Schools and Departments

Centres, Institutes and Units

The College offers a wide variety of skills-based short courses that equip students for vocational or social needs for lifelong learning.  Services offered by these units include research, short and certificate courses, training classes in basic communication skills in an African language, community service and the facilitation of access to higher education.

Centres in the College:

• African Centre for Arts, Culture and Heritage Studies
• Centre for Applied Information and Communication
• Centre for Applied Psychology
• Centre for Development Studies
• Centre for Pan African Languages and Cultural Development
• The John Povey Centre for the Study of English in Southern Africa
• Tirisano Centre

Research Institutes/Units:

• Institute for Gender Studies
• Research Institute for Theology and Religion
• WIPHOLD-Brigalia Bam Chair in Electoral Democracy in Africa

Other Units:

• Anthropology and Archeology Museum
• African Languages Literary Information Museum (012 429 8200, cellia@unisa.ac.za)
• Unisa Art Gallery
• Unisa Window (012 429 6083, harcoam@unisa.ac.za)