Master Of Arts In African Languages

LEVEL I SEMESTER I

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

Core modules

MAFL 701 Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Development

MAFL 702 Oral Literature in Africa

MAFL 703 Advanced Onomastics

Optional modules

MAFL 704Material Culture of Zimbabwe

MAFL 705History and Theory of Literary Criticism

MAFL 706 Theoretical Linguistics

MAFL 707 Historical Linguistics

LEVEL I SEMESTER II

Students take Four (4) core modules and one (1) optional module.

 Core modules

MAFL 708 Gender and Culture in Africa

MAFL 709 Comparative Literature

MAFL 713 Translation and Interpreting Studies

MAFL 715 Advanced Research Methods in African Culture, Literature and Languages

Optional modules

MAFL 711 Comparative Cultural Studies

MAFL 712 Language Policy and Planning in Africa

MAFL 710 Comparative Bantu Linguistics

MAFL 714 Corpus Linguistics

LEVEL II SEMESTER 1

MAFL 870 Dissertation, whose weighting is equivalent to Two (2) modules.

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