This short learning programme on presentation for the workplace aims to enable you to design and deliver confident and engaging presentations for various audiences in/for the workplace (face-to-face, online, or in a hybrid format) using PowerPoint.

This short learning programme on advanced information literacy is about enhancing the information skills of those involved in researching and assessing information/knowledge. Ideally, a participant has completed UJ’s short learning programme on Building Blocks of Information Literacy before enrolling for this course.

By completing African Insights, you will have an appreciation of Africa, including its riches, inheritances and great ideas and knowledge systems. You will have conceptual tools to think more critically about the issues of contemporary significance to Africa, and you will have interacted with some of the many African thinkers and writers through their texts.

This short learning programme on building blocks of information literacy aims to develop basic skills to find, access, process and apply data, information, media and digital content ethically.

The purpose of this introductory interdisciplinary short-learning programme on the United Nations’ 17 SDGs is to provide a basic understanding of and context to the SDGs (from South African and African perspectives), the reasons for their existence, how they fit together in a comprehensive framework, as well as critiques levelled against the SDG Agenda. The course further considers the alignment of the SDGs with the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and South Africa’s National Development Plan, which both preceded the SDGs. This SLP will not only raise awareness of the SDGs, but also provide the introductory knowledge needed to engage in a more informed way with sustainability, whether in a work context or in society generally.

This short learning programme on Word for the workplace aims to equip novice users with the fundamental competencies required for the creation, modification, and printing of documents with a polished and professional appearance, making use of MS Word. This course covers using text, tables, lists, and images while also addressing the basics of executing straightforward collaboration techniques.