Standardised Programmes

Our standardised programmes are offered to institutions and individual students. We currently have two standardised programmes on offer:

1. Sustainable Water Management - Online Offering for 2021

This course has been designed to equip the next generation of critical thinkers to consider the world’s increasingly complex water challenges. This course will challenge participants to consider water in new ways, develop the tools to do so and equip them with the skills to apply their learnings in different contexts. This course adopts an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary (IDTD) approach to examine the complexity of current water crises, trends and conditions, with specific examples from the African continent. While considering water demand, supply and treatment, it addresses the need to derive maximum benefit from water resources while incurring minimum burden and the need to secure ‘new taps’ in a Water Sensitive context.

Topics Include:

• Integrated urban water management and Water Sensitive Urban Design
• Social impacts and health concerns
• Wastewater treatment and remediation practices
• Anthropological impacts on water quality
• The role of water in the social fabric and the under-pinning of sustainable livelihoods considering culture, privilege and inequality
• The IDTD research paradigm in integrated water management
• Water-food-energy nexus
• Resource recovery and the circular economy
• Linkages to Sustainable Development Goals

2. Global Academy:  Afropolitanism, Social Justice and Entrepreneurship

This programme is designed to inspire participants to become global citizens. It exposes students to new cultures and allows them to build networks across borders – creating a space to challenge perspectives and develop a wealth of understanding of the global community. The course is offered through the Faculty of Humanities. 

Visits to historical, heritage and entrepreneurial community sites will allow students to experience the vibrant and diverse cultures that influence and shape the character of Cape Town and South Africa, as well as expose students to innovative initiatives communities are undertaking to seek solutions to social issues.

Students will gain an understanding of social and political processes that have shaped modern South Africa and the central political questions facing post-apartheid South Africa.