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SOUTH AFRICAN QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY 
REGISTERED QUALIFICATION: 

Master of Arts in Tshivenda Literature 
SAQA QUAL ID QUALIFICATION TITLE
15915  Master of Arts in Tshivenda Literature 
ORIGINATOR
University of Venda 
PRIMARY OR DELEGATED QUALITY ASSURANCE FUNCTIONARY NQF SUB-FRAMEWORK
CHE - Council on Higher Education  HEQSF - Higher Education Qualifications Sub-framework 
QUALIFICATION TYPE FIELD SUBFIELD
Master's Degree  Field 04 - Communication Studies and Language  Communication Studies 
ABET BAND MINIMUM CREDITS PRE-2009 NQF LEVEL NQF LEVEL QUAL CLASS
Undefined  180  Level 8 and above  NQF Level 09  Regular-Provider-ELOAC 
REGISTRATION STATUS SAQA DECISION NUMBER REGISTRATION START DATE REGISTRATION END DATE
Registered-data under construction  EXCO 0324/24  2024-07-01  2027-06-30 
LAST DATE FOR ENROLMENT LAST DATE FOR ACHIEVEMENT
2028-06-30   2031-06-30  

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PURPOSE AND RATIONALE OF THE QUALIFICATION 
To provide South Africa with a group of people who will have a clear and continuously growing understanding of the methods and appreciation, understanding of Tshivenda literary works concluding different views of different literary writers. 

LEARNING ASSUMED TO BE IN PLACE AND RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING 
Entry Requirements:
  • Bachelor of Arts Honours in Comparative African Languages and Literatures, NQF Level 9. 
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    RECOGNISE PREVIOUS LEARNING? 
    Y 

    EXIT LEVEL OUTCOMES 
    a. Learners would be able to understand how different genres could be critically analysed.
    b. Learners would be able to understand different genres e.g. prose (Novels and short-stories), poetry, drama and traditional literature.
    c. Learners would be able to compare Tshivenda literary genres to literary features of other languages and related African languages in Africa.
    d. Learners would be able to acquire knowledge, understanding, appreciation of Tshivenda literary works; book reviews worldviews of different literary writers. 

    ASSOCIATED ASSESSMENT CRITERIA 
  • Advanced study and research on the delimitation of the field of literature.
  • Independent study and capacity for further research on the field of literature of Tshivenda at an advanced level.
  • Be in possession of great depth of knowledge in complex and specialised areas and or across specialised or applied areas in Literature.
  • Capacity for dealing with complexity and or contradictions in the knowledge base, and making confident selections of tools for the job.
  • Autonomous synthesizing of information and creation of responses to problems that expand to a defined existing knowledge.
  • Independent evaluation of and argument of alternative approaches and accurate assessment of and reporting on both own and others work, with justification, isolation, assessment, and resolution of problems of all degrees predictability in an autonomous manner, full professional and academic communication with others in the field of study, working with, within a group towards defined outcomes assuming leadership, negotiation and conflict resolution, and effective mention of others, capacity for, actual, production of dissertation that places research within broader context of the field, is capable of withstanding international intellectual scrutiny, and contributes original knowledge to the field in question.


    Integrated Assessment:
  • Project.
  • Assignments; tests, presentation and projects.
  • Examinations.
  • External examination.
  • Module examination.
  • Dissertation / Project report. 
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    ARTICULATION OPTIONS 
    This qualification allows possibilities for both horizontal and vertical articulation.

    Horizontal Articulation:
  • Master of Arts in Comparative African Languages and Literature, NQF Level 9.
  • Master of Arts in South African Literature, NQF Level 9.

    Vertical Articulation:
  • Doctor of Literature, NQF Level 10. 
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    MODERATION OPTIONS 
    N/A 

    CRITERIA FOR THE REGISTRATION OF ASSESSORS 
    N/A 

    REREGISTRATION HISTORY 
    As per the SAQA Board decision/s at that time, this qualification was Reregistered in 2006; 2009; 2012; 2015. 

    NOTES 
    N/A 

    LEARNING PROGRAMMES RECORDED AGAINST THIS QUALIFICATION: 
     
    NONE 


    PROVIDERS CURRENTLY ACCREDITED TO OFFER THIS QUALIFICATION: 
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    1. University of Venda 


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