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.

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.

With population explosion in almost all urban centres of the country and the apparent increase in the number of Ghanaian citizens who have had a formal education, as well as technological advancement and industrialization of our economy, it has become necessary evident that leisure pursuits are beginning to play critical role in the daily lives of urban dwellers. This course therefore is designed to introduce students to the principles, philosophy and scientific insight of understanding the modern phenomenon of creation, development and organization of leisure time pursuit. The course will also give students an opportunity to apply the knowledge of leisure education to individuals and organizations with diverse needs of leisure pursuits and settings.