The objective of this course is to acquaint students with the topography of oral literature (orature) in Africa. Some of the theoretical and genre related problems in the area will be considered with a view to classifying the essentially literary nature of our subject.
This course generally explores the interface between language and literature. The course guides students to combine the descriptive procedures of linguistics and the interpretative goals of literary criticism in analyzing literary texts. It is designed to focus students’ attention on the linguistic organization of selected literary texts and more importantly the literary significance of the linguistic organization of the texts. Areas to be covered include concepts and methods of stylistics, the historical developments in stylistics, and the relationship between literary discourse and non-literary discourse. Students will essentially be engaged in discussing characterization, theme, and style in prose, drama and poetry through linguistic analysis at various levels, including lexico-grammar, graphology, phonetics and phonology, semantics, and pragmatics.
The course is concerned with the theory and practice of grammatical descriptions. It will examine traditions of grammar including Traditional Grammar, Structuralist Grammar, Transformational Grammar, and Systemic Functional Grammar.
It introduces students to grammar in discourse. It explores the choices that are available to the user of English in various aspects of language use by focusing on more complex aspect of linguistic forms. In this way students are enabled to understand the relationship between the structure of English language and the available linguistic choices in both academic and non-academic context. The course covers issues that should develop the writing and oral skills of students in the domains of the use English in their studies and after graduation.
This course is designed to prepare students to write their fourth year long essays. (It is a required course for major students and an elective course for combined students.)This course introduces students to the basic tenets and practices of conducting research in the humanities. The course will focus on both library and field research. By the end of the course, it is expected that students would be equipped with the necessary skills to formulate a topic, collect the required data and provide an analysis of data.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons (Ghanaian and International) for admission into a Six-Year Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm. D) degree programme of the University of Cape Coast for the 2019/2020 academic year. Persons who wrote WASSCE this year (AWAITING 2019 WASSCE RESULTS) can also apply. Applicants are to note that Doctor of Pharmacy is an undergraduate (first degree) professional programme.
Applicants are to buy e-vouchers which will enable them to apply online. The e-vouchers are up for sale at the Centres listed below:
1. SALES CENTRES
(a) Cashier’s Office, University of Cape Coast
(b) Ghana Post Offices at the Regional Capitals/Major District Offices
(c) University of Cape Coast – Accra Office, Tesano – Accra
The cost of the e-voucher is GH¢220.00 for Ghanaian applicants and USD$120.00 for International Applicants.
The deadlines for the sale of Application E-vouchers and the submission of completed application forms are Friday, 9th August, 2019 and Thursday, 15th August, 2019 respectively.
2. ONLINE APPLICATIONS
Applicants should visit www.ucc.edu.gh then go to Admissions and click on Apply Now for further instructions. Alternatively, applicants should visit www.apply.ucc.edu.gh and proceed with the application.
All applicants are required to provide the following information at the back of the large EMS envelope: (a) application reference number (b) full name (c) postal address (d) first choice programme and (e) application category which should be one of the following: First Degree Post WASSCE, First Degree Post WASSCE – Awaiting Results, First Degree – Post ‘A’ Levels or First Degree Post WASSCE for International students (to be specified by applicant).
Applications on which APPLICATION REFERENCE NUMBERS are not indicated will not be processed.
3. BASIC ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Entry requirements for admission into the Doctor of Pharmacy programme of study for both local and international students include the following:
A. WASSCE/SSSCE: Applicants should have credit passes in six (6) subjects with overall aggregate of 36/24 at the WASSCE/SSSCE respectively.
Three of the six subjects should be core subjects: English Language, Mathematics and Integrated Science and three must be electives in the Sciences: Biology, Chemistry and Physics or Elective Mathematics.
For purposes of admission, a credit pass in:
i. WASSCE means A1 – C6
ii. SSSCE means A – D
B. General Certificate of Education (GCE) Advanced Level: Applicants should, in addition to credit passes in five (5) GCE ‘O’ Level subjects (including English and Mathematics), have three (3) passes in the relevant Science subjects (Biology, Chemistry and Physics or Elective Mathematics) at the Advanced Level.
3. SUBMISSION OF COPIES OF COMPLETED APPLICATION FORMS
(a) Two copies of completed online application forms accompanied by two copies of results slips should be sent by POST and NOT delivered by hand.
Copies of the completed online application forms should reach the Director, Directorate of Academic Affairs (DAA), University of Cape Coast not later than Thursday, 15th August, 2019.
Applicants are to ensure that application forms are posted early enough to be received before the deadline for submission as forms received after the deadline will not be processed.
(b) No additional documents will be accepted after submission of completed application forms. Applicants are to note that only photocopies of certificates or result slips should accompany completed application forms. The documents accompanying the application forms are not returnable.
(c) Persons awaiting 2019 WASSCE results MUST select the “Awaiting Results” option before providing their examination details. Those who already have results SHOULD NOT select the “Awaiting Results” option but rather go ahead to verify their results
(d) Application forms received without Application Reference Numbers, two (2) copies each of WASSCE/SSSCE results slips or transcripts, in the case of Post-Diploma and other applicants, will not be processed (this does not apply to persons awaiting results).
A change of programme after the submission of application forms will NOT be allowed.
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This course is an introduction to the study of the sentence and its parts. The aspects that will be covered include the morpheme, word, the phrase and basic verb patterns. The purpose of the course is to help students to identify the parts that come together to form a sentence, and their functions.
This course develops both oral and writing skills of learners in English as a second language. It reinforces and further develops skills in comprehension, summary and paraphrasing, using texts from a variety of sources, and introduces the student to the basic theory of the production of English sounds.
This course introduces students to basic writing skills in English for both academic and non-academic purposes. The course will consider issues relating to accuracy in writing such as the sentence and its parts; simple, coordinate and complex sentences; agreement within sentences; joining sentences, pronouns, using words with similar meanings to avoid repetition; the past tense and time adverbs; and use of words in writing. Students will also be introduced to techniques in writing simple stories; the personal letter; describing events, people and places; and paragraph development.