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Thermal Physics

Thermal Physics is an advanced undergraduate course. It connects the world of everyday systems, of astronomical objects, and of chemical and biological processes with the world of molecular, atomic, and electronics systems. The course will be introduced through a unified approach to the equilibrium thermal properties of large systems based on the quantum viewpoint and statistical probability. The laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of entropy, temperature, chemical potential, free energy, and thermodynamic potential will be covered. The heat transfer, phase transition, and classical kinetic theory will be discussed.

Course Code: 
PHY303
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester

Teaching of Chemistry Practicals

This course seeks to equip student-teachers with skills to enable them to handle physics practicals competently. Students will be exposed to various ways to inculcate scientific inquiry skills into chemistry students.

This course introduces students to the various practical and experimental skills. Students will learn how to plan and design chemistry experiments, organize and handle equipment, collect data, record data, plot suitable graphs and interpret data. Students will be taken through how to organize selected chemistry practicals in the SHS chemistry syllabus.

Course Code: 
ESC346
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester

Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Chemistry I

This is the first of two courses designed to equip students with pedagogical content knowledge to enable them teach new or perceived difficult topics in the senior high school chemistry syllabus more competently in a variety of ways to reflect students’ different learning styles. Students will be able to develop special amalgam of content and pedagogy that is uniquely the province of teachers.

Appropriate strategies for successful teaching of selected topics, generally, will be discussed. Students will also learn how to recognize opportunities where learners will be encouraged to develop their thinking skills as applied to the study of chemistry.

Course Code: 
ESC 312
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester

Practical Organic Chemistry

This course has a link to CHE 104 (Introductory Practical Organic Chemistry) and will enable students to be able to undertake a simple project work in organic chemistry using basic laboratory techniques such as separation, purification and identification of compounds of binary and tertiary mixtures. The course will also offer students the techniques involved in spectroscopic methods for the identification and total synthesis of simple organic compounds.

Course Code: 
CHE 319
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester

Analytical Chemistry

This course focuses on the fundamental principles of analytical methods in chemistry. Topics to be discussed will include concepts based on analytical sampling, experimental uncertainty, statistical data analysis, glassware and instrument calibration, volumetric analysis, solvent extraction, gravimetry, titrimetry (acid-base, complexometric, precipitation and redox titration), Beer’s law and its related chemical and instrumental deviations. Students will also be introduced to the principles of optical instrumentation, atomic spectroscopy, and chromatographic methods.

Course Code: 
CHE 301
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester

Teaching of Biology Practicals

This course seeks to equip student-teachers with skills to enable them to handle biology practicals competently. Students will be exposed to various ways to inculcate scientific inquiry skills into biology students.

This course introduces students to the various practical and experimental skills. Students will learn how to collect specimen, handle equipment, classify organisms, record and interpret data, and plan and design biology experiments. Students will be taken through how to organize selected biology practicals in the SHS biology syllabus.

Course Code: 
ESC 344
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester

Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Biology II

This is the second of two courses designed to equip students with pedagogical content knowledge to enable them teach new or perceived difficult topics in the senior high school biology syllabus more competently in a variety of ways to reflect students’ different learning styles. Students will be able to develop special amalgam of content and pedagogy that is uniquely the province of teachers.

Appropriate strategies for successful teaching of selected topics, generally, will be discussed. Students will also learn how to recognize opportunities where learners will be encouraged to develop their thinking skills as applied to the study of biology.

Course Code: 
ESC 330
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Science

Introduction to Molecular Genetics

This course focuses on mitosis and meiosis; Mendelian genetics; extensions of the Mendelian genetics;   chromosome mapping in eukaryotes; sex chromosomes and  sex determination; chromosome mutations; DNA structure and analysis; DNA replication and recombination; DNA organization in chromosome; the genetic code and transcription. Translation and proteins, gene mutation and DNA repair, regulation of genes, gene expression in eukaryotes and recombinant DNA technology will be discussed.

Course Code: 
MBB309
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester

Basic Soil Science

This introductory course seeks to provide basic information on soil development emphasizing the soil formation factors and the physical, chemical and biological properties of soils. The course also emphasizes the special characteristics of clays and humus in relation to plant growth.  Soil classification is discussed with emphasis on tropical soils. Land use and soil degradation are discussed with focus on conservation and management.

Course Code: 
BIO 201
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 200
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Fisheries and Aquatic Science
Guidance and Counselling

Development of Science Teaching Materials

The aim of the course is to equip students with the skills of designing, developing, improvising and using science teaching materials in the classroom.

The course gives an in-depth knowledge of the role of science teaching materials in different teaching and learning systems; the designing and development, and use of different types of teaching materials in science teaching. The teaching materials that the course emphasizes are printed and duplicated materials, non-projected materials, still projected materials, educational games, mobiles and computer assisted instruction (CAI).

Course Code: 
ESC335
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester

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