO 511 Microeconomics Honours
Purpose: Enable learners to apply modern microeconomic thinking to their daily
decisions
Content: The theory of the consumer: Preference ordering, feasible set. Utility
maximisation, Duality theory; the expenditure function, indirect utility, Roy‟s
identity. The Firm and technology: The production function, measurement of
inputs and outputs, Input requirement set. Cobb Douglas and Leontief
technologies, The technical rate of substitution, The elasticity of substitution,
returns to scale, the CES production function. Profit maximisation, The profit
function. Cost minimisation, Cost function. Duality. The theory of competitive
markets: The competitive firm, General Equilibrium analysis. Efficiency and
welfare. Imperfect markets, Welfare and output, Introduction to game theory:
Nash equilibrium, Oligopoly Models. Market failure, Uncertainty, Asymmetric
Information, and Incomplete markets
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
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ECO 512 Macroeconomics Honours
Purpose: To allow learners to observe how macroeconomics has evolved over time
and to think critically about macroeconomic issues and policies.
Content: Review of Classical and Keynesian models. Debates over the evolution of
macroeconomic policies. Recent developments in macroeconomic analyses.
Macroeconomic model of a small open economy. Fiscal deficits, public
solvency and the macro economy: Government budget constraint,
seigneorage and inflationary finance. The short-run and long-run dynamics of
inflation. Rational and adaptive expectations models. Consumption and
investment theories. Recent developments in the theory of economic growth.
Macroeconomic policy in South Africa.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 513 Econometric Techniques
Purpose: To equip learners to apply and test economic theory using empirical data at
a more advanced level and to handle applied economic literature.
Content: Dummy dependent variables (qualitative response regression models);
panel data regression models; dynamic econometric models; simultaneous
equation models; time series econometrics (stationairty; unit root tests, co-
integration, forecasting with ARIMA and VAR models).
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and tutorials (2½ hours per week, about 12 weeks) tutorial
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tutorial assignment and test;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
Prerequisite: ECO 313 – Introduction to Econometrics
OPTIONAL MODULES
ECO 516 Monetary Economics
Purpose: To allow learners to observe how monetary economics has evolved over
time and to think critically about macroeconomic issues and policies.
Content: Money and credit creation. Monetary theory (classical, Keynesian). The
demand for money. Extensions of the classical and Keynesian theories of
money demand. The money supply process. Theory and application of the
definition of money. Money and inflation. The reserve bank and monetary
policy. Monetary policy targets and instruments (direct and indirect).
Financial institutions and financial intermediation. Money in the open
economy. Money and Economic Growth. South African monetary policy.
Credits: 16
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Instruction: Lectures and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 523 Mathematical Economics
Purpose: To provide an in depth coverage of mathematical tools necessary for
learners doing a research in economics.
Content: Calculus of multivariate functions: Exponential logarithmic and power
functions in Economics; Row Operations, Augmented Matrix and Guassian
Method of Solving Linear Equations; Matrix Inversion; Matrices and their Use
in Economics; The Jacobian and Hessian Determinants; Derivation of
Marshallian Demand function; Input-Output Analysis; Linear Programming;
The Simple Algorithm; The Dual; Integral Calculus: Economic Applications of
Integration.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and tutorials (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks) tutorial
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tutorial assignment and test;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 522 Contemporary International Trade Theory & Policy
Purpose: To enable the learner to explain and interpret the underlying principles,
theory, and trends in the dynamic environment of International Trade Policy,
as applied in the contemporary global context, and its relevance for South
Africa and the Sub-Saharan region.
Content: Trade Theory: Review of Alternative Trade Theories: The Specific Factors
Models, Neo Factor Proportions Theory and Intra Industry Trade Models;
The Effects of Growth on Trade in Large and Small Economies; Growth and
the Terms of Trade in Developing Countries; Effects of the International
Factor Movements: Foreign Direct Investment and Labour. Trade Policy:
Review of Instruments of Instruments of Trade Protection; Static and
Dynamic Arguments for Protection; The Theory of Domestic Distortions;
Protection and Optimal Intervention; Tariffs and Retaliation; The Political
Economy of Trade Policy: The GATT and the Developing Countries; The
Role of the World Trade Organization; Trade Reforms and Adjustment;
Trade Liberalization in Sub Saharan Africa.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lecturers and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and participation,
essays and assignments. Summative assessment through a 3 hour
examination.
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ECO 524 Labour Economics
Purpose: Exposes learners to contemporary issues in labour economics, and shows
how understanding labour is an essential component of informed economic
decision- making at all levels.
Content: Overview of Labour Supply and Labour Demand; Modelling of Labour Supply
and Empirical Evidence; Modelling Labour Demand and Empirical Evidence;
Operations of Labour Markets: Human Capital Theory: Rates of Return to
Education and Training; Economics of Pay and Institutional Factors in the
Labour Market; Economic Performance and Labour Market Outcomes:
Unemployment,, Productivity; SADC and South African Labour Markets.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 529 Public Finance
Purpose: To enlighten learners with contemporary public finance issues in theory and
practice, as applied to South Africa
Content: Role of Government: Pareto optimal provision of Public goods, Impure Public
goods/ Club Goods, Externalities. public expenditure and growth; Collective
choice: Voting models. Bureaucrats and efficiency. General Equilibrium
Analysis. Rent seeking behaviour. Project appraisal: Taxation: Overview of
the South African tax system, Principles of taxation, General equilibrium
analysis. Income taxation: the work-leisure choice. Taxation and
consumption/savings Commodity Taxation, Corporate Tax. Tax policy..
public debt and budget deficits; fiscal federalism; distribution and
development; Public Finance in South Africa
Credits: 16
Instruction: Seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 526 Industrial Organization
Purpose: To allow learners to gain in insight into the industrial organizations, and the
alternative theories dealing with various aspects of a complex firm.
Content: Origins of industrial organization; market entrance and barriers; theory of
contestable markets; paradigm of market structure; organization and
efficiency;; behavioural theory of the firm; agency theory; economics of
transaction costs; evolution theory.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lecturers and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
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ECO 520 Development Economics
Purpose: To expose learners to the economic challenge development and the
contribution that economics can make to an understanding and resolving the
growth and development difficulties facing South Africa.
Content: The meaning and measurement of development; poverty and income
distribution; alternative perspectives on growth and development; factors in
the development process: land, Labour and Agriculture; capital, technical
progress and development; population and development; The Role of the
state in development; Development and the Environment; Obstacles to
development. Dualism and inequalities. Financing development: From
domestic resources. From Foreign sources. Structural adjustment. Aid and
development. Debt and development. Other issues in the development
process: The Economics of corruption; The Economics of Aid; Privatisation
and Development; Globalisation and Development; Aids/HIV and
Development; NEPAD. South African development process.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 514 Environmental and Resource Economics
Purpose: To enable learners to have a deeper understanding and application of the
principles of both micro and macroeconomics to the study of how
environmental resources are developed and managed.
Content: Scope and nature of environmental economics. Economic development and
the environment: Environmental degradation, Sustainable economic
development. Growth, equity and ecological preservation. The economics of
natural resource extraction and management: Non renewable resources,
Renewable Resources. Environmental externalities, pure and rival
environmental public goods. Pareto optimal provision of public goods.
Environmental valuation. Environmental policy instruments: Market based
instruments, Mixed instruments (tradable permits), regulations. Choice of
policy instruments.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lecturers and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 525 Economic Development of the SA Economy in the 21st Century
Purpose: enhance the learners understanding of the economics issues and problems
of South Africa in historical context
Content: Brief review of development theory, role of mining in development,
agriculture and dual economy; inward industrialisation and the beginning of
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export led growth; parastatals and development; apartheid and the role of the
state; competition policy; strategy and structure in institutional development
Credits: 16
Instruction: Seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
EC0 528 International Finance
Purpose: To expose learners to various facets of international finance. The course will
deepen the knowledge of learners desiring to pursue careers in banking,
investment and corporate finance.
Content: Balance of Payments Accounting; Theories of Exchange Rate Determination;
Balance of Payments Adjustments; Devaluation in Developing Countries;
Foreign Exchange Markets and International Parity Conditions; Risk Premia
in International Financial Markets; Speculation and Bubbles; Foreign
Exchange Market Efficiency. Open Economy Macroeconomics; The Mundell-
Fleming Model and its Extensions.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and Seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), Self
Study/ Learning
Assessment: Continuous assessment through informal student led class discussion
and presentations; summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECONOMICS HONOURS – Financial Market Stream
First semester/year
ECO 516E Monetary Economics
Purpose: To allow learners to observe how monetary economics has evolved over
time and to think critically about macroeconomic issues and policies.
Content: Money and credit creation. Monetary theory (classical, Keynesian). The
demand for money. Extensions of the classical and Keynesian theories of
money demand. The money supply process. Theory and application of the
definition of money. Money and inflation. The reserve bank and monetary
policy. Monetary policy targets and instruments (direct and indirect).
Financial institutions and financial intermediation. Money in the open
economy. Money and Economic Growth. South African monetary policy.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
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ECF511E Macroeconomics, Policy and the Financial Markets
Purpose: To provide learners with a firm understanding of the fundamental issues of
macroeconomic theory that relate to the financial markets.
Content: Review of aggregate demand and the national income accounts; Review of
economic indicators: GDP, price indices, productivity, employment; Theories
of economic growth, the theory and nature of business cycles; Saving,
investment and financial markets; The central bank and monetary policy;
Fiscal policy and government finances; Expectations, inflation and interest
rates; The open economy: The theory and practice of foreign exchange
markets and foreign trade; International capital flows and financial markets.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 513E Econometric Techniques
Purpose: To equip learners to apply and test economic theory using empirical data at a
more advanced level and to handle applied economic literature.
Content: Dummy dependent variables (qualitative response regression models); panel
data regression models; dynamic econometric models; simultaneous
equation models; time series econometrics (stationarity; unit root tests, co-
integration, forecasting with ARIMA and VAR models).
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and tutorials (2½ hours per week, about 12 weeks) tutorial
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tutorial assignment and test;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
Prerequisite: ECO 313 (Introduction to Econometrics)
ECF 514E Financial Economics
Purpose: To provide learners with the theory, markets and instruments related to the
use of capital in financing loans and investments, and to enable them to form
a clear opinion with regards to the operation of the South African system.
Content: Introductory overview of financial markets (meaning, goals participants, and
instruments), Forms of business organizations, An introduction to Financial
Instruments, Basic Tools for Portfolio Analysis –concept of risk aversion,
investors preferences (utility function), mean, variance, and covariance, Risk
and return, efficient frontiers of risky assets etc., The Capital Assets Pricing
Model (CAPM)-difference between Mean Variance Analysis and CAPM,
required return of common stock using CAPM, meaning of a stocks beta,
Factor Models and Arbitrage Pricing Model-concept of arbitrage, hedging
portfolio etc., Markets, Traders, and the Trading Process- elementary
knowledge of how security trading is conducted, understand the basic
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motivations underlying trading in financial markets, Fixed income Securities-
main sources of debt financing, bond features, yield to maturity and relation
to coupon yield etc., Bond Pricing and the Term Structure of Interest rates-
Spot and Forward rates, theories of the Term Structure of Interest rate,
pricing of default-free bonds, Introduction to Options and Futures, Capital
Structure: the Modigliani-Miller Theorem, Agency Problem
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures/ seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 6 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECF512E Financial Market Microstructure and Regulation
Purpose: The module has two purposes. The first is to provide students with a firm
understanding of the determination of asset prices by flows through the
various types of financial markets, unlike the stock-based models that are
studied elsewhere. The second objective, which is related to the first, is to
provide students with an insight into the need for, and complexities of, financial
market regulation.
Content: Financial market functions, participants and trading mechanisms; Industrial
organisation of financial markets; Trading and asset prices in call markets; Bid-
ask spreads: inventory and information based models; Principles and
objectives of regulation; Targets of and hazards in regulation; regulation and
supervision of financial intermediaries and markets; main regulators (South
African Reserve Bank and Financial Services Board).
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures/ seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 6 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
Second semester/year
ECF 527E Debt Markets
Purpose: To equip learners with a sound understanding of the Reserve Bank‟s role as
well as how all other bank markets are influenced by the money market, and
how the bond market functions, as an extension of the money market.
Content: The money market: historical background; what the money market is;
Borrowers in the money market; the instruments of the money market and its
holders; money market derivatives; inter bank market; the central bank and
the money market; other aspects of the money market; Bond: historical
development of the bond market; supply and demand for bonds; bond
exchange of South Africa; Bond derivatives
Credits: 8
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Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), contact with the debt
market participants by speakerphone/ DVD video material; learners
participation through compulsory readings of module material and others
sources of information.
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class participation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECF 528E Equity Markets
Purpose: To help learners gain knowledge about (i) how companies that require funds
for expansion are able to raise such funds in the primary capital market, (ii) the
operation of the secondary market and its role in supporting the primary
market and (iii) the fair pricing of equities.
Content: History of the equity market, primary and secondary markets; role of the
regulator and the JSE as manager of the market; participants in the equity
market; market instruments; mechanics of the market; pricing of shares,
theories of the equity market, international aspects of the market.
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 6 weeks), contact with the financial
market participants by speakerphone/ DVD video material; learners
participation through compulsory readings of module material and others
sources of information.
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class participation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECF 529E Foreign Exchange Markets
Purpose: The purpose of the module is to introduce learners to the role of the foreign
exchange market as a conduit into foreign financial markets (both debt and
equity) as well as foreign goods (import and export) markets. Learners will
be provided with an understanding of the function of the market in facilitating
the conversion of currencies for these purposes, as well as an overview of
theories of exchange rate determination and the role of the Central Bank in
the foreign exchange market.
Content: Essentials of the foreign exchange market, exchange rate theory and
determinants, as well as exchange rate policy in South Africa; the
participants, including: importers, exporters, speculators, foreign sector; the
importance of hedging tools, such as forex and currency swaps, forwards
and futures.
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 6 weeks), contact with the financial
market participants by speakerphone/ DVD video material; learners
participation through compulsory readings of module material and others
sources of information.
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class participation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
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ECF 525E Derivative Markets
Purpose: To allow learners to acquire sufficient understanding of pricing and markets
associated with derivatives.
Content: The financial system and the derivative markets; categorisation of derivative
markets; forwards; futures; swaps; options and other derivative instruments;
derivatives and regulation
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 6 weeks), contact with the financial
market participants by speakerphone/ DVD video material; learners
participation through compulsory readings of module material and others
sources of information.
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class participation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 501E Mini-dissertation
Purpose: To enable learners to demonstrate the ability to produce well-researched
and applied pieces of work on topics related to the financial sector
Content: Theoretical Survey; Application; Research papers for conference/seminar
presentation, showing research methodology and empirical analysis and
findings; final research documents
Credits: 32
Instruction: Regular supervision
Assessment: regular submission of the work/findings; incorporation of
comments/feedback; conference/seminar presentation; internal and external
examiners assessment
ECONOMICS HONOURS – Transport Economics
COMPULSORY MODULES
ECO 501 Mini Dissertation
Purpose: To enable learners to demonstrate the ability to produce a well-researched
and applied piece of work on a topic in economics.
Content: Literature Survey; Research paper for conference/seminar presentation,
showing research methodology and empirical analysis and findings; final
research document
Credits: 32
Instruction: Regular supervision
Assessment: regular submission of the work/findings; incorporation of
comments/feedback; conference/seminar presentation; internal and external
examiners assessment
ECO 511 Microeconomics Honours
Purpose: Enable learners to apply modern microeconomic thinking to their daily
decisions
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Content: The theory of the consumer: Preference ordering, feasible set. Utility
maximisation, Duality theory; the expenditure function, indirect utility, Roy‟s
identity. The Firm and technology: The production function, measurement of
inputs and outputs, Input requirement set. Cobb Douglas and Leontief
technologies, The technical rate of substitution, The elasticity of substitution,
returns to scale, the CES production function. Profit maximisation, The profit
function. Cost minimisation, Cost function. Duality. The theory of competitive
markets: The competitive firm, General Equilibrium analysis. Efficiency and
welfare. Imperfect markets, Welfare and output, Introduction to game theory:
Nash equilibrium, Oligopoly Models. Market failure, Uncertainty, Asymmetric
Information, and Incomplete markets
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 512 Macroeconomics Honours
Purpose: To allow learners to observe how macroeconomics has evolved over time
and to think critically about macroeconomic issues and policies.
Content: Review of Classical and Keynesian models. Debates over the evolution of
macroeconomic policies. Recent developments in macroeconomic analyses.
Macroeconomic model of a small open economy. Fiscal deficits, public
solvency and the macro economy: Government budget constraint,
seigneorage and inflationary finance. The short-run and long-run dynamics of
inflation. Rational and adaptive expectations models. Consumption and
investment theories. Recent developments in the theory of economic growth.
Macroeconomic policy in South Africa.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 513 Econometric Techniques
Purpose: To equip learners to apply and test economic theory using empirical data at a
more advanced level and to handle applied economic literature.
Content: Dummy dependent variables (qualitative response regression models); panel
data regression models; dynamic econometric models; simultaneous
equation models; time series econometrics (stationarity; unit root tests, co-
integration, forecasting with ARIMA and VAR models).
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and tutorials (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks) tutorial
participation
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Assessment: Continuous assessment through tutorial assignment and test;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
Prerequisite: ECO 313 (Introduction to Econometrics)
OPTIONAL MODULES
ECO 516 Monetary Economics
Content: Money and credit creation. Monetary theory (classical, Keynesian). The
demand for money. Extensions of the classical and Keynesian theories of
money demand. The money supply process. Money and inflation. The
reserve bank and monetary policy. Rules versus discretion. Credibility,
reputation and dynamic inconsistency of monetary policy. Monetary policy
targets and instruments (direct and indirect). Financial institutions and
financial intermediation. Money in the open economy. Money and Economic
Growth. Monetary control in South Africa.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 522 Contemporary International Trade Theory and Policy
Purpose: To enable the learner to explain and interpret the underlying principles,
theory, and trends in the dynamic environment of International Trade Policy,
as applied in the contemporary global context, and its relevance for South
Africa and the Sub-Saharan region.
Content: Trade Theory: Review of Alternative Trade Theories: The Specific Factors
Models, Neo Factor Proportions Theory and Intra Industry Trade Models;
The Effects of Growth on Trade in Large and Small Economies; Growth and
the Terms of Trade in Developing Countries; Effects of the International
Factor Movements: Foreign Direct Investment and Labour. Trade Policy:
Review of Instruments of Instruments of Trade Protection; Static and
Dynamic Arguments for Protection; The Theory of Domestic Distortions;
Protection and Optimal Intervention; Tariffs and Retaliation; The Political
Economy of Trade Policy: The GATT and the Developing Countries; The
Role of the World Trade Organization; Trade Reforms and Adjustment;
Trade Liberalization in Sub Saharan Africa.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lecturers and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and participation,
essays and assignments. Summative assessment through a 3 hour
examination.
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ECO 529 Public Finance
Purpose: To enlighten learners with contemporary public finance issues in theory and
practice, as applied to South Africa
Content: Role of Government: Pareto optimal provision of Public goods, Impure Public
goods/ Club Goods, Externalities. public expenditure and growth; Collective
choice: Voting models. Bureaucrats and efficiency. General Equilibrium
Analysis. Rent seeking behaviour. Project appraisal: Taxation: Overview of
the South African tax system, Principles of taxation, General equilibrium
analysis. Income taxation: the work-leisure choice. Taxation and
consumption/savings Commodity Taxation, Corporate Tax. Tax policy, public
debt and budget deficits; fiscal federalism; distribution and development;
Public Finance in South Africa
Credits: 16
Instruction: Seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 526 Industrial Economics
Purpose: To allow learners to gain in insight into the industrial organizations, and the
alternative theories dealing with various aspects of a complex firm.
Content: Origins of industrial organization; market entrance and barriers; theory of
contestable markets; paradigm of market structure; organization and
efficiency;; behavioural theory of the firm; agency theory; economics of
transaction costs; evolution theory.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lecturers and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 520 Development Economics
Purpose: To expose learners to the economic challenge development and the
contribution that economics can make to an understanding and resolving the
growth and development difficulties facing South Africa.
Content: The meaning and measurement of development; poverty and income
distribution; alternative perspectives on growth and development; factors in
the development process: land, Labour and Agriculture; capital, technical
progress and development; population and development; The Role of the
state in development; Development and the Environment; Obstacles to
development. Dualism and inequalities. Financing development: From
domestic resources. From Foreign sources. Structural adjustment. Aid and
development. Debt and development. Other issues in the development
process: The Economics of corruption; The Economics of Aid; Privatisation
and Development; Globalisation and Development; Aids/HIV and
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Development; NEPAD. South African development process.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 514 Environmental and Resource Economics
Purpose: To enable learners to have a deeper understanding and application of the
principles of both micro and macroeconomics to the study of how
environmental resources are developed and managed.
Content: Scope and nature of environmental economics. Economic development and
the environment: Environmental degradation, Sustainable economic
development. Growth, equity and ecological preservation. The economics of
natural resource extraction and management: Non renewable resources,
Renewable Resources. Environmental externalities, pure and rival
environmental public goods. Pareto optimal provision of public goods.
Environmental valuation. Environmental policy instruments: Market based
instruments, Mixed instruments (tradable permits), regulations. Choice of
policy instruments.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lecturers and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 527 Transport Economics
Purpose: The purpose of this course is to provide learners a basis for understanding
the economics of the transport system and, in particular, how transportation
relates to urban, regional, and national development.
Content: What is Transport Economics? Demand and Supply for Transport Services.
Transport Markets. Direct Costs of Transport. External costs of Transport.
Pricing of Transport Services. Investment criteria- Public and Private sector
Analysis. Transport Planning and Forecasting. Transport and Development.
The Regulation of Transport. Transport and Development in South Africa.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar participation.
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POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ECONOMICS
COMPULSORY MODULES
ECO 502 Project Paper (Long Essay)
Purpose: To enable learners to apply what they have learned in economics to a topic
of their own choice.
Content: Extended essay on an approved topic, selected in consultation with the
Programme Coordinator:
Credits: 32
Instruction: Regular supervision
Assessment: Submission of the final essay; at least 15 typed pages; 12-point
standard typeface; 1.5 spacing
ECO 511 Microeconomics Honours
Purpose: enable learners to apply modern microeconomic thinking to their daily
decisions
Content: Production, information costs and economic organisation; the allocation of
resources in the presence of indivisibilities; the usefulness of core theory in
economics; the analytics of uncertainty and information; the causes and
consequences of the dependence of quality and price.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 512 Macroeconomics Honours
Purpose: To allow learners to observe how macroeconomics has evolved over time
and to think critically about macroeconomic issues and policies.
Content: Review of Classical and Keynesian models. Debates over the evolution of
macroeconomic policies. Recent developments in macroeconomic analyses.
Macroeconomic model of a small open economy. Fiscal deficits, public
solvency and the macro economy: Government budget constraint,
seigniorage and inflationary finance. The short-run and long-run dynamics of
inflation. Rational and adaptive expectations models. Consumption and
investment theories. Recent developments in the theory of economic growth.
Macroeconomic policy in South Africa.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.OPTIONAL MODULES
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ECO 212 Mathematical Economics 2A
Purpose: To introduce learners to various mathematical tools and techniques that can
be used to analyse and understand economics. .
Content: Linear functions and their economic applications. Non-linear functions and
their applications in economic theory. Equations and inequalities. Linear
simultaneous equations. Economic applications of linear simultaneous
equations. Derivatives and differentiations; Economic applications of
derivatives and differentiation.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures (3 hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
voluntary Supplemental Instruction.
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, tutorial attendance and
participation, and essay; Summative assessment through a 3 hour
examination.
Prerequisites: Economics 1 or ECO 111 & ECO 121
ECO 222 Mathematical Economics 2B
Purpose: To extend the learners understanding of the mathematical tools and
techniques that can be used to analyse and understand economics. .
Content: integration; economic application of integration; unconstrained optimization;
economic application of unconstrained optimization; maxima and minima.;
economic applications of maxima and minima; matrix algebra.; economic
applications of matrix algebra
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures (3 hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
voluntary Supplemental Instruction.
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, tutorial attendance and
participation, and essay; Summative assessment through a 3 hour
examination.
Prerequisites: Economics 1 or ECO 111 & ECO 121
ECO 313 Introduction to Econometrics
Purpose: To equip learners with the ability to apply statistical techniques to economic
data in order to analyse the relationships suggested by economic theory
Contents: Statistical review; simple linear regression; estimation and hypothesis
testing; multiple regression, estimation, goodness of fit and hypothesis
testing; functional forms of regression models – non-linearity in variables;
dummy variables; problems of econometrics – multicollinearity,
micronumerosity, heteroscedasticity, autocorrelation.
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
class participations
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, practical assignments, tutorial
attendance and participation; Summative assessment through a 3 hour
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examination.
Prerequisites: Economics 2 or ECO 211 and ECO 221; either ECO 212 and ECO 222
or Business Maths and Statistics
ECO 516 Monetary Economics
Content: Money and credit creation. Monetary theory (classical, Keynesian). The
demand for money. Extensions of the classical and Keynesian theories of
money demand. The money supply process. Money and inflation. The
reserve bank and monetary policy. Rules versus discretion. Credibility,
reputation and dynamic inconsistency of monetary policy. Monetary policy
targets and instruments (direct and indirect). Financial institutions and
financial intermediation. Money in the open economy. Money and Economic
Growth. Monetary control in South Africa.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lectures and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 522 Contemporary International Trade Theory & Policy
Purpose: To enable the learner to explain and interpret the underlying principles,
theory, and trends in the dynamic environment of International Trade Policy,
as applied in the contemporary global context, and its relevance for South
Africa and the Sub-Saharan region.
Content: Trade Theory: Review of Alternative Trade Theories: The Specific Factors
Models, Neo Factor Proportions Theory and Intra Industry Trade Models;
The Effects of Growth on Trade in Large and Small Economies; Growth and
the Terms of Trade in Developing Countries; Effects of the International
Factor Movements: Foreign Direct Investment and Labour. Trade Policy:
Review of Instruments of Instruments of Trade Protection; Static and
Dynamic Arguments for Protection; The Theory of Domestic Distortions;
Protection and Optimal Intervention; Tariffs and Retaliation; The Political
Economy of Trade Policy: The GATT and the Developing Countries; The
Role of the World Trade Organization; Trade Reforms and Adjustment;
Trade Liberalization in Sub Saharan Africa.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Lecturers and seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar
participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and participation,
essays and assignments. Summative assessment through a 3 hour
examination.
ECO 524 Labour Economics
Purpose: Exposes learners to contemporary issues in labour economics, and shows
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how understanding labour is an essential component of informed economic
decision- making at all levels.
Content: Overview of Labour Supply and Labour Demand; Modelling of Labour Supply
and Empirical Evidence; Modelling Labour Demand and Empirical Evidence;
Operations of Labour Markets: Human Capital Theory: Rates of Return to
Education and Training; Economics of Pay and Institutional Factors in the
Labour Market; Economic Performance and Labour Market Outcomes:
Unemployment,, Productivity; SADC and South African Labour Markets.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 529 Public Finance
Purpose: To enlighten learners with contemporary public finance issues in theory and
practice, as applied to South Africa
Content: Public choice theory; public expenditure and growth; cost-benefit analysis;
public debt and budget deficits; planning and management; fiscal federalism;
distribution and development;
Credits: 16
Instruction: Seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
ECO 520 Development Economics
Purpose: To expose learners to the economic challenge development and the
contribution that economics can make to an understanding and resolving the
growth and development difficulties facing South Africa.
Content: The meaning and measurement of development; poverty and income
distribution; alternative perspectives on growth and development; factors in
the development process: land, Labour and Agriculture; capital, technical
progress and development; population and development; The Role of the
state in development; Development and the Environment; Obstacles to
development. Dualism and inequalities. Financing development: From
domestic resources. From Foreign sources. Structural adjustment. Aid and
development. Debt and development. Other issues in the development
process: The Economics of corruption; The Economics of Aid; Privatisation
and Development; Globalisation and Development; Aids/HIV and
Development; NEPAD. South African development process.
Credits: 16
Instruction: Seminars (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), seminar participation
Assessment: Continuous assessment through seminar presentation and essay;
summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
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ECO 528 International Finance
Purpose: To familiar the learners with financial instruments for transferring wealth
across countries and to indicate the possibilities that exist internationally for
satisfying financial investors‟ preferences.
Content: Foreign exchange markets and the balance of payments accounts
(monetary, portfolio balance; price adjustments approaches to the external
balance); National income and current account; and macroeconomic policy in
the open economy.
Credits: 8
Instruction: Lectures (2½ hours per week, approx 12 weeks), discussions in tutorials,
class participations
Assessment: Continuous assessment through tests, essay, tutorial attendance and
participation; Summative assessment through a 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: Economics 2 or ECO 211 & ECO 222
MASTER’S DEGREE IN ECONOMICS
MCE 701/ MCE 701E Master of Commerce in Economics by research
Purpose: To enable students wishing to pursue a clearly defined research on a topic
chosen from any field of specialization (i.e., the General Stream, Financial
Market Stream or Transport Economics) and where such students have the
ability to work independently. It is also intended to equip the students with
the necessary theoretical and technical skills to be effects research analysts
in both the private and public sectors or the academic circle.
Content: Research Proposal, Submission of work to Supervisor(s) for feedbacks;
Seminar Presentation; Submission of the Thesis satisfying the requirements
for the Masters Degree.
Credit: 240
Instruction: Library and/or Field Research; Regular Supervision
Assessment: Evaluation of pieces of Work; Progress Report; Seminar Presentation;
Assessment of the Thesis by Internal and External Examiners
INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY
IPS 111 Introduction to psychology in industry
Purpose: The aim of this module is to help the student to become more
Knowledgeable, gain more insight and develop his/her skills and potential in
applying psychological principles/knowledge in the work context
Content: Perspectives on general and work behaviour; Research methodology;
Biological basis of behaviour with special reference to the muscle system,
central nervous system and job design; Learning; Motivation;
Psychopathology; Cognition; Perception
Instruction: 6 lectures per week
Credits: 16 credits
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Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, worksheets and
examination of 3 hours duration.
Prerequisites: None
IPS 121 Introduction to industrial psychology
Purpose: The module is meant to introduce students to the field of industrial
psychology and its related fields and how these are applied in the work
context
Content: The practice of industrial psychology, techniques and tools in the
field principles and techniques of recruitment and selection, employee
performance, motivation, organisation of the organisation, workplace
characteristics, employee health and safety.
Instruction: 180 minutes per week lectures, tutorials and group assignments
Credits: 16 credits
Assessment: Continous assessment through tutorial assignments, group tasks, and
class tests. Examination 3 hour paper moderated internally.
Prerequisites: IPS 111
IPS 211 Personnel psychology
Purpose: To provide learners with an overview and theory of personnel psychology as
an applied discipline that focuses on individual differences in behaviour, with
a view to understanding the changes in work places and how they affect
individual employees as well as employers.
Content: The course will focus on the application and practice of the organisation as a
system, personnel management system, staffing the organisation, employee
development, remuneration and maintenance of personnel
Instruction: 135 minutes per week lectures, lecture method, groups tasks, and tutorial
sessions
Credits: 8 credits
Assessment: Continuous assessment through the use of group tasks and class tests
Examination: 3hour paper internally moderated.
Prerequisites: IPS 111 & IPS 121
IPS 212 Industrial relations
Purpose: To align learners with the processes as well as behavior of the labour force
and that of employers in the workplace. The involvement of the state in the
employment relationship in trying to instill harmony between workers and
employers.
Content: The course focuses on the environment of Industrial relations, different
approaches to the study, the tripartite relationship between the state,
employees as well as employers and their respective roles, collective
bargaining structures, industrial action, the legal framework as well as future
developments of Labour Relations.
Instruction: 3 lectures per week
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Credits: 8 credits
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
assignments.Examination:3 hour paper internally moderated.
Prerequisites: IPS 111& IPS 121
IPS 221 Social behaviour and social processes in organizations
Purpose: The aim of this module explains how individuals and groups influence
one another and their direct and indirect contributions in organizations;
nature and functions of attitudes, aggression, conflict, groups; how to handle
aggression, resolve conflicts, use of various techniques in group decision-
making.
Content: Understanding Social Behaviour; Attitudes; Aggression; Conflict; Group
behaviour; Social processes in organizations.
Instruction: 3 lectures per week
Credits: 8 credits
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, worksheets and
examination. Examination of 3 hours duration.
Prerequisites: IPS 111& IPS 121
IPS 222 Career psychology (An Organisational Perspective)
Purpose: The objective of this module is to assist students in planning and
managing their own career (job search skills); making them aware of:
- the role that organisations can play in managing careers effectively;
- application of career model to individuals and organizations;
- theoretical explanation of career choice;
- awareness of organizational restructuring and its implications for
careers.
- value of choosing the right career
Content: Career concepts and a career management model; Career choice;
Stages of career development; Phases of organizational entry; Changes in
organizations and its implications for career; organizational careers; Goals of
organizational career planning; Career management system; Methods of
organization career planning and development; job search skills.
Instruction: 3 lectures per week
Credits: 8 credits
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, worksheets. Examination of
3 hours duration.
Prerequisites: IPS 111
IPS 311 Research methodology and psychometrics
Purpose: Research Methodology: It aims at equipping students with basic
skills and knowledge of the techniques required in order to carry out
research. It is designed to introduce students to the different methods of
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investigation available, to develop their general analytical skills and ability to
decide which type of scientific investigation ought to be used in any given
situation.
Psychometrics: Its goal is to expose students to the various types of tests, its
applications and biases and the role it plays in the broader discipline of
Industrial Psychology.
Content: Research Methodology: Aims of research; Research process and
assessment efficiency; Quantitative and qualitative approaches; Data
collecting methods and measuring instruments; Ethical standards in
psychological research.
Psychometrics: What is a psychological test; Types and uses of tests; Misconceptions,
characteristics and how to use tests properly; Moral, ethical, social issues,
rights of users and test biases.
Instruction: 3 lectures per week
Credits: 8
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, worksheets. Examination of
3 hour duration.
Prerequisites: IPS 211, 212, 221, 222: either STA 111 & STA 122 or STA 114, STA
124 (or concurrently).
IPS 312 Psychology of personality in the work context
Purpose: The objective of this module is to:
- introduce students to the major theoretical and practical issues
involved in the study of personality.
- provide information about the application of psychology to important
human concerns and at providing understanding of the methods
used by personality psychologists in applying their knowledge to
personality assessment and personality change.
Content: Definition of Personality; Structural-interactional theory of John
Holland; Learning theory approach to personality; Rational-emotive approach
of Ellis; Humanistic psychology of Abraham Maslow; Freud and
psychodynamics; Transactional analysis.
Instruction: 3 lectures per week
Credits: 8
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, worksheets and
examination. Examination of 3 hours duration.
Prerequisites: IPS 211, 212, 221, 222: either STA 111 & STA 122 or STA 114, STA
124 (or concurrently).
IPS 321 Consumer behaviour
Purpose: The module introduces students to the field of consumer behaviour so that
they are able to identify the role consumers‟ play in the health of the
economy at the national and international levels
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Content: The nature and role of consumer behaviour; the consumer as an individual;
consumers; behaviours in their social and cultural settings; consumer
decision making; the psychological basis of consumer behaviour
Instruction: 3 lectures per week, assignments, individual tests, self-study
Credits: 8
Assessment: Continuous assessment through participation, group work, tests.
Examination: 3 hour paper moderated externally.
Prerequisites: IPS 211, IPS 212, IPS 221, IPS 222, either STA 111, STA 122, STA 124
(or concurrently)
IPS 322 Organisational psychology (Behaviour)
Purpose: This course intends to provide the student with an opportunity to improve
his/her level of understanding of behaviour in organisations, acquaint
students with the nature, scope, and conceptual component of organisational
psychology, acquire fresh insight into the complexities of organisations and
organisational behaviour and equip students with theoretical knowledge and
practical managerial and supervisory skills for the professional arena.
Content: Nature of Organisational Environment. Foundations of Individual behaviour.
Group Dynamics. Organisational process. Change and Develop
management
Instruction: 3 lectures per week. Assignments, formal lectures and self study.
Credits: 8
Assessment: Examination: One paper of three (3) hours
Prerequisites: IPS 211, IPS 212, IPS 221, IPS 222, either STA111, STA122, or STA
124 (or concurrently)
HONOURS IN INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY
IPS 511 Advanced organisational (Behaviour) Psychology
Purpose: To improve the level of understanding of behaviour in organisations and to
give the student a fresh insight into the complexities of organisations and
organisational behaviour.
Content: Individuals and groups in organisations : motivation, perception, personality
and stress
Instruction: 120 minutes per week. Seminars, assignments self study.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through: participation in class, seminar paper - 3
hours examination.
IPS 512 Advanced personnel psychology A
Purpose: This course will serve to acquaint students with the nature, scope, and
conceptual component of Personnel Psychology in the organisational context
from a multicultural perspective. It equips students with theoretical
knowledge and practical managerial and supervisory skills
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Content: This course will be closely aligned with courses in Industrial Relations and
Organisational Behaviour. The theoretical foundations of Human Resource
Management will be explored, recruitment, selection, placement and
induction into the organisation.
Instruction: 120 minutes per week. Seminars, assignments and self study.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through: participation in class, seminar papers –
3 hours examination.
IPS 513 Advanced industrial relations A (Theory)
Purpose: This major aim of the module id to acquaint the student to the importance,
practice, and application of industial relations in organizations and the
society at large
Content: This course will be closely aligned with courses in Human Resource
Management and Organisational Behaviour. The theoretical foundations of
industrial relations will be explored, the role of the government in labour
relations, the parties and the environmental context, The historical
development of labour relations and trade unions, the structure of trade
unions: their membership, leadership and organizational activities
Instruction: 120 minutes per week. Seminars, assignments and self study.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through: participation in class, seminar papers –
3 hours examination.
IPS 514 Individual aspects of consumer behaviour
Purpose: The major aim of the module is to introduce students to the importance,
practice, and application of the individual aspects of consumer behaviour in
the health of organisations and society at large.
Content: Perspectives of understanding consumer behaviour, consumer needs,
motivation, personality and application to market segmentation, consumer
perceptions, consumer decision making, consumer research and
understanding the South African consumer.
Instruction: 120 minutes per week lectures, seminars, assignments and self study
Credits: 16
Assessments: Continuous assessment through class participation and seminar papers
– 3 hours examination moderated externally
IPS 515 Research Methodology
Purpose: The purpose of the course is to enable students to display proficiency in the
theory and application of research methodology for research purposes in the
organisations.
Content: Understanding what research is; development of research ideas; problem
identification and hypothesis; study of literature; research types; research
designs; descriptive methods of data collection; statistics in research;
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research proposal & writing research report.
Instruction: 120 minutes lectures per week, seminars, assignments and self study
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class participation and seminar papers -
3 hours examination moderated externally.
IPS 521 Advanced organisation (Behaviour) Psychology B
Purpose: Emphasis is placed on understanding the real world functioning of
behaviours in organisations and the impact of these on different aspects of
work life. The significance of this course is related to its specific bias towards
the application of psychological principles to the field of management in
general and organisations in particular.
Content: Organisations: A working unit
Instruction: 120 minutes per week. Seminars, assignments, self study
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through: participation in class, seminar papers –
3 hours examination.
IPS 522 Advanced personnel psychology B
Purpose: Emphasis is placed on the understanding the real world functioning of the
Human Resource Management. Investigates the social, cultural and
structural changes affecting business and the workplace as well as the
impact of these changes on employers and employees.
Content: The course will focus on the application and practice in work situations: legal
aspects of employment, remuneration and benefits and employee retention
and performance improvement.
Instruction: 120 minutes per week lectures, seminars, assignments and self study.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through: participation in class, seminar papers –
3 hours examination.
IPS 523 Advanced industrial relations B (Application & Practice)
Purpose: This major aim of the module id to acquaint the student to the importance,
practice, and application of industial relations in organizations and the
society at large
Content: This course will be closely aligned with courses in Human Resource
Management and Organisational Behaviour. The concepts and practice of
collective bargaining and negotiations will be examined, Employee
Discipline, Employee grievances, Industrial disputes and dispute resolution
mechanisms, Strikes, and a comparative analysis of labour relations would
be undertaken.
Instruction: 120 minutes per week. Seminars, assignments and self study.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through: participation in class, seminar papers –
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3 hours examination.
IPS 524 Environmental factors and consumer behaviour
Purpose: The emphasis of the course is on understanding the behaviour of consumers
under various environmental influences; relate that knowledge to the South
African context and other contexts.
Content: The role of the family, groups, social class, cultures and subcultures in
consumer behaviour; consumerism and social responsibility in South Africa.
Instruction: 120 minutes per week lectures, seminars, assignments and self study
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class participation and seminar papers
3 hour examination moderated externally
IPS 525 Mini dissertation
Purpose: This is a research report that learners undertake (under the guidance of a
supervisor) as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for obtaining the
honours degree. Students can do the research in any area of their interest in
the field of industrial psychology. The length of mini-dissertation shall be ± 40
pages.
Credits: 16
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
HRM 111 Introduction, nature and fields of HRM
Purpose: To help students understand issues relating to management of human
resources in the workplace. To further equip them with theory and practical
application of managerial skills as future human resource managers.
Content: Background to the study of HRM, definitions, fields, policies, human being as
an employee as well as challenges facing HRM.
Instruction: 3 lectures per week
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
assignments – 3 hour examination moderated internally
HRM 121 Employee resourcing
Purpose: The aim of this module is to help students understand the importance of
planning in attaining as well as retaining the most suitable employees for the
successful continued existence of organizations.
Content: Concepts underlying human resources planning processes, recruitment and
selection as well as placement and induction.
Instruction: 3 lectures per week
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
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assignments – 3 hour examination moderated internally
Pre-requisite: HRM 111
HRM 211 Legal aspects of employment
Purpose: The purpose of the course is to acquaint students with the relevant legislative
framework applicable in the field of human resource management. Students
with knowledge of the laws and practices governing employment.
Content: Contract of employment, terms and conditions of employment, employer and
employee duties. Termination of the contract, statutory control of
employment, equal opportunity and non-discrimination.
Instruction: 135 minutes per week lectures, tutorials and assignments
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, tutorials, assignments and
group presentations – 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: HRM 111 & 121
HRM 221 Compensation management
Purpose: The purpose of the course is to acquaint students with issues of
compensation in the field of Human Resources management. It is aimed at
equipping students with theoretical knowledge and practical managerial and
supervisory skills for the professional arena.
Content: Definitions and components, compensation legislation, compensation
structures, workmen‟s compensation, compensation for injuries at work.
Instruction: 135 minutes per week lectures, tutorials and assignments
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, tutorials, assignments and
group presentations – 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: HRM 111 & 121
HRM 311 Quantitative methods in HRM
Purpose: The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the types of
quantitative analysis applicable in the HR field. The module would also
examine human resource information systems (HRIS). Thus learners would
acquire skills in both the theory and application of data/statistical analysis in
the HR function.
Content: Definitions, nature and purpose of HRIS, Structural design and types of
HRIS, HRIS databases, development and implementation of an HRIS
Instruction: 135 minutes per week lectures, tutorials and assignments
Credits: 8
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, tutorials, assignments and
group presentations – 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: HRM 211 & 221; STA 114 & 124
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HRM 312 Education, training and development
Purpose: The purpose of the course is to clarify the role of employee training and
management development in human resource management, explain the
importance of applicable legislation
Content: Definitions and components, training needs analysis, types of training,
training process, training and management development, appraising and
evaluating training
Instruction: 135 minutes per week lectures, tutorials and assignments
Credits: 8
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, tutorials, assignments and
group presentations – 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: HRM 211 & 221; STA 114 & 124
HRM 321 Employee health, safety and wellness
Purpose: The purpose of the course is to acquaint students with the problems of health
and safety and to be able to analyze the statutes which regulate health and
safety, and examine the recent investments in employee wellness
programmes .
Content: Importance of occupational health, maintaining and improvement of safety,
the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Effective accident prevention
programmes, implications and applications for HR executives
Instruction: 135 minutes per week lectures, tutorials and assignments
Credits: 8
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, tutorials, assignments and
group presentations – 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: HRM 211 & 221; STA 114 & 124
HRM 322 Employee retention & performance management
Purpose: The purpose of the course is to acquaint students with issues of employee
retentions and performance management. It is aimed at equipping students
with theoretical knowledge and practical managerial and supervisory skills for
the professional arena.
Content: Definitions and components, the concept of „employee evaluations‟,
evaluative and developmental objectives of performance appraisals, the
different methods and problems associated with appraisals, developing a
comprehensive performance management programme/system.
Instruction: 135 minutes per week lectures, tutorials and assignments
Credits: 8
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, tutorials, assignments and
group presentations – 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: HRM 211 & 221; STA 114 & 124
HRM 323 Remuneration and benefits
Purpose: The purpose of the course is to expose learner to the link between the
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different types of incentive systems and to enable them understand the
growth of employee benefits and their organizational objectives. acquaint
students with issues of compensation in the field of Human Resources
management.
Content: Definitions and components, pay, determining job rate differentials, types of
wage differentials, motivation and performance, time-based pay system
using pay grades and steps, special problems of managerial remuneration,
different types of incentive systems, using employee benefits to reward loyal
service.
Instruction: 135 minutes per week lectures, tutorials and assignments
Credits: 8
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, tutorials, assignments and
group presentations – 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: HRM 211 & 221; STA 114 & 124
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
BEC 111/111E Introduction to Business Management
Purpose: The purpose is to equip students with knowledge of management in a multi-
cultural business environment. The aim of the business is to optimise limited
economic resources, human resources and information technology and be
able to execute the tasks of planning, organising leading and control in the
different fields of operations while applying appropriate business ethics.
Content: An introduction is provided to the field of Business Management. Areas
covered are the business world, the business organisation as study object;
the business environment; general management principles and management
processes as well as an introduction to public relations.
Prerequisite: Grade 12 Mathematics & English. A minimum E symbol at Standard
Grade (SG)
Instruction: Expository lectures and tutorial classes (including case study discussions).
Assessment: Class tests, tutorials, a semester test and a two hour examination.
Credit value: 16
BEC 121/121E Introduction to Specialised Business Management
Purpose: The aim of this module is to equip students with a basic knowledge about all
the specialised functional management areas.
Content: Introduction to Marketing Management, Introduction to Human Resources
Management, Introduction to Financial Management and Introduction to
Purchasing Management
Prerequisite: A minimum 40% for BEC 111.
Instruction: Expository lectures and tutorial classes (including case study discussions).
Assessment: Class tests, tutorials, a semester test and a two hour examination.
Credit value: 16
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BEC 211 Operations and Purchasing Management
Purpose: This module will acquaint the learner with a comprehensive analysis of the
operations theory.
Content: Aspects to be addressed are cost budgets, break-even analysis, strategic,
medium and short range planning, productivity improvement and productivity
measurements; quality control and improvements and materials
management (purchasing and inventory management)
Instruction: Expository lectures and tutorial classes (including case study discussions).
Prerequisite: BEC 111 and BEC 121.
Assessment: Class tests, tutorials, a semester test and a three hour examination.
Credit Value: 16
MNG 211E Human Resource Management
Purpose: To develop comprehension and skills in the functional area of Human
Resource Management.
Content: Overview of HR approaches; Structure and Planning of HR; Staffing;
Compensation; Strategic HRM and the Macro context of HR.
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 8
Assessment: Class test; Group assignment; one 2 hour examination
Prerequisites: BEC 111 and BEC 121
MNG 212E Operations Management
Purpose: To introduce the topic of production, logistics and quality management.
Content: Production Systems
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 8
Assessment: One Class test; a practical assignment; one 2 hour examination
Prerequisites: BEC 111 and BEC 121
BEC 221/221E: Marketing Management
Purpose: This module will acquaint the learner with a comprehensive analysis of the
marketing management theory. A strong focus is put on strategic marketing
issues.
Content: Aspects to be addressed are strategic analysis; market analysis; sustainable
competitive advantage; building relationship with stakeholders; strategy
implementation and evaluation, consumer behaviour and the management of
the marketing mix;
Instruction: Expository lectures and tutorial classes (including case study discussions).
Prerequisite: BEC 111 and BEC 121 .
Assessment: Class tests, tutorials, a semester test and a three hour examination.
Credit Value: 16
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BEC 311/311E Financial Management
Purpose: The student will acquire financial management skills directed towards a
career in the corporate world. Knowledge acquired can be used if the
student takes the option of self-employment.
Content: Introduction to the field of financial management; the time value of money;
risk and return; valuation; the cost of capital; capital budgeting; risk analysis;
working capital management and leasing.
Instruction: Expository lectures and tutorial classes (including case study discussions).
Evaluation: Class tests, self study assignments/tutorials, a semester test and a three
hour examination which are externally moderated.
Prerequisite: STA 111; STA122; BEC 211; BEC 221; AFA 111 and AFA 122.
Credit Value: 10
BEC 312/312E Selected topics in Financial Management
Purpose: The learner will be provided with skills on expansion techniques for both
listed and unlisted companies. The skills acquired are directed towards a
career in the corporate world or for self-employment.
Content: The role of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange; An analysis of financial
statements; ratio analysis; mergers and consolidations.
Instruction: Expository lectures and tutorial classes (including case study discussions).
Evaluation: Class tests, self study assignments/tutorials, a semester test and a two
hour examination which are externally moderated.
Prerequisites: A minimum 40% for BEC 311, STA 111, STA 122, BEC 211 and BEC
221.
Credit value: 6
BEC 321/321E Business Research
Purpose: The success of any enterprise depends to a large extent on sound
information for efficient decision-making and planning. This module will
focus on the importance of Business Research as a source of information
which enables the enterprise to compete. The approach adopted will be
practical oriented to provide a clear understanding of the research
terminology and process.
Content: Business research in perspective; the organisational environment of
business research; internal and external data collection; ethics in business
research; the research process; a basic research proposal and report writing.
Instruction: Continuous assessment through tutorials and group work.
Prerequisite or Co-requisite: STA111 and STA 122.
Assessment: Class tests and a semester test, a two hour examination which are
externally moderated, the writing of a practical research proposal, and an
independent group research survey.
Credit value: 6
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BEC 322/322E General Management
Purpose: The learner will be introduced to the importance and role of management in
society and would also have knowledge of the management process and its
environment.
Content: Introduction to management; the management environment; management
processes; managerial decision-making; the management of change; the
human dimension of management; groups in the organisation; corporate
culture and contemporary issues.
Instruction: Expository lectures and tutorial classes (including case study discussions).
Prerequisite: BEC 311 and BEC 312.
Assessment: Class tests, a semester test, assignments and a three hour examination
which are externally moderated.
Credit value: 10
TFN 111E Theory of Finance (Business Maths)
Purpose: As a service course to provide mathematical knowledge for other B.Com.
courses.
Content: Financial mathematics, linear programming, Calculus
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Class tests; one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: Matric Mathematics Standard Grade (D)
STD 121E Statistics (Business Statistics)
Purpose: To provide statistical knowledge for other B.Com. courses and to assist in
sound business decision making
Content: Descriptive Statistics, Probability Distributions, Estimation, Hypothesis
Testing, Index Numbers and Time Series
Instruction: Lectures and Tutorials
Credits: 16
Assessment: Class tests; one 3 hour examination
Prerequisites: Matric Mathematics Standard Grade (D)
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT HONOURS
(Alice)
BEC 501 Mini-dissertation
Purpose: To equip learners with the skills of conducting formal research, from proposal
formulation to report writing. This module would also serve as one of the
stepping stones for entry into the Masters Programme in Business
Management.
Content: A field of study chosen by the student.
Instruction: Guidance and monitoring of the dissertation.
Co-requisite: BEC 506
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Assessment: Externally examined.
Credit value: 32
BEC 502: Advanced general management (Strategic management)
Purpose: Learners exiting from this module will be equipped not only with sound skills
on guiding a complex organisation through a dynamic, rapidly changing
environment, but also with skills to function at middle and top management
level. This module would also serves as one of the stepping stones for entry
into the Masters Programme in Business Management.
Content: Techniques of strategic management; an analysis of the internal
environment, portfolio management and corporate- level strategy issues;
business unit strategies; strategy implementation and strategy control
strategies for non-profit organisation.
Instruction: Case studies, self – study assignments and presentations.
Assessment: Seminars; assignments and a three-hour examination which are
externally moderated.
Pre-requisite: BEC 311, BEC 312, BEC 321 and BEC 322.
Credit value: 32
BEC 503 Advanced marketing management
Purpose: To create an understanding of marketing principles and to demonstrate the
interactive relationship between concepts. To provide a wider perspective of
marketing decisions including the close interface with other business
functions. To analyze and integrate concepts as published. To analyze the
role of customers and their impact on business. This module would also
serve as one of the stepping stones for entry into the Masters Programme in
Business Management.
Content: Marketing management in perspective; analyzing marketing opportunities;
developing marketing strategies; planning marketing programs and
managing marketing efforts.
Instruction: Expository lecturers, discussion groups and both individual and group
presentations.
Assessment: Class tests, a semester test, assignments, oral presentations and a three
hour examination which are externally moderated.
Credit value: 32
BEC 504 Advanced financial management
Purpose: Learners will acquire advanced and sophisticated financial management
skills towards a career in the corporate world. This module would also serve
as one of the stepping stones for entry into the Masters Programme in
Business Management.
Content: An in depth study of risk and returns, cost of capital, capital budgeting, risk
budgeting, risk analysis, working capital management, dividend policy
portfolio theory and financial institutions in SA.
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Instruction: Tutorials, case studies and self-study assignments.
Assessment: Continuous assessment on presentations and a three hour examination
which is externally moderated.
Credit value: 32
BEC 505 Advanced operations management
Purpose: Learners will be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge, skills and an
applied competency in the field of operations management and be equipped
for senior positions in the field of Business
Management. This module would also serve as one of the stepping stones
for entry into the Masters Programme in Business Management.
Content: Operations analysis, decision-making process strategy and capacity
planning; managing quality; supply chain management; inventory
management material requirement planning, project management and
maintenance and reliability.
Instruction: Self-study assignments, case studies, student-led seminars and practical
projects.
Assessment: One group assignment; continuous assessment on presentations and a
three hour examination externally moderated.
Credit value: 32
BEC 506 Marketing research
Purpose: An in-depth study is provided of the different aspects of marketing research.
Areas such as the research process, primary and secondary data,
questionnaire design, sampling, data analysis and report writing are
addressed. It furthermore provides a good theoretical background to prepare
students for the writing of a dissertation or thesis. This module would also
serves as one of the stepping stones for entry into the Masters Programme
in Business Management.
Content: Marketing research in perspective; the marketing research process;
conducting primary and secondary research; data preparation; data analysis;
report writing.
Instruction: Class tests, a semester test, assignments, oral presentations and a three
hour examination which are externally moderated.
Co-requisite: BEC 501
Credit value: 32
BEC 507 Enterpreneurship and small business management
Purpose: Learners exiting from this programme will be equipped with a superior
knowledge, skills and applied competency to start their own businesses as
self-employed entrepreneurs. In addition, learners would be qualified to act
as consultants and advisors to other small business entrepreneurs in
conducting feasibility studies and compiling business plans. This module
can serves as a stepping stone for entry into the Masters Programme in
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Business Management.
Content: Entrepreneurship in perspective, the nature of entrepreneurship, the role,
place and importance of small business and entrepreneurship in a free
market economy, feasibility studies; the compilation of a business plan,
managing small production units; retail and service outlets, small business
control aspects, financial and budgetary control, marketing, customer
relations and after sales service, store design and layout, merchandise
development and planning, pricing; promoting the retail firm and its products
and maintaining a dynamic growing business.
Instruction: Expository lectures, case studies and student-led seminars.
Credit value: 32
SERVICE MODULES OFFERED BY THE FACULTY OF LAW
LCM 111 Commercial Law – Introduction to Law and General Principles of Contract
Purpose: This module is designed for future participants in Commerce and Industry as
well as for prospective Corporate, Public and Business Functionaries. It will
equip the learners with an elementary understanding of the South African
legal system and some basic legal concepts. It will also provide them with a
basic understanding of the principles of Contract.
Contents: Introduction to South African Law, Basic Principles of the Law of Contract.
Teaching: 180 minutes of lectures per week, learner self-study, assignments with
feedback from the lecturer and tutorials.
Assessment: Formative assessment through class participation, assignments and two
major tests; summative assessment through a 2-hour internally moderated
examination.
Credits: 16
Prerequisite: Admission for B Com (other than B Com law) or B Admin studies.
Target group: Compulsory for B Com or B Admin (except B Com Accounting
or B Com Law).
LCM 121 Commercial Law- Special Contracts
Purpose: This module is meant for future participants in Commerce and Industry and
for Corporate, Public and Business Functionaries. It will equip them with a
basic understanding of legal principles applicable to some Commercial
transactions within the South African business environment.
Contents: Special Contracts frequently encountered in Commerce being – Sale, Credit
Agreements, Lease, Agency, Security, Carriage and Employment.
Teaching: 180 minutes of lectures per week, learner self-study, assignments with
feedback from the lecturer and tutorials.
Assessment: Formative assessment through class participation, assignments and two
major tests; summative assessment through a 2-hour internally moderated
examination.
Credits: 16
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Prerequisites: Admission for B Com (other than B Com law) or B Admin studies
Target group: Compulsory for B Com or B Admin (except B Com Accounting
or B Com Law).
LCM 211 Commercial Law – Corporate Law
Purpose: This module is meant for prospective participants in Commerce and Industry
as well as for future Corporate, Public and Business Functionaries. It will
equip learners with a sound knowledge of the legal principles governing
partnerships, companies, close corporations and business trusts.
Contents: Introduction to various business entities/forms of business enterprise; law of
partnerships, companies and close corporations.
Teaching: Expository lectures, learner reading, assignments with feedback from
lecturer, seminars.
Assessment: Formative assessment through class participation, assignments and two
major tests; summative assessment through a 3 hour externally moderated
examination.
Credits: 16
Prerequisite: Admission to the second year of B Com studies (other than B Com Law).
Target group: Compulsory for B Com or B Admin (except for B Com
Accounting or B Com Law).
LCM 221 Commercial Law – Instruments of Payment, Insurance, Insolvency and
Succession
Purpose: This module is intended for prospective participants in Commerce and
Industry as well as future Corporate and Business Functionaries. It will equip
the learners with a working knowledge of Negotiable Instruments and other
Instruments of Payment and a basic knowledge of the principles of
Insurance, Insolvency and Succession.
Contents: The law of Negotiable Instruments, and other Instruments of Payment; The
law of Insurance – general principles of Insurance and types of Insurance;
The law of Insolvency – personal and corporate insolvency, effects of
sequestration, and the administration and winding-up process; The law of
Succession – the principles of testate and intestate succession,
administration of deceased estates and distribution of assets amongst
beneficiaries.
Teaching: 180 minutes of lectures per week, learner self-study, assignments with
feedback from the lecturer and practical exercises.
Assessment: Formative assessment through class participation, assignments and two
major tests; summative assessment through a 2-hour externally moderated
examination.
Credits: 16
Prerequisites: Admission to the second year of B Com or B Admin studies.
Target group: Compulsory for B Com or B Admin (except B Com Accounting
or B Com Law).
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SERVICE MODULES FOR B Com (ACCOUNTING) AND B Com DEGREE AT EAST
LONDON CAMPUS
ACL 111/111E – Commercial Law 1A
Purpose: This module is designed for learners studying towards the accounting
profession and also for future participants in Commerce and Industry. It will
equip them with an elementary understanding of the South African legal
system and its sources and some basic legal rules and principles. It will also
provide them with a basic understanding of legal obligations and the
requirements, characteristics and consequences of contracts to enable them
to participate within the Business context.
Contents: The history, structure and sources of South African Law, interpretation of
statutes, general principles of the law of obligations and general principles of
the law of contract.
Teaching: Expository lectures utilizing electronic and other media, learner reading and
self study, class problem solving with feedback from lecturer and tutorials
incorporating smaller groups conducted by senior students.
Assessment: Formative assessment through class participation and comprehensive
tutorial involvement.
Summative Assessment: Two major tests and one two hour internally moderated
examination.
Credits: 16
Prerequisites: Admission for B Com Accounting, B Com (other than B Com law) or B
Admin.
Target group: Compulsory for B Com Accounting, optional for all other B Com (except
B Com law) or B Admin.
ACL 121/121E – Commercial Law 1B
Purpose: This module is designed for learners studying towards the accounting
profession and also for future participants in Commerce and Industry. It will
equip them with a basic understanding of legal principles applicable to
relevant Commercial transactions frequently encountered within the business
environment. They will also be able to understand the granting of credit and
its statutory regulation, management of risks, labour law issues, creditor
protection in the creditor–debtor relationship, instruments of payment and the
debt collection and distribution procedure applicable to insolvency.
Contents: Commercial transactions frequently encountered in Commerce: Sale, Lease,
Agency, Credit agreements and the Usury Act, Carriage, Insurance law,
Security, Instruments of payment, Insolvency, Labour Law, Statutory
Property Transactions and other Statutes relevant for auditors.
Teaching: Expository lectures utilizing electronic and other media, learner reading and
self study, class problem solving with feedback from lecturer and tutorials
incorporating smaller groups conducted by senior students.
Assessment: Formative assessment through class participation and comprehensive
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tutorial involvement.Summative Assessment: Two major tests and one two
hour internally moderated examination.
Credits: 16
Prerequisites: Admission for B Com Accounting, B Com (other than B Com law) or
B Admin.
Target group: Compulsory for B Com Accounting, optional for all other B Com (except
B Com law) or B Admin.
ACL 211E – Commercial Law 2A
Purpose: The module is designed for students following the accounting curriculum and
also for future participants in commerce and industry. The purpose of the
module is to provide a basic knowledge of the concepts, principles, rules and
sources of the law relating to business structures in South Africa and to put
students in a position to critically evaluate the advantages and
disadvantages of conducting business through various business mediums.
Learners will also be provided with a review of statutes relating to financial
institutions, the management of public finances and other statutes relevant
for the accounting profession.
Contents: Introduction to the various business structures: law of partnerships,
companies, close corporations and business trusts including an overview of
the law relating to the liquidation of close corporations and companies. An
introduction to the law relating to financial institutions designed to protect
investors and regulate the capital market, the management of public finance
and other laws relevant for the accounting profession.
Teaching: Expository lectures utilizing electronic and other media, learner reading and
self study, class problem solving with feedback from the lecturer.
Assessment: Formative assessment through class participation and practical problem
solving exercises and summative assessment through two major tests and
one two hour internally moderated examination.
Credits: 16
Prerequisites: None.
Target Group: Compulsory for accounting curriculum. Students wishing to develop their
knowledge of business law, where permitted by the curricula of their
respective faculties.
ACL 221E – Commercial Law 2B
Purpose: The module is intended to provide further legal knowledge and expertise in
three unrelated but important areas of business for prospective participants
in commerce and industry
Contents: An introduction to the law of succession and the process of administering a
deceased estate and an introduction to the law of unlawful competition and
intellectual property rights.
Teaching: Expository lectures utilizing electronic and other media, learner reading and
self study, class problem solving with feedback from the lecturer.
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Assessment: Formative assessment through class participation and practical problem
solving exercises and summative assessment through two major tests and
one two hour internally moderated examination.
Credits: 16
Prerequisites: None
Target Group: Students following curricula in the Faculty of Management and
Commerce as well as other interested students from other faculties permitted
by the rules of their faculties.
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SCHOOL OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATION
Our programmes are offered in two locations and include those previously offered by the
Fort Hare Institute of Government, and the Centre for Development and Local Government
Studies. The Institute and the Centre are in the process of being phased out as we
establish the School to integrate their programmes.
PREMISE
The state as represented by the public sector arm is well positioned to be the key facilitator
of development and protector of its citizens. As such the State has the responsibility to
manage the public sector and promote the development of its people, both the present and
future generations. The state also has a responsibility to create a conducive environment
for the private sector to thrive whilst it regulates their behaviour. In the context of
transformation, there is a paradigm shift from the public sector emphasis on administration
and regulation to the provision of an enabling environment for development. The public
management and policy terrain is no longer pre-occupied with applying rules and
regulations. Rather, the public sector is a facilitator of development. Therefore, public
management and development are reviewed as an appropriate combination and
partnership in the form of the newly established School of Public Management and
Development.
The School views the Developmental State as a
• Shift from public administration and public institutions as regulators and rule
enforcers to partnership between public institutions and civil society /
communities and citizens in shared development and governance
endeavour.
And Development as
• Organic evolution towards the total well-being of the people realigning
highest human potential with the environment and the economy in ensuring
sustainability. The people have a freedom to participate critically and fully in
the determination of their future.
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VISION
The School of Public Management and Development is a vibrant learning centre that
facilitates a critical, compassionate and self-sustaining public sector and communities in
Africa and globally.
MISSION
At the core of the agenda of the School and its sub-units – irrespective of specialisation –
is the notion of development as –
Goal: Desirable end and regenerative movement towards an integrated, sustainable
socio-cultural and economic betterment, with „end‟ being continuously redefined
Process: Enactment of movement, or actions facilitative of development of people and
their material and social environment
Intellectual Construct: Integration and creative balancing of three critical elements are
manifest in curriculum content and pedagogy, organization and relations, as well as
approach to other tasks and concerns
Community Service: Learning community approach to knowledge as negotiated
construct, cognizant of context, valuing experience and alternative worldviews, emphasis
on dialogical pedagogic settings
Collaborative Action: Shared activities, programmes and modules to optimize
School/Units resources and address essential elements, for an example common
grounding modules
GENERAL ENQUIRIES
Location: University of Fort Hare (Bhisho Campus)
Receptionists/Secretary’s Office: Telephone: (040) 639 2445
Facsimile: (040) 639 2447
Location: University of Fort Hare (Alice Campus)
Receptionists/Secretary’s Office: Telephone: (040) 602 2382
Facsimile: (086) 627 6539
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ACADEMIC AND OTHER MEMBERS OF STAFF
DIRECTOR OF SCHOOL
Buthelezi, S, MA (York, UK); M. Sc. ( Zimbabwe); UED (Unizul)
Professors
Ijeoma E, Higher National Diploma, Finance NCAS (Nigeria); MBA (Kensington- Honololu,
USA); PhD Public Affairs (UP)
Associate Professors
Buthelezi, S, MA (York, UK); M. Sc. ( Zimbabwe); UED (Unizul)
Rahim, A, BA (Hons.) Pol Sc (Rajshahi); MA (Waterloo); PhD (Univ. of Toronto)
Kanyane, M, H., B Admin, B Admin. (Hon), M. Admin (UNIN); D Admin (UP), International
Economic and Financial Negotiation Certificate Course, IIAP, Paris],
Senior Lecturers
Monyai, P B, BA (Loyola); BA (Hons.) (UFH); M.Sc. (Dar-es-Salaam, UFH, UZ)
Lecturers
Mle, T. R., BA (Hons.) (UFH); MA (Pretoria); PhD (NMMU)
Sibanda, M.M, B.Ed (UZ), M.Ed (Management & Policy) (UFH), MA (Public Admin)
(London Metropolitan, UK)
Junior Lecturers
Mr S Mago, MBA (Zimbabwe Open University) BA Hon in Economics (University of
Zimbabwe), Certificate in supervisory management (Zimbabwe Institute of management).
School Administrator (Acting)
Mcako, N., B Admin,(Hons) (UNISA) B Admin (UNISA); A.I.M (UCT)
Personal Assistant to the Director
Makula, A
Development Studies Department Administrator
Ms C Manyota
Master of Public Administration Administrator
Ms P Foko, BA (Rhodes)
Executive Programmes
Programme Coordinator
Meecham, J, FET Certificate (City & Guilds), PGD (Management) University of Portsmouth
Dip: Theology (Univ. of London)
Adjunct Professors
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Mayende, G., BA (Univ. of Botswana); MA (Univ. of Hull, UK), Ph D (Univ. of Hull, UK)
Mokgoro, J., B.Sc. (UFH); BPA (Hons.) (Univ. North West); MPA (Toledo, Ohio, USA)
Moyo, S, Ph D (Sociology) New Castle (UK)
Nengwekhulu R.H BA (UNISA), M.A (University of Dare Salaam), D.Phil (UP)
Afolabi, B PhD, FCIPS
Fowler, S PhD (Univ of Potchefstroom); MA (Distinction) (Univ of Potchefstroom)
SPECIALIZED UNITS/AGENCIES PRESENTLY HOUSED WITHIN THE FACULTY OF
MANAGEMENT AND COMMERCE
TRANSVERSAL TRAINING MANAGEMENT AGENCY
(and other programmes) previously under FHIG)
Acting Executive Manager
Jack, M., Post Grad Cert. in Management & Social Care (Sheffield Hallan University, U.
K.)
Secretary to Executive Manager
Meyer, M., BA Honours Public Admin (UFH)
Managers
Harbor, R., B.Sc. (Hons.); MBA (UFH),
Nontshokweni, N., Masters Diploma HR Management RAU; B.Ed UNISA
PA to Manager
Siko, B., Business Studies Cert. (Iqhayiya Tech.College); Customer Communication Cert.
(Buffalo City College); Computer Software Skills Cert. (MSC College)
Trainers
Masha, A., BA Honours Education
Moyikwa, M.,B Tech HR Management WSU
HR Practitioner
Njoli, N., National Diploma – Public Management (UNISA)
Course Administrators
Soga, P., Cert. in Project Management (FHIG)
Boysen, A., Office Assistant Cert (George College); Customer Service Mgt Cert (Unisa);
Effective Communication Cert (FHIG); Community Dev Cert (FHIG)
Peter, S., Office Management & Technology Diploma (Border Tech)
Procurement Administrator:
Maqoma, F., ND Tourism Management
Moko, N., ND Small Business Management
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Data Capturers
Mashalaba, E.,
Nweba, P., Financial Management Cert.(Buffalo City College)
Receptionist
Daniels, S., Professional Receptionist (Cert) Vetta Communications, Secretarial &
Support staff development (Cert) Honey guide, Business writing & Minute taking (Cert)
Siyanqoba Seminars
RULES FOR THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT
DEGREES
The following cluster rules and regulations are to be read in conjunction with the provisions
of the HED, the Statute and the general rules and regulations of the University.
DEGREES AND DIPLOMA CONFERRED
The following degrees are conferred in the School of Business and Enterprise by the
Faculty of Management,
62004 Certificate in Public Administration
Advanced Certificate in Public Administration
60601 Advanced Diploma in District Health Services Management and Leadership
62001 Bachelor of Administration: B Admin
(Public Sector Management & Administration)
62502 Bachelor of Administration Honours (Public Administration)
30507 Bachelor of Social Science Honours (Development Studies)
60509 Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration
31002 Master of Policy Studies: MPS
31010 Master of Public Administration: MPA
31001 Master of Social Science in Development Studies
63003 Master of Administration (Public Administration)
61502 Doctor of Philosophy in Social Science (Dev): PhD
61504 Doctor of Administration (in Public Administration)
D.1 Rules and Curricula
The rules of Faculty of Management and Commerce must be read in conjunction
with and subject to the Act, the Statute and the General Rules of the University of
Fort Hare.
D.2 Credit requirements
To qualify for the Bachelor of Admin (PA) degree a learner must have obtained a
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minimum of 416 credits.
D.3 Admission
D.3.1 To be admitted to the Bachelor of Admin (PA) degree a learner must have obtained
Matriculation Exemption.
D.3.2 Admission to Diploma: To be admitted to the Diploma a learner must be in
possession of a Matriculation Exemption or a Senior Certificate.
D.3.3 Admission to Postgraduate Diploma: Graduates from various degrees will be
admitted to the diploma depending on the subjects they have taken at graduate
level. Normally a first degree is required.
D.4 Level of Study
A student is at the 100 level of study until s/he has obtained 96 credits at the 100
level. A student is at the 300 level of study when s/he has obtained 288 credits, of
which at least 64 credits must be at 200 level.
D.5 Number of Modules at each level
A learner shall take modules as follows:
D.5.1 Not more than 160 credits at the 100 level, and not more than 128 credits at the 200
level provided that a module(s) of 16 credits more than the maximum may be taken
in a previously failed module(s).
D.5.2 Not more than 96 credits at the 300 level provided that 16 credits more than the
maximum may be taken in a previously failed module(s) or if it is the last
outstanding requirement for the degree.
D.6 Special Curriculum
Senate may, on the recommendation of the Board of Faculty of Management and
Commerce, give credit towards the degree for a module not included in a particular
curriculum.
D.7 Choice of Modules
The selection of options and choice of modules must be done in consultation with
the Faculty Manager and Heads of Departments.
D.8 Examinations
D.8.1 In order to complete a degree, a student must comply with the requirements laid
down in the general rules for a degree of bachelor.
D.8.2 The semester mark and the examination mark shall be combined in equal
proportions to obtain the final mark.
D.8.3 A student must obtain a final mark of 50% to pass a module.
D.8.4 A student shall be admitted to a supplementary examination in a module if:
D.8.4.1 s/he obtained a minimum final mark of at least 45%, or
D.8.4.2 the module concerned will be the last outstanding module towards the
degree offered in the semester concerned.
D.8.5 Departments shall have the right to give a candidate an oral examination in a
module where the candidate is either close to qualifying for a supplementary
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examination or close to passing the module.
D.8.6 The final mark for a supplementary examination shall not exceed 50%
D.9 Pass with Distinction/Degree with Distinction
D.9.1 A final mark of 75% or more in a particular module shall be regarded as a distinction
in that module.
D.9.2 A degree will be awarded with cum laude if a student qualifies for the degree in the
prescribed period of study, obtain at least 64 credits (4 modules) at the 300 level
simultaneously with distinction and achieve an average of 70% in all the compulsory
modules taken in the last two semesters of study.
UNDER-GRADUATE OFFERINGS/PROGRAMMES
IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
D.10 Bachelor of Administration (Public Sector Management & Administration)
[62001]
D.10.1 Admission requirements
A learner may be admitted to this programme when she/he-
D.10.1.1 has obtained Matriculation Exemption in South Africa or a certificate
from another country which is recognised by Senate to be equivalent
thereto;
D.10.1.2 qualifies for Mature Age Exemption on the basis that she/he is 23
years of age at the time of registration and obtains a Mature
Exemption certificate;
D.10.1.3 obtains Senate Discretionary Exemption in terms of the regulations as
applied by the Senate.
D.10.2 Duration
The curriculum shall extend over a minimum period of six semesters of full-time
study (3 years).
D.10.3 Composition of the curriculum
This is a structured, professional qualification consisting of the following courses:
Level First Semester - Title of Module Code Cr Group
100
Core Modules
Public Administration 1
Political Science 1
Economics 1
Bus. Management 1
PAD 111
POL 111
ECO 111
BEC 111
16
16
16
16
G
A
B
F
Electives (one of the following)
Financial Accounting 1
ACG 111
16
E
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Statistics 1
Statistics Method
STA 111
STA 114
16
16
D
C
200
Core Modules
Public Administration 2
Political Science 2
Bus. Management 2
Constitutional Law 2
PUB 211
POL 211
BEC 211
LEC 212
16
16
16
16
E
D
G
A
Electives (one of the following)
Economics 2
Development Economics 2
ECO 211
EDE 211
16
16
C
H
300
Core Modules
Public Administration 3
Political Science 3
PAD 311
POL 311
16
16
D
G
Electives (one of the following)
Economics 3
Development Economics 3
Communication 1A
ECO 311
And one of:
ECO 312
ECO 313
ECO 314
EDE 311
CMS 110
8
8
8
8
16
16
F
F
F
F
G
E
Level Second Semester - Title of Module Code Cr Group
100
Core Modules
Public Administration 1
Political Science 1
Economics 1
Bus. Management 1
Life, Knowledge and Action
PAD122
POL 122
ECO 121
BEC 121
LKA 111
16
16
16
16
16
G
A
B
F
Electives (one of the following)
Financial Accounting 1
Statistics 1
Statistics Method
AFA 121
STA 122
STA 124
16
16
16
E
D
C
200
Core Modules
Public Administration 2
Political Science 2
Bus. Management 2
Administrative Law 2
PAD 222
POL 222
BEC 221
LEA 222
16
16
16
16
E
D
G
A
Electives (one of the following)
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Economics 2
Development Economics 2
ECO 221
EDE 221
16
16
C
H
300
Core Modules
Public Administration 3
Political Science 3
PAD 322
POL 322
16
16
D
G
Electives (one of the following)
Economics 3
Development Economics 3
Juridical Interpretation
Two of:
ECO 321
ECO 323
ECO 324
ECO 325
ECO326
EDE 321
EDE 322
LEJ 222
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
16
F
F
F
F
F
G
G
E
Foundation Programme (Extended Curriculum Model)
Bachelor of Administration ( Public Sector Management and Administration)
(62001) (Alice)
Level
Second Semester - Title of Course
Module Code
Cr
Group
100
Academic Reasoning Skills 1
Computer Literacy
Business Management 1
Public Administration 1
Political Science 1
Business English 1
APR 111 F
CLT 111
BEC 111F
PAD 111F
POL 111F
AEB 111F
Value added
8
8
8
8
8
Second Semester
Academic Reasoning Skills 1
Computer Literacy
Business Management 1
Public Administration 1
Political Science 1
Business English 1
APR 122 F
CLT 121
BEC 121F
PAD 121F
POL 121F
AEB 121F
Value added
8
8
8
8
8
200 First Semester
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Core Modules:
Economics 1
Business Management 1
Public Administration 1
Political Science 1
Business English 1
Life, Knowledge and Action
ECO 111 (R)
BEC 112F
PAD 112F
POL 112F
AEB 112F
LKA 112
16
8
8
8
8
16
B
Electives: One of the following
General Accounting 1
Statistics 1
Statistics Method
ACG 111
STA 111
STA 114
16
16
16
E
D
C
Second Semester
Core Modules:
Economics 1
Business Management 1
Public Administration 1
Political Science 1
Business English 1
ECO 121(R)
BEC 123F
PAD 123F
POL 123F
AEB 123F
16
8
8
8
8
B
Electives: One of the following
General Accounting 1
Statistics 1
Statistics Method
ACG 121
STA 122
STA 124
16
16
16
E
D
C
NB: For 2rd and 3th year (which will be your 3rd and 4th year) please refer to your
respective Degree.
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FOUNDATION PROGRAMME (AUGMENTED MODEL)
BACHELOR OF ADMINISTRATION ( PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT AND
ADMINISTRATION) (62001) (ALICE)
NB: To be admitted to this degree, prospective students must have achieved level 3
in Mathematical Literacy OR a level 1 in Mathematics.
LEVEL First semester – Title of
module
Module code Credits Group
100
Core modules:
Academic Reasoning Skills
Computer Literacy
Business English
Public Administration 1
Political Science 1
Electives: one of the
following
Financial Accounting 1
Statistics 1
Statistics Method
APR 111 F
CLT 111
AEB 111F
PAD 111F
POL 111F
AFA 111
STA 111
STA 114
Value
added
8
8
16
16
16
16
16
G
A
E
D
C
Second Semester
Core modules:
Academic Reasoning Skills
Computer Literacy
Business English
Public Administration 1
Political Science 1
Electives: one of the
following
Financial Accounting 1
Statistics 1
Statistics Method
APR 121 F
CLT 121
AEB 121F
PAD 122F
POL 122F
AFA 121
STA 122
STA 124
Value
added
8
8
16
16
16
16
16
G
A
E
D
C
200 First Semester
Core modules:
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NB: For 2rd and 3th year (which will be your 3rd and 4th year) please refer to your
respective Degree.
BACHELOR OFADMINISTRATION (Public Sector Management & Administration) (62001) (Bhisho)*
LEVEL TITLE OF COURSE MODULE CODE (S)
CR EXAM** GROUP
ATTENDANCE** GROUP
100
YEAR 1
CORE MODULES: Economics Public Administration Political Science Life, Knowledge and Action
ECO 111&121 PAD 111 & 122 POL 111 & 122 LKA 111
32 32 32 16
B G A
W Z U
200
YEAR 2
CORE MODULES: Economics Constitutional Law Public Administration Political Science
ECO 211 & 221 LEC 212&LEA222 PAD 211 & 221 POL 211 &221
32 32 32 32
C A E D
V Y X W
300
YEAR 3
CORE MODULES Business Mgt Political Science Statistical Methods
BEC 111 & 121 POL 311 & 322 STA 114 & 124
32 32 32
F G C
Z W Y
300 YEAR 4
Core Modules Business Mgt Economics Public Administration
BEC 211 &221 311, 312, 312, & 322 PAD 311 & 322
32 32 32
G F D
Z V X
*programme offered over four year on part t me basis
Academic Reasoning Skills
Business English
Economics 1
Business Management 1
Life, Knowledge and Action
APR 112F
AEB 112F
ECO 111
BEC 111
LKA 111
Value
added
8
16
16
16
B
F
Second Semester
Core modules:
Academic Reasoning Skills
Business English
Economics 1
Business Management 1
APR 123F
AEB 123F
ECO 121
BEC 121
Value
added
8
16
16
B
F
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** A student my no register for courses that clash either in the EXAM GROUP or ATTENDANCE GROUP (SEE BHISHO TIME TABLE)
D.10.4 Description of Modules
PAD 111 Introduction to Public Administration
Purpose: General orientation to public administration as a study and practice
Contents: Definition of terms in Public Administration; the development of the Science
of Public Administration; politics-administration dichotomy; generic public
administration processes (policy-making, organising, financing, staffing, work
methods and procedures, and control); Interdisciplinary approach to Public
Administration; foundations of Public Administration.
Instruction: 135 minutes per week; compulsory 120 minutes of tutorials per week; self
study
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through: Participation in class; Assignment and
essays; class tests. Summative assessment through: one 3 hour
examination.
Prerequisites: None
PAD 122 Local Government and Administration
Purpose: Learners are introduced to the core business of public administration and the
enabling institutions for public administration from the grassroots level
Contents: Definition of local government; characteristics, powers and functions of local
government, need for local government and administration, civic apathy;
code of conduct; wards and voters roll (local government elections);
vacancies in the local government structure; law and the municipal
administrator; and financial administration at local government.
Instruction: 135 minutes per week; compulsory 120 minutes of tutorials per week; Self
study
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through: Participation in class; Assignment and
essays; class tests. Summative assessment through: one 3 hour
examination.
Prerequisites: None
PUB 211 Human Resource Management and Local Government & Administration
Purpose: Exposition of learners to real public administration fundamental processes
and challenges in the areas of human resources and finance management.
Contents: Introduction to human resource management – provision, support, training
and development and utilization of human resources. Decentralisation and
democracy, district municipalities, IDPs & LDOs in local government;
relevant legislation
Instruction: 135 minutes per week; self study
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Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through: Participation in class; Assignment and
essays; class tests. Summative assessment through: one 3 hour
examination.
Prerequisites: PAD 111 & PAD 122
PAD 222 Organisation theories and Public Financial Management
Purpose: Learners are required to identify organisational and institutional dynamics
and challenges and prepare themselves for the world of work. Learners will
be expected to explain general financial matters, identify the guidelines for
democratic financial management and analyse the role of the legislature in
the public financial management.
Contents: The study of neo-classical systems and human relations theories of
organizations and organisation theories; various modes of organisations;
organisational behaviour; transitional challenges to organisations. The study
of democratic principles for public financial management, budgeting,
legislative control over public financial management, tenders, contract and
stores administration.
Instruction: 135 minutes per week; self study
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through: Participation in class; Assignment and
essays; class tests. Summative assessment through one 3 hour
examination.
Prerequisites: PAD 111 & PAD 122
PAD 311 Public Policy-making and Municipal Financial Management
Purpose: Learners are equipped with the skills to further pursue and execute the
processes of public administration by dissecting the critical issues of policy
and local government finance management, which are at the core of public
administration.
Contents: Introduction to policy-making; policy-makers: values and their environment;
decision-making models: decision-making and policy-making; the public
policy-making process; participants in public policy-making (role and tasks of
public managers); public participants in public policy-making; public policy
analysis: an introduction; policy analysis in government; models for policy
analysis and evaluation of public policy. Municipal financial management: the
process and the prescribed legislation.
Instruction: 135 minutes per week; self study
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through: Participation in class; Class
presentations; Assignment and essays; class tests.
Summative assessment through one 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: PUB 211 & PAD 222
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PAD 322 Public Management and Administration
Purpose: Learners are exposed to the real aspects of public management and the
environment in which public managers‟ function.
Contents: Future demands on public administrators; professionalism in the public
sector; management and leadership in public administration; understanding
human behaviour; aspects of planning in the public sector; decision making
and the role values play in decision making; management of conflict;
productivity in the public sector; management of change; crisis and risk
management; strategic management; corruption and graft in the public
sectors (ethics); control over public activities; a paradigm shift towards a
„New Public Administration‟ epoch.
Instruction: 135 minutes per week; self study
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through: Participation in class; Class
presentations; Assignment and essays; class tests. Summative assessment
through one 3 hour examination.
Prerequisites: PUB 211 & PAD 222
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Life, Knowledge, Action:
The Grounding Programme at UFH
Rule: If the LKA/GP is offered in your chosen programme of study in 2011, it is
compulsory and all students must complete the course.
Purpose: The LKA/GP is the University‟s signature undergraduate course aimed at
developing a set of unifying ideas and purposes around critical citizenship, social
engagement and „graduateness‟.
Definition: The LKA/GP is a 16 credit transdisciplinary teaching and learning experience
based on a just, humanising and collaborative pedagogy that builds on students‟ social
capital as a way of developing compassionate, socially-engaged, critical and responsible
citizens.
Curriculum Framework
Core Notions Knowledge Streams Skills Streams
Society
Democracy Non-discrimination Loving, Living and Learning (including HIV/AIDS) Transdiciplinarity Social engagement Humanising pedagogy/ Student participation Life/ Knowledge/ Action/ Expression Africanisation Taking a thoughtful stand
Citizenship, Society and Democracy
Science, Technology and Environment
Economics, Education and Development
Social Inquiry, Scientific Inquiry Reading and Writing Political, electoral, social, cultural and environmental literacy Information and Financial literacy Building an argument Communication Cooperative learning Emotional intelligence Critical Thinking and Dialogue
U1: Life, Law, regulation and society
U3: Science and Technology
U5: Education and Globalization
U2: Citizenship, Democracy and Human Rights
U4: Environment and Society
U6: Economics and Development
Values and Principles
Equality; Healthy Lifestyle; Commitment to self-
development; Honesty; Accuracy; Hospitality; Integrity; Reliability; Trust; Vitality; Playfulness; Curiosity; Integrity;
Authenticity; Compassion; Efficiency; Enthusiasm; Agency; Responsibility; Love; Optimism; Rights choices;
and Respect
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D.11 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION CERTIFICATED PROGRAMMES
1. CERTIFICATE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (62004)
2. ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (90015)
The Certificate and Advanced Certificate in Public Administration are multidisciplinary
programmes consisting of various stand alone academic modules that collectively form an
integral whole. They are delivered through a mixed mode with site supports provided
through tutors and research/ library centres. Both programmes a year long academic
programme which seek to develop a strong leadership cadre, critical thinkers who are well
rounded and prepared to contribute towards the upliftment and/or development of society.
The Certificated programmes are currently only available to specifically funded groups
working in public and development institutions and can be tailored/developed to suit the
particular needs of the client.
D. 11.1 Admission/Entry requirements:
Certificate: A Pass at senior certificate level with relevant experience in the public,
development or private sectors. The relevance may be determined by the Coordinator of
the Programme for the certificate programme.
Advanced Certificate: For the Advanced certificate, entry is at least a Certificate in Public
Administration or equivalent and relevant qualification as well as experience or relevant
work experience.
D. 11.2 Target groups
Public officials, development practitioners and policy makers. The programmes
have been designed to provide foundation theoretical grounding in the field of
Public Administration.
Groups of candidates working within public and development institutions.
D. 11.3 Articulation
The aim of the Programmes is to enable qualifiers to acquire specific knowledge,
skills and applied competence for continued personal growth, gainful economic
activity, rewarding contributions to enterprises, the economy and society. The
qualification also seeks to provide a solid basis for further advancement and study
in the field of Public Administration and Management.
The qualifications will provide significant numbers of graduates with practical public
sector, and leadership skills thereby equip them with innovative ways of thinking
and doing things in their communities. They will also widen and deepen the
learners‟ scholarly critique in ways that impact positively on public policy making
and implementation.
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The Certificated programmes will further enable the learner to acquire basic skills in
research and manipulation of data to contribute meaningfully in the implementation
of policy and public service delivery improvement.
D. 11.4 Structure of programmes
Year long programmes
The Programmes can be delivered at the preferred site of funder
D. 11.5 Programme delivery
Innovative mixed mode of delivery is employed including tutorials, support contact
sessions, video sessions (where possible) and e- interactive learning.
Course manuals are made available to students but they are encouraged to
research and supplement the readings provided to ensure a robust understanding
of the subject matter.
Tutor/Lecturer facilitated learning, group discussions and debates.
D.11.6 Assessment
Combinations of assessment methods are employed. The assessment of learners
will be largely through;
assignments,
reflective learning reports
Case studies
Comprehensive final written examination on coursework will be used to
evaluate the learner's level of knowledge of the subject area across a range
of critical foci in the sector.
D.11.7 Outline of modules in the Certificate in Public Administration (62004)
Title of module Code Credits
Core modules
Introduction to Public Administration IPA 101 16
Introduction to HRM & Employee resourcing IHR 101 32
Introduction to governance/Nature & scope of political
science
IGP 101 16
Local government and Administration LGA 101 16
Elective modules (one of the following)
Introduction to Development IDV 101 8
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Introduction to Civil Society Studies ICS 101 8
Total credits 88
D.11.8 Description of Modules (62004)
IPA 101: Introduction to Public Administration
Purpose: To provide one with an understanding of how public administration (the
nature and practice of government) works; to provide learners with an
understanding of the concept of public administration as a field of study and
how to relate theory to praxis
Contents: the concept of public administration, public management, the political-
administrative interface, the dynamics of activities in the public sector,
comparisons with other government systems.
Instruction: Contact sessions, tutorial support, peer teaching, comprehensive study
manuals.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through group and individual presentations and
written assignment.
IHR 101: Introduction to Human Resource Management and Employee Resourcing
Purpose: To help students understand issues relating to management of human
resources in the workplace. To equip them with theory and practical
application of managerial skills as future human resource managers. To help
students to understand the importance of planning in attaining as well as
retaining the most suitable employees for successful continued existence of
organisations.
Contents: Background to the study of HRM, definitions, field, policies, human being as
an employee as well as challenges facing HRM.
Instruction: Tutor supported group discussions, comprehensive study packs, contact
sessions.
Assessment: research based case study.
Credits: 32
IGP 101: Nature and Scope of Political Science/ Introduction to Governance
Purpose: To provide participants with a practical understanding of politics to help them
in leadership roles and analysis of events in society. Accordingly, it is not a
polemic treatise although debate is inevitable in matters of social or societal
organisation. The module seeks to stimulate candidates to sufficiently enable
them to engage in further research to satisfy their quest for the deeper
understanding of political debate and events.
Contents: The development of Political; Science as an academic discipline. Basic
concepts as politics, political science, political economy and the content of
political science, constitutions, democracy thereby giving the relevant
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application to Africa. Trends in the discourse of Political science, relation of
Political Science to Political Economy, the relationship between politics and
administration, the future of Political Science in the African and world
contexts.
Instruction: Independent study based on detailed course manuals, supportive tutorial
and contact sessions
Credits: 1 6
Assessment: Written assignment
LGA101: Local Government and Administration
Purpose: to provide learners with knowledge and understanding of the functioning of
local government as a conduit for development.
Contents: Defining local government, examining models/systems of local government,
the role of local government in facilitating development.
Instruction: Tutor based facilitation, contact sessions, and peer teaching.
Credits: 16
Assessment:
IDV 101: Introduction to Development
Purpose: to introduce learners to the concept of development
Contents: Theories of development, human-centred development, social and human
aspects of development, human development.
Instruction: contact sessions, peer teaching, independent study and research
Credits: 8
Assessment: written assignment
ICS 101: Introduction to Civil Society Studies
Purpose: providing the learner (aspiring civil society activist) with the opportunity to
develop the various capacities regarded as part of addressing problems and
challenges in the immediate society.
Contents: the constitution and rule of law, citizenship, civil society and human rights,
democracy, International bill of rights, international conventions,
communication, social partners in development, effective community and
partner engagement.
Instruction:
Credits: 8
Assessment: written assignment, group presentations
POST GRADUATE OFFERINGS/PROGRAMMES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
The University of Fort Hare has built an impressive profile in en-skilling public servants and
over the years has educated and skilled large numbers of people who now hold key public
sector leadership positions in Africa but more significantly in South Africa. These Public
Administration programmes have been developed by the University of Fort Hare,
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registered with the Council for Higher Education and accredited by the South African
Qualifications Authority to equip learners with the competencies that are needed for
meaningful contribution in Public sector management across all the three spheres of
government: national, provincial and local government as well as in non-government
organizations. Learners will acquire and develop innovative skills and competencies in the
dynamic and challenging environment of Public Administration. (Please refer to the
general rules for further information)
D.12 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION HONOURS DEGREE (62502)
D.12.1 Admission requirements
D.12.1.1 A learner may be admitted as a candidate for the degree when
she/he-
D.12.1.2 Has obtained the degree of Bachelor of Administration or to the
status of Bachelor of Administration at university level;
D.12.1.3 Possesses relevant managerial experience in the Public Sector.
D.12.1.4 Any learner who seeks admission on the bases of 1.1.1 should have
obtained an average of at least 60% at the NQF6 level in the final
assessment of the relevant area of specialisation or major, unless decided
otherwise by the Programme Unit, at the recommendation of the relevant
qualification director(s).
D.12.2 Duration of the programme
D.13.2.1The honours programme shall extend over not less than two consecutive
semesters of full-time study and not more than four semesters over three
years.
D.13.2.2 A learner may, with the permission of the Programme Coordinator, attend
and complete the programme on a part-time basis in no less than four
semesters and not more than six semesters, which may spread over four
years.
D.12.3 Areas of specialisation
The degree may be conferred when a learner has completed five core modules and
one elective.
Title of Module
Code
Credits
Core Modules
Methodology & Research Methods
Research Project
Advanced theories of Public Administration
PAD 511
PAD 526
PAD 512
24
32
16
152
Advanced Public Financial Management
Public and Municipal Human Resource Mgt
PAD 513
PUB 525
16
16
Elective Modules - One of the following:
Local Government & Administration
Labour relations & the public sector
Public Policy
Public Sector Management
PAD 524
PAD 521
PAD 522
PAD 523
16
16
16
16
The examination consists of five papers and a research project.
PAD 511 Methodology and Research Methods
Examination of such issues as the philosophy of research, creation of knowledge, design
and execution of research. 24 credits. Examination: One 3 hour paper.
PAD 512 Advanced Theories of Public Administration
An advanced study of schools of administrative theory. 16 credits. Examination: One 3
hour paper
PAD 513 Advanced Public Financial Management
An advanced study of the major issues in financial management: Democratic principles for
public financial management; public choices and public finance; organisational rules for
public financial management; public revenue; features and functions of public budget;
financing operations. 16 credits. Examination: One 3 hour paper
PAD 521 Labour Relations and the Public Sector
The course examines labour relations in political and socio-economic context, the role of
government in labour relations and labour relations in the public sector. 16 credits.
Examination: One 3 hour paper
PAD 522 Public Policy
The course covers the planning process, policy making, implementation, evaluation and
analysis. 16 credits. Examination: One 3 hour paper
PAD 523 Public Sector Management
The course covers skills for public managers: public management environment, leadership
and motivation, decision-making techniques, change management, management of
conflict, project management, information management, communications and negotiation,
strategic management. 16 credits. Examinations: One 3 hour paper
PAD 524 Local Government and Administration
An advanced study of selected contemporary problems of central and local government
including political, structural and financial problems; Application of relevant legislation. 16
credits. Examination: One 3 hour paper.
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PUB 525 Public and Municipal Human Resources Management
Management study of the major issues in public and municipal human resource
administrative functions – provision, support, training and development & utilization of
human resources. 16 credits. Examination: One 3 hour paper
PAD 526 Research Project
The learner must undertake a research project which he must submit s/he must submit a
written report of not less than 20 typed pages and not more than 35 pages. The topic for
the project should be chosen in consultation with the Department. The report must show
clearly that the learner is able to apply research methods empirically. Prerequisites: POL
311 & POL 321. 32 credits. Examination: One 3 hour paper
D.13 MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMME (31010)
D.13.1 Admission/Entry requirements
• 4-year Bachelors /Honours degree or has successfully completed a similar degree
at NQF 7.
• Consideration may be given to those with 3-year Bachelor degree and extensive
managerial experience.
Admission into the programme can be obtained at the beginning of the academic
year but application forms are readily available at the end of the preceding
academic year.
Note that applicants may be invited for an interview and/or required to write a
paper.
Applicants must attach their CV‟s.
D.13.2 Target group
Public officials, who are familiar with the challenges of the Public Sector as well as
graduates of other disciplines who want to integrate their areas of interest and
academic pursuits through a wide range of courses
D.13.3 Duration of the Programme
The Master of Public Administration is a minimum of two years and a maximum of
three years programme. A combination of contact and other creative modes of
education are employed for effective learning purposes. Studies are arranged
through block release coursework and research.
There are two exit qualifications in the programme
• Postgraduate Diploma (Obtained after completing all course work and if the
learner does not wish to undertake a supervised detailed one year research
project.)
• Master of Public Administration (Obtained after completing two years of study
which includes course work and research project).
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D.13.4 Assessment
Assessment includes course work and a supervised research project/ dissertation.
• Continuous assessment will be done through assignments, essays, presentations,
participation on work seminars, and submission of portfolios. Summative
assessment will be done through a 3 hour examination for fundamental and core
modules.
• The research project accounts for 50% of total requirements for the Masters
Degree programme.
D.13.5 Articulation
The programme provides learners with the option of choosing one of three elective
streams as follows:
• Public Administration
• Educational Policy & Management
• Social Policy & Development
On completion of the Masters Degree programme, graduates will be able to
pursue Doctoral studies, if they so wish.
D.13.6 Module Content (includes fundamental, core and specialist/elective
modules)
Fundamental
Fundamental Course (required for candidates who do not have a Public
Administration/Management background or training)
Level
Title of Module
Code
Credit
100
Fundamental
Introduction to Governance / Public Administration
PAD 701
8
Level
Title of Module
Code
Credit
100
Core
Research Methodology
Research Part II
Leadership & Public Sector Management
Administrative Theories
Information Technology for Public Sector Managers
Human Resource Management
Public Financial Management
Project Management
PAD 811
PAD 821
PAD 812
PAD 813
PAD 814
PAD 822
PAD 823
PAD 824
8
8
16
16
8
16
16
10
Specialist/Electives
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Public Administration stream
Local Government & Administration
Development Management
Inter-governmental Relations
Education Policy and Management stream
Educational Leadership
Educational Policy
Managing the Curriculum
Social Policy and Development stream
Social Policy & Social Issues
Development Management & Policy
Theories of Development
Political Economy of Southern Africa
PAD 815
PAD 816
PAD 825
PAD 817
PAD 818
PAD 826
PAD 819
PAD 810
PAD 827
PAD 828
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
Total
128
200
Research Project/Dissertation
• Proposal Development
• Scientific Research
• Research Report
PAD 800
128
Total
128
D.13.7 Description of Modules
PAD 701: Introduction to Governance/Public Administration
Purpose: Required for candidates who do not have a Public
Administration/Management background or training, to enable the learner
who does not have the relevant work experience/training to acquire basic
knowledge of Public Administration and Management and the concept of
governance.
Content: Definition of terms in Public Administration, the development of the science
of Public Administration. Politics-administration dichotomy, policy-making,
implementation, ethics in the public sector. Principles and values that govern
public administration – with specific reference to the Constitution of the
Republic of South Africa; Act 108 of 1996, Chapter 10. Public-private sector
partnerships, the customer concept in Public Administration (Batho Pele).
Credits: 8
Prerequisites: None
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PAD 811 & PAD 821: Research Methodology (Part 1 & 2)
Purpose: Learners will become familiar with the epistemological problems in the social
sciences generally and in Public Administration in particular. They will gain
greater knowledge about research designs; selecting, planning and
proposing research projects.
Content: Introduction to the philosophy of the social sciences, research methodology;
quantitative and qualitative, survey research, action research; basic
principles of sampling, research design; identifying and formulating the
research problem, operationalising the research problem, data collection
methods, data analysis and interpretation. Writing a research report.
Credits: 16
Prerequisites: None
PAD 812: Leadership & Public Sector Management
Purpose: To provide students with the necessary skills required to manage public
institutions efficiently and effectively. The purpose is to sensitize learners to
make innovative and positive contributions and change their environments.
Content: Concepts such as management, public management, public administration
and leadership. Leadership and management styles, characteristics of the
public management environment, application and contextualisation of
theoretical frameworks, management ethics and ethical conduct,
professionalizing the public sector, the policy making process and policy
implementation, corruption.
Credits: 16
Prerequisites: None
PAD 813: Administrative Theories
Purpose: To enable learners to correlate theory and practice in Public Administration.
Identifying administrative theories that are relevant to the study of Public
Administration.
Content: Administration and public administration, administrative/managerial theories,
scientific management school, leadership, generic functions, policy and
policy-making, political administrative interface, professionalism and
internationalisation.
Credits: 16
Prerequisites: None
PAD 814: Information Technology for Public Sector Managers
Purpose: Computer literacy course designed for those in public sector management
positions to better prepare and assist them to utilise technological trends in
the management processes.
Content: MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Project, decision
making using spreadsheets.
Credits: 8
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Prerequisites: Basic computer literacy.
PAD 822: Human Resource Management
Purpose: To provide public sector managers with skills required to manage human
esources in the public sector in an efficient manner, practical public sector
leadership skills. It will equip students with innovative ways of thinking and
doing things in the process of service delivery.
Content: The development of human resource management, employment,
recruitment and selection, induction, orientation and placement. Legal
aspects of employment, performance appraisal and career development,
training and HR development. Remuneration and benefits, job evaluation
and reward.
Credits: 16
Prerequisites: None.
PAD 823: Public Financial Resource Management
Purpose: To provide learners with the necessary knowledge and skills required to
manage financial resources in the public sector in an efficient and effective
manner.
Content: Theoretical and conceptual foundations of public financial management,
management of public financial resources, legislation relating to public
finance.
Credits: 16
Prerequisites: None
PAD 824: Project Management
Purpose: To introduce students to Project Management in the public and development
sector. To provide managers with skills necessary for the “projectisation” of
their work responsibilities, especially the Strategic Plans of the department.
Content: Models of project planning and management, project planning processes,
process-based approach, critical path, the network diagram, work plans,
work breakdown structures. MS Project.
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
Elective/Specialist modules
(Students would choose only one of the following streams)
STREAM 1: Public Administration
PAD 815: Local Government & Administration
Purpose: To enable learners to acquire specific skills and applied competence for
continued personnel growth, gainful activity and rewarding contributions to
enterprises, the economy and society. It will provide practical public sector
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leadership skills and equip them with innovative ways of thinking and doing
things in the process of service delivery and also promoting development at
the local government level.
Content: Co-operative governance, community participation, developmental local
government, municipal partnerships, legislation relevant to local authorities.
Structural relationship of local, national and provincial government.
Performance management, interventions and institutional development.
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
PAD 816/810: Development Management
Purpose: It is meant for development practitioners and policy makers in government,
NGO and CBO sectors who are required to manage the formulation,
implementation and evaluation of development policies, programmes and
projects for service delivery.
Content: Development theories, the role of the state in development, the notion of
sustainable development. An examination of the political, economic, cultural
or social contexts that influence and within which management of
development takes place. Identifying the major role players in development,
different institutions at local, provincial and national level, as well as the
international institutions that influence development in Africa. Empowering
people for development and citizen participation, capacity building in local
institutions.
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
PAD 825: Inter-governmental Relations
Purpose: To ensure learners develop skills and an understanding of the key concepts
as well as the approaches/administrative issues in intergovernmental
relations. Provide learners with a broad overview of intergovernmental
relations, within the context of the Constitution and recent legislative and
policy developments.
Content: Approaches to governmental relations, interdependence of governmental
bodies, vertical and horizontal relations, and extra- governmental relations.
Social, political, economic and institutional extra-governmental relations.
Mandate, agency, partnership. The concept of power in governmental
relations.
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
STREAM 2: EDUCATIONAL POLICY & MANAGEMENT
PAD 817: Educational Leadership
Purpose: To prepare and develop bold, socially responsible educational leaders. This
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module is meant to increase and improve the skills, knowledge and
leadership capacity of programme participants.
Content: Leadership, teaching and learning for equity and high achievement. Systems
thinking and strategic approaches to developing learning communities.
Building organisational capacity, ethical, caring and reflective practice.
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None.
PAD 818: Educational Policy
Purpose: To develop practical knowledge and skills to enhance public policy analysis
in the education sector. It is intended to enable students to develop capacity
to initiate, implement and evaluate policies and programmes in the education
subsystem.
Content: Policy making process, Education policy. Theories and approaches in the
field of public policy analysis and the policy process. Policy goals, policy
environment (cultural, political, ideological and socio-economic conditions).
Policy instruments. Evaluation of education policies.
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
PAD 826: Managing the Curriculum
Purpose: To introduce the major theoretical and organisational issues that underpin
approaches to managing the curriculum in schools and colleges; examine a
range of constraints and opportunities within which curriculum policies are
formulated; link curriculum policies to curriculum practice paying attention to
external and internal pressures promoting change and innovation.
Content: Curriculum development, policy-making and implementation. Curriculum
construction, political, cultural, social environment influencing curriculum
construction. Perspectives: traditionalists, post-modernists, critical analysis.
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
STREAM 3: SOCIAL POLICY & DEVELOPMENT
PAD 819: Social Policy and Social Issues
Purpose: To introduce social policy as a field of inquiry, affirm the understanding of
social events in society and examine a range of value constraints as well as
factual premises within which social policies are formulated. In addition,
focus on the set of (endogenous and exogenous) forces impinging on society
and economy is examined.
Content: Public policy, policy-making process, social needs, social problems, social
welfare. Equality, rights and social justice. Equity and choice. Neo-liberal,
social democratic, socialist and feminist perspectives. Actors in policy
process, policy environment.
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Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None
PAD 810: Development Planning: See PAD 816 above
PAD 827: Theories of Development
Purpose: To introduce theories and their relevance to social practitioners in South
Africa that underpin approaches to promoting and conserving social and
human-centred development and underscore that effective project
management is a dynamic process that takes into consideration the human
and social cartography.
Credits: 10
Prerequisites: None OR
PAD 828: Political Economy of Southern Africa (10 credits)
Purpose: To introduce concepts pertaining to regionalism and integration,
globalisation.
Content: The concept of political economy. World trade, regional/economic
cooperation, free trade areas, customs unions. Regionalism/Regional
integration, inter-governmentalism, people-to-people integration. The EU,
NAFTA, AU, SADC, COMESA, SACU. World trade market, debt crisis,
diversification of economies, trade imbalances, hegemony.
Total: 128credits (excluding PAD 701).
PAD 800: Research Project/Dissertation
This project accounts for 50% of the total requirement for the Masters Degree programme.
The learner must present an academically/scientifically sound report on an approved
research subject.
Steps in the process of undertaking this research project include:
· Development of research proposals
· Presentations at „peer-support‟ conferences
· Presentation of proposals to the relevant school/stream
· Undertake in-depth, guided research
· Scientific reporting or writing up of the dissertation
D.14 MASTER OF ADMINISTRATION (PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION) BY RESEARCH
(63003)
D.14.1 Target group
Scholars and practitioners in the discipline of Public Administration and
Management, who are grounded in the theoretical/foundational modules in the
discipline and are keen to carry out research around a problem in the
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discipline/sector.
D.14.2 Admission/Entry requirement
• Learners must hold a four-year Bachelors degree or Honours in the subject of
Public Administration.
• A person shall not be regarded as a learner unless such a person has been
admitted to the degree required ( Public Administration)
• Note that an assessment of work profile, research potential and other professional
qualifications may be required.
Also note that applicants may be invited for an interview and/or required to write a
paper.
D.14.3 Duration of the Programme
• Programme is by research work
• Not less than two years and not more than 4 years
• Where necessary, learners may be advised to register specific MPA modules to
deepen and sharpen their theoretical understanding
D.14.4 Program Structure
The candidate is expected to complete & pass the examination of his/her research
project.
• Any interruption shall terminate registration, in exceptional circumstances; learners
shall submit a motivation through the Head of Department to Senate, which will
make the final decision.
• Senate may cancel registration if insufficient progress has been made in the study.
In this event, all fees shall be forfeited.
D.14.5 Articulation
The programme provides successful learners with articulation opportunities in the
PhD or D. Admin programmes in Public Administration & Management.
DEVELOPMENT STUDIES OFFERINGS/PROGRAMMES
Development Studies makes provision for new themes and concepts that are emerging
within this social science discipline, and which reflect the processes of transformation that
are taking place at all levels regionally, nationally and globally at this particular
conjuncture. In order to achieve this objective, a research methodology component has
been incorporated into development issues. This is done in order to broaden and enrich
the paradigm frame of Development Studies in line with ongoing research review and
criticisms of more orthodox conceptions.
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1. UNDERGRADUATE MODULES
These modules are offered within the in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in
the following programmes:
BSc Sc (Plain) as a major.
BA as a an elective
BSc Sc as (HRM) as a major OR to 200 as an elective
BSocial Work as a major OR to 200 level as an elective
BLib as a major
Diploma in Lirary and Information Sc as as an elective
DEV 111 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCEPT OF “DEVELOPMENT”
Purpose: to introduce students to the concept of “Development”
Content: the course focuses on social and human aspects of development ;
competing theories about development including national, colonial,
modernization, gender equity and human development. Gives a discursive
analysis of development to denote its diversity of meaning by theoreticians
and activists.
Instruction: 4 lectures per week, group discussions and assignments.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
assignments
Examination: 3 hour examination moderated internally
DEV 122 AN OVERVIEW OF THE AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY
Purpose: to help students to understand issues underlying the political economy of
development.
Content: An overview of the Political Economy of South Africa since the 19 , including
the incorporation of the African continent into the world economic system and
an examination of the state and its role in development..
Instruction: 4 lectures per week, group work and assignments.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
assignments
Examination: 3 hour examination moderated internally
DEV 211 HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY
Purpose: To help students understand issues relating to the workings of the world
economy.
Content: The International Economic system since 1945: An Historical Overview of the
International Finance and Trade Systems. The working of the Brettonwoods
institutions, Impact of Developing World, and Sub-Saharan Africa
specifically.
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Instruction: 3 lectures per week, group work and assignments.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
assignments
Examination: 3 hour examination moderated internally.
DEV 222 DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN, HUMAN, ENVIRONMENTAL AND
TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEM
Purpose: To help students understand issues relating to urban development including
environment as well as human and technological development.
Content: Urban Development and Management in the Developing World: The
Development of the Social and Human Resources. The Environmental
System. Population and Technological Growth in Developing Countries.
Instruction: 3 lectures per week, group work and assignments.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
assignments
Examination: 3 hour examination moderated internally
DEV 311 DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND STRATEGIES IN THE DEVELOPING
WORLD
Purpose: To help students understand issues relating to development planning and the
role played by multilateral institutions of development.
Content: Development Planning and Strategies in Developing Countries: The role of
Multilateral Institutions (IMF, IBRD, GATT/WTO, EU-ACP) in the context of
the “New World Order”. Economic Integration Theory. Economic
Cooperation and Integration in Southern Africa.
Instruction: 4 lectures per week, group work and assignments.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
assignments
Examination: 3 hour examination moderated externally
DEV 322 RURAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Purpose: To enhance the students‟ knowledge of issues of rural social development.
Content: Sociological theory and Rural Social Development. Strategies of Rural
Social Development in Southern / South Africa.
Instruction: 3 lectures per week, group work and assignments.
Credits: 16
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
assignments
Examination: 3 hour examination moderated externally
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POST GRADUATE OFFERINGS/PROGRAMMESIN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
D.156 Development Studies Honours (30507)
D.15.1 Entry Requirements:
A Bachelor degree in the social sciences with a pass mark of not less than 60% for
the major courses in the last year of study. In cases of a general BA degree
candidates must have passed at least one social science course with a pass mark
of not less than 60% in the last year of study. Special admission to the programme
would be given, subject to the approval of the HOD, to students who possess an
undergraduate degree in the relevant areas but do not meet the admission
requirements specified.
Title of Module
Course
Codes Credits
Compulsory Modules
Research Methodology in Development Studies
Development Management in the Developing Countries
Research Project
DEV 511
DEV 513
DEV 523
32
32
32
Elective Modules
Political Economy of Health in Developing Countries
Gender issues and Social Change
Strategies and Organization of Rural Social Change
Development Strategies and Planning in Sub-saharan Africa
DEV 522
DEV 524
DEV 514
DEV 525
16
16
16
16
COMPULSORY MODULES
DEV 511 Research methodology
Purpose: To acquaint students with the different activities undertaken in the research
process as well as the philosophical understanding of social science
research.
Content: Research methodology identifies several principal types of activities, each of
which can be regarded as a stage in the research process, problems
hypothesis, research designs, measurement, data collection, data analysis
and empirical generalizations. Development Research includes research
approaches, research procedures for development, policy research cycle,
development research, and facts and values. Research techniques include
sampling, questionnaire experimental and quasi-experimental designs; and
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Ethical issues in social science research.
Instruction: One 3 hour lecture per week, group work and assignments.
Credits: 32
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
assignments.
Examination: 3 hour examination moderated externally.
DEV 513 Development management in the developing countries
Purpose: To help students understand issues relating to the management
development in developing countries.
Content: A critical examination of the concept of development management and its
applicability in developing countries, and in South Africa particularly;
Development management and its locus in the provision of service. The
political and economic environment of development management ; local
institutional development; the role of social organizations in development
management.
Instruction: one 3hour lecture per week.
Credits: 32
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
assignments
Examination: 3 hour examination moderated externally.
DEV 523 Research project
Purpose: To help students to apply their theoretical knowledge of research
methodology and to master writing and thinking skills including logical and
coherent argumentation.
Content: Research project in the area of study approved by the Head of Department
of not more than 10 000 words in length.
Instruction: occasional seminars and presentations on research topics.
Credits: 32
ELECTIVE MODULES
DEV 512 Development strategies and planning in sub-saharan Africa
Purpose: To help enhance students understanding of issues relating to the new
international order pertaining to development issues.
Content: The New World Order in the current conjuncture. An historical overview of
the international monetary system since 1945; The multilateral international
agencies in the economic development of developing countries, particularly
in Sub-Saharan Africa; Economic integration theory; Economic cooperation
and integration in Southern Africa.
Instruction: one 3 hour lectures per week.
Credits: 32
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
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assignments
Examination: 3 hour examination moderated externally.
DEV514 Strategies and organisations of rural social development
Purpose: To acquaint students with issues in social development in the rural sector.
Content: Examines issues and theories of development with regard to change in rural
societies; strategies influenced by ideologies; Agriculture and industry; Class
stratification/Agribusiness and plantation agriculture; Gender issues in rural
development and population; Contraception and social control; the farm
size/land reform debate;
Debates on technology; Marketing Boards and agricultural markets;
cooperatives, primary health care and development; Agricultural
development and the environment.
Instruction: one 3 hour lectures per week.
Credits: 32
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
assignments
Examination: 3 hour examination moderated externally.
DEV 522 Political economy of health in developing countries
Purpose: To help enhance the knowledge of students on issues relating to the social
production of health and illness and the medicalisation of health.
Content: Understanding medicine and health; the social production of health and
illness; health, illness and underdevelopment; the social production of
medicine care; women, medicine and social reproduction; medical power and
social knowledge; public health, medicine and social reproduction in South
Africa; towards alternative medical care health system.
Instruction: one 3 hour lecture per week.
Credits: 32
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
assignments
Examination: 3 hour examination moderated externally.
DEV 524 Gender issues and social change
Purpose: To acquaint students with issues of gender relations and social change.
Content: Feminist theories and the concept of gender; different strategies to deal with
gender relations and the empowerment of women, gender and development
in Southern / South Africa.
Instruction: one 3 hour lecture per week, group work and assignments.
Credits: 32
Assessment: Continuous assessment through class tests, group presentations and
assignments
Examination: 3 hour examination moderated externally.
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D.16 MASTER OF SOCIAL SCIENCE IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (31001)
D.16.1 Purpose
To equip the student with both theoretical and methodological grasp, to integrate
theory and practice and to operationalise theory into a research programme.
D.16.2 Mode of Delivery
Research only
D.16.3 Articulation
Vertically, qualifiers may enrol for doctoral studies. Horizontally, learners can have
access to other Masters programmes in the faculty or in the faculty of Social
Sciences.
D.16.4 Admission Criteria A Bachelor’s degree in the social and human
sciences
With a pass mark of not less than 60% for the major courses in the last year of
study. A research proposal of less than 600 words indicating the topic, introduction,
the problem statement, objectives of the study and the methodology.
D.16.5 Outcomes
Exit Outcomes
Understanding of the conceptual and theoretical aspects of the development
complex and to make pragmatic interventions.
Ability to translate or to operationalise theory into a research programme.
Capacity to design and write a thesis that can respectably stand alongside
refereed and published research in the same field and have practical
application in the social context.
Critical cross-field outcomes
Ability to work in both the urban and rural contexts in investigating and
formulating different strategies and policies for development, including
carrying out institutional policy and strategic planning at all levels of
governance.
D.16.6 Integrated Assessment
Seminar presentations, group discussions and debates including written
research proposals which are used to assess mastery of the theory and
conceptual clarity.
Research competence and analytical skills are assessed from the
dissertation and the use of case Studies
D.16.7 Programme Structure
The programme runs through a two year period. The first year is devoted to the
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review of literature and writing of a research proposal undergirded by a series of
seminar presentation for peer assessment. This culminates into a final assessment
of the proposal by the research committee of the Faculty. The remaining year is
devoted to the writing and defending of the research thesis.
D.17. Doctor of philosophy (Social Sciences Development Studies): Ph D (Social
Sciences Dev) 61502 – (DDV901)
D.17.1 Purpose
To equip the student with both theoretical and methodological grasp, towards
building conceptual and empirical oversight. The intended outcome is the ability to
work at the paradigmatic level of development. The PhD is predicated upon the
premise that the student has mastered the ability to translate or operationalise
theory into a research programme at the Masters level.
D.17.2 Mode of delivery
By research only.
D.17.3 Articulation
Qualifiers may enrol for post-doctoral studies. Horizontally, learners can have
access to other PhD programmes in the faculty or in the faculty of Social and
Human Sciences.
D.17.4 Admission CriteriaA Masters degree with a pass mark of not less than 60% for
the major courses (in the case o f coursework Masters) or a good masters and
evidence of scholarly contribution (in the case of a research Masters). A research
proposal of less than 600 words indicating the topic, introduction, the problem
statement, objectives of the study and the methodology.
D.17.5 Exit level outcomes
Understanding of the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of
development thinking and action
Ability to understand and to successfully carry out the analysis and
evaluation of policy and to determine the political economy of policy
paradigm shifts.
Capacity to design and write a thesis that can respectably stand alongside
refereed and published research in the same field and have practical
application in the social context.
Critical Cross-field outcomes
Ability to work in both the urban and rural contexts in investigating and
formulating different strategies and policies for development, including
carrying out institutional policy and strategic planning at all levels of
governance.
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Integrated assessment
Seminar presentations, group discussions and debates including written
research proposals which are used to assess mastery of the theory and
conceptual clarity.
Research competence and analytical skills are assessed from the
dissertation and the use of case studies
D.17.6 Programme structure
The programme runs through two to five years. The first year is devoted to the
review of literature and writing of a research proposal undergirded by a series of
seminar presentation for peer assessment. This culminates into a final assessment
of the proposal by the research committee of the Faculty. The remaining years are
for the writing and defending of the research thesis.
D.18 Doctor of Administration (in Public Administration) – 61504 – DPA900
D.18.1 Purpose
To equip the student with both theoretical and methodological grasp, towards
building conceptual and empirical oversight. The intended outcome is the ability to
work at the paradigmatic level of development. The PhD is predicated upon the
premise that the student has mastered the ability to translate or operationalise
theory into a research programme at the Masters level.
D.18.2 Mode of delivery
By research only.
D.18.3 Articulation
Qualifiers may enrol for post-doctoral studies. Horizontally, learners can have
access to other PhD programmes in the faculty.
D.18.4 Admission Criteria
A Masters degree with a pass mark of not less than 60% for the major courses (in
the case o f coursework Masters) or a good masters and evidence of scholarly
contribution (in the case of a research Masters). A research proposal of less than
600 words indicating the topic, introduction, the problem statement, objectives of the
study and the methodology.
D.18.5 Exit level outcomes
Understanding of the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of
development thinking and action
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Ability to understand and to successfully carry out the analysis and
evaluation of policy and to determine the political economy of policy
paradigm shifts.
Capacity to design and write a thesis that can respectably stand alongside
refereed and published research in the same field and have practical
application in the social context.
Critical Cross-field outcomes
Ability to work in both the urban and rural contexts in investigating and
formulating different strategies and policies for development, including
carrying out institutional policy and strategic planning at all levels of
governance.
Integrated assessment
Seminar presentations, group discussions and debates including written
research proposals which are used to assess mastery of the theory and
conceptual clarity.
Research competence and analytical skills are assessed from the
dissertation and the use of case studies
D.18.6 Programme structure
The programme runs through two to five years. The first year is devoted to the
review of literature and writing of a research proposal undergirded by a series of
seminar presentation for peer assessment. This culminates into a final assessment
of the proposal by the research committee of the Faculty. The remaining years are
for the writing and defending of the research thesis.
SPECIALIZED UNITS/AGENCIES WITHIN THE FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT AND
COMMERCE AND THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
PUBLIC FINANCIAL SERVICES AGENCY (PFSA)
D. Griffiths, PFSA Executive Manager (Acting), H Dip Acc (Natal)
PFSA Staff:
M. Kuipers, Senior Manager: Training and Development, N.Dip Internal Auditing (PE
Technikon), PGD Higher Education & Training (UFH)
B. Randall, Senior Manager: Supply Chain Management, MBA (Business School
Netherlands), MCIPS
O. Mokitlane, Subject Matter Expert: Public Financial Management, B.Com (UWC)
X. Dlanga, Subject Matter Expert: Public Financial Management, B. Soc Science (UCT)
M. Kwinana, Subject Matter Expert: Public Financial Management, B.Com Acc (UFH)
S. Lugumba, Subject Matter Expert: Public Financial Management, B.Com (Hons)
B. Situnda, Administrator, Secretarial Diploma (East London Technical College)
B. Mekuto, PFSA Receptionist N. Dip Marketing Management (EL College)
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K. Gola, Administrator, N. Dip Office Management & Technology (CUT)
P. Mapasa, Administrator, CIST Advanced Diploma (Almega) & SSE Diploma (ELCI)
L. Futuse, Manager: Education & Training Quality Assurance, Post Graduate Diploma in
Enterprise Management (Rhodes)
A. Nyandeni, Quality Reviewer, B. Comm. (Acc) (UFH)
W. Flanagan, Junior Subject Matter Expert: Supply Chain Management
B. Sali, Administrator, B. Admin (UFH)
L. Nomkala, Administrator, N Dip Information Technology (WSU)
D. Augustine, Systems Specialist, N. Dip Information Technology (NMMU)
K. Skosana, Office Manager, B.Com (UFH)
Z. Ngxenge, Junior Finance Clerk, Diploma – Information Technology
P. Machakela, Housekeeping
T. Qwemeshe, Housekeeping
Contact Information:
Telephone: +27 (040) 608 5300
Fax: +27 (040) 608 5301
Web-site: http://pfsa.ufh.ac.za
SPECIAL PROJECTS AT THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL SERVICES AGENCY (PFSA)
Sound financial management skills are critical in the pursuit of good governance and
service delivery in the public sector. To this end, the University of Fort Hare (UFH) and the
Eastern Cape Provincial Treasury (ECPT) established the Public Financial Services
Agency (PFSA) to develop and deliver quality training solutions that would build and
enhance the intellectual capacity of executives, managers and operational staff in the
Eastern Cape provincial administration.
Our Vision is to lead in the support of the public financial management reform within
emerging economies.
Our Mission is to provide quality, relevant, customized and practical solutions, through;
Continuous research and development,
Effective use and management of our resource and knowledge base,
Accredited training programmes,
Workplace-based support,
Effective partnerships, and
Contributing to local economies.
In our quest to fulfil our mission, PFSA have adopted a holistic approach in the design and
development of our solutions. This includes extensive public sector research, skills
profiling, reference groups, stakeholder participation, continuous evaluation, benchmarking
and a total quality management system.
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Quality assurance of the training materials, facilitator selection and training delivery is a
central aspect of PFSA quality management. Our solutions are outcomes based and meet
the requirements of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF).
PFSA provides solutions to address all levels of skills in Public Sector Financial
Management and Supply Chain Management. We have researched, developed and
delivered Short Course and Certificate programmes in order to meet the needs of our
learner audience.
The following Public Sector specific programmes exist:
Certificate in Public Financial Management
Certificate in Finance for Non-Finance Managers
Certificate in Supply Chain Management
Certificate in Municipal Financial Management
Public Financial Management Short Courses
Supply Chain Management Short Courses
Local Government Short Courses and Unit Standards
Certificate in Public Financial Management, NQF Level 5 (120 Credits)
The objective of the certificate programme is to develop the capacity of public officials
working in finance. The certificate programme is delivered in block sessions over a period
of 24 months. The programme is delivered on the Bhisho Campus. The curriculum
includes seven core subjects (compulsory) and two elective subjects.
Course Structure:
Module Credits
Days in
Class
Policy Making and Implementation 15 6
Public Financial Management 20 7
Financial Orientation 10 4
Public Accounting and Reporting 15 6
Auditing and Governance 15 6
Supply Chain Management 15 6
Budgeting and Costing 10 4
Elective 1 10 4
Elective 2 10 4
Total 120 47
Elective subjects:
• Expenditure Management
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• Revenue Management
• Asset Management
Assessment:
The programme incorporates both formative and summative assessment and requires
learners to prepare a Portfolio of Evidence which will contain evidence of competency in
the form of assignments, case studies and research projects. Summative assessment of
all subjects is carried out through examinations.
Certificate in Public Sector Supply Chain Management, NQF Level 5
The objective of the certificate programme is to bridge the gap between traditional
methods of procuring goods and services and the balance of the supply chain; at the same
time addressing procurement related matters that are of strategic importance. The
programme will introduce internationally accepted best practice principles in the awarding
and management of contracts so as to maximise value for money whilst, at the same time,
addressing government‟s preferential procurement policy objectives and transforming
procurement and provisioning practices into an integrated SCM function. The programme
will improve the knowledge, skills and attitudes of all Supply Chain Management
Practitioners and Officials involved in the SCM function.
The certificate programme is delivered in block sessions over a period of 12 months. The
programme is delivered on the Bhisho Campus. The curriculum includes eight core
subjects (compulsory) and one elective subject.
Course Structure:
Module Credits
Days in
Class
Introduction to Public Sector Supply Chain
Management 15 6
Demand Management 15 6
Acquisition Management I 20 7
Acquisition Management II 10 4
Risk Management 10 4
Logistics Management 15 6
Disposal Management 10 4
Supply Chain Performance Review 10 4
Elective 15 6
Total 120 47
Elective subjects:
Expenditure Management
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Financial Reporting
Revenue Management
Asset Management
Project Management
Assessment:
The programme incorporates both formative and summative assessment and requires
learners to prepare a Portfolio of Evidence which will contain evidence of competency in
the form of assignments, case studies and research projects. Summative assessment of
all subjects is carried out through examinations.
Certificate in Finance for Non-Finance Managers, NQF Level 5
The objective of the certificate programme is to provide accredited professional
development, training and support in financial management for non-financial managers.
The programme will equip managers with the skills and knowledge required to cope
effectively with the demand of the financial management environment in the Public Sector.
The certificate programme is delivered in block sessions over a period of 6 months. The
programme is delivered on the Bhisho Campus. The curriculum includes seven core
subjects.
Course Structure:
Module Days in
Class
Orientation and Governance 2
Policy Analysis and Implementation 3
Public Financial Management 3
Performance Budgeting 3
Report Analysis and Decision Making 4
Supply Chain Management 3
Project and Programme Management 3
Total 21
Assessment:
The programme incorporates both formative and summative assessment and requires
learners to prepare a Portfolio of Evidence which will contain evidence of competency in
the form of assignments, case studies and research projects. Summative assessment of
all subjects is carried out through examinations.
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Certificate Programme in Municipal Financial Management, NQF Level 6
The purpose of this qualification is to enable qualifying learners to apply a strategic level of
financial management competencies to ensure effective, efficient and economical
utilization of public funds and resources at local government level. Learners will develop
competencies to manage strategic planning and budgeting processes, financial
management, internal control, auditing and reporting processes. Learners will benefit
through enhancing their personal competencies, knowledge and skills so as to be able to
complete tasks required in their employment contracts and by legislation.
The course is delivered through block sessions over a period of 24 months. Detailed
learning material is presented using lectures, group discussions, case studies and
activities. Learners are expected to complete classroom assignments, and present
information during plenary sessions. Learners are required to complete workplace-based
assessments constituting a portfolio of evidence in order to achieve competence in all the
required assessment criteria as per the unit standards. A total of 166 credits are required
to qualify for the certificate.
The programme is aimed at Senior and Middle Managers working in the local government
sphere.
Fundamental Component:
The Fundamental Component consists of two Unit Standards, one of which deals with
consultation with stakeholders. Consultation is an important process in the setting and
implementation of policy and procedures. This Unit Standard will enable learners to see
the importance of consultation and provide them with the necessary skills to consult with
stakeholders. The second Fundamental Standard deals with ethical behaviour, which is
vitally important for municipal officials if public administration is to have credibility amongst
the broad public. Both unit standards are compulsory.
US ID Modules Credits
116348 Conduct a stakeholders consultation around municipal finance
programmes
8
116343 Apply the principles of ethics in a Municipal environment 10
Core Component:
The Core Component consists of Unit Standards to the value of 136 credits, which deal
with the core competencies required by municipal official in the areas of strategic planning
and budgeting, financial management and internal control. All Standards are compulsory.
US ID Modules Credits
116345 Apply the principles of budgeting within a municipality 15
116342 Apply approaches to municipal income and expenditure within 15
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multi-year framework
116340 Apply costing principles to municipal operation and service
based costing
11
116339 Apply risk management in south African municipalities 10
116346 Apply techniques and South African statutes to cash and
investment management in a municipal environment
10
116344 Apply the Inter-governmental Fiscal Relations Act to municipal
finance management
10
116347 Contribute to capital planning and financing 15
116358 Contribute to the strategic planning process in a South African
municipality
15
116362 Manage municipal assets and liabilities 11
116353 Participate in the design and implementation of municipal
supply chain management
12
116364 Plan a municipal budgeting and reporting cycle 8
116363 Prepare and analyze municipal financial reports 12
Elective Component:
Learners are required to choose Unit Standards totalling a minimum of 12 credits from the
Unit Standards from this component, which will enable the learner to obtain specialist
insight into such matters as the use of technology in municipal administration, Internal
Controls and Legislation and Performance Management.
US ID Modules Credits
11635
1
Conduct auditing planning and implementation in a South
African municipality 12
11634
1
Conduct performance management to a South African municipal
environment 12
11635
7 Design internal control and internal control evaluation framework 8
11636
1
Interpret South African legislation and policy affecting municipal
financial management 8
11636
0
Municipal information technology resources in a municipal
finance environment 8
Assessment:
The programme incorporates both formative and summative assessment and requires
learners to prepare a Portfolio of Evidence which will contain evidence of competency in
the form of assignments, case studies and research projects. Summative assessment of
all subjects is carried out through examinations.
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Senior and Executive Development Programme, namely the “Transforming Financial
Governance Series”:
This was programme was designed to develop the capacity of senior and executive
management in Financial Management related topics as featured below through seminars
and workshops.
Description Days
Asset Management for Senior Managers 2
Budgeting for Senior Managers 2
Financial Reports: Interpretation and Analysis 1
Managing Suspense Accounts 1
Performance Budgeting and Costing 5
Project Finance Decision Making 1
Project Management 5
Public Private Partnerships 3
Strategic and Annual Performance Planning 5
Supply Chain for Senior and Executive Managers 2
Policy Analysis and Interpretation Colloquiu
m
Assessing Strategic and Annual Performance Planning Seminar
Financial Governance Seminar
Financial Reforms Seminar
Oversight of Performance Budgeting Systems Seminar
Performance Budgeting Seminar
Policy Analysis and Interpretation Seminar
Public Financial Management Act (PFMA) Seminar
Short Courses
Short courses delivered by PFSA range from 1 to 5 day interventions. These courses
provide practical solutions relevant to the public sector. Quality assurance and
accreditation of training materials, facilitator selection and training delivery is a central
aspect of PFSA management.
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Public Financial Management Short Courses:
Description Days
Introduction to the PFMA 3
Finance for Non-Finance Managers 5
Budgeting in the Public Sector 4
Cash Flow Management 3
In Year Monitoring 3
Compensation of Employees 2
Revenue Management 2
Expenditure Management 3
Governance and Audit 2
Asset Management 5
Asset Management Case Study 2
Bank Reconciliation 1
Supplier Reconciliation 1
Persal Reconciliations 2
Quantitative Data Analysis 5
Role Of Management in Internal Control & Organisational Governance 2
Understanding Government 1
Supply Chain Management Short Courses:
Description Days
Introduction to Public Sector Supply Chain Management 4
Public Sector Supply Chain Management for Senior Managers 2
Orientation for Bid Committee Members (Specification, Evaluation &
Adjudication)
3
Advanced Course in the Compilation, Evaluation & Adjudication of
Quotations & Bids
4
Demand Management 3
Acquisition Management 4
Logistics Management 3
Disposal Management 2
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Risk Management 2
Supply Chain Performance Review 2
Guidelines for Procurement Plans 1
Contract Management 3
Suppliers Relationship Management 2
SCM Project Management 5
Local Government Short Courses:
Description Days
Municipal Finance Management Act 5
Asset Management 5
Project Management 5
General Accepted Municipal Accounting Practices 3
Community Participation 3
Integrated Development Plans 5
Local Government Unit Standards:
US ID Modules Credit
s Days
116345 Apply the principles of budgeting within a municipality 15 6
116357 Design internal control and internal control evaluation
framework 8 3
116351 Conduct auditing planning and implementation in a
South African municipality 12 5
119348 Apply selected (Generally Recognised Accounting
Practices) to periodic accounting reporting process 12 5
119350 Apply accounting principles and procedures in the
preparation of reports and decision making 15 6
116348 Conduct stakeholder consultation around municipal
finance programmes 8 3
116343 Apply the principles of ethics in a municipal
environment 10 4
116361 Interpret South African legislation and policy affecting
municipal financial management 8 3
119334 Discuss the selected legislative regulatory framework
governing the public sector management and 12 5
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administration environment
119351
Apply principles of computerised systems to manage
data and reports relevant to the public sector
administration
10 4
119331 Conduct working capital management activities in
accordance with sound financial management policy 12 5
119352 Apply principles of information systems to public
finance and administration 12 5
119353 Plan and implement public-private partnerships for
municipal service delivery 12 5
119343 Apply operations research principles and tools in the
management of project activities and resources 15 6
116360 Manage information technology resources in a
municipal finance environment 8 3
116341 Conduct performance management to a South
African municipal environment 12 5
119341 Apply cost management information systems in the
preparation of management reports 15 6
116342 Apply approaches to municipal income and
expenditure within multi-year framework 15 6
116340 Apply costing principles to municipal operation and
service based costing 11 4
116339 Apply risk management in south African
municipalities 10 4
116346
Apply techniques and South African statutes to cash
and investment management in a municipal
environment
10 4
116344 Apply the Inter-governmental Fiscal Relations Act to
municipal finance management 10 4
116347 Contribute to capital planning and financing 15 6
116358 Contribute to the strategic planning process in a
South African municipality 15 6
116362 Manage municipal assets and liabilities 11 4
116353 Participate in the design and implementation of
municipal supply chain management 12 5
116364 Plan a municipal budgeting and reporting cycle 8 3
116363 Prepare and analyze municipal financial reports 12 5
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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
PROGRAMME OLD SENIOR CERTIFICATE NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE (NSC)
SUBJECT
REQUIREMENTS
TOTAL
POINT
S
SUBJECT
REQUIREMENTS
LEVEL OF
ACHIEVEMENT
TOTAL
POINTS
BCom
Accounting
(60001)
Matric
exemption with
English-E (SG)
& Maths-D
(SG)/
E (HG)
35
- English Language
- Any other official
Language
- Mathematics
- Life Orientation
- Any 3 designated
subjects
4 (50-59)
4 (50-59)
5 (60-69)
3 (40-49)
4 (50-59)
28
B Com
Accounting
(60006/60014)
Matric
exemption with
English E (SG)
& Maths D
(SG)/ E(HG)
35 -English Language
-Any other official
language
-Mathematics /
Mathematics
Literacy
-Life Orientation
-Any other 3
designated subjects
3(40 – 49)
4(50 – 59)
4(50 – 59)
7(80 – 89)
3(40 – 49)
4(50 – 59)
26
BEconomics
Matric
exemption with
English-E (SG)
& Maths-D (SG)
/
E (HG)
35
- English Language
- Any other official
Language
- Mathematics
- Life Orientation
- Any 3 designated
subjects
3 (40-49)
4 (50-59)
4 (50-59)
3 (40-49)
4 (50-59)
26
BCom (IS) Matric
Exemption with
English-E (SG)
Maths D (SC)/
E(HG)
35 - English Language
- Any other official
Language
- Maths Literacy/
Mathematics
- Life Orientation
- Any 3 designated
subjects
3 (40-49)
4 (50-59)
4 (50-59)
3 (40-49)
4 (50-59)
26
BCom Inter-
Faculty
Matric
exemption with
30
- English Language
- Any other official
Language
- Maths Literacy/
3 (40-49)
4 (50-59)
5 (60-69)
25
BCom Law
BCom
182
BUSE/ECO English-E (SG)
& Maths-E (SG)
Mathematics
- Life Orientation
- Any 3 designated
subjects
4 (50-59)
3 (40-49)
4 (50-59) BCom
BUSE/IPS
BCom General
BAdmin (HRM) Matric
Exemption with
English-E (SG)
& exposure in
Matric Maths
24 - English Language
- Any other official
Language
- Maths Literacy/
Mathematics
- Life Orientation
- Any 3 designated
subjects
3 (40-49)
4 (50-59)
4 (50-59)
2 (30-39)
3 (40-49)
4 (50-59)
24
BAdmin (PA) Matric
Exemption with
English-E (SG)
21
TIME-TABLE FOR LECTURES AND EXAMINATIONS
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14h00
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14h40
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15h30
-
16h10
16h15
-
16h55
Monday
B
A
A
C
E
E
D
D
H
H
Tuesday
F
B
B
D
G
G
A
A
E
E
Wednesda
y
D
G
E
A
F
F
G
G
C
C
Thursday
A
D
D
G
C
B
H
H
F
F
Friday
E
C
C
F
H
H
B
B
H
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Bhisho Campus Time Table 2009 - 2012
BHISHO CAMPUS TIME TABLE
GROUPS U V W X Y Z
MON: 16H50 MON: 18H15 MON:19H40 TUES:16H50
TUES: 18H15
TUES: 19H40
VENUE WED:19H40 WED: 18H15 WED: 16H50
THUR: 19h40
THUR: 18H15
THURS: 16H50
C1 IPS 3 (G) ECO 2 (C) ECO 1 (B) PAD 2 (E) HRM1 (D) BEC 1 (F)
C2 IPS 2 (B) ECO 3 (F) POL 2(D) PAD 3 (D) LLL 3 (B) BEC 2 (G)
D3 POL 1 (A) IPS 1 (A) POL 3 (G) STA 1 (C/D) STA 1 (C/D)
BEC 3 (A)
D2 AFA 1 (E) HRM 3 (C) HRM 2 (F) AFA 2 (D) PAD 1 (G)
E2 EDE 2 (F/H) LEA/LEC 2(D)