BA History and Heritage

The programme centres on how African heritage is defined, and on what has been done or is being done to maintain and promote cultural heritage activities and services in Malawi and Africa in general. It recognises the value and necessity of African heritage and cultures and the need for modalities through which the cultures in question are preserved, animated, and promoted, through applicable governmental, non-governmental, and private sector programmes and projects.

The curricula of the programme has been designed in such a way that students accumulate a minimum of 480 credit hours and modular schemes consistent with the Mzuni Qualifications Framework in order to meet the requirements in either the History and Heritage Studies as well as the teaching needs of Education students who might opt to teach history in their career. Students also take courses from sister departments in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and other Faculties with similar subjects. These departments include Theology and Religious Studies; Library and Information Sciences; Information and Communication Technology; and Communication Studies to allow for diversity and inter-disciplinarity.