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Special Education

This course introduces the prospective teacher to the current issues confronting identification management and teaching of children with special needs in the regular classroom. The course covers issues o inclusive education mainstreaming. Topics to be treated include mental retardation, learning disabilities, behavioural and emotional disorders, and hearing-impairment, gifted and talented, communication disorders.

Course Code: 
EPS 212
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 100
Course Semester: 
Second Semester

Critical Thinking and Practical Reasoning

Critical thinking includes, but not limited to, variety of deliberative processes aimed at making wise decisions about what to believe and do, processes that centre on evaluation of arguments, among other. The course will integrate logic, both formal and informal, with a variety of skills and topics useful in making sound decisions about claims, actions, and practices and to make it all palatable by presenting it in real-life contexts. This course is interactive and conversational in tone and aim at helping students to appreciate how to use the tools in logic in arriving at most cogent conclusions given different issues of life.      

Course Code: 
PHL 205
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 100
Course Semester: 
Second Semester

Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) through Science Teaching

This course aims at equipping student teachers with skills to activate HOTS in their students in the teaching and learning of science. It is designed to enhance the engagement strategies of student teachers in the course of teaching and learning of Science.

Topics to be discussed will include:  meaning and concept of HOTS, principles, theories and philosophies of HOTS, engagement strategies to activate HOTS (e.g. critical thinking and inquiry thinking skills), communicative approach, and patterns of discourse through scientific tasks.

Course Code: 
ESC 213
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 100
Course Semester: 
Second Semester

Contemporary Issues about Nature of Science

The course will enable students to appreciate that science is a product of human thought and practice. Students will be exposed to the views of modern and contemporary philosophers of science. Students will learn the various approaches to scientific reasoning.

The course covers meanings and aims of science as illustrated by the views of Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos and the Copernican revolution.  Patterns of scientific explanations; Scientific theories; Hypothetico-deductive reasoning; Explanation and inference; Science as process and Science as product; and the Constructs of nature of science (e.g. Tentativeness, objectivity, among others) will be discussed.

Course Code: 
ESC201
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 100
Course Semester: 
Second Semester

Analytic Geometry and Calculus

Rectangular Cartesian co-ordinate systems; distance between two points; gradient of a line; co-ordinates of a point dividing a line segment in a given ratio; equation of a circle in the form             (x-a) 2 + (y-b) 2 = r2; x2+ y2+2gx + 2fy+c.

Points of intersection of lines and circles; limit of a function of one variable at a point; continuous functions; derivatives of a function and its interpretation as the rate of change; higher order derivatives; differentiation of algebraic, circular exponential functions; sum, product and quotient rules; differentiation of composite, absolute value and implicit function; small increments and calculation of approximate values; application of derivative to increasing and decreasing of functions; maxima and minima; curve sketching; integration as the inverse of differentiation; integration of simple continuous functions and rational functions by substitution; parametric representation of loci; the parabola, ellipse and rectangular hyperbola; chords, tangents and normals; circular functions of angles of any magnitude and their graphs; trigonometric formula including multiple angles, half angles and identities; solutions to trigonometric equations.

Course Code: 
MAT102
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 100
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Science

Introductory Practical Organic Chemistry I

This course is an introductory organic laboratory processes which seeks to enable students acquire basic laboratory skills for the techniques of crystallization, melting and boiling point determination; simple, fractional and steam distillation; refluxing liquid–liquid extraction; paper, thin-layer and colour chromatography.

Course Code: 
CHE104
No. of Credits: 
1
Level: 
Level 100
Course Semester: 
First Semester

Introduction to Basic Organic Chemistry I

This course introduces students to the molecular composition of structure, purification of organic compounds, detection of elements like C, H, N, S and the halogens in organic compounds. It will also cover topics such as calculation and determination of empirical and molecular formulae; structural and geometrical isomerism; pictorial treatment of sp, sp2, and sp3 hybridization in single, double and triple bonds in hydrocarbons.

Course Code: 
CHE 105
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 100
Course Semester: 
First Semester

Data Collection and Analysis

The course introduces students to various methods of sampling (random, systematic, stratified); data collection (both qualitative and quantitative); elementary presentation and analysis of data (tables, Graphs, Measurements of central tendency, standard deviation, standard error) and interpretation of results.

Course Code: 
BIO103
No. of Credits: 
1
Level: 
Level 100
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Science
Prof. L. K. Sam-Amoah, breaking the ground for the commencement of the programme

1998 UCC Alumni Provides Solar Street Lights on Campus

27 Jun, 2019 By louis Mensah

The 1998 Alumni of the University has performed a ground-breaking ceremony for the installation of solar lights on some streets on campus.                                                                                     

The total cost of the street light project is estimated at GH¢28,000.      

  Giving Back to Alma Mater              

Speaking at the ceremony, a representative of the 1998 Alumni, Mrs. Christa Osei-Mensah, noted that funds had been mobilised for the completion of work. “We are looking forward to the inauguration of the project in the first week of August,” she said.

 Mrs. Osei-Mensah said members of the year group saw the need to give back to the UCC for contributing immensely to their successes in life.  She noted that the group was making efforts to get other members of their year group to join them in order to mobilise more funds to embark on other projects for the University. “This is just the beginning of great things to come,” she assured.

  Alumni Play an Important Role  in the Development of Universities         

The Provost, College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences (CANS), Prof. L. K. Sam-Amoah, who represented Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, commended the 1998 Alumni for remembering the University. He noted that alumni associations play an important role in the development of universities. “Top universities in the world depend heavily on their alumni to undertake some development activities,” he indicated.

Prof. Sam-Amoah said the project by the 1998 Alumni group was in line with UCC’s medium to long term plans. “Management has piloted some solar lights as part of efforts to go full solar with the street lights on campus,” he explained.  He called on other year groups to emulate the example of the 1998 Alumni group.

Symbolic Donation

The Vice President of the UCC National Alumni, Prof. Eric Nyarko-Sampson, described the gesture as symbolic since it coincides with the 20th Anniversary of the year group. He commended them for showing the path for others to follow. “Finish this task and take on another project,” he urged.

Prof. Nyarko-Sampson who is also a member of the 1998 Alumni encouraged them to go beyond the project to bring other colleagues on board for various social activities.   

Field Experience in Science Education

This course will expose students to what takes place during teaching and learning of Science in and outside the classroom. It will further help students to have first-hand experience of what goes on during teaching.

The course will involve visits to schools by students to observe what goes on during Science lessons. Students will write reports on what they observe. Some of the areas to observe include teacher preparation before the lesson, lesson introduction, presentation of the lesson, teacher-student interactions.  There will also be class discussion periodically to examine what students have observed in their various science classrooms.

Course Code: 
ESC 102
No. of Credits: 
1
Level: 
Level 100
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Science

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