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.