Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Development: Foundation Phase)

Qualification code: 02593 NQF Exit level: 7 Total credits: 480 APS: 20 SAQA ID: 20161
This qualification will be presented using both online and distance learning modes.
Qualification offered until 2025, and ONLY for students previously registered for this qualification.
Admission A National Senior Certificate (NSC) (Degree endorsement) with at least 50% in the language of teaching and learning. Or A Senior Certificate (SC)
requirements: with matriculation exemption or qualify for the exemption from the Matriculation Board with at least a D symb ol on HG or a C symbol on SG in the
language of teaching and learning. Or A National Certificate Vocational (NCV) Level 4 with at least 60% in three fundamental subjects including the
language of teaching and learning. 70% in four vocational subjects chosen from the NCV level 4 subjects. Subjects under the following categories
are approved as eligible for a BEd degree: All official languages as First Additional Language level, Agriculture and Nature Conservation, Business,
Commerce and Management Sciences Services, Education, training and Development. Applicants who do not comply with the above requirements
may follow Unisa's alternative pathways.

Rules: This Bachelor of Education degree curriculum consists of 40 modules each level MUST have 10 modules which includes:

A. Professional Studies: 15 Compulsory modules

• These modules have to be offered in sequential order.
• There are compulsory Teaching Practice modules which are year modules and can ONLY be registered during semester 1 registration period.

B. Educational Themes: 10 Compulsory modules

C. THREE School Subjects: 15 modules

• TWO school subjects up to 2 nd year level and a THIRD School subject on 1st year level.
• It is compulsory to include English as well as either Afrikaans or an African language as part of the school subject combination.
• Students with foreign nationality may be excluded from offering a 2 nd official language (Afrikaans or an African Language), but they need to offer another
School subject instead.

Some subjects may have 3 or 4 modules on first level.

D. Additional modules

• Additional modules must be offered if the total amount of modules offered for school subjects 1, 2 and 3 do not add up to 15 modules.
• You may register for a maximum of 60 NQF credits per semester/ 120 NQF credits per year.

Purpose statement: The BEd is an initial teaching qualification for candidates to be registered as fully qualified professional educators in schooling.
The qualification accredits the development of professional competence informed by sound knowledge and understanding of
their area/s of specialisation and of educational theory. The second 240 credits of the BEd can also be used for upgrading the
professional competence of practising teachers.

First level
Module Pre-requisite/Co-requisite/Recommendation
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES (Compulsory)
Phased Out Module New Module
BPT1501 - Being A professional teacher BPT1501 - Being A professional teacher
PRS101Y - Early childhood teaching FPT3701 - Foundation Phase Teaching
PRS1023 - Health in early childhood education LSK2601 - Life Skills: Social and Personal
Development in Foundation Phase
PRS1034 - Art And Handwork RDF2601 - Resource Development in
PRS1045 - Teaching practice 1 (Professional studies TPF2601 - Foundation Phase 1
Teaching Practical Co-requisite: PRS101Y, PRS1023 & PRS1034
104 Practical teaching) (Birth – Grade R) (Observational)
EDUCATIONAL THEMES (Compulsory)
Phased Out Module New Module
EDT102H -
Guidance, counseling and life skills TAM2601 - Teacher as Manager
development
SCHOOL SUBJECT 1 (Compulsory)
ENG1501 - Foundations in English Literary Studies
ENG1502 - Foundations in English Language Studies
SCHOOL SUBJECT 2 Choose TWO First Level modules of school subject 2: (Either Afrikaans OR African Languages)
AFL1501 - Language Through an African Lens (African Languages)
AFL1502 - African Language and Culture in practice (African Languages)
OR
AFL1503 - Language and Communication skills acquisition in an African Language I (African Languages-
Beginners)
AFL1504 - Language and Communication Skills Acquisition in an African Language in an African Language II Pre-requisite: AFL1503
OR
AFK1501 - Afrikaans Today (Literature)
AFK1503 - Contemporary Afrikaans: Language Studies and written communication
Second level
Module Pre-requisite/Co-requisite/Recommendation
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES (Compulsory)
Phased Out Module New Module
PRS2015 - Music and movement LSP1501 - Life Skills: Performing Arts, Visual Co-requisite: PRS101Y, PRS1023, PRS1034 &
Arts, Music PRS1045
PRS2026 - Children’s literature CHL1501 - Children’s Literature Co-requisite: PRS101Y, PRS1023, PRS1034 &
PRS1045
PRS2038 - The reception year EMA1501 - Emergent Mathematics Co-requisite: PRS101Y, PRS1023, PRS1034 &
PRS1045
PRS2049 - Teaching practice 2 (5 weeks – pre-school TPF2602 - Teaching Practice for Foundational Co-requisite: PRS2015, PRS2026 & PRS2038
to Grade R) Phase II
EDUCATIONAL THEMES (Compulsory)
Phased Out Module New Module
EDA3046 - Environmental Education EED2601 - Environmental Education
ETH302S - Inclusive Education A INC3701 - Inclusive Education
EDT201K - The young child and learning CUS3701 - Curriculum Studies
SCHOOL SUBJECTS (Compulsory) Three Second level modules of school subject 1 or school subject 2
SCHOOL SUBJECT 1
AFL2601 –– Communication
ENG2601 Applied English dynamics
Languageinstudies:
African Further
Languages
Explorations Pre-requisite: ENG1502
ENG2602 – Genres in Literature and Language: Theory, Style and Poetics Pre-requisite: ENG1501 & ENG1502
ENG2603 – Colonial and Postcolonial African Literatures Pre-requisite: ENG1501 & ENG1502
SCHOOL SUBJECT 2
AFL2601 – Communication dynamics in African Languages
AFL2602 -- Understanding
AFL2602 UnderstandingAfrican
Africanmanagement
managementpractices
practicesas
asreflected
reflectedininAfrican
Africanlanguages
languagesLiterature
Literatureand
andTexts
Texts
AFL2603 –
AFL2603 – Literature
Literature and
and Society:
Society :AAPerspective
Perspectiveon
OnAfrican
AfricanLanguages
Languages
OR
OR
AFK2601 –
AFK2601 – Genre
Genre And
And Theme
Theme (Afrikaans)
(Afrikaans) Pre-requisite: AFK1501 & AFK1502 or AFK1503
AFK2602 -- Afrikaans
AFK2602 AfrikaansGrammar
Grammar(Afrikaans)
(Afrikaans) Pre-requisite: AFK1501, AFK1502 or AFK1503
TEX2601 – Writing Skills for the Communication Industry
TEX2601 – Writing
Pre-requisite: AFK1501,
SkillsAFK1503
for the Communication Industry

Third level
Module Pre-requisite/Co-requisite/Recommendation
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES (Compulsory)
Phased Out Module New Module
PRS302A - Reading, writing and spelling - first HLT3701 - Home Language Teaching Co-requisite:PRS2015, PRS2026, PRS2038,
language PRS2049
PRS303B - Reading, writing and spelling – Second FLT3701 - Sociology of Education Co-requisite:PRS2015, PRS2026, PRS2038,
language PRS2049
PRS304C - Teaching practice 3 (Professional Studies TPF3703 - Teaching Practical 3 Co-requisite: PRS302A & PRS303B
304 Practical Teaching 3) (Grade1 – 3)
EDUCATIONAL THEMES (Compulsory)
Phased Out Module New Module
EDC1015 - Theoretical frameworks in Education PDU3701 - Philosophy of Education
EDT101G - Child development CDE3701 - Child Development (Birth to 9)
EDT303Q - Religious education BTE2601 - Becoming a Teacher
EDT304R - Social education SED2601 - Sociology of Education
SCHOOL SUBJECTS (Compulsory) Two First Level modules of school subject 3 (Approved school subjects listed below)
And ONE Second level module of school subject 1 or school subject 2.

Fourth level
Module Pre-requisite/Co-requisite/Recommendation
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES (Compulsory)
Phased Out Module New Module
PRS401C - Mathematics teaching FMT3701 - Foundation Phase Mathematics Co-requisite: BPT1501, PRS302A, PRS303B &
PRS304C
PRS402D - Science and technology LSK3701 - Life Skills: Science and Technology Co-requisite: BPT1501, PRS302A, PRS303B,
in Foundation Phase PRS304C & PRS401C
PRS403E -
Teaching practice 4 (5 weeks - Grades R Co-requisite: BPT1501, PRS302A, PRS303B,
TPF3704 - Teaching Practical 4
to 3) PRS304C, PRS401C & PRS402D
EDUCATIONAL THEMES (Compulsory)
Phased Out Module New Module
EDT305S - Management of Early Childhood MFP2601 - Management in Foundation Phase
Development institutions
ETH306W - Inclusive Education B IFP3701 - Inclusive Education in Foundation Phase
SCHOOL SUBJECTS: 3 (Compulsory)

Three Second level modules of school subject 3 (Approved school subjects listed below ) and Any TWO additional modules from the list of school
Subjects not yet selected.

SCHOOL SUBJECT 3 (Compulsory)

Choose ONE of the following school subjects in any of the disciplines below
School subjects 3 must be offered on 1 st and 2nd year level.

SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES (AVAILABLE IN BOTH S1 AND S2)

Subject First Level Second Level
ARABIC ARB1501, ICS1501 ARB2603(Pre-requisite: ARB1501 & ARB2602),
ARB2602 (Co-requisite: ARB1501)
ICS2602 (Co-requisite: ARB1501)
ART HISTORY ARH1501, ARH1502 ARH2601, ARH2602 (Co-requisite: ARH1501), ARH2603

BIBLICAL STUDIES OTS1501, ECH1501 ECH2601 (Pre-requisite: ECH1501 & OTS1501), OR any Two of:
OTS2601 (Pre-requisite: ECH1501 & OTS1501), OTS2603
OTS2604
 FRENCH FRC1501, FRC2601 (Pre-requisite: FRC1502)
FRC1502 (Pre-requisite FRC1501) FRC2602 (Pre-requisite: FRC1502)
FRC2603 (Pre-requisite: FRC1502)

HISTORY HSY1511, HSY1512 HSY2601, HSY2602, HSY2603

ISLAMIC STUDIES ICS1501, ARB1501 ICS2603, ICS2604, ICS2602

,
PORTUGUESE PTU1501, PTU1502 PTU2601 (Pre-requisite: PTU1502), PTU2602
(Pre-requisite: PTU1502, Co-requisite: PTU2601)

PSYCHOLOGY PYC1501, PYC1502 PYC2601, (PYC2602 or PYC2603) & RSC2601

RELIGIOUS STUDIES RST1501, RST1502 RST2603, RST2604 and ONE of (APY2601 or HSY2602)

SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN THE ACCOUNTING SCIENCE (AVAILABLE IN BOTH S1 AND S2)

Subject First Level Second Level
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING FAC1501, FAC1502, FAC1601 (Co-requisite: FAC1502) FAC2601 (Pre-requisite FAC1502 & FAC1601),
FAC2602 (Pre- requisite: FAC1502 & FAC1601)

SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN THE ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (AVAILABLE IN BOTH S1 AND S2)
Subject First Level Second Level
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MNB1501, MNB1601 (Pre-requisite: MNB1501) MNG2601
ECONOMICS ECS1501, ECS1601 (Pre-requisite: ECS1501) ECS2601, ECS2602, ECS2603 (Pre-requisite: ECS1601)

INDUSTRIAL AND IOP1501, IOP1601 IOP2601, IOP2602 (Pre-requisite: IOP1601)

ORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN THE AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (AVAILABLE IN BOTH S1 AND S2)
Subject First Level Second Level
nd
BIOLOGY BLG1501, BLG1502, BLG1603 Not offered on 2 year level
BOTANY BOT1501,BOT1502,BOT1603, CHE1501, CHE1502 BOT2601 (Co-requisite: BOT1501)
BOT2602 (Co-requisite: BOT1502)
BOT2604 (Pre-requisite: BOT1603 & CHE1501,
Co-requisite: Any two of the following: BOT2601, BOT2602, BOT2603

GEOGRAPHY GGH1501, GGH1502 GGH2601, GGH2602, GGH2603, GGH2604

ZOOLOGY ZOL1501, ZOL1502, ZOL1603, CHE1501, CHE1502 ZOL2601(Pre-requisite: ZOL1501 or ZOL1502),

ZOL2602(Pre-requisite: ZOL1501 or ZOL1502),
ZOL2603(Pre-requisite: ZOL1501 or ZOL1502),
ZOL2604(Pre-requisite: ZOL1603 & (CHE1501,
CHE1502, Co-requisite: Any two of the following:
ZOL2601, ZOL2602 & ZOL2603)

SCHOOL SUBJECTS IN THE SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (AVAILABLE IN BOTH S1 AND S2)
Subject First Level Second Level
CHEMISTRY CHE1501, CHE1502, CHE1503, MAT1512 CHE2611(Pre-requisite: CHE1501, CHE1502 &
CHE1503 Co-requisite: MAT1512)
CHE2613(Pre-requisite: CHE1501 & CHE1503
Co-requisite: CHE2611 & CHE2621)
CHE2614 (Pre-requisite:CHE1501, CHE1502 &
CHE1503 & Co-requisite: MAT1512 ),
CHE2621 (Pre-requisite: CHE1501 & CHE1503)
CHE2623 (Pre-requisite: CHE2611& CHE2621 & Co-requisite CHE2613)

CHE2624 (Pre-requisite: CHE1501, CHE1502,

CHE1503) Co-requisite CHE2614 & MAT1512

INFORMATION SYSTEMS INF1505, INF1511, INF1520 INF2611(Pre-requisite: INF1511),

ICT2621 (Pre-requisite: ICT1521, ICT1541 or INF1501, COS1521)

ICT2622 (Pre-requisite: INF1505, INF1511)

MATHEMATICS MAT1503, MAT1510, MAT1512, MAT1511, MAT1613 MAT2611 (Pre-requisite: MAT1503),

MAT2612 (Pre- requisite: MAT1503),
MSE2183 (Pre- requisiteMAT1510or MAT1512)

MATHEMATICS EDUCATION MAE101J, MAE102K, MAE103L, MAE104M MAE201M, MAE202N, MAE203P, MAE204Q

PHYSICAL SCIENCE PHY1501, PHY1503, PHY1505, PHY1506, PHY1604 PHY2601 (Pre-requisite: PHY1505, MAT1503 &
MAT1512,
PHY2602 ( Pre-requisite: PHY1505, MAT1503,
& MAT1512 PHY1506),
PHY2604 ( Pre-requisite: PHY1505,
MAT1503 & MAT1512 & PHY1506, Co-requisite PHY2601, PHY2602 &
PHY2606)

ADDITIONAL MODULES
• Additional modules must be offered if the total amount of modules offered for school subjects 1, 2 and 3 do not add up to 15 modules.
• Please take note of the pre-and co-requisites when selecting modules.
• Any additional modules should only be offered in the final year of study