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CPUT Qualifications

CPUT Qualifications

CPUT Qualifications,

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Qualifications

The department offers undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in Chemistry:
National Diploma (Analytical Chemistry)
BTech (Chemistry)
MTech (Chemistry)
PhD (Chemistry)
The Chemistry Department may consolidate at the Bellville Campus in 2017. All courses will then be offered at the Bellville campus only.

Type of Qualification
Qualification
Qualification Code
Offered on
Minimum duration
National
Diploma
ND (Analytical
Chemistry)
NDANCH
Bellville &
Cape Town
3 years
Baccalaureus
Technologiae
BTech (Chemistry)
BTCHEM
Bellville
1 year
Magister
Technologiae
MTech (Chemistry)
MTCHER
Bellville &
Cape Town
1 year
Doctor of Philosophy
PhD(Chemistry)
DTCHER
Bellville &
Cape Town
2 years

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Qualifications and subjects

National Diploma

Year 1

News Reporting 1: Covers traditional Journalism in terms of Beat Reporting while incorporating the massive changes caused by the arrival of the Internet and the rise of New Media.

  • News Writing: The basics of acquiring information for the writing of articles. Teaches students how to interact with sources in order to supply the five ‘W’s and one ‘H’.
  • Online Media: The role of social media and online publishing in acquiring and distributing information.
  • Database: How to manage information resources, from effective filing to basic research methods.

Media Production 1: Explores the role of multimedia in telling stories.

  • Radio: The history, theory and practice of Radio Journalism, with particular focus on how it differs from Print.
  • Editing & Sound: How to produce and refine audio clips both in technical terms and in the context of the modern radio station.
  • Photojournalism: How to take good pictures and integrate them into articles effectively, with a particular focus on developing Visual Literacy.

Media Communication 1: Expands students’ knowledge of the modern world and how it was made.

  • Media Law: A basic overview of South Africa’s Media laws, including case studies, which are then placed in a global context.
  • Politics: Basic political theory that is then grounded in current events. Students write and explore the theoretical context and background of their political articles.
  • Mass Communication and Ethics: Covers              the role, power and hence responsibilities of the fourth Estate in theoretical and practical terms.
  • News Awareness: Students bring short accounts of unfolding events to class debates that establish the significance of stories in a wider ‘News’ context.

Media Information Management: Control of languages and their role in the Media.

  • End User Computing: Basic computing for the modern newsroom, from efficient word-processing to Web Design.
  • English: Mainly grammar and writing with a sprinkling of theory.
  • Afrikaans/iXhosa: Students choose a language to refine, particularly in terms of journalistic jargon.

Year 2

Advanced Reporting 2:  Develops students’ ability to tell stories that matter.

  • Investigative Reporting: How to find information that someone doesn’t want found.
  • Online Media: Updates traditional journalistic methods to accommodate shifts in the fast-evolving world of New Media.

Media Production 2: Expands students’ skillsets as they explore various platforms and platforms.

  • Feature & Review: Teaches students how to write articles that use sources to express opinions effectively.
  • Editing & Design: A practical course that develops Design skills with a focus on specific software packages.
  • Broadcast: The theory and practice of producing clips for television or the internet.

Media Communication 2: Deepens student’s understanding of the theory and history behind their stories.

  • Politics: Focusses political theory onto contemporary events in order to enable students to insightfully read and write political copy.
  • Mass Communication and Ethics: Places practical analysis of newsroom practice in a wider context by examining the opportunities and dangers posed by the Media.
  • Business Reporting: Enables students to read and produce analysis of the world of Finance and Economics.
  • English 2: Refines students’ ability to use English with grace and precision.

Year 3

Advanced Reporting 3:

  • Political Economy: Refines students’ understanding of the underlying currents in Media by examining the impact of profit in publishing.
  • TV Production: Develops and extend students’ ability to produce material for televion or the internet while placing their work in a wider theoretical framework.

Media Production 3: Refines students ability to produce work of the highest quality across platforms.

  • Editing & Design: Polishing students’ aesthetic and technological grip on Design.
  • Feature & Review: A multi-genre analysis of how to optimally integrate fact and opinion writing.

B-Tech

  • Research Project: How to write a Research Proposal and a fifty-page thesis on a Media-related topic.
  • Editorial Management: How to manage a modern media organisation in both practical and theoretical terms – from handling diversity to providing useful content-editing.
  • Specialist Reporting: How to optimally pursue one’s specialisation in terms of form, content and function.
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