Postgraduate Study
WiCDS offers Honours, taught Masters and PhD programmes that draw on expertise from across the School of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities. Postgraduate students at the Centre enjoy a vibrant, challenging and supportive intellectual environment, in which their classes and research work are supplemented by our rich calendar of scholarship development and public events. Our inspiring graduates have gone on to work in business, government, policy, academia, civil society and the arts.
Grounded in a strong commitment to social justice, the Centre’s research and teaching programmes, as well as its community and civil society engagements, are informed by Melissa Steyn’s 2007 notion of . Drawing on cutting-edge social theory, CDL opens up challenging interdisciplinary research questions that shift common sense assumptions about the social, enabling fresh and penetrating analyses of current challenges. Scholars and students use CDL and broader perspectives from Diversity Studies to engage questions of gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, nationality, health, religion and other issues.
PhD students joining WiCDS for the first time are expected to sit in on the first semester MA class, to attend an annual workshop and writing retreat, to be present at monthly research seminars and to be part of the Centre's programme of public events
WiCDS' internal Honours and MA teaching takes place from 4-7pm. Students will also need to take an elective from elsewhere in the School of Social Sciences, which will likely take place during normal teaching hours
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