Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Rhodes University

Overview

Key features

With all the facilities of a modern university combined with the charm of a small Eastern Cape city, the department is ideally situated to provide a warm and intimate atmosphere for postgraduate work. The department is fairly small and there are about 30 to 40 postgraduate students at any time, with about half in attendance. The small size of the department allows us to personalize the learning experience to the needs of individual students as much as possible. It also means that our students may sometimes be offered tutoring positions in the department.

Although we prefer postgraduate students to be present on campus, a number of our students live elsewhere, and have full-time jobs outside Makhanda (Grahamstown). For these distance students, regular visits to the Department are enormously beneficial and essential for ensuring good progress. For this reason we require that postgraduate students in the Linguistics and Applied Language Studies program of Rhodes University attend coursework modules, as well as the annual postgraduate conference and other meetings. We find that this flexible approach allows you to balance family and employment commitments with the rigorous demands of postgraduate research.