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A ROADMAP FOR MINERALS PROCESSING EDUCATION

Research Communication & Methodology

This course is convened by the Department of Chemical Engineering at the
University of Cape Town. The course is delivered largely through lectures,
tutorials and seminars, with reading assignments, group work, and
projects forming a core part of the learning environment. This course is
delivered in discrete modules which are integrated into the overall course
programme in such a manner that the students develop their research
skills and research project scope in parallel with their learnings from the
other courses. This course aims to provide the students with competency
to execute meaningful research in a structured way, to critically analyse
the results of this research, and to communicate these results effectively.
This course also focuses on integrating the knowledge gained from the
taught courses outlined above, and on the application of this integrated
knowledge to the understanding and resolution of selected problems in
the context of sustainable mineral resource development.

Sustainable Development in Africa Internship

This is a non-credit bearing course that is grounded in the realizations that
sustainable development requires professionals to be able to negotiate
disciplinary truth boundaries so as to minimize externalization of costs
and damages to 3rd parties or future generations. In addition this course
gives the students an understanding of the complexity of coupled social-
ecological systems, which can only partly be learnt in the classroom.
The course aims to facilitate field-based inter-disciplinary learning
especially through on-site structured engagements with problem-solving
approaches in the actual developmental setting of the host organization,
and to provide an opportunity to experience possible career options in the
area of sustainable development.

Research Dissertation

The research proposal is developed within the first year of study, and
research argely undertaken within the second year of study through the
respective universities. Inter- and trans-disciplinary research is promoted

A Masters-Level Degree Programme to Support the Development of 203
a Sustainable and Socially Responsible Minerals Industry in Africa