The major in Geography includes physical geography, human geography and regional geography. Geography is a broad field of study.

History at Wits aims to revitalise your views of the past, to introduce exciting new topics and to challenge many of the assumptions and approaches you learned at school. Majoring in history will equip you with skills in research, analysis and effective writing.

Majoring in History of Art will give you the knowledge and vocabulary to discuss art confidently in written and oral presentations, and create a foundation necessary to explore a topic in depth.

Majoring in international relations will give you an understanding of why states do such things as go to war, why they trade with each other or why they care when human rights are being abused elsewhere.

The BA with Law is the foundation for a more advanced study of law.

If you are interested in understanding why we speak and write the way we do, what identities we portray by the way we speak and write or how we learn languages, then you should major in linguistics.