Welcome to the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch
The Department of
Afrikaans and Dutch is an exceptionally diverse centre of expertise in
continuous discourse and cooperation with other national and international
linguistic fields and professions. Quality research underlies the diverse
activities centred around the Department’s established core, namely the study
and teaching of Afrikaans and Dutch literature, linguistics and applied
directions. Additionally, the Department provides a particularly wide offer of
academic as well as practice-oriented, multilingual education in creative
writing, lexicography, translation, interpreting and editing.
History of the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch