This course gives students the opportunity of researching into a topic of their choice and writing long essays on the topic.
Course Code:
HIS 499
No. of Credits:
3
Level:
Level 400
Course Semester:
Second Semester
Select Programme(s):
History
The course examines the problems that African states faced on attaining independence and the various ways in which the leaders addressed the problems of creating nation states, stable political systems and achieving social and economic development. The course also interrogates foreign interventions in African domestic affairs and how these affected the economic, political and cultural trajectories of African states in the post-colonial era. The course further explores the lessons from the successes and failures of the post-colonial Africa project.
Course Code:
HIS 424
No. of Credits:
3
Level:
Level 400
Course Semester:
Second Semester
Select Programme(s):
History
This course examines the factors in the major events that brought irreversible political, social, economic and cultural changes not only to Europe, but also to all other continents. It explores the pervasive consequences of the First War and the ways in which the chain of events triggered by this war contributed to the outbreak of the Second World War. The course provides students with an understanding of the major European states and how these dovetailed into continental diplomacy. It provides the broader context within which some celebrated totalitarian regimes and their key personalities burst onto the European political landscape and the impact of these on European and world politics. The course enables students to draw parallels between totalitarianism in Europe and early independent Africa.
Course Code:
HIS 415
No. of Credits:
3
Level:
Level 400
Course Semester:
Second Semester
Select Programme(s):
History
The course expands the story of Latin America from the time of their independence at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It surveys the challenges Latin Americans faced at independence and how they tried to meet these up to 1970. The course studies the histories of specific countries at various periods of the post-colonial period as illustrations of the generalizations that are made about the twenty countries. It provides students with the opportunity to compare the post-colonial experiences of a region outside Africa which fell under European colonial rule with those of independent Africa.
Course Code:
HIS 413
No. of Credits:
3
Level:
Level 400
Course Semester:
Second Semester
Select Programme(s):
History
This course deals with the history of the society and government institutions that Spain and Portugal began to build from the time they arrived in the New World i.e. from 1492. The confrontation between the Old-World people and the indigenous population of the Americas as well as the results of that confrontation in the political, social, economic and religious spheres will be the subject of discussion. It is expected that at the end of the course, students will be able to explain how Latin American society was built as well as peculiar institutions and challenges they have faced. This should provide a basis of comparison with what has happened and is going on in our part of the world.
Course Code:
HIS 410
No. of Credits:
3
Level:
Level 400
Course Semester:
Second Semester
Select Programme(s):
History
The course examines the ways in which new political systems emerged in the Bantu areas of East, Central and Southern Africa engaged with the outside world. It discusses the creation of the Omani economic empire along the coast of East Africa, the creation of new political systems in the Great Lakes region. The course analyses the nature of European activities and African responses to them in East, Central and Southern Africa.
Course Code:
HIS 409
No. of Credits:
3
Level:
Level 400
Course Semester:
First Semester
Select Programme(s):
History
The course enables major students to do a detailed study of a selected area in or theme on Ghana for a specified historical period. The course exposes students to collections of primary historical documents which are related to the study area or themes and period. It equips students with the skills of reading and interpreting original documents. The course prepares majors students for postgraduate research.
Course Code:
HIS 408
No. of Credits:
3
Level:
Level 400
Course Semester:
First Semester
Select Programme(s):
History
This course provides students with an opportunity for an in-depth comparative analysis of the social, economic and political institutions in the United States of America, a republic and Russia, a monarchy. This course deals specifically with the history of Russia from Alexander I to the Russian Revolution of 1917. It examines Russia’s internal developments and foreign policy within the period and pays attention to how serfdom affected the Russian development efforts within the period. The course reappraises Russia’s participation in the First World War and the impact of this great conflict on Russia. These themes provide adequate grounds for comparison with developments in the USA in the same period.
Course Code:
HIS 407
No. of Credits:
3
Level:
Level 400
Course Semester:
First Semester
Select Programme(s):
History
This course examines the shifts in the balance of power and changing patterns of diplomacy in Europe from the 1870’s on. It analyses the implications of this complex system of international relations for the European imperialism and conflicts of a global dimension. These analyses provide students with an understanding of the ways in which Africa came to feature in European affairs during the last decades of the nineteenth century and eventually lost her independence through the European imperial project.
Course Code:
HIS 405
No. of Credits:
3
Level:
Level 400
Course Semester:
First Semester
Select Programme(s):
History
This course engages the issue of the reduction of West Africa to the status of colonial subjects by various European nations. It fosters an understanding of the reasons for the Europeans colonization of West Africa and the ways in which West Africa responded to colonization. It enables students to analyze the nature, and purpose of European colonial administration in West Africa, the shape of colonial economies, and the direction of economic and social developments in the European colonies of West Africa. Furthermore, the course examines the contexts for the emergence of nationalist movements in West Africa.
Course Code:
HIS 404
No. of Credits:
3
Level:
Level 400
Course Semester:
First Semester
Select Programme(s):
History