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GEOG 453-Geography of the Developing World

The course will focus on concepts, theories and problems of development and under-development; social and economic challenges; external relations and trends in inter-dependence in the geographical regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The concept and...

GEOG 452-Techniques of Regional Science

Students will be taken through some techniques for analyzing the structure and functions of regions and methods of measuring phenomena of particular interest to regional development. Other aspects of the course include regional science and its relation with...

GEOG 451- Regional Development

The course will deal with basic theories of development and under-development and theories of regional development. It will also explore politics and strategies of regional planning and elements of planning theory. The course is essentially comparative but...

GEOG 450-Long Essay

This course is spread over 2 semesters. Students are encouraged to conduct an independent research -based study on a topic approved by the Department on the basis of which they will write an essay of not more than 10,000 words. 

GEOG 344-Geographic Information Systems

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has become an important integrating component of Geography.  The purpose of this course is to further expose student to the theory and applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).  The course will build...

GEOG 342-Climatology

The course will examine regional climates and anomalies with particular emphasis on the temperate and tropical regions. Evapotranspiration, water balance concepts and Koeppen’s classification system will be looked at. General circulation: models,...

GEOG 331-Arid Lands

We will look at the location and extent of arid and semi-arid lands and bases of delimitation, causes and types of arid lands, the physical background and natural resources of arid lands, problems of occupance of arid lands, and the arid and semi-arid lands...

GEOG 328-Geography of Gender and Development in Africa

The course looks at gender and the dynamics of socio-economic change within the context of spatial systems as well as the gender-neutral development theory and the concept of feminism in geography as applied to regional patterns of development as countries...

GEOG 327-Introduction to Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

The course will deal with photographic and scanner remote sensing; basic principles of remote sensing; electromagnetic spectrum; the multiband concept of imagery interpretation; photographic remote sensing and its application in urban and rural land use...

GEOG 326- Research Methods

The course will teach the design and formulation of research projects and the methods and procedures for handling data, questionnaire design and coding, data collection techniques and problems and report writing.  Inferential statistics and introduction...

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