COURSE: NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN CORRECTIONAL SERVI...

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​