| Qualification code: |
76959 |
| Duration: |
This is a Year course with 2 compulsory and 1 elective module that are offered in the first semester (or registration intake) and 2 elective modules in the second semester (or registration intake). |
| Language medium: |
English |
Target group:
Social auxiliary workers, child and youth care workers, youth development workers, educators and teachers, psychologists, social workers, social service professionals, police officers, nurses, paralegals, legal practitioners, correctional offices, members of the allied health professions, mental health practitioners, academics, home affairs officials, international organization for migration, probation officers, child justice practitioners, criminologists, victimologists, students and graduate professionals.
Admission requirements:
Formal qualification at NQF level 7
or;
Successful completion of the Programme in Fundamental Aspects of Childrens Rights through Unisa.
Course leader details:
Professor H de Ru
Private Law
Tel: 0124298371
Email: deruh@unisa.ac.za
Programme administrator:
Admin Officer
Unisa Centre for Lifelong Learning
360 Lillian Ngoyi Street, Pretoria Central
Solomon Mahlangu Building 2nd floor
Tel: 012 352 4288
Email address: UCL@unisa.ac.za
Application Link: www.unisa.ac.za/applyslp
Purpose statement:
In relation to the background sketched above this SLP seeks to:
Inculcate a culture of rights-based practice amongst professional persons, bodies and entities that have a direct or indirect working relationship with children.
To establish an advanced programme which caters for MIT knowledge generation and application in the field of children s rights that draws from various disciplines to ground its theory. This seeks to satisfy the South African approach to national and millennium development goals.
Modules:
ADVC10J - Selected Aspects of Child Health Care from the Perspective of the Medical Practitioner and the Health Researcher
ADVC11K - Correctional Services and Children's Rights
ADVC14N - Educators and Children's Rights
ADVCHA1 - Children's Rights in the South African and International Context: Advanced Perspectives
ADVCHB2 - Aspects of Development and Protection of Children
ADVCHC3 - Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: Child Pornography - Advanced Perspectives
ADVCHD4 - Aspects of International Criminal Law and Children's Rights
ADVCHE5 - Cyber-Crime and the Protection of Children
ADVCHF6 - Children's Rights in the Comparative Context
ADVCHG8 - Probation Officers and Children's Rights
ADVCHI9 - Children and Status Issues: Advanced Perspectives
