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Project Work

This is a faculty-wide course aimed at giving students their first experience in independent scholarly work. Students are guided to select a researchable problem, review literature on the problem, collect data, analyze them, and produce a report. This will make them self sufficient and independent in their quest to find knowledge and use the appropriate statistical methods and tools to report their findings.

Course Code: 
EPH 499
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Health, Physical Education and Recreation

Seminar in Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Education Activities

The course equips students with basic theoretical framework of health needs assessment of health related issues in the communities, schools and workplaces. The course also examines basic models of planning health education activities for specific populations. It also examines various approaches, methods and strategies for presenting health information to specific populations and how to measure programme success. Students will be equipped with the skills of writing grant proposals as well as well health funding organisation.

Course Code: 
EPH 464
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Health, Physical Education and Recreation

School and Community Health Education

The course examines community and school health issues and factors involved. Health issues may be examined from an ecological or other perspective. The course provides an overview of the structure and the role of community agencies in health promotion with specific emphasis on health education services in schools and communities. The course also provides students with relevant skills in identifying health issues in schools and communities as well as planning and applying educational strategies to solve them. The ultimate goal of the course is for students to find out ways by which health conditions of communities and schools can be improved.

Course Code: 
EPH 463
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Health, Physical Education and Recreation

Legal/Ethical Issues in Physical Education and Sport

The course will introduce students to legal terminology, philosophy and practice as applied to physical education and sport. It will cover legal and ethical principles in teaching, coaching, and competitive sports.

Course Code: 
EPH 459
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Health, Physical Education and Recreation

Practicum/Seminar in Coaching

The goal of this course is to provide students the opportunity to apply general coaching theories and principles in coaching specific sports. Students will be attached to local teams to study and report on coaching practices of the teams and discuss ways to improve such practices.

Course Code: 
EPH 447
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Health, Physical Education and Recreation

Organization and Administration in Health, PE and Leisure

The focus of the course explores administrative, leadership and organizational issues and skills in health, physical education and leisure programmes in and outside the school. Students also acquire knowledge on factors that promote or inhibit organization and administration of health and sports programmes.

Course Code: 
EPH 443:
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Health, Physical Education and Recreation

Field Experience in Teaching

The course is the culminating activity of the professional education sequence. The student spent the first semester of the final yearin a selected off-campus school sites for teaching practice.While on the field, the student is required to adhere to established policies and procedures of the school system in addition to those policies and procedures established by the University. The course is designed to enable the teacher trainee to engage in competent reflective decision making while teaching, demonstrating professionalism, scholarship and sensitivity to individual and communal interests. Standards of good practice and ethical, professional behaviour as laid down by the GES should be maintained.

Course Code: 
ETP 491
No. of Credits: 
12
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Health, Physical Education and Recreation

Principles of Guidance and Counseling

This course recognizes that secondary school students need guidance to be able to attain their full potential and maximize the benefits of their educational experience. It attempts to equip the stent with information that will enable him/her to facilitate this process in a secondary school setting.At the end of the course, student should be able to show a clear understanding of the guidance concept in the context of school personnel work, examine the principles under girding guidance practice, explore the services of a given guidance programme, show how they can be addressed and examine the role of guidance personnel.

Course Code: 
EPS 403
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Health, Physical Education and Recreation

History and Management of Education in Ghana

The course is in two parts. The first part deals with the role of government and non-governmental bodies in the development and growth of formal education in Ghana. The second part examines administration theories and their influence on the management and administration of school systems in Ghana.

Course Code: 
EDF 401
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Health, Physical Education and Recreation
Guidance and Counselling

Research Methods in Health, Physical Education and Leisure

The course examines the concept of research and its approaches such as qualitative and quantitative designs. Students explore various ways by which data can be collected to answer simple research questions. Students are also introduced identifying research problems and basic skills of writing simple research proposal. The course will help students evaluate elementary research reports and serve as preparation for the student project (EPH 499).

Course Code: 
EPH 399
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Health, Physical Education and Recreation

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