UCT MA in Documentary Arts
MA in Documentary Arts
Convenor
Dr. Liani Maasdorp
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 and Television Studies, Photography, Journalism or cognate disciplines.
Acceptance will be on the recommendation of the Convener, 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 |
HEQSF level |
|
| FAM5012W | Media Creative Production | 96 | 9 |
| FAM5013F | Advanced Media Methodology | 24 | 9 |
| FAM5015W | Making the Critical Documentary | 24 | 9 |
| And two of the following: | |||
| FAM4039F | Documentary Film: Forms and Theories | 24 | 8 |
| AXL4405S | Visual Anthropology (Social Anthropology) | 24 | 8 |
| FAM5016S | Creative Non-Fiction | 24 | 9 |
| FAM5040S | Conceptualising SA Cinema | 24 | 9 |
| FIN5012F | Imagining the World in Photographs | 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.
