This project aims to train students as interpreters and to do research about the interpreting practice. As an extension of the project a budget interpreting service is being delivered by students in the programme. This service is being provided to various language communities in the immediate vicinity.
Over the years student organisations and student activities on campus, farmworkers and patients at hospitals benefit from it. Furthermore, student-interpreters are also used during certain lectures and certain meetings on campus. More or less 80 students were involved with the service delivery since it started.
Interpreting workshops are also provided frequently. In the one instance healthcare interpreters were trained for the Department of Health that were placed at various hospitals in the Western Cape. The impact of the interpreting services is immediately visible in every situation and assists with communication across language boundaries. The service in the official languages as well as modern foreign languages has been well received over the years.
The project leader is Dr Harold Lesch. He is assisted by Mr Marius Swart and Ms Lelanie de Roubaix.
Contact person: Dr Harold Lesch
Financial literacy education pro-
gramme for social work service users
The financial literacy education programme aims to provide social work service users with knowledge, skills and values needed to make sound financial decisions, helping them participate in the mainstream financial system, to move up the economic ladder and eventually achieve financial security.
Contact person: Dr Lambert Engelbrecht
Kairos Drama Group
Ms
Annelene Hartnick established the Kairos Drama Group in 1998. The organisation's core function was to impart theatre and life skills to high school learners. The organisation has since grown into a highly respected youth empowerment programme that offers a wide range of services to schools and communities throughout the Western Cape, Hessequa and Southern Cape regions. The Kairos Drama Group conducts drama workshops in the Hessequa and Eden district. It has also performed a variety of theatre in education plays ranging from HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, teenage pregnancies, career guidance etc. A film documentary project in 2007 saw 30 youth from Hessequa trained in documentary filmmaking. The group established a performing arts festival in 2010.
Contact person: Mr Abduraghman Adams
Rural Engagement Project, Certificate Programme
The Rural Engagement Project was developed as a subsidiary of the Certificate Programme, which is run by the Music Department. The project covers the following areas: Vlottenburg, Riversdal, Genadendal, Caledon, Kylemore, Macassar, Mamre, Pacaltsdorp and Eersterivier. It is also linked to the service-learning module offered by the Music Department as some undergraduate students who are enrolled in this course undertake teaching/mentoring in the Rural Engagement Project, which serves as the community service hours that they must complete for the course. Currently theory of music, brass, woodwind, guitar and recorder are being taught.
Contact person: Ms Pamela Kierman
Schola Cantorum Choral Seminars
Seminars with workshops, lectures, master classes, open discussions and concerts on different levels for choral conductors, singers, composers and administrators. These workshops are presented annually 3-5 days at a time. Choirs and conductors may request further workshops on an individual basis.
Contact person: Dr Rudolf de Beer
Social Work Practice Education 188
First-year students are placed as volunteers with learners in schools in Stellenbosch and work with these learners. The Social Work Department partners with schools in Stellenbosch on this project. Social Work Practice Education 188 is a complete service-learning module in the Social Work curriculum.
Contact person: Ms Rochelle Williams
Social Work Practice Education 288
Students in their second year are placed at welfare organisations in the Cape Town area for part of their practice education module. The students build a relationship with:
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an individual;
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a group of eight members (children, aged persons, mentally challenged adults); and
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also have exposure to a community as they do a joint project in a particular community.
Social Work Practice Education 188 is a complete service-learning module in the Social Work curriculum.
Contact person: Ms Rochelle Williams
Social Work Practice Education 388
Students in their third year of study are placed at welfare organisations in the Cape Town area for an integrated placement in case work, group work, community work and social work administration for one full year. Social Work Practice Education 388 is a complete service-learning module in the Social Work curriculum.
Contact person: Ms Rochelle Williams
