Course General Description

The BA Honours in Visual Studies course focuses on select critical issues around contemporary and historical visual culture. Students can expect to be exposed to an array of interdisciplinary theories and polemics surrounding examples of visual culture from a wide variety of historical periods and geographical locations. Topics that may be covered include critical discourses and practices in photography, models of subjectivity in the visual arts, the politics and poetics of curatorship, and issues around post-colonial African visual culture.

School General Description

Stellenbosch University (SU) is home to an academic community of 29 000 students (including 4 000 foreign students from 100 countries) as well as 3 000 permanent staff members (including 1 000 academics) on five campuses. ​The historical oak-lined university town amongst the Boland Mountains in the winelands of the Western Cape creates a unique campus atmosphere, which attracts local and foreign students alike. On the main campus, paved walkways wind between campus buildings – some dating from previous centuries; others just a few years old. Architecture from various eras attests to the sound academic foundation and establishment of an institution of excellence. This, together with the scenic beauty of the area; state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly facilities and technology, as well as visionary thinking about the creation of a sustainable 21st-century institution, makes for the unique character of Stellenbosch University.