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Journalism and Media Studies
[accordion collapsed] What does a journalist do? Journalists tell people what is happening in the world around them, about things that matter. They investigate issues, generate and develop story ideas, gather information through methods and techniques such as interviews, research, and observation, and then create…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/communication/history-art-and-visual-studies
History of Art
[accordion collapsed] What is History of Art? History of Art makes an important contribution towards developing insight into the visual arts as emerging from and reflecting different historical and geographic contexts. It gives students a deeper understanding of the complex, shifting relationships between cultural expression and socio-…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/communication/development-communication
Development Communication
[accordion collapsed] What does a development communication practitioner do? Development communication refers to empowerment and development, mostly in a community context. A communication practitioner who specialises in development communication must be able to develop strategies to communicate with and on behalf of non-government…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/communication/video
Documentary video
Documentary video Documentary video is a specialist field focusing on planning, executing and polishing audio-visual narratives with a factual character. Planning – or preproduction, does not only entail writing stories, but also production research, how to compile a proposal, set a budget, and apply ethical and legal aspects in…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/communication/contact-us
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Mahikeng Mr Mooki Lobelo Deputy Director: Communication Tel. +27 18 3892599 mooki.lobelo@nwu.ac.za Potchefstroom Lisl Boshoff Senior administrative assistant: Communication Tel: +27 (0)18 299 1642 lisl.boshoff@nwu.ac.za Zita Kyster…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages
Languages
The 2022 applications for the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture language bursary are now open. This bursary is specifically aimed at making a contribution toward full-time undergraduate as well as full-time and part-time Honours and MA students of language studies at the North-West University. See if you qualify…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/vinco
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The research niche ViNCO (Visual Narratives and Creative Outputs through Interdisciplinary and Practice-Led Research) contributes to current discourse on South African and African visual narratives and the histories and visions that shape them. Our students and researchers work towards creating, imagining, exploring, inquiring and…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/vinco/previous-projects
Previous projects
Research Niche: Visual Narratives and Creative Outputs through Interdisciplinary and Practice-Led Research (VINCO) Tracking creative creatures (2007-2009) Tracking creative creatures is an interdisciplinary exploration, which originated out of a need for research possibilities within the creative…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/vinco/disappearance-2015-2017
Disappearance (2015-2017)
Disappearance consists of three broad main components, namely: (i) creative outputs as research outputs, (ii) community engagement and (iii) formal explicit format research outputs. The project has its departure point in the perspectives regarding the relationship between man and nature.…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/vinco/researchers
Researchers
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News
Communication news European film bursary for PUK alumnus David Zanré Reed, a former student at the School of Communication was awarded an Erasmus Mundus study bursary to complete his master's degree in documentary video editing in Europe. The bursary, awarded annually to students and academics by the European Union,…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/communication/zanre-reed
Zanre Reed
Europese-filmbeurs vir oud-Puk Deur Lieneke Pieterse Zanré Reed …https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/afrikaans-and-dutch
Afrikaans and Dutch
Available on the Potchefstroom and Vanderbijlpark Campuses The variety of Afrikaans that is spoken today originates from the Dutch, Malay and African languages spoken by early settlers in South Africa in the 1600s. Afrikaans is viewed by linguists as a young language. Its development began in the 17th century when Dutch …https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/creative-writing
Creative Writing
Available on the Potchefstroom Campus [accordion collapsed] What is Creative Writing? Creative Writing entails the writing of creative texts such as short stories, poems, children’s stories and drama texts. It is a fully fledged graduate subject and is mainly selected by students majoring in languages. No specific entrance…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/english
English
Available on the Mahikeng, Potchefstroom and Vanderbijlpark Campuses The history of the English language really started with the arrival of three Germanic tribes who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD. So, English has its roots in the West Germanic languages of the Indo-European language family, from which German and Dutch also…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/french
French
Available on the Mahikeng, Potchefstroom and Vanderbijlpark Campuses In 2020, la langue française, the language of love, is an official language in 32 countries and is spoken in more than 43 countries and by about 300 million people around the world, on every continent. There are more than 50 million people learning French in the…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/german
German
Available on the Potchefstroom and Vanderbijlpark Campuses German is the language of scientists, inventors, philosophers, composers, artists, poets and authors. More than 100 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to German-speaking individuals who have distinguished themselves in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine,…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/contact-us