2025 TIMETABLE

 

Curriculum planning

 

Need assistance deciding which courses to take in 2025? Visit the Wits Centre for Journalism on the 10th floor of the Es’kia Mphahlele Building, Braamfontein, from January 13-17, 9am to 12pm daily for course information and registration assistance.

 

2025 INFORMATION AND LINKS:

 

  • Registration is solely online: https://www.wits.ac.za/postgraduate
  • Contact information for student fee queries.
  • Specific class times will be announced at the start of the semester but all classes will start in the first week of term. 
  • No prescribed books to be purchased ahead of the start of classes.
  • All students must have an ICAM access card to enter the Wits Arts Museum building via the ramp behind the School of Arts or through the main entrance to the museum on Jorissen Street.
  • The WCJ reception is on the 10th floor, Es’kia Mphalelele building (aka the Wits Arts Museum building). 
  • For WCJ academic enquiries, please email Andrea Gumede. 
  • Contact Tshepiso Ntombela at reception on +27 11 717 4028 for venue or other information.
  • Wits University 2025 term dates.
  • Staff profiles
 
FULL-TIME HONOURS
PART-TIME HONOURS
MASTER’S FIRST YEAR
MASTER’S SECOND YEAR
PHD
FIRST SEMESTER
Specific dates to be confirmed
  Journalism Research (SLLS4048A / JOMS4015A) Full Year
Nechama Brodie (coordinator)

 

11th Floor Boardroom

Research (SLLS7030A / JOMS7007A) Full Year PT1
Lesley Cowling (coordinator)

 

11th Floor Boardroom

Research (SLLS7031A / JOMS7008A) Full Year PT2
Lesley Cowling (coordinator)

 

11th Floor Boardroom

Research (JOMS9000A)
Dinesh Balliah (coordinator)
  Journalism Practice A (SLLS4032A / JOMS4006A)
Pheladi Sethusa and Collen Chambwera (coordinators)

 

Monday to Friday, 10th Floor Newsroom

Writing for Communications (SLLS4066A)
Lesley Mofokeng (coordinator)

 

Mondays, 4 – 6pm, 10th Floor Drum Room

Media and Society (SLLS7044A / JOMS7017A)
Lesley Cowling (coordinator)

 

Wednesdays, 4 – 6:30pm, 12th Floor Boardroom

SA Narrative Non-Fiction (SLLS7082A)
Lesley Cowling (coordinator)

 

Thursdays, 4 – 6:30pm, 12th Floor Boardroom

 
  Journalism Studies A (SLLS4034A / JOMS4008A)
Nechama Brodie (coordinator)

 

Wednesdays, 4 – 6pm, 10th Floor Newsroom

Journalism Studies A (SLLS4034A / JOMS4008A)
Nechama Brodie (coordinator)

 

Thursdays, 4 – 6pm, 10th Floor Drum Room

     
    Financial Journalism (SLLS4045A / JOMS4014A)
Gillian Jones (coordinator)

 

First week in-person at the WCJ: 10 – 14 March, 9am to 1pm, 12th Floor Boardroom

Thereafter hybrid sessions: 18 March – 27 May, Tuesdays, 4 – 6pm

Financial Journalism (SLLS7040A / JOMS7014A)
Gillian Jones (coordinator)

 

First week in-person at the WCJ: 10 – 14 March, 9am to 1pm, 12th Floor Boardroom

Thereafter hybrid sessions: 18 March – 27 May, Tuesdays, 4 – 6pm

Financial Journalism (SLLS7040A / JOMS7014A)
Gillian Jones (coordinator)

 

First week in-person at the WCJ: 10 – 14 March, 9am to 1pm, 12th Floor Boardroom

Thereafter hybrid sessions: 18 March – 27 May, Tuesdays, 4 – 6pm

 
           
MID-YEAR
Specific dates to be confirmed
TV Journalism (SLLS4044A / JOMS4013A)
TBC
Journalism Research (SLLS4048A / JOMS4015A) Full Year
Nechama Brodie
Research (SLLS7030A / JOMS7007A) Full Year PT1
Lesley Cowling
Research (SLLS7031A / JOMS7008A) Full Year PT2
Lesley Cowling
Research (JOMS9001A)
Dinesh Balliah
  Radio Journalism (SLLS4040A / JOMS4012A)
Charles Leonard
       
  Introduction to Financial Journalism (no credit)
Thalia Holmes
       
           
SECOND SEMESTER
Specific dates to be confirmed
Journalism Practice B (SLLS4033A / JOMS4007A)
Gillian Jones
Feature Writing (SLLS4067A)
Lesley Mofokeng
Communications for Social Change
Collen Chambwera
   
  Journalism Studies B (SLLS4035A / JOMS4009A)
Pheladi Sethusa
Media Law and Ethics (SLLS4036A / JOMS4010A)
Dinesh Balliah
Media Law and Ethics (SLLS7032A / JOMS7009A)
Dinesh Balliah
   
    Journalism Research (SLLS4048A / JOMS4015A) Full Year
Nechama Brodie (coordinator)
Research (SLLS7030A / JOMS7007A) Full Year PT1
Lesley Cowling (coordinator)
Research (SLLS7031A / JOMS7008A) Full Year PT2
Lesley Cowling (coordinator)
Research (JOMS9001A)
Dinesh Balliah (coordinator)