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Placement Tests
All new first-year NWU students must write a compulsory academic literacy placement test (called TALL) at their campus within the first weeks of January. The placement test serves as a guideline to determine for which academic literacy module(s) a student will be registered. The student may choose to write this test in either English or Afrikaans…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/mdot/home
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Humanities is regarded as one of the oldest academic disciplines in the higher-education sector. As it includes academic fields of enquiry that focus on understanding, interpreting, communicating and producing knowledge about human experience and interaction, the field of humanities remains essential to both the higher-education sector…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/music/student-assemblies-2018
Student Assemblies - 2018
Student Assemblies for all music students are held on Tuesdays at 12:00 during normal academic class weeks. Other NWU staff and students, as well as members of the public, are welcome to attend these sessions, free of charge. Date Theme Venue Staff Member 6 February…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/music/methodology
Methodology
Most musicians will at some point be asked or required to teach music. The BMus programme includes dedicated modules on second, third and fourth year level to prepare students for the teaching of their own instrument. Apart from studying effective teaching approaches and strategies, the curriculum may include the teaching of an own…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/music/music-education
Music Education
Prof Ewie Erasmus Prof Janelize Morelli --> Prof Liesl van der Merwe Prof Mignon van Vreden The aim of Music Education at the School of Music is to explore the value of music in a variety of educational contexts, starting at birth and gradually developing to music in…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/music/music-notation-music-theory
Music Notation & Music Theory
Prof Chris van Rhyn Dr Rineke Viljoen Prof Catrien Wentink The nature and contents of the Music Theory modules — which include those modules called Music Notation — are different for the three undergraduate study programmes. What unifies these different modules is a focus on enabling…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/music/musicology
Musicology
Dr Jaco Meyer Mr Jaco van der Merwe Musicology at NWU School of Music comprises two areas of investigation: Social Musicology Modules in social musicology treat the musics of the world as their area of investigation. In practice they focus on selected styles of historical and contemporary…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/music/music-technology
Music Technology
Mr Johan Viljoen Music Technology is currently offered as a second-year module in the BA Music and Society programme, and as a major subject on third-year and fourth-year level in the BMus programme. These modules largely consist of learning software skills, which include notation skills in Sibelius and/or Finale,…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/music/woodwinds
Woodwinds
Dr André Oosthuizen (flute) Mr Kagiso Ramela (saxophone) Prof Liesl van der Merwe (bassoon) Mr Morné van Heerden (clarinet) The woodwind department at NWU School of Music is an energetic and exciting department where students can learn in a positive and musically…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/music/financial-support
Financial Support
North-West University's Financial Support Services is the primary source for information on bursaries, loans and other forms of financial aid to fund your music study. NWU School of Music offers two Prestige Music Bursaries worth R20,000 each for first-time first-year undergraduate music students. Each prospective student that…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/music/careers
Careers
Despite the perception many people have, there are a multitude of possibilities to turn your passion for music into a career. Although many music students aim at careers in the fields of teaching or performance, there are many other opportunities for finding a fulfilling and rewarding career in music. However, as in many other…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/social-sciences
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Social Sciences involves the scientific study of society and of how cultural forms, structures and power relationships emerge, change over time and affect human lives in multiple contexts. Social Sciences is used to understand and explain how society works, how it changes and how it influences our futures – from the causes of…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/government-studies/political-studies-and-international-relations
Political Studies and International Relations
Political Studies focuses on matters associated with power and authority in the state and government, but also in the broader society. As students of politics, we are focused on “the games people play” to wittingly and unwittingly drive political agendas. Politics revolves around resource allocation in society and how…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/government-studies/directorate
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