Human Rehabilitation Studies Stellenbosch University

Overview

About the program

The Human Rehabilitation Studies programme offered at Stellenbosch University:

• Provides an interdisciplinary pool of specialised rehabilitation professionals, from a variety of professional backgrounds, who have the necessary clinical decision-making, managerial, research and educational knowledge, skills and socio-political attitudes, to hold positions of leadership within rehabilitation-related fields.
• Produces rehabilitation specialists who can act as specialist consultants in public and private rehabilitation services, within and beyond their specific professional areas of practice.
• Equips you with a sophisticated knowledge and understanding of phenomena pertinent to the disability- and rehabilitation-related fields, within a human rights and socialmodel perspective.
• Ensures mastery of the field of rehabilitation through the high-level analysis of new information, and the ability to deal with complexity and to find workable solutions to problems and challenges.
• Enables you to do advanced and independent research.
• Introduces you to the world of scholarly communication, inter alia through assistance in publishing your own research reports.
• Contributes to the pool of rehabilitation academics and professionals with the competence and critical intellectual abilities to ensure future advancement of the field of rehabilitation.
• Addresses the country’s need for rehabilitation specialists of the highest quality.