Degree Type:
Bachelor of ArtsDepartment:
Department of Population and HealthModes of Study:
RegularAbout Programme:
This programme was started in the 2007/2008 academic year. It is a successor to the former Population and Family Life Education programme of the Department of Geography and Tourism, started in 1996 with the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Ghana Education Service (GES). It goal then and now is to train personnel in issues of population and development. A review of the programme (Population and Family Life Education) in 2006, as part of the restructuring of the Faculty of Social Sciences led to the emergence of a new academic programme, Population and Health deveoted to the study of population science and the social dimensions of health in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Objectives
The specific objectives of the programme are to: Introduce students to issues which will enable them acquire both personal and professional skills in population and health issues; Promote an understanding of issues on population and health among students which will enable them contribute to national programmes on them; and assist to empower students to become agents of change on issues in population and health.
Entry Requirements:
- Senior High School students
Candidates to this programme should have passes in Core English, Core Mathematics, Integrated Science or Social Studies. In addition, candidates must have passes in any three of the following subjects: Geography, Economics, Elective Mathematics, History/Government and Introduction to Business Management.
- Mature Candidates
Qualified mature students will be admitted as per the conditions set out by the University.
Career Opportunities:
The goal of the programme is to train graduates who will be able to understand and appreciate population and health issues as well as participate in policy formulation and implementation of programmes in population and social dimensions of health-related issues.
Programme Structure
Level 100
First Semester
CMS 107: Communicative Skills I
Engaging in academic work at the university is challenging. This course is aimed at equipping fresh students to make the transition from pre-university level to the university level. It assists them in engaging and succeeding in complex academic tasks in speaking, listening, reading and writing. It also provides an introduction to university studies by equipping students with skills that will help them to engage in academic discourse with confidence and fluency.
CSC 101: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING
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GEO 103: THEMATIC GEOGRAPHY OF GHANA
This course covers aspects of the physical, socio-political and economic conditions that have shaped the physical and cultural landscape of Ghana. Issues include evolution of landscapes, geographical regions, population distribution and migration, settlement patterns and health systems. Other topics include key economic activities in Ghana and effects of globalization on the economy of Ghana
Objective: It is expected that at the end of the course, students would be able to describe some physical features/characteristics and their implications on the socio-economic and political development of Ghana.
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered through lectures, individual and group presentations and fieldwork.
ILT 101: INFORMATION LITERACY
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POH 101: INTRODUCTION TO POPULATION AND HEALTH
The objective of this course is to develop students’ capacity to understand and appreciate issues in population and health.
The course introduces students to the background, rationale and basic issues in population and health. The issues include social dimensions of health, the interactions within and between populations which have implications for health and ill-health, issues of healthy living and the aspects of spread of diseases. It also covers definitions and concepts associated with population and social dimensions of health (e.g. the definition of health and the health continuum).
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered through lectures, guest lectures, individual and group presentations.
POH 102: INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY
This course deals with basic concepts about the individual as an entity, a member of a family, a community and society. The concepts discussed are the family, the community and
society; individual’s responsibility to the family, community and society. These basic concepts are related to perception of population numbers, size, growth and quality;
changing attitudes towards population issues and the range of responses from individuals, households, communities and society and their implications for health and healthy living.
Objective: The objective of the course is to build the capacity of students to analyze issues in population and health relating to the individual, family, community and society
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered by means of didactic lectures, individual and or group presentations and guest lectures.
POH 103: INTRODUCTION TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
The course focuses on the concepts of reproductive health and examines the evolution from family planning to reproductive health. It includes the definition and components of sexual and reproductive health, societal responses to issues in reproductive health, and specific aspects such as adolescent and adults (male and female) reproductive health.
Objective: By the end of this course, the student should be able to explain basic concepts in reproductive health.
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered through lectures, individual and group presentations. Beyond epidemiology. Oxford. UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Second Semester
CMS 108: Communicative Skills II
This is a follow-up course on the first semester one. It takes students through writing correct sentences, devoid of ambiguity, through the paragraph and its appropriate development to the fully-developed essay. The course also emphasizes the importance and the processes of editing written work.
EVT 134: NUTRITION AND HEALTH
The course emphasizes the concepts of balanced diet, the six food nutrients and their sources. It also explores what constitutes healthy eating and diets of various groups of people in different health states and across the life cycle. It also deals with health implications of dietary practices.
Objective:The objective of the course is to equip students with basic knowledge in nutrition for health.
Mode of Delivery: Apart from lectures, individual or group presentations will be part of the mode of delivery.
ILT 101B: INFORMATION LITERACY
Yet to populate
POH 104: INTRODUCTION TO DYNAMICS OF POPULATION CHANGE
The course introduces students to basic concepts in population change: issues in fertility, mortality and migration as components of population change. Aspects will include trends and patterns of fertility and mortality in Ghana and Africa, patterns of historical as well as current movements in Ghana and Africa (e.g. slave trade and refugeeism) and identify factors which have contributed to the change in human population size and characteristics in time and space and how population has in turn generated changes such as rapid urbanization due to migration.
Objective: By the end of the course, the student will be able to explain basic concepts in dynamics of population change.
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered through lectures, individual and group presentations.
POH 106: BASIC ECONOMICS FOR POPULATION AND HEALTH
The course deals with basic elements of economics as they relate to population and health. Among the basic concepts are individual demand and supply, market demand and supply, supply of labour, vertical and horizontal mobility of labour, labour and economic production, different economic systems and the significance for human capital development especially in developing countries, pricing of factors, including labour, and reasons for differences in wages.
Objective: The objective of the course is to equip students with skills to apply basic concepts in economics to human population and health issues.
Mode of Delivery: The mode of delivery is the lecture method. In addition, students will be made to do independent research and report on their findings through presentations.
Level 200
First Semester
POH 201: INDIVIDUAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
The objective of this course is to equip students with knowledge on human growth and development issues. Theories, concepts and other social issues in individual growth and development constitute the core aspects of the course. It is expected that after going through the course, students will have the capacity to explain issues regarding human development, understand and cope with individual differences, adapt to societal changes as well as develop basic skills to manage and address personal, interpersonal and group conflicts.
Objective:By the end of the course students should be able to explain basic concepts, theoretical and conceptual issues and the social processes involved in human growth and development.
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered by means of didactic lecturers, group presentations and experience sharing.
POH 203: POPULATION, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
This course deals with concepts and perspectives in population, development and the environment; population growth, size and quality; concept of sustainable development and environment and their complications for health; environmental perception and development; socio-economic implications of a rapid population growth in Ghana; population, development and the environment with reference to land, water, forests, mining, wildlife and pollution; managing the environment; attaining sustainable development in Ghana.
Objective:The objective underpinning this course is to help students understand the theoretical and empirical issues in population, environment and development, drawing examples from global and local contexts.
Mode of Delivery: Lecture, seminar and brainstorming techniques will be used to deliver the course content to students.
POH 205: 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.
POH 207: 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.
SOC 214: 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.
SSR 201: BASIC STATISTIC
This is an introductory course that focuses on data and statistical reasoning. The course basically introduces students to the linkage between statistics and research methods,
and further enables them to apply appropriate procedures in analysing data and further producing research reports.
Object: By the end of the course students should be able to differentiate among the various parametric and non-parametric statistical techniques, state hypotheses and select appropriate
testing procedures and make appropriate statistical decisions and draw relevant conclusions
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered by means of lectures, group discussions and exercises in class.
Second Semester
POH 202: DISEASE PATTERNS IN GHANA AND AFRICA
Basic concepts relevant to the discussion of diseases such as sickness, illness, disease incidence and prevalence are discussed. Classification of diseases based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is dealt with. Issues such as victims and effects of diseases and health care systems that are bused to mitigate the effects of such diseases are dealt with.
Objective: The objective of the course is to equip students with basic knowledge and skills to analyze common diseases that afflict Ghana and the rest of the developing world and their effects on the victims.
Modes of Delivery:Modes of delivery will be the lecture method while students are assigned topics to research into and group presentations made
POH 204: Epidemiology
This course involves concepts, principles and basic tools in epidemiology such as transmission of communicable diseases, concept of causality and estimation of health risk, measurement of population health status, measures of effect, and internal and external validity, all within the context of population/public health. It focuses on the practical application of the principles and methods of epidemiology to public health problems, planning, implementation and evaluation of intervention strategies.
Objective: The main aim of this course is to introduce student to the concepts, principles and methods of epidemiology.
Mode of Delivery: The course is delivered through lectures, seminars, tutorial and presentation of epidemiological research by students
POH 206 : 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
SOC 204: 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.
SSR 202 : RESEARCH METHODS
This course provides opportunity for students to advance their understanding of research through critical exploration of research language, ethics, and approaches. The course introduces the language of research, ethical principles and challenges, and the elements of the research process within quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Students will use these theoretical underpinnings to begin to critically review literature relevant to their field or interests and determine how research findings are useful in forming their understanding of their environment.
Objective:The course aims at introducing students to basic concepts used in research and to scientific social research methods and their approaches. It includes discussions on literature review, ethic issues, sampling techniques, research designs, data collection and techniques of analysis.
Mode of Delivery: Lectures, group discussions and exercises in class will constitute the mode of delivery.
Level 300
First Semester
POH 301 : 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
POH 301: : 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
POH 302: BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE COMMUNICATION IN POPULATION AND HEALTH
The course is designed to expose students to basic concepts in behavioural change communication (BCC) within the context of population. Students will be exposed to some basic concepts in behavioural change communication. Also, students will acquire knowledge on theoretical and conceptual models on behaviour change communication in population and health. Further to this, they will go through planning, developing, managing and monitoring and evaluation of behavioural change communication programmes in population and health.
Objectives: By the end of the course the students will understand basic concepts and acquire practical skills relevant for the design and implementation of behavioural change communication in population and health.
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered by means of didactic lecturers, group presentations and experience sharing.
POH 303: HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING
This course will cover policy analysis by examining issues in the health sector, focusing on the policymaking process and the basic tools used in policy design, implementation and evaluation. It will deal with policy issues associated with health needs of the country and other developing countries within the context of evolving economic, cultural, technological, political, ideological, and globalization factors and forces. Specific policy topics and applications (e.g. Health Insurance, Regenerative Health etc.) will be discussed to illustrate issues in the policy analysis process.
Objective: By the end of the course the student should be able to understand health planning and policy processes.
Mode of Delivery:The content will be delivered through lectures, guest lectures, individual and group presentations.
POH 304: ESTIMATING DEMOGRAPHIC INDICES AND EVALUATION OF DATA QUALITY IN POPULATION AND HEALTH
The course involves methods of population estimation and projections. It includes assumptions underlying projections and estimations of fertility, mortality, and migration as inputs into population projections; direct and indirect estimates of population indices; estimating components of total fertility; and the aggregation and DIS-aggregation of data by age for projections. The course also exposes students to techniques and methods for assessing quality of demographic and health datasets such as the use of progression ratios, average parities among others.
Objective :This course aims at exposing students to major tools available for estimations, projections and assessing data quality for demographic and health analyses.
Mode of Delivery :This course will be delivered mainly with the lecture method and study assignments to enhance participation of students.
POH 311: HEALTH EDUCATION
This course involves strategies for providing information on issues such as the concept of health and healthy living; physical fitness; individual responsibilities in attaining good health; health delivery systems; communicating health information to people; strategies for dealing with outbreak of diseases such as HIV, caring for the sick, aged and handicapped; drug use and abuse.
Objectives: On completion of the course students will be equipped with concepts in basic health and wellness and the relevant skills to design, implement and evaluate health education programmes/activities for solving public health problems in different socio-economic contexts at both local and national levels.
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered through lectures, individual and or group presentations. In order to ensure that students benefit from different perspectives on some of the topics included, colleagues and visiting lecturers/practicing professionals may be invited to provide specialist contribution when necessary.
POH 314 : OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
The course focuses on core concepts of occupational health and safety. Work‐related health disorders and diseases due to the interaction of employees and employers with their working environment health and wellbeing of the workforce, including hygiene practices at workplaces will be at the core of this course. Theories of occupational health and safety will be examined. Students will be introduced to major occupational health related diseases including those of the musculoskeletal system, the lungs, and the skin, as well as accidents; legal and policy frameworks within which occupation health operates in Ghana. Objective:The objective of this course is to equip students to understand the fundamental issues relating occupational health and safety.
Mode of Delivery:The content will be delivered through lectures, guest lectures, individual and group presentations.
POH 317: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IN POPULATION AND HEALTH
This course deals with the perspectives of indigenous knowledge in population and health. The course describes the cosmovision that underpins these perspectives and discusses the thematic issues in contemporary global and local contexts. The focus of the course centres on indigenous knowledge within the contexts of beliefs, perceptions, experiences, practices and life transitions in population and health. It also relates to the construction of illness and health, and the role of traditional medicine in health care delivery. Theoretical models including the cosmovision constellation related knowledge model, indigenous human life-cycle and the bio-psychosocial-S will be used to guide the discussion.
Objective: The main objective of the course is to discuss the perspectives of indigenous knowledge in population and indigenous/traditional construction of illness and health.
Mode of Delivery
Mode of delivery will be in three forms:
- Discussion (main delivery)
- Lecture method
- Individual research and presentation
POH 326: EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The course will deal with infectious diseases of public health importance in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa. It will situate issues associated with infectious diseases within the wider socioeconomic and political contexts of the infectious diseases that will be considered. Approaches will include definitions and taxonomy, outbreak investigations, disease surveillance (passive and active), case-control studies, cohort studies, and dynamics of transmission. Case studies will be selected from respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, malaria, and meningitis, other vector-borne diseases. Students will also be introduced to techniques for mathematical modelling of infectious diseases.
Objective: By the end of the course the student should be able to explain the dynamics of the epidemiology of infectious
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered through lectures, guest lectures, individual and group presentations.
Second Semester
POH 306: DEMOGRAPHIC INDICES AND DATA QUALITY
The course involves analysis and description of demographic indices on fertility, mortality and migration. The course also exposes students to techniques and methods for assessing quality of demographic and health datasets such as the use of progression ratios, average parities among others.
Objective :The main objective of this course is to equip students with the knowledge and skills to analyze demographic indices and assess data quality for demographic and health issues.
Mode of Delivery :Lectures, group presentations and exercises in class constitute the mode of delivery.
POH 307: SOCIAL BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE COMMUNICATION IN POPULATION AND HEALTH
The course covers some basic concepts in social behavioural change communication. Also, students will acquire knowledge on theoretical and conceptual models on social behaviour change communication in population and health. Further to this, they will go through planning, developing, managing and monitoring and evaluation of social behavioural change communication programmes in population and health.
Objectives: By the end of the course in social behavioural change communication in population and health, the student be equipped with the basic concepts in social behavioural change communication in population and health and skills relevant for the design and implementation of social behavioural change communication of population and health
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered by lecturers and group presentations.
POH 312: INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
The course employs concepts and theoretical approaches of an ecosystem to describe the characteristics and interactive nature of a family. It covers issues such as selective perceptions, decision making and human actions as they influence adaptation and the selection and use of resources as a means towards attainment of life goals, satisfaction of needs and quality of the environment. Others include types of resources, availability and variations in different family system, factors influencing family resource allocation, uses and conservation.
Objectives: By the end of the course students will be able to describe the characteristics of the family as a system and how resources are allocated and conserved.
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered through lectures, individual and or group presentations.
POH 313: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
The course focuses on concepts and issues of the environment and how these can be communicated to individuals, groups and communities. It deals with issues of natural and human-made ecosystems; environmental perception and behaviour; indigenous knowledge, culture and the environment; influence of people on the environment; individual and group interest and the environment; environment and health; implications of environmental degradation (e.g. pollution; bush burning; deforestation) for socio-economic development; conservation (e.g. afforestation); Ghana’s environmental policy; sustainable environment for development; strategies for educating communities to appreciate issues needed for groups to achieve sustainable environmental practices.
Objective: The main objective of the course is to equip students with the skills to educate individuals, groups and communities about environmental issues.
Mode of Delivery
- The lecture method
- Group presentation
- Group mini-project work based on any environmental issue in and around the University community.
POH 315 : URBAN HEALTH
It deals with public health issues associated with rapid growth of urban population in developing countries urban poor as well as the emerging middle-class populations. Emphasises will be on urban health problems of developing countries; health of slum areas, affluent areas, migrants/refugees, children, aged, and populations at high risk (CSW, MSM, IDU etc.) will be given priority. Changes in urban physical and social environment and their consequences for health, nutrition, lifestyle risks such as commercial sex work, same-sex relationships, access to conventional health services, and the design and implementation of a coordinated and cost-effective health care system will be examined. It introduces these concepts and presents case studies for analysis.
Objective: The objective of this course is to build the capacity of students to understand the process of urbanization and the associated health implications.
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered through lectures, guest lectures, individual and group presentations.
POH 316: GLOBAL HEALTH
This course provides an overview of global health issues. Topics to be discussed include: Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors; Global health policies, the impact of globalization on health, the impact of climate change on health, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and health and actors in global health politics.
Objective:The objective of this course is to develop students’ understanding of global health.
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered through lectures, guest lectures, individual and group presentations
POH 321: SEX AND SEXUALITY
The course deals with theoretical perspectives on sexuality such as evolutionary, psychological and sociological theories of sexuality. In addition, variations in sexual behaviour and laws that regulate sexual behaviour are examined. Further, sexual disorders, sexually transmitted infe3ctions and diseases as well as ethics and sex education are dealt with.
Objective: The course is to equip students to understand issues that affect sex and sexuality and apply the knowledge gained to deal with misconceptions associated with sexual behavior.
Modes of Delivery:The main mode of delivery in this course is the lecture method. In addition, group presentations will be done by students based on selected topics.
POH 322: INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT
The course exposes students to the processes and strategies for the development of population and health education materials for education and behavior change communication. Students will be introduced to the processes involved in the planning and development of visual, audio and audio-visual materials. At the end of the course, students will develop instructional materials such as photos, newsletters, posters, flyers, songs, poems, riddles, plays, role plays and games that educate and contribute to behaviour change in population and health.
Objective: The main objective of the course is to improve the basic skills of students to enable them develop instructional materials on education, communication and behaviour change communication in population and health.
Mode of delivery: Lectures, group presentations and discussion.
POH 325: BIOSTATISTICS
The course deals with descriptive summary of epidemiologic data and basic principles that underlie health research designs and statistical inferences. It involves fundamental statistical procedures for research projects such as descriptive statistics, probability, distributions, hypothesis testing and estimation, comparisons of means and proportions, analysis of variance, measures of association, regression and correlation, two-way analysis of variance and covariance, multiple regression, analysis of categorical data, logistic regression, poisson regression and survival analysis in population and health.
Objectives: By the end of the course the students should be able to understand basic principles underlying health research design and also perform and interpret various epidemiological and statistical data.
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered by means of didactic lecturers, group presentations and experience sharing.
POH 397: WRITING SKILLS AND SEMINARS
The course involves review and summary of literature, analysis of data collected from the field and secondary data (e.g. Demographic and Health Survey data); presentation of materials in written form and in power point. Special emphasis will be placed on the collection and analysis of demographic and health data and presentations of topical issues in class.
Objective: The aim of the course is to provide students with practical skills in scientific writing.
Mode of Delivery: The course employs role-plays, discussion, seminars and lectures to guide students benefit from the course content.
POH 398: Practicum
This involves staying in a community for 8 to 10 days during the end of level 300 or attachment during the long vacation at a population and/or health-related institution such as the Ghana AIDS Commission, Population Council, an NGO involved in population and/or health activities or an organized fieldwork by the Department. Lecturers will be expected to supervise students in the field.
Level 400
First Semester
POH 401: Qualitative Research Methods
This course introduces students to the range of qualitative techniques available and their uses in population and health-based research. It deals with the philosophy underlying qualitative data collection techniques, data management, as well as report preparation. Topics include the concept of qualitative research; sampling procedures and methods of data collection such as in-depth interview, focus group discussion, community fora, individual and group narration, social mapping, body mapping, participatory learning activities, key informants and observation.
Objective:The main objective of the course is to introduce to students the science of qualitative research and develop their skills to conduct a qualitative study population and health.
Mode of Delivery: Mode of delivery will be lectures and individual presentations in class.
POH 403: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
This adolescent reproductive health course is designed to equip the student with an understanding of the situation of Adolescents reproductive health in the world since the ICPD of 1994.
Objectives: This course is to equip students with basic concepts and analytical frameworks used in adolescent reproductive health.
Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered by means of didactic lecturers, group presentations and experience sharing.
POH 405: PRINCIPLES OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING
The course involves basic concepts and principles in guidance and counselling. It introduces students to the services employed to operationalize guidance practices and family-related issues: dealing with families; counselling of adolescents; group processes intervention procedures; especially within the context of HIV and AIDS.
Objectives: By the end of the course, it is expected that students will be able to understand some basic theories of counseling, the scope and nature of guidance and counseling and the role of functionaries in the guidance and counselling process.
Mode of delivery: The content will be delivered by means of didactic lectures, individual and or group presentations.
POH 413: Fertility Regulation