UCT MA in African Cinema
192 NQF credits
Convenor
Associate Professor L. Marx
Admission requirements
(a) Faculty requirements are set out under rules FM3.
(b) Specialisation requirements:
- Completion of an Honours degree or a four-year degree with a focus on Film Studies or cognate disciplines.
Acceptance will be on the recommendation of the Convenor, working in collaboration with the programme committee, who will consider applications and may interview candidates. Normally candidates will be expected to have an upper second or better result for their honours degree.
Prescribed curriculum:
Master’s students are required to complete a minor dissertation and four taught courses of which no more than two can be at HEQSF level 8 (4000 level).
Compulsory courses |
NQF credits | HEQF level | |
| FAM5006W | Minor Dissertation | 96 | 9 |
| FAM5039F | Approaches to African Cinema | 24 | 9 |
Recommended Electives |
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| FAM4004S | Avant-Garde Film | 24 | 8 |
| FAM4034S | Forms and Theories of Adaptation | 24 | 8 |
| FAM4036S | Film and the Environment | 24 | 8 |
| FAM5040S | Conceptualising SA cinema | 24 | 9 |
| HST4010F | Analysing Historical Documentary Film | 24 | 8 |
Elective courses
If students have already taken any of the compulsory courses, or an equivalent course elsewhere, they may be allowed to substitute another course with the permission of the convener. In the overall choices, at least two of the courses chosen must be at the 5000 level.