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28 November 2019 | Story Rulanzen Martin | Photo Dr Peet van Aardt
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The book was launched during the Student Arts and Life Dialogues Festival on the Bloemfontein Campus in October.

In its continued bid to decolonise the academic curriculum at the University of the Free State (UFS) the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) published the second volume of Creative African Narratives (iCAN) short stories written by UFS students. 

iCAN Volume 2 comes after extensive creative writing workshops were presented on all three campuses during the year. The project is coordinated by Dr Peet van Aardt from CTL and is funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation

Through the iCAN project, CTL plans to incorporate the students’ written texts as part of the extensive reading component of the first-year academic literacy courses across all faculties. “We are teaching and motivating our students to read, but we cannot keep relying on a curriculum that is foreign to them,” said Dr Van Aardt.

The volume comprises 55 short stories with topics ranging from the Struggle, to campus life, mental illness, family affairs and love, with the students’ lived experiences also a main theme throughout the anthology. The stories are written in Sepedi, isiZulu, Setswana, English, Afrikaans and Sesotho. Some were also performed at the recent Multilingual Mokete, held on the Bloemfontein campus in September.

“We are really proud of this year’s publication, and the project as a whole,” says Dr Van Aardt. “This year we were able to include more student contributions than last year.”

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Geology under spotlight as part of UFS's Darwin lecture series
2009-03-05

 
Two staff members of the University of the Free State's (UFS) Department of Geology recently presented lectures in the UFS's Charles Darwin lecture series entitled "The story of life and survival" on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein. Prof. Marian Tredoux presented a lecture on "The origin of our solar system" and Mr Johan Loock spoke about "The geological evolution of our planet: The first billion years". Here are, from the left: Danita Hohne, Honnours student in Geology at the UFS, Mr Loock, Prof. Tredoux, Pierre Louw, student in Environmental Health at the Central University of Technology, and Ms Janine Kottke-Levin, Ph.D. student in Geology from Germany.
Photo: Stephen Collett 

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