Prof (Mrs) Christiana Naa Atsreh Nsiah-Asamoah
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Department of Soil Science
Vision statement:
The Department seeks to maintain, consolidate and further strengthen its position as a centre of excellence and scholarship in teaching of Sociology and Anthropology as Social Sciences and as a centre of research into relevant socio-cultural issues.
Mission statement:
To produce graduates who are adequately equipped with critical and analytical skills in order to meet the educational, administrative and other resource needs of the country;
To promote and strengthen graduate studies as a means of stimulating research and meeting the staffing and other needs of the Department, university and the country;
To contribute to the further education of non-traditional students through sandwich programmes;
To provide resource, extension and consultancy services to the Ghanaian outside the Global community in areas of competency.
History:
The Department of Sociology, University of Cape Coast was established in 1963 to train students to analyse and evaluate from a critical view point, social and developmental issues in all spheres of social life. In 2009, the Department redesigned and realigned its programmes with a view to maintaining, consolidating and further strengthening its position as a centre of excellence and scholarship in the teaching of Sociology and Anthropology as Social Sciences and also as a centre of research in relevant socio-cultural issues. Renamed as the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in 2009, the Department continues to grow and expand in its mission to provide leadership in areas of social understanding to the university community, as well as to the broader Ghanaian society.
Sociology is an academic discipline that has historically offered students an opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills relating to all aspects of society. Anthropology studies human origins and cultures and its teaching helps students to become more conversant with the cultural heritage of themselves and others. With knowledge in Sociology and Anthropology, students have been equipped to enter the job market and to continue to pursue graduate work and become professionals in their discipline.
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Reliability: To be trusted and dependable
Integrity: To demonstrate professionalism in every undertaking
Good Governance: To promote transparency and accountability
Honesty: To be truthful and ethical in all endeavours
Teamwork: To work collectively to accomplish established objectives
Equal Opportunity: To give to both students and staff access to all opportunities, service and programmes.
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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Department of Statistics
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Department of Surgery
Vision statement:
To position itself as a centre of excellence in teaching and learning, research, training and application of religion and other human values for personal, national and international life.
Mission statement:
To continue to expose students to the fact that other religious traditions are also alternative blueprints for meaningful life and as such need to be accorded the needed respect.
To train all our graduates who will bring human-values approaches to development of our nation and beyond.
To assist students to develop enquiring minds in order to pursue critical and dispassionately religious issues as they confront them in life
History:
The Department of Religion and Human Values (DRHV) became one of the ten departments in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Cape Coast in the 1971/72 academic year. Since then, the Department of Religion and Human Values has been offering a vibrant and challenging environment for both undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD and M.Phil) programmes. In addition, the Department runs a sandwich programme at both the Diploma and Masters Levels. The Department can boast of committed faculties of both nationally, and internationally, repute guiding its students in this direction and training. As our name depicts, we do not only study religion from variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches but also, concern ourselves with other values with the view to reflecting the plural value systems that have engulfed the contemporary global society. The Department has its own Journal to promote research and in the academia‑‑Oguaa Journal of Religion & Human Values (OJORHV)‑‑to promote research and dissemination of research findings since 2011.
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To show tenacity of purpose in the discharge of academic duties
To discharge our duties with the sense of alacrity To make religious studies relevant to the development agenda of our nation
To make religious studies relevant to the development agenda of our nation
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Department of Religion and Human Values
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The Department of Theatre and Film Studies hopes to become a major hub for accelerating the advancement of Ghanaian Theatre and Film within the context of the evolutionary and revolutionary development of Modern African Theatre and Film.
Mission statement:
The department seeks to become a centre for the production of graduates who will be capable of lifting high Ghanaian cultural art forms for documentation, revival and promotion through research, production and performances.
History:
The Department of Theatre Studies was established in 2004 and affiliated to the Department of Music. It acquired full department status in 2008. Film Studies was added in the 2010/2011 academic year. The Department of Theatre Studies is one of the eight departments in the Faculty of Arts. It continues with its existing undergraduate and graduate programmes in the year. The department offers and maintains teaching and learning, and research and consultancy centres.
Core Values:
The department runs its programmes with the view to:
1. developing in the student skills that will enable him/her solve problems of his/her mother environment through the application of research in theatre and film aesthetics.
2. developing in the students the creative ability in theatre and film arts.
3. producing professionals, who shall be devoted to the practice of their chosen professions in ways which contribute to building their society.
4. nurturing in children, youth, students and the community a critical appreciation and love for the Creative Arts in general and the Ghanaian and African Theatre in particular.
5. producing graduates who will contribute to the literary development of Ghana by writing books (both creative and critical), and producing and directing plays and films.
6. training students to think critically and analytically.
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Department of Theatre and Film Studies