This programme equips students to operate at a management level within the Department of Correctional Services. It prepares students for management-level positions, whether at a correctional facility or in national policy-making and strategy. The programme has a strong focus on correctional services management, correctional services law system and corrections science.
Type: undergraduate diploma
Duration: 3 years part time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Management
- Correctional science
- Introduction to fundamental penology
- Introduction to correction science
- Penitentiary penology
- Correctional skills
- Introduction to law
- Skills course for law students
- End-user computing
Second year subjects:
- Management
- Correctional science
- Fundamental penology
- Social dynamics in a correctional centre
- Community corrections
- Fundamental rights
- The correctional service act
Third year subjects:
- Correctional services management
- Correctional science
- Unit and case management
- Youth corrections
- Offender development
Careers: correctional service manager.
Source: www.unisa.ac.za