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SOUTH AFRICAN QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY

REGISTERED QUALIFICATION THAT HAS PASSED THE END DATE:

Bachelor of Social Science: Individual: Society and Environment

SAQA QUAL ID	QUALIFICATION TITLE
4075	Bachelor of Social Science: Individual: Society and Environment
ORIGINATOR
University of Cape Town
PRIMARY OR DELEGATED QUALITY ASSURANCE FUNCTIONARY			NQF SUB-FRAMEWORK
CHE - Council on Higher Education			HEQSF - Higher Education Qualifications Sub-framework
QUALIFICATION TYPE	FIELD		SUBFIELD
National First Degree	Field 07 - Human and Social Studies		People/Human-Centred Development
ABET BAND	MINIMUM CREDITS	PRE-2009 NQF LEVEL	NQF LEVEL	QUAL CLASS
Undefined	360	Level 6	Level N/A: Pre-2009 was L6	Regular-Provider-ELOAC
REGISTRATION STATUS		SAQA DECISION NUMBER	REGISTRATION START DATE	REGISTRATION END DATE
Passed the End Date - Status was "Reregistered"		SAQA 06120/18	2018-07-01	2018-12-31
LAST DATE FOR ENROLMENT		LAST DATE FOR ACHIEVEMENT
2019-12-31		2024-12-31

In all of the tables in this document, both the pre-2009 NQF Level and the NQF Level is shown. In the text (purpose statements, qualification rules, etc), any references to NQF Levels are to the pre-2009 levels unless specifically stated otherwise.

This qualification does not replace any other qualification and is not replaced by any other qualification.

PURPOSE AND RATIONALE OF THE QUALIFICATION

The programme's purpose is to enable students to develop means of examining the interaction between individuals, social groups and the environment through discipline-based training in Social Anthropology, Psychology and the Environmental and Geographical Sciences. The programme offers a fine-grained approach to understanding how people, particularly but not solely in Africa, negotiate the social and biophysical environments in which they live. The programme's focus is on the micro-level of human-environment interactions rather than the macro level of policy and implementation. It develops reflexive critical acuity through a cross-over disciplinary knowledge and methods intended to encourage creative and innovative thought and interventions. The programme's further purpose is to create a small cadre of human ecologists in Southern Africa who have the skills and insights that derive from drawing on a combination of the three disciplines that are central to the programme: Psychology, Social Anthropology, and Environmental and Geographical Science. They will be able to develop those skills throughout their lives in order to contribute understanding of the dynamic, flexible and sometimes conflictual relationships between and among individuals, societies, institutions and their environments with a critical acuity that derives from the cross-over of disciplinary knowledge and methods entailed in the programme.

LEARNING ASSUMED TO BE IN PLACE AND RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING

Reading, writing and comprehension skills in the English language, to a level commensurate with having attained Matriculation exemption. Senior certificate with Matriculation Exemption or Equivalent university admission qualification. Recognition of prior learning: The University is prepared to test candidates wishing to enter through non-traditional means, to establish whether, in the opinion of senate, the person is prepared for degree studies in which case an application will be made for conditional exemption.

RECOGNISE PREVIOUS LEARNING?

Y

EXIT LEVEL OUTCOMES

Cross-field outcomes: a) Critical cross-field outcomes (generic to all teaching and learning) The BA/BsocSc graduate is competent to: i) use diverse theoretical and disciplinary frameworks to evaluate phenomena critically and in an intellectually rigorous way in order to understand various signifying practices constituting social and cultural life. The signifying practices include critically written texts of descriptive, prescriptive and argumentative characters to accepted international standards (as at time of graduation) in their specific field. In addition, exercise imagination and creativity in a limited range of expressive activities. ii) Produce short written texts of descriptive, prescriptive and argumentative characters to accepted international standards (as at time of graduation) in their specific field. In addition, exercise imagination and creativity in a limited range of expressive activities. ii) Use libraries, the internet and other sources to find information of professional relevance efficiently and independently, and iii) Use and organise such information to conduct systematic study aimed at providing answers to questions whose resolutions are not antecedently known, or to verify answers that are assumed on the basis of accepted wisdom. iv) Understand and critically appreciate the contribution of major and everyday artistic and cultural activities to quotation, community and public life. v) Understand when and how to recognise and acknowledge the limitations of their own experience and expertise, and how to elicit appropriate expertise from others. vi) Understand and manipulate quantitative information provided in simple tables, graphs and through sets of simple equations. vii) Understand and manipulate quantitative information provided in simple tables, graphs and through sets of simple equations. viii) Efficiently and independently to use information technology standard in professional offices (as at time of graduation). ix) Appreciate the significance of life-long learning and the importance of self initiative in pursuing and achieving it. x) Understand and internalise, as a personal value, the importance of conducting professional activities within the scope of universal ethical constraints (and their cultural limitations), and international, national, provincial and municipal laws. b) General outcomes (contextually demonstrated general knowledge, skills and values of the programme) The BSocSc) graduate has a formative education in the study of human relations whether these be at the level of the individual or the group. The BSocSc graduate is therefore competent to: i) Apply social science knowledge and practices to the analysis and resolution of problems in a variety of organisational contexts. ii) Understand the nature of social and cultural development programmes and efforts used to resolve social-cultural problems through the application of basic social science theory and research methods and humanities' approach. iii) Recognise an ethically sound approach to problem solving and research in a variety of contexts that bear on the well-being of individuals and society; iv) Prepare and produce written and other media communications for a variety of potential audiences that are problem focused, clear and informative. c) Specific Outcomes, including professional outcomes, contextually demonstrated Graduates of the programme, Individual Society and Environment will be able to demonstrate: i) Basic proficiency in making critical assessments of and creative interventions in problems of human ecology. ii) Basic proficiency in qualitative research methods, including an elementary facility with interviewing, observational and listening skills and with principles of systematic observation, recording and analysis of data. iii) Ability to use simple quantitative research techniques including basic statistical knowledge and application. iv) Elementary facility with spatial research and mapping skills. v) Ability to discern how diverse interpolations of individual, society and environment create a need for varied combinations of qualitative and quantitative methods, and to ascertain which combinations are appropriate in given contexts. vi) Ability to communicate clearly in textual, graphic and oral forms. vii) An elementary ability to speak and understand at least one local African language or its equivalent.

ASSOCIATED ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

(a)Students' achievement of the critical cross-field, general and specific learning outcomes will, with the exception of specific outcome (vii) viz. a demonstrated elementary ability to speak and understand at least one local African language or its equivalent, be assessed through a range of assessment methods in the final year (exit level) of the programme. For the purposes of stipulating the criteria by which student performance will be assessed, this interim submission focuses on the key sites of integrative assessment which are located in the final year core courses (see integrated assessment). In relation to the learning outcomes, students' performance on the final year integrative assessment will be assessed according to demonstrated ability as in integrated assessment. (b) Students' achievement of the critical cross-field, general and specific learning outcomes will, with the exception of specific outcome (vii) viz a demonstrated elementary ability to speak and understand at least one local African language or its equivalent, be assessed through a range of assessment methods in the final year (exit level) of the programme. For the purposes of stipulating the criteria by which student performance will be assessed, this interim submission focuses on the key sites of integrative assessment which are located in the final year core courses (see integrated assessment). In relation to the learning outcomes, students' performance on the final year integrative assessment will be assessed according to demonstrated ability as in integrated assessment. Students' achievement of the critical cross-field, general and specific learning outcomes will, with the exception of specific outcome (vii) viz a demonstrated elementary ability to speak and understand at least one local African language or its equivalent, be assessed through a range of assessment methods in the final year (exit level) of the programme. For the purposes of stipulating the criteria by which student performance will be assessed, this interim submission focuses on the key sites of integrative assessment which are located in the final year core courses (see integrated assessment). In relation to the learning outcomes, students' performance on the final year integrative assessment will be assessed according to demonstrated ability as in section integrated assessment. Specific outcomes (vii) will be assessed through a series of formative and summative assessments of oral and written language reading, writing and speaking skills conducted during and at the end of the two semesters of coursework in the selected language. Integrated assessment: Students registered for the BSocSc programme, individual society and Environment will be subjected to both formative and summative assessment throughout the course of the 3-year programme. For the most part the formative assessments will be specific to the module of the programme in which they are undertaken, as will some of the summative. The module-based assessments will test both critical cross-field and general outcomes achievement as well as the specific substantive disciplinary content of the module. They will also include assessment of ability to apply various basic research skills and techniques. The final integrated assessment is also intended to be both formative and summative. The integrated assessment is planned to be sited in one of two third-year level courses (depending on the specialisations chosen by each student) and may include a portfolio of work completed in 2 years and 3 that has been formatively assessed during modules undertaken there, and then re-submitted for summative assessment. The integrative assessment will include a requirement that students examine and prepare a set of both formative and summative submissions about at least one published study where a combination of approaches from at least two of the three disciplines of Psychology, Social Anthropology and Environmental & Geographical Science has been a useful analytical tool. Students will be assessed on their ability to critique the analytical efficacy of their selected study, the combination of disciplinary approaches it uses and their appropriateness for the task; to demonstrate understanding of a range of research methods and techniques both qualitative and quantitative, and where and when they are applicable and ethically justified. To show understanding of a range of methods for presentation of data, and of their strengths and weaknesses. The integrative assessment may, if resources permit, also require submission of a short summative report (assessed formatively through supervision) on an empirically-based cross-disciplinary research exercise that assesses ability to select and apply appropriate research methods apply appropriate analytical techniques draw on apposite literature to inform the report develop an argument on the basis of the data collected and analysed in terms of the literature drawn upon and cited. The integrated assessment will also examine, both formatively and summatively, the various cross-field and general skills outcomes. They include competencies in ability to formulate arguments and critiques in written form; present findings both orally and in various textual forms; utilise library and other resources both for core materials and for apposite comparative and theoretical examples; write and present material in a manner consistent with established international conventions for the disciplines being addressed and/or drawn from; use appropriate information technology skills and other techniques to present arguments, both in textual and other graphic forms.

ARTICULATION OPTIONS

Title(s) of related qualification(s) This programme has been designed to allow maximum articulation with other programmes on both the horizontal and vertical levels; in general, students may transfer horizontally to other BA and BSocSc programmes, and vertically to BA (Honours) and BSocSc (Honours) programmes. This qualification serves as en entry point to the related qualification(s). To BA (Honours) and BSocSc (Honours) programmes. This qualification provides credits for the related qualification(s). To other BA/BSocSc programmes. Entry to this qualification in mid-stream Credit may be given, in terms of University rules, for courses completed. Exit from qualification in mid-stream Credit is given for courses completed. Other higher education programmes which articulate with this qualification without "going back to square one" Subject to the provisions of the Joint Statute, this work may be recognised by another institution in part fulfilment towards a similar degree.

MODERATION OPTIONS

The University of Cape Town has a system of external peer review and evaluation of each course. One of the aspects of the system is an evaluation of the standards and assessment practices of the department.

CRITERIA FOR THE REGISTRATION OF ASSESSORS

The academic staff of the University of Cape Town will be used in a manner which is consistent with the quality assurance system of the University.

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 Cape Town

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