BA African Language and Culture

SOAS, University of London
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    Bachelor's degree

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    City of london

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Programme Code: T508 BA/ALC
Mode of Attendance: Full-time
The Africa Section of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics houses the world’s largest concentration of scholars devoted to the study of African languages and cultures of sub-Saharan Africa. This collective expertise gives us an unparalleled capacity for teaching, learning and research. The language offered at the degree level (BA African Language and Culture) is Swahili. Students of Swahili spend two terms of year three in Zanzibar and Kenya.
In the first year the programme's major component is the intensive study of Standard Swahili, and two wide ranging modules on Culture in Africa, and Language in Africa.
The second year continues the study of Intermediate Swahili, and, at the same time introduces the student to Swahili literature. Two additional modules are chosen from the list of approved optional modules.
The third year of the programme is spent at an African university in Kenya or Tanzania, where students study Swahili in its context, and write an extended essay on a suitable topic of choice during that year. In the final year study of language and literature is continued at the advanced level. In addition, the freedom to select two other appropriate modules from the list of options gives students the opportunity of specializing in a field of particular interest.
Language degrees are four-year degrees, but students pay reduced fees for the language year abroad. More information on tuition fees.
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Chege Githiora
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Subjects

  • Cultural Awareness
  • Options
  • IT
  • Teaching
  • Communication Skills
  • Grammar
  • Punctuation
  • Writing Skills
  • Culture
  • Literature
  • Linguistics
  • African Languages
  • Swahili
  • Languages
  • African Literature

Course programme

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Degree programmes at SOAS - including this one - can include language courses in more than forty African and Asian languages. It is SOAS students’ command of an African or Asian language which sets SOAS apart from other universities.

The major language available for this degree is Swahili, other languages may be taken as part of the degree (see List of Optional Modules). Students must take 120 credits each year according to the syllabus.

Students must pass at least 90 credits in order to proceed to the following year, including any core modules.

Year 1Core Module
  • Swahili 1
Compulsory Modules
  • Language in Africa
  • Advanced Swahili Literature
  • Culture in Africa
Open Option

Choose a related module from another department

Year 2Core Module
  • Introduction to Swahili Literature
  • Swahili 2a Intermediate
Compulsory Module Compulsory Module

Choose ONE of the following modules:

  • African language literatures (oral and written)
  • Contemporary African literature
Open Option

Choose modules to value of 30 credits from the list of optional modules or an open option.

Year 3: Year abroad

Please see the Teaching & Learning tab for more details.

Year 4Compulsory Module

Choose ONE of the following modules:

  • Advanced Swahili Literature
  • Theory and practice of Swahili translation
  • Swahili 4
Optional Modules

Choose modules to the value of 60 credits from the list of options

Open Option

Choose modules to value of 30 credits from the list of optional modules or an open option.

List of Optional Modules

Before selecting a module, student's must first check that the module is at the correct level. They must also ensure that they meet any pre-requisites. Normally students are not allowed to take a module outside of the years for which it is intended, although occasionally exceptions can be made in consultation with the Undergraduate tutor and/or the Associate Dean. Note that the list of options includes both culture modules and language modules. Students may take modules in another African language.

  • African Filmmaking: From the 1960s to the Present
  • Sci-fi and Afrofuturism in the African Novel
  • Realism and Magical Realism in the African Novel
  • Film Festivals and Film Curating
  • Islamic Reform Movements in Modern Africa
  • African Philosophy
  • Afrophone Philosophies
  • South African Film and Visual Culture: Before and During Apartheid
  • South African Film and Visual Culture 1994-2014
  • Fictions of History
  • Southern Spaces
  • The structure of Bantu languages
  • Theory and practice of Swahili translation
  • Religion in Africa
  • Extended essay in African studies (a)
  • Extended essay in African studies (b)
  • Black Urban Studies
  • History of Slavery: Britain and Slavery
  • Music in Africa
  • The World of Cuban Music
  • African Art III: the Art and Architecture of North Eastern Africa
  • R210 Religion, Power, and Society in Modern Africa
  • Africans in the Americas: Identities and Representation
  • Independent study project in African studies
  • Directed study of an African language
  • Amharic 1
  • Amharic 2
  • Hausa 1
  • Hausa 2(a) intermediate
  • Hausa 2(b) survey of hausa literature
  • Hausa 3(a) advanced
  • Hausa 3 (b) selected texts
  • Somali 1
  • Somali 2
  • Advanced Somali: Language
  • Advanced Somali: Literature
  • Theory and practice of Swahili translation
  • Yoruba 1
  • Yoruba 2
  • Zulu 1
  • Zulu 2
Programme Specification
  • BA African Language and Culture - 2012/13 Programme Specifications (pdf; 48kb)
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