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Appointment of Provosts/Directors

Council Appoints Provosts, Directors

25 Jul, 2019 By louis Mensah

At its special meeting held on Thursday, 25 July, 2019, the University Governing Council on the recommendation of the Appointments and Promotions Board has appointed the following Senior Members as Provosts /Directors with effect from 1st August, 2019.
    

Provosts

The Provosts and their Colleges are as follow

Prof. Isaac Kojo Angnangsoore Galyuon        College of Distance Education

Prof. Ernest Kofi Davis                                    College of Education Studies

Prof. Moses Jojo Eghan                                  College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences

Prof. Francis Eric Amuquandoh                      College of Humanities and Legal Studies

Directors

The newly appointed Directors are

Prof. Fredrick Ato Armah                                 Directorate of Research, Innovation and Consultancy

Prof. Godwin Awabil                                        Directorate of Academic Planning and Quality Assurance    


 
 

Long Essay

This course is a practical course in research in English language and literature. Students will be guided to select research topics and to plan and execute a research project in a chosen area of interest. Students are required to produce a research report at the end of the semester for assessment.

Course Code: 
ENG 499
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Thematic Exploration in Poetry

This course examines poetry from the period of the Romantics to the present.  The focus will be on the changing trends in thematic and stylistic concerns over the period. Although the salient themes in the poems under study are the core of this course, other elements like the following are also considered: the structure, language, and cultural references that characterize the poems.

Course Code: 
ENG 437
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Structure and Themes in Prose Fiction

The course focuses on the particular contributions by selected Western Writers to the twentieth century Novel. The objective is to place the achievements of these writers within the broad spectrum of Modern Prose Fiction.

Course Code: 
ENG 436
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Theoretical Development in Drama

This course discusses the development of dramatic theory from the period of the Ancient Greeks to the present. It aims to acquaint students with the changing theoretical bases of the genre from Greek tragedy to later dramatic forms like the theatre of the absurd, the various types of comedy, and modern tragedy. Representative texts will be used for illustration.

Course Code: 
ENG 435
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Literary Criticism

In a sweeping movement from the Greek classification to contemporary African literature, this course explores the theoretical, philosophical, historical and ideological foundations of literary criticism and practice. It considers such received principles as the immanent history of literature, the nature of art, concepts of beauty in art, and the creative process in literature. The course guides students to reflect on the practice of art and criticism by considering a selection of canonical texts from Aristotle and Achebe to Tolstoy and Woolf.

Course Code: 
ENG 411
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Error & Contrastive Analysis

The course attempts to introduce students to the scientific study of recurrent errors made by second language learners of English.  Special emphasis will be given to the nature of the similarities and differences between English and L1 systems. The pedagogical significance of error and contrastive analysis will be examined in detail.

Course Code: 
ENG 405
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

History of English (Compulsory for major students

The course seeks to highlight the major landmarks in the history of the English language that have made English the most outstanding international language. The course therefore engages a chronology of the evolution of English Language by examining the following periods: the Germanic Period, the Old or Anglo-Saxon Period, Middle English,  and the Period of Modern English; the notion of Lingua Franca is also studied, and the course finally shows that today’s English is related to the phenomenon of Language Mixing because although Germanic by origin ( vocabulary and Grammar), todays’ English is comprises words borrowed from hundreds of other languages.

Course Code: 
ENG 404
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Varieties of English & Advanced Writing skill

This course is intended to help students to distinguish varieties of English by analyzing the linguistic patterning of texts.  It is also expected to improve students’ own writing in different situations. Hence, the course will be very practical with exercises on analyzing and writing business letters, reports, minutes, and speeches. It encourages students to distinguish varieties of English, which are dialects.  Other distinctions depending on mode, tenor and domain will be studied. The emphasis will be on analyzing and producing texts of different varieties, which perform different functions, such as expressive, formal, informal, spoken and written.

Course Code: 
ENG 402
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Canonical American Literature

This course looks at a few of the important colonial writers – Williams Bradstreed, Wheatly - and follows the growth of American literature from independence in 1776 through the writing produced in the turbulence of the Civil Rights era. Attention is given to well-known American writers such as Dickinson, Whitman, Melville, Twain, and Ellison. Other authors include Toni Morrison, Walt Whitman and Richard Wright. The course also looks at the American vernacular, the effects of slavery, and the role of the individual on the formation of American literature 

 

Course Code: 
ENG 319
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

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