UNISA Corrections Management Course Module 2025-2026
| Admission and Release Mechanism – PEN2606 | |||
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| Under Graduate Degree,Diploma | Semester module | NQF level: 6 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: To gain knowledge of and insight into admission and release mechanisms in Corrections. | |||
| Research Report in Corrections Management – HRPEN81 | |||
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| Honours | Year module | NQF level: 8 | Credits: 36 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Co-requisite: HMPEN80 | |||
| Purpose: The purpose of this module is to equip students with the knowledge and skills required for the design of a research proposal and to conduct and report research under supervision in a manner that is appropriate on an Honours level in the discipline of Penology. Students credited with this module will be able to compile an acceptable research proposal that will result in the completion of a research report under supervision that is appropriate to the discipline of Penology on an Honours level. | |||
| Administration of the Correctional Service Act – PEN2607 | |||
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| Under Graduate Degree,Diploma | Semester module | NQF level: 6 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: To apply selected parts and/or sections of the Correctional Services legislation and to evaluate and gain insight into the legislation directly applicable to the performance of duties in the correctional environment. | |||
| Fundamental Penology – PEN4801 | |||
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| Honours | Year module | NQF level: 8 | Credits: 24 |
| Module presented in English | Module presented online | ||
| Purpose: The purpose of this module is for students to critically analyse, explain and apply the philosophical principles of fundamental penology within the criminal justice environment. People credited with this module will be able to: analyse and explain the crime phenomena in South Africa and the influence thereof on the criminal justice system justify punishment explain the philosophical basis of punishment critically analyse the role of the courts in sentencing debate the application of community penalties and the future of prisons. | |||
| Correction and Care – PEN2608 | |||
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| Under Graduate Degree,Diploma | Semester module | NQF level: 6 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: To gain knowledge and insight into offender correction and care within a corrections environment. | |||
| Applied Research Methodology in Penology – PEN4802 | |||
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| Honours,Baccalareus Technologiae Degree | Year module | NQF level: 8 | Credits: 24 |
| Module presented in English | Module presented online | ||
| Purpose: The purpose of this module is to equip students with the knowledge and skills required for the identification of a viable research theme, the selection of appropriate methodologies, techniques technologies, and the compilation of a research proposal on Honours level on a research project in the discipline of Penology. People credited with this module will be able to: Identify a viable research theme and select appropriate quantitative and/or qualitative research methodologies and techniques best suited to conduct research within the selected field of Penology. Compile an acceptable research proposal that will result in the completion of a research report (article) under supervision in a manner that is appropriate to the discipline of Penology on Honours level. | |||
| Strategic Correctional Services Management – AST441D | |||
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| Baccalareus Technologiae Degree | Year module | NQF level: 7 | Credits: 15 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Co-requisite: MNG3701 or MNG301A | |||
| Purpose: An introduction to strategic management, the mission, vision, key success factors and corporate goals, external and internal environment analysis, forecasts, choice of strategies, strategy implementation, compiling a strategic plan. Special emphasis is placed on the application of these issues in a correctional environment. | |||
| Research Article in Penology – PEN4803 | |||
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| Honours,Baccalareus Technologiae Degree | Year module | NQF level: 8 | Credits: 24 |
| Module presented in English | Module presented online | ||
| Co-requisite: PEN4802 | |||
| Purpose: The purpose of this module is to equip students with the knowledge and skills to conduct and report research under supervision in a manner that is appropriate to the discipline of Penology. People credited with this module will be able to: Critique research conducted in the discipline of Penology at honours level. Conduct research under supervision in a manner that is appropriate to the discipline of Penology at honours level. Report research under supervision in a manner that is appropriate to the discipline of Penology at honours level. | |||
| Fundamental Influence (Module A) – CSA4M1C | |||
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| Baccalareus Technologiae Degree | Year module | NQF level: 7 | Credits: 15 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: In this module attention is given to the demography of the countries that figure in the comparative study of correctional services systems. The origins of the systems are examined in terms of the respective constitutions of the countries and of any other laws that may have an influence on the systems. Lastly, the module focuses on the interaction between role-players in the criminal justice system such as the police, justice and correctional institutions. | |||
| Strategic Corrections Management – PEN4804 | |||
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| Honours | Year module | NQF level: 8 | Credits: 24 |
| Module presented in English | Module presented online | ||
| Purpose: The purpose of this module is for students to gain comprehensive knowledge, specific skills, and applied competence in Strategic Corrections Management to enable them to solve problems relating to strategic management, corporate performance, strategic planning and strategy implementation and to generate appropriate strategies for implementation within a corrections environment. | |||
| Comparative Correctional Services Systems (Module B) – CSA4M2C | |||
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| Baccalareus Technologiae Degree | Year module | NQF level: 7 | Credits: 15 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: In this module the emphasis is on the functioning of the correctional services system in each country covered in the study. The treatment of prisoners, personnel and finance are examined. Correctional supervision is also studied as a sentence option. | |||
| Comparative Corrections – PEN4805 | |||
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| Honours | Year module | NQF level: 8 | Credits: 24 |
| Module presented in English | Module presented online | ||
| Purpose: Purpose of the module: The purpose of this module is for students to gain a comprehensive and systematic knowledge base in Comparative Corrections to enable students to critically analyse, explain and apply the role of different correctional systems in the international criminal justice environment. People credited with this module will be able to: analyse the relationship between different role players in the criminal justice system and explain the demographic factors that influence corrections in selected countries , justify the constitutional basis on which selected international correctional systems are founded , explain the statutory provisions that regulate the selected correctional systems , critically analyse the structure of corrections in the selected countries , debate the management philosophy in corrections in selected countries critically discuss the inmate population in the selected countries and the influence thereof on the values of the South African system | |||
| Correctional Services Management IV (Module I) – CSM4M1V | |||
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| Baccalareus Technologiae Degree | Year module | NQF level: 7 | Credits: 15 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: Management ethics, social responsibility, learning organisations, organisation culture, and human resource management. | |||
| Introduction to Fundamental Penology – PEN1501 | |||
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| Under Graduate Degree,Diploma | Semester module | NQF level: 5 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: The purpose of this module is to equip students with knowledge of and insight into Corrections as an integral part of the crime phenomenon and criminal justice. | |||
| Correctional Services Management IV (Module II) – CSM4M2V | |||
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| Baccalareus Technologiae Degree | Year module | NQF level: 7 | Credits: 15 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: Right of existence, overall objectives and organisation planning, policy formulation, organisation renewal (organising), external organisational communication, and negotiations and negotiation skills. | |||
| Correctional Services Administration I: Module II: Introduction to Corrections Science – PEN1502 | |||
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| Under Graduate Degree,Diploma | Semester module | NQF level: 5 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: To equip students with knowledge of and insight of corrections as an integral part of the crime phenomenon and criminal justices. | |||
| Restorative Justice in Corrections – PEN3701 | |||
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| Under Graduate Degree,Diploma | Semester module | NQF level: 7 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | Module presented online | ||
| Purpose: To evaluate and gain insight into the principles and application of restorative justice in corrections. | |||
| Correctional Skills – PEN1503 | |||
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| Diploma,Under Graduate Degree | Semester module | NQF level: 5 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Recommendation: Should be taken together with PEN1501. | |||
| Purpose: To gain knowledge and skills to practically apply the theory and principles of professionalism and professional conduct in the corrections environment. | |||
| Special Needs Offenders – PEN3703 | |||
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| Diploma,Under Graduate Degree | Semester module | NQF level: 7 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: The purpose of this module is for students to evaluate and gain insight into the field of special needs offenders. People credited with this module will be able to: Distinguish between the otherness of the various categories of special needs offenders Identify, explain and respond to the needs of special needs offenders. Describe international standards and norms, relevant legislation and policies with regards to special needs offenders | |||
| Social Dimensions of Justice – SJD1501 | |||
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| Under Graduate Degree,Diploma,Higher Certificate | Semester module | NQF level: 5 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | Module presented online | ||
| Purpose: In this module, students will be introduced to the South African context in which they will have to perform as future legal and criminal justice functionaries. They will develop a basic understanding of what shapes our legal system, the nature of the South African law and criminal justice system and how it is applied and administered. They will also develop an awareness of how they can, as legal and criminal justice functionaries, contribute towards building a safer and more just society in conformity with the South African Constitution. | |||
| Unit and Case Management in Correctional Services – PEN3704 | |||
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| Under Graduate Degree,Diploma | Semester module | NQF level: 7 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: To gain knowledge of and insight into Unit and Case Management in Corrections. | |||
| Correctional Services Administration II: Module I: Fundamental Penology – PEN2601 | |||
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| Under Graduate Degree,Diploma | Semester module | NQF level: 6 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Recommendation: Should follow on PEN1502 and PEN2605 | |||
| Purpose: To gain knowledge and skills to practically apply the theory and principles of punishment in the corrections environment. | |||
| Youth Corrections – PEN3705 | |||
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| Under Graduate Degree,Diploma | Semester module | NQF level: 7 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: To gain knowledge of and insight into the field of child and youth corrections. | |||
| Correctional Services Administration II: Module II: Social Dynamics in a Correctional Centre – PEN2602 | |||
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| Diploma,Under Graduate Degree | Semester module | NQF level: 6 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Recommendation: Should follow on PEN1502 and PEN2605 | |||
| Purpose: To gain knowledge of and insight into the social dynamics of a correctional center. | |||
| Correctional Services Administration III: Module II: Offender Development – PEN3706 | |||
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| Diploma,Under Graduate Degree | Semester module | NQF level: 7 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Recommendation: Should follow on PEN2601 and PEN2602. | |||
| Purpose: To gain knowledge and insight into offender development within a corrections environment. | |||
| Correctional Services Administration III: Module I: Community Corrections – PEN2603 | |||
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| Under Graduate Degree,Diploma | Semester module | NQF level: 6 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Recommendation: Should follow on PEN1502 and PEN2605 | |||
| Purpose: To gain knowledge of and insight into the field of community corrections. | |||
| Correctional Management Principles – PEN3707 | |||
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| Diploma | Semester module | NQF level: 7 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: To gain knowledge of and insight into the principles of correctional services management and apply the principles in a correctional environment on a tactical level. | |||
| Introduction to Correctional Management – PEN2604 | |||
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| Under Graduate Degree,Diploma | Semester module | NQF level: 6 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: To introduce students to the basics functions of corrections management and to gain knowledge on the significance of management in a correctional centre. | |||
| Correctional Management Control Mechanisms – PEN3708 | |||
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| Diploma | Semester module | NQF level: 7 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: To gain knowledge of and insight into control mechanisms of correctional services management and apply the control mechanisms in a correctional environment on a tactical level. | |||
| Correctional Services Administration I: Module 1: Correctional Security – PEN2605 | |||
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| Diploma,Under Graduate Degree | Semester module | NQF level: 6 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: To gain knowledge and to promote legally correct correctional security practices. | |||
| Applied Research Methodology in Corrections Management – HMPEN80 | |||
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| Honours | Semester module | NQF level: 8 | Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English | |||
| Purpose: The purpose of this module is to build an understanding of existing research philosophies, theories and approaches in order to apply them when doing practical research related to the discipline of Penology. The main focus is to develop critical skills and knowledge for the application of research philosophies, theories and approaches utilised in the study discipline of Penology. Students credited with this module will be able to engage in problem solution utilising appropriate research philosophies, theories, approaches and methodologies for conducting research in the discipline of Penology, as well as to exhibit the skills to identify, analyse, evaluate and address research problems through evidence-based solutions and theory-driven arguments appropriate to the discipline of Penology on Honours level. | |||
