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The IEPA delegation with Permanent Secretary and other Senior officials of the Ministry in Abuja

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ABUJA, 30TH JULY, 2019               

IEPA SEEKS NIGERIA’s SUPPORT FOR ITS UNESCO CATEGORY II BID

A team of experts from the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA), visiting Nigeria to seek support and collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education, has met with the Permanent Secretary and other senior officials of the Ministry in Abuja. Present at the meeting were representatives of the Director-General of the National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA).

The team also used the opportunity to call on the UNESCO Representative at the Multi - Sectorial Regional Office in Abuja to explore opportunities for fundraising for the Category II Platform.

The Government of Ghana through the Ghana National Commission for UNESCO is seeking the UN Agency’s partnership to upgrade the status of the IEPA to a Sub-regional Centre of Excellence with the mandate to:

  1. Build and strengthen the capacity of educational planners, administrators, and leaders in the West African sub-region.
  2. Support education ministries within the sub-region to undertake sector-wide planning, policy development, and implementation.
  3. Undertake cutting-edge research and consultancy, and promoting innovation in education service delivery.
  4. Create a platform to mobilise education experts in the Sub-region to interrogate educational issues and provide policy advice to Ministries of Education of Member States.

It is expected that the 40th Session of the UNESCO General Conference (November 2019) would approve the UNESCO Category II bid and thus making it the 95th UNESCO Category II Centre of Excellence in the world. The IEPA team was led by Prof. George K. T. Oduro, former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast.

 

Degree Type: 
Master of ArtsDepartment of English
Programme Duration: 
2 years (Standard Entry)
About Programme: 

M. A. (Sandwich) (Literature-in-English),programme caters for workers and professionals who may not have the opportunity to obtain a graduate degree as full-time students.

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Entry Requirements: 

           M. A. (Sandwich) (Literature-in-English)

  • A good first degree (at least, Second Class Lower Division in English or a related discipliM. A. (Sandwich) (Literature-in-English),ne)

  • Candidate should pass an admission interview

Prof. Joseph Kwame Mintah

Past Dean, University of Cape Coast

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Prof. Douglas Darko Agyei

Past Head, Department of Science Education

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Semantics and Pragmatics

The course commences with a definition of the goals of a theory of meaning and theories of word meaning. The course is devoted to the concepts and constituents of word

meaning and gradually moves to larger constructions, sentence meaning and utterance meaning (that is, meaning in actual communication). The remaining part of the

course will cover the area of pragmatics. Examples of concepts to be covered in pragmatics include politeness, implicature, speech acts, deixis, and presupposition.

Course Code: 
ENG 826S
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English Language

Register Studies

This course is designed to appeal to candidates who are interested in working with large amounts of language data as well as those whose work involves writing in different modes (e.g. secretaries).

It looks at regular linguistic patterning in different domains of language use. It is intended to improve the writing of candidates by introducing them to the meaning expressed by the different patterns.

Course Code: 
ENG 814S
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
First Semester
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English Language

Studies in Literature

Perhaps these two contemporary writers differ mainly in the sources of their influences. Yet, in spite of Ayi Kwei Armah’s absorption in the ideas of Frantz Fanon, and

Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s alignment with a folksy kind of Marxism, both writers explore the actual, spiritual and moral terrain of African life and history. Both express a concern for African wholeness;

both are disturbed by a history of European exploitation in Africa; both have attacked the notion that economic relationships among people can be meaningfully studied from emotional and moral concerns;

and yet both writers seem convinced that humans cannot produce good work unless they are themselves good. This course will study the complete up-to-date writing of these two writers with a view to

assessing the value of their contribution to modern African thought.

Course Code: 
ENG 811S
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English Language

English Morphology and Syntax

This course provides exposure to English grammar. It includes a study of English word structure and an examination of English phrases, clauses and

constructions.The course will be devoted to issues of verb morphology and argument structure. It will then focus on tense, mood, and aspect systems of English.

It is especially interested in the insights that contemporary theoretical work on English morphology and syntax brings to descriptive grammar.

Course Code: 
ENG 825S
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English Language

English Morphology and Syntax

This course provides exposure to English grammar. It includes a study of English word structure and an examination of English phrases, clauses and constructions.

The course will be devoted to issues of verb morphology and argument structure. It will then focus on tense, mood, and aspect systems of English.

It is especially interested in the insights that contemporary theoretical work on English morphology and syntax brings to descriptive grammar.

Course Code: 
ENG 825S
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English Language

Language and Literacies

This course offers students insight into the current understanding of literacy and multiliteracies, drawing on key scholars in the field and the implication

this has for both teaching and research in and outside educational institutional. It also looks at how language informs literacy development. Areas to

be covered include the changing definition of literacy, the relationship between language and literacy, cultural literacy and visual literacy.

Course Code: 
ENG 828S
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English Language

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