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Credit Students (meritstuderende fra andre studier)

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MERITSTUDIER at the Centre of African Studies (BA and KA students)

African Studies provides MERITSTUDERENDE from other studies an opportunity to gain insight into Africa's social, developmental, cultural and religious conditions, and also offers the opportunity to learn the African language Kiswahili. The programme is in English and the study environment is international. Credit students are eligible to apply for courses at Centre of African Studies after having passed 2 years of exams (120 ECTS) at their faculty.

As MERITSTUDERENDE you can choose from the Centre of African Studies' range of optional courses, as well as Kiswahili - but you cannot sign up for compulsory courses or internship and fieldwork. All optional courses correspond to 10 or 15 ETCS, and you choose yourself if you sign up for the exam corresponding to 10 or 15 ECTS. Kiswahili, which lasts two semesters, corresponds to 15 ECTS. Our summer courses are held in July or August for three or four weeks and correspond to 10 ECTS.

Courses

The courses offered may vary from semester to semester.

Updated courses list

Registration

The enrolment application form for credit students is available here. The application deadline is 1 June for the summer and Autumn semester and 1 December for the Spring semester. 

The filled in form has to be sent to the Study Board of Centre of African Studies in paper format by post or in a scanned version by email. The application must contain a pre-approval from the Study Board of the applicant’s institute (a pre-approval stating that it will be possible to transfer the course credits to your institution/university) or an exact date of when the pre-approval is expected to be sent in. The application must also contain an exam result transcript from the applicant’s institute.

Study facilities

The library is equipped with a wireless network and features newly installed study points. The faculty has a computer room and access codes for the study facilities are available at the reception.

CAS Library

The Centre for African Studies library contains over 10,000 books and approximately 60 periodicals. The main emphasis in the library's collection is on the social-science and humanities disciplines. Credit students are allowed to borrow books and take them home.