Level I Semester I
Students take three (3) core modules and two (2) optional modules.

Core modules
MAFL701           Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Development
MAFL702          Oral Literature in Africa
MAFL703          Advanced Onomastics

Optional modules
MAFL704          Material Culture of Zimbabwe
MAFL705          History and Theory of Literary Criticism
MAFL706         Theoretical Linguistics
MAFL707         Historical Linguistics

Level I Semester II
Students take Four (4) core modules and one (1) optional module.
Core modules
MAFL708         Gender and Culture in Africa
MAFL709         Comparative Literature
MAFL713         Translation and Interpreting Studies
MAFL715         Advanced Research Methods in African Culture, Literature and Languages

Optional modules
MAFL711         Comparative Cultural Studies
MAFL712         Language Policy and Planning in Africa
MAFL710         Comparative Bantu Linguistics
MAFL714         Corpus Linguistics

Level II Semester I
MAFL870            Dissertation, whose weighting is equivalent to Two (2) modules.

NB. Not all optional modules will be on offer every semester