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11 May, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION STUDIES

SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND OUTREACH

INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION

Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons with background in the underlisted areas of specialization in Education and orientation to qualitative research to the following positions in the Institute of Education, College of Education Studies:

  1. Senior Research Fellows
  2. Research Fellow
  3. Lecturer

Areas of Specialization

  1. Curriculum and Teaching with focus on English Language
  2. Educational Psychology
  3. Educational Counselling
  4. Sociology of Education

A. Senior Research Fellow

Qualifications: Candidates must:

  1. possess a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in any of the areas of specialization listed above.
  2. have at least four (4) years research experience as a Research Fellow in a University or an analogous institution of higher learning.
  3. have a minimum of eight (8) publications in refereed journals
  4. be capable of developing winnable research proposals

B. Research Fellow

Qualifications: Candidates must:

  1. possess a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in any of the areas of specialization listed above
  2. have at least two (2) years post-qualification research experience in a University or an analogous institution of higher learning.
  3. have at least three (3) refereed publications.
  4. be capable of developing winnable research proposals

C. Lecturer

Qualifications: Candidates must:

  1. possess a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in English Language Education
  2. have at least two (2) years post-qualification teaching and research experience in a University or an analogous institution of higher learning.
  3. have at least two (2) refereed publications.

Job Description (Responsibilities)

Successful candidates shall be responsible for:

  1. engaging in research in areas of specialization
  2. teaching of courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels;
  3. supervising graduate research students’ works and;
  4. offering academic counseling to students.

MODE OF APPLICATION 

Interested applicants who meet the above criteria should please submit completed application forms (obtainable from the University website: Senior Members Application Form - Teaching or Office of the Director, Directorate of Human Resource, University of Cape Coast and comprehensive curriculum vitae, together with relevant supporting documents to: 

The Director, 
Directorate of Human Resource, 
University of Cape Coast, 
Cape Coast

Closing Date for Submission of Application: Friday, 29th May, 2020


REGISTRAR

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN POPULATION AND HEALTH

The course deals with key concepts and perspectives in project identification, design, development and management. It covers community participation in project development, management, monitoring and evaluation. It uses existing programmes/projects documents on population and health as case studies. Students are also expose to basic steps involved in proposal writing and project design and implementation.

Objective:The main focus of the course is to expose students to project development and management in population and health.

Mode of Delivery: The main mode of delivery is lectures but students will also be expected to do individual and group presentations in class

Course Code: 
POH 301
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Population and Health

INFORMATION LITERACY

Yet to populate

Course Code: 
ILT 101B
No. of Credits: 
1
Level: 
Level 100
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Population and Health

INFORMATION LITERACY

Yet to populated

Course Code: 
ILT 101
No. of Credits: 
1
Level: 
Level 100
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Population and Health

INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING

Not yet ready

Course Code: 
CSC 101
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 100
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Population and Health

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

This course examines the nature and methods of Social Psychology as a discipline.  Specific topics of Social Psychological concerns to be discussed include: The self and Self Perception, Attribution and Social Perception.  Attitudes: Persuasion and Attitude Change, Social Influence, Social Psychology and Health, Aggression versus Prosocial Behaviour, Group and Behaviour, Group and Behaviour, and Leadership.

Objective:The course will expose students to concepts, nature and methods, theories and dynamics involved in social psychology.

Mode of Delivery: Lectures and individual or group presentations will constitute the main mode of delivery. 

Course Code: 
SOC 214
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 200
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Population and Health

SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF GHANA

The course is designed to enable students examine the impacts of social change on traditional Ghanaian social institutions, particularly, the transition from colonialism to a modern nation state.  Emphasis is on the gradual transformation of the traditional political, religious, economic, family and marriage, education and health institutions.  Trends in industrialization and urbanization and their consequences, factors of social change and their ramifications, contemporary social problems such as ethnicity, misuse of technology, population trends, health and the effects of rural –urban migration are also discussed.

Objective: This course attempts to assist students to appreciate how issues on social change could transform various institutions and actors and the implications of such changes to society.

Mode of Delivery: Lectures and individual or group presentations will be the mode of delivery. 

Course Code: 
SOC 204
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 200
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Population and Health

ETHICS OF POPULATION AND HEALTH

The course introduces students to the basic issues in ethics and their applications to various dimensions of population and health. It involves aspects such as the meaning of life; perceptions and rationale for population issues such as numbers, marriage, childbearing, family formation, socialization; the practices and the relevance of Christianity, Islam and traditional African religion for family living, population and the environment as well as issues of ethics in population and health including the debate on in-vitro fertilization, cloning, euthanasia and abortion. The course will also deal with ethical issues in population and health research.

Objective: The main objective of the course is to introduce students to theoretical and practical aspects of ethics with special emphasis on ethical issues in population and health.

Mode of Delivery:The lecture method will be the main mode of delivery. There will also be student led review and presentation of relevant texts from the reading materials.

Course Code: 
POH 207
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 200
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Population and Health

BASIC INDICES IN POPULATION AND HEALTH

The course deals with basic indices in population and health among these are measures of fertility (crude birth rates, age specific birth rates, total fertility rates, etc), morbidity (incidence and prevalence rates, burden of diseases, etc) mortality (crude death rates, age specific death rates, expectation of life at birth etc) and migration (in and out migration rates, cross and net migration rates, etc). It also covers population growth rates as well as the interpretation of these measurements

Objective: The main objective of the course is to introduce students to some basic measurements in population and health.

Mode of Delivery: The lecture method will be the main mode of delivery but students will also be expected to do individual or group presentations in class

Course Code: 
POH 206
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 200
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Population and Health

GENDER, HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT

The course deals with a proper definition of gender, and examines gender as a tool for discrimination. It further deals with the link between gender and how they affect the health males and females differently. It further examines socio-cultural practices such as division of labour and violence and how they affect males and females. It again examines strategies such as legislation, education, abolition, empowerment inclusion in decision making that aim at bridging the gender gap. Finally, gender mainstreaming is dealt with.

Objectives:The course is to equip students with the skills to be able to synthesize the social, cultural, economic, political and religious conditions that work together to influence issues of gender.

Mode of Delivery: Lecture method is the main mode of delivery. However, students will be assigned to do private research on specific topics and make presentations in class.

Course Code: 
POH 205
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 200
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Population and Health

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