BA Languages at University of Pretoria

Students can major in any of the following languages: Afrikaans, English, German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Zulu, Ndebele, Sepedi, Greek, Hebrew, or Latin.

Students may add more languages and/or other modules from any other discipline in the Faculty to these language disciplines.

Admission requirements

The following persons will be considered for admission: a candidate who is in possession of a certificate that is deemed by the University to be equivalent to the required Grade 12 certificate with university endorsement; a candidate who is a graduate from another tertiary institution or has been granted the status of a graduate of such an institution; and a candidate who is a graduate of another faculty at the University of Pretoria.

Candidates who comply with the minimum subject requirements and achievement levels, as well as the APS requirements of these programmes, will be granted placement in the programmes, subject to the availability of space.

The abovementioned is not applicable to selection programmes.

To retain admission, learners will be expected to obtain an APS of at least 28 in Grade 12.

Prospective students who have already been granted provisional admission in these programmes, but obtained at least an APS of 27 in Grade 12, will be considered by the Admission Committee should space be available.

The Admission Committee of the Faculty of Humanities will consider these students once the results of the National Benchmark Test (NBT) are available and depend on the availability of space.

The Faculty will assess satisfactory performance in the NBT in the light of its commitment to ensuring that an appropriate proportion of the applicants will be drawn from the disadvantaged category of the population.

Applicants who meet the minimum APS requirement, but who do not comply with the subject requirements must write the NBT.

Life Orientation is excluded when calculating the APS.

Minimum requirements

Achievement level

Afrikaans or English APS

NSC/IEB HIGCSE AS-Level A-Level

5 3 C C 30

Duration of study 3 years

What can you do with a degree in language?

heath care worker.

journalist.

language teacher.

speech pathologist.

researcher.

translator or interpreter.

editor or publisher.

broadcaster.

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