Credit Hours - 3

This course examines how educational practice in school settings in the Ghanaian context influence and are influenced by the local language within the school context. Topics to be explored include language use and positioning, family dynamics within school contexts, textbooks and school curricula’s integration or use of language and dominant language influences on other languages within the same context.

Credit Hours - 3

This course will introduce students to the basic differences between administration and management by focusing on educational leadership theories and principles. The topics to be covered include theories of educational administration; meaning and purpose educational administration; functions of educational administration; principles of educational administration; qualities of an effective administrator; and power and authority in school administration.

Credit Hours - 3

This course provides an overview of the fundamental theoretical concepts such as Piaget, Ausubel and Bruner, phenomena, and principles of learning in different contexts and for adolescents in particular. These include reinforcement, Pavlovian conditioning and retention/forgetting, problem-solving, reward and punishment. Traditional views of learning, biological and cognitive constraints, the role of animal models, and the utility of learning theory will also be addressed.

Credit Hours - 3

This course will introduce students to the basic principles of managing human resource effectively in a dynamic educational context. The topics to be treated include: foundations of human resource, approach to human resource management, management theories and principles, educational recruitment and selection; techniques for training and development; and the evaluation of the effectiveness of human resource management frameworks and practices.

Credit Hours - 3

This introductory course will focus on theories underpinning perspectives on development including modernization, domination and exploitation, and as change for the better. It will pay particular attention to the strengths and limitations of these theories in relation to education and how they help explain development and underdevelopment and the current status of key issues in education and development. Topics include development theory; aid and development; economics of development, and poverty and development.

Credit Hours - 3

This course examines some major theories of the meaning and function of education and its role in reshaping society. The course addresses how historical influences, settings and ideas, have influenced and continue to influence education today. Topics to be studied include seminal works by Plato, Aristotle, Dewey, and Piaget, idealism in education, realism in education, pragmatism, postmodernism and behaviourism in education.

Credit Hours - 2

This course provides an analysis of science from a philosophical and historical perspective. This course will provide opportunities for undergraduate students to examine ideas related to the nature of science and how they apply to science teaching and learning. Science as method, stands on a foundation of several pillars such as the idea of reasoning and logic: Karl Popper’s Falsificationism and Imre Lakatos’ theory of scientific rationality, research ethics, the philosophy, and the history of science. Topics to be taught include Scientific reasoning, Empiricism, Post-positivist philosophy of science: Quine and Kuhn, Contextual empiricism, Explanation and Causality, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Values in Science, Models in Science, Ethics of Science

Credit Hours - 2

This introductory course will focus on theories underpinning perspectives on development including modernisation, domination, and exploitation, and as change for the better. It will pay particular attention to the strengths and limitations of these theories in relation to education and how they help explain development and underdevelopment and the current status of key issues in education and development. Topics include development theory; aid and development; economics of development, and poverty and development.

Credit Hours - 2

This course examines some major theories of the meaning and function of education and its role in reshaping society. The course addresses how historical influences, settings and ideas, have influenced and continue to influence education today. Topics to be studied include seminal works by Plato, Aristotle, Dewey, and Piaget, idealism in education, realism in education, pragmatism, postmodernism and behaviourism in education.

Credit Hours - 3

Carbohydrates Metabolism: Digestion of carbohydrates, glycolysis and fate of pyruvate in different organisms; tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle; pentose phosphate pathway and fate of reduced coenzymes; catabolism of monosaccharides other than glucose; gluconeogenesis, Calvin Benson cycle, Cori cycle, glyoxylate cycle; glycogenesis and glycogenolysis; regulation of carbohydrate metabolism; Diseases of carbohydrate metabolism. Aerobic metabolism of pyruvate, starvation and obesity. The coenzyme role of B vitamins. Changes in nutritional requirement and metabolic rate in injury and disease. Lipids Metabolism: Digestion of triacylglycerols; the different lipases (lipoprotein lipase, hormone-sensitive lipase); fate of glycerol; beta-oxidation of fatty acids; fate of products (acetyl and propionyl CoA, ketone bodies, reduced coenzymes); synthesis of fatty acids triacylglycerol, cholesterol; regulation of metabolism. Protein Metabolism: Digestion of proteins, transamination, deamination and decarboxylation of amino acids and the fate of ammonia (urea cycle) and carbon skeleton; metabolism of specific amino acids (aromatic and sulphur-containing amino acids); synthesis of amino acids; in-born errors of amino acid metabolism; regulation of metabolism. Enzymes as biological catalyst: Enzyme kinetics and concept of rate-determining step. Enzyme specificity and allosteric regulation. Mechanisms of enzyme action and examples. Coenzymes and vitamins. Drugs and their effect on enzymes.