Jaaroorsig - University of the Free State

Students participating in service-learning courcesHEISTUDENT LEVEL1st year 2nd year 3rd year 4th year Masters TOTALCUTPENTECHRAUUCTUFSUNDUNITRAUNPUWCWITS2517586418624110768140432128144541871096012025615832231951204106154225944961151455679310123223918401524365424802233556858437636600TOTAL15771093159922384236930courses supported by JET countrywide,the UFS had the highest number — 42.In 2005 the UFS allocated establishmentand implementation funds to a furthernine service-learning modules inthe Faculty of the Humanities, two inEconomic and Management Sciences,four in Natural and Agricultural Sciences,eight in Health Sciences and two inTheology.These activities take place in cooperationwith a wide variety of relevantpartners from the service sector andcommunity groupings.A service-learning module, ServiceLearning, was also introduced for thefirst time in the M.A. programme inHigher Education Studies to address theneed for staff development in this area.Most students indicated that servicelearningcourses helped to improve theirrelationship and leadership skills, aswell as their project planning abilities.The courses also benefited them in termsof their awareness of cultural differencesand opened their eyes to their own culturalstereotypes.Fakulteite bedrywigin die streekVan al die fakulteite was dit veral dieFakulteit Geesteswetenskappe watdeur middel van streeksbetrokkenheidreuse-bydraes gelewer het tot die prosesom ’n nuwe Suid-Afrikaanse samelewingtot stand te bring en die nalatenskapvan armoede, onderontwikkeling,kolonialisme en apartheid te probeeruitwis.Die Departement Antropologie het’n aantal etnies-kulturele projekte aangepak.Die eerste is ’n projek rondom dieGriekwa van die Vrystaat, wat ondermeer die restourasie van Adam Kok sehuis op Philippolis, ’n dokumentêre programoor sy lewe, asook etno-historiesenavorsing behels. Nog ’n projek spruituit ’n versoek van die Korana in dieVrystaat vir navorsing oor hul tradisionelegodsdiens. Volgens alle aanduidingsis dié groep teen 1930 as uitgesterfbeskou. ’n Proses van etniese en kultureleherlewing en mobilisering is nouonderweg en die stigting van ’n eie kerkwat die proses kan aanhelp, word beoog.34