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The Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management (CLM) offers study programmes that equip future leaders with competencies and quality skills in the business, management and legal fields.
Information systems, advertising, accounting, finance, marketing, human resources, project management, insurance, management, computer science, business finance, psychology, law.
Look around you. No matter where you are, what you will see is the evidence of the activity of Engineering and the Built Environment professionals. We often take for granted our roads, bridges, buildings, cities, cars, aeroplanes, fuels, energy, nancial systems, television, telephones, medical devices - but none of these would be possible without these professionals.
The production of Engineering and the Built Environment graduates in South Africa needs to increase dramatically in the next few years in order to allow us to respond to the challenge posed by the National Development Plan. This continent, and the world, faces challenges in all sectors of the economy where these young professionals will assist in solving the problems that plague development, sustainability and progress.
A common first year programme was introduced from 2019 across all professional engineering disciplines.
The academic curriculum is regularly modernised in order to ensure that it meets the highest professional and academic standards and that it simultaneously remains locally relevant and applicable.
Many engineering students entering the engineering programmes have a limited knowledge of the different branches of engineering and only gain the knowledge to make an informed choice of programme during their first year. A first year curriculum that is identical for all programmes allows students to amend their choice at the end of the first year.
Aeronautics, chemistry, civil, electrical, industrial, game design, mechanical, metallurgy and materials, mining, architecture, quantity surveying, construction management, property studies, information engineering, environmental, biomedical engineering.
The Faculty has an outstanding international reputation and many of our graduates are leaders in their fields, both in South Africa and worldwide.
The Faculty offers students superb training with practical clinical experience in no less than five major hospitals. The study of health sciences emphasises the importance of physical and mental wellbeing. Empathy, patience, initiative, integrity and technical aptitude are the essential attributes of the health-care giver. A profession in healthcare can be physically, mentally and emotionally demanding, and healthcare practitioners are frequently exposed to life-threatening diseases.
In South Africa, there is an urgent need for healthcare professionals who can dedicate themselves to preventative and curative healthcare among needy communities. It is important that students are exposed to the needs of the various communities which make up South Africa and that they can cope both with sophisticated equipment in urban hospitals and basic equipment in rural areas.
Medicine, dentistry, oral hygiene, nursing, hospital management, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physiotherapy, biokentics.
The Faculty of Humanities includes 5 schools – Human and Community Development, Literature and Language Studies, Social Sciences, Wits School of Arts and Wits School of Education.
The Faculty offers an extensive range of programmes, some of which are vocationally oriented and lead to careers in specific professions, while others are theory and research oriented and impart critical analytical skills that open up to a range of careers in academia and research.
Anthropology, culture, history, development, education, journalism, languages, law, literature, media, music, psychology, sociology.
A BA programme is made up of two major subjects and a number of additional courses. A major is a subject that you take from first year through to third year. This means you study the same subject in first, second and third year.
Professional and Specialist Programmes (all 4 years)
If you enjoy mathematics, want to learn more about the world, care about conservation and the use of our natural resources, and enjoy problem-solving, then the Faculty of Science at Wits is for you. The study of science and scientific research is an exciting journey into tradition, experimental observation and deduction and a science degree opens doors to diverse fields including Medical Research, Computer Science, Chemistry, Biotechnology etc.
Research strength ensures that staff members keep in touch with the latest developments in their fields. In addition to basic research in various fields, including Mathematical Modelling, High Energy Physics, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology and Environmental Sciences, increasing effort is being devoted to applied research linked to a variety of activitiesin southern Africa.
Geology, paelaeontology, mathematics, finance, physics, biotechnology, molecular biology, environmental sciences, geography, astronomy, nuclear sciences, statistics, chemistry, applied computing, materials science with metallurgy.
Many fields of study are offered within the Bachelor of Science (BSc) Programme. The broad areas are:
Biological and Life Sciences
Biology covers all aspects of the study of living organisms, ranging from understanding the gene to managing ecosystems. This includes the molecular basis of life, including the biochemistry of molecules such as DNA, RNA and proteins; the physiological functions of cells, tissues, organs and organ systems; the influence of evolutionary relationships on a wide range of biological problems; and aquatic and terrestrial ecology.
Earth Sciences
The Earth Sciences study the processes that shape the earth, atmosphere and the organisms that have evolved on earth. Fields of specialisation include the exploration for and the mining of minerals, the prediction of weather and earthquakes, the evolution of species through time, the state of our natural environment and how we can best manage the system.
Mathematical Sciences
Wits has three large schools in the area of study known as the ‘Mathematical Sciences’ and these are the School of Mathematics, the School of Computer Science & Applied Mathematics and the School of Statistics and Actuarial Science.
Pure Mathematics is a developing science. Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science are important in business and governmental planning, insurance, finance, banking and investments.
Applied Mathematics has applications in banking, finance and industry. Computer Science offers the understanding of computer hardware and software, in all their applications.
Physical Sciences
From nuclear, particle, solid and liquid state physics, electricity, electronics, magnetism, optics, acoustics, heat and thermodynamics to the composition of matter (gas, liquid or solid) and of the changes that take place in it under certain conditions.