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To become centre of excellence in legal skills training, outreach work and consultancy services in all aspects of law and to produce a data bank that will inform the formulation and implementation of legal policy in a sub-Saharan development context
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To bring together all stakeholders in the formulation and implementation of legal policy and to facilitate constant communication between planners, administrators, civil society organisations and citizens
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The Faculty of Law, UCC has a strong team of academics who are experts in different branches of law, thus offering the students a good learning and support environment. The Department of Legal Extension (DLE) devises, conducts and organises all the outreach and community-based activities of the Faculty. Its core mandate is to twofold: to bring together all stakeholders in the formulation and implementation of legal policy and to facilitate constant communication between planners, administrators, civil society organisations and citizens.
The Department runs a number of programmes by which it aims at engaging all Faculties within the University and the community at large. In that capacity, its commitments are:
1. Organising and running the Professional Development component of the LLB programme: the Department will run training courses in which students will undertake internships with selected outreach communities and organisations. Its chief objective is not only to avail students of potential research opportunities but also enable them to exchange ideas with professionals on the ground.
2. Holding and hosting periodic conferences, seminars and workshops: the Department will engage specialists drawn from all disciplines, both within and outside the University, in order to address high level policy and legal issues with the aim of influencing policy makers of national development in matters of planning and administration. It is hoped that these fora will generate high quality inter-disciplinary articles for publication and dissemination.
3. Providing legal consultancy services: this will draw on the expertise available across the University to offer cross-disciplinary legal consultancy services for a fee to local, international, public and private organisations as well as industrial and business institutions. Areas of work offered will include company and commercial, finance and banking, agriculture, international and shipping, property and construction, mining and energy, telecommunication and broadcasting, travel and tourism, manufacturing and fishing, distribution and retail, entertainment and media, transfer of technology, development and donor-sponsored programmes.
4. Training workshops for African human rights practitioners: this programme will deploy the expertise of Faculty members to run periodic training programmes for African human rights law practitioners. It will provide working sessions and training manuals on both the substantive and procedural aspects of progressing cases under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
The Department handles a Faculty-Student-Community engagement aimed at tapping the pool of the Faculty’s legal expertise to offer legal services to those in the local community who are unable to afford legal services. The DLE also organizes seminars, conferences, and workshops for the various sections of society. Through the provision of, for example pro bono legal services, social capital, sense of trust and shared responsibility would develop that, if transferred to the political and social sphere, will foster social cohesion in communities.
1. Moot Court
The Department of Legal Extension will also be responsible for organising moot court sessions for students. This will form an integral part of the legal education for our students in which students will take part in simulated court proceedings, involving drafting of briefs and participation in oral arguments. Under the supervision of some Faculty members, students will usually spend some time researching and writing the memorials, and then some months practicing their oral arguments before the moot court sessions.
2. Jurists' Confab
The Faculty of Law, University of Cape Coast organizes an annual event know as the the JURISTS' CONFAB. It is a meeting of Judges, Legal Practitioners, Law Teachers and Law Students which is convened to reflect on the current state of the law in Ghana and outside. The confab affords students the opportunity to meet, interact and learn from those those they as to be while the judges, legal practitioners, and law teachers, who come from various faculties of law nationwide, also share their experiences and expertise with students of law. Speakers of previous Jurists Confabs included:
2016: Mr Justice S. Marful-Sau, Justice of Court of Appeal,
Prof. Henrietta Mensah Bonsu, UG Faculty of Law,
Mrs Jemimah Oware, Registrar General,
Mrs Mavis Amoah, Director of Legislative Drafting
The Next Jurists' Confab is scheduled to take place in March 2017.
3. Public and Guest Lectures
Throughout the academic year, there are Faculty level lectures given by guest speakers. These lectures are open to all Law students and lecturers. Upcoming lectures are announced through Class Representatives, our Faculty Officer or the Secretariat of the Law Students’ Union. Students are obliged to attend Faculty-level lectures. In addition, there are special university lectures, which are open to everyone. These are usually advertised on the university website, through posters, and via the university radio station. Students are encouraged to patronise the special university lectures.
4. Academic and Industry Linkages
The Faculty is committed to academic excellence, the lawyer’s craft and the highest standards of legal education comparable to any law institution in the world. We provide quality legal education to our students, preparing them adequately to transition into the vocational programme at the Ghana Law School or its equivalent abroad, to study for postgraduate degrees in law or in other disciplines and to take up key roles and leadership positions in society eventually.
The Faculty of Law, through its teaching, research and community engagements, responds to the emerging trends in legal education at the national and international levels. At the same time, it maintains strong ties with wider society by responding to relevant national and international issues, and offering short courses in legal education and other relevant fields.
5. Internships
A distinctive feature of the LLB programme at the University of Cape Coast is its combination of quality legal education with a hands-on engagement with judicial institutions and legal practitioners. For example, students in the second year and third year of the programme are given the opportunity to intern with public sector legal and quasi-legal institutions such as the Judicial Service, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), the Regional House of Chiefs, the Legal Departments of the District Assemblies, the Legal Aid Board, Ghana Police Service, the Metropolitan Assembly, Attorney-General’s Department and Ghana Prison Service.
The Faculty, through the DLE has initiated internship placements for students in the second and third year during the academic year. Such internships are short-term commitments on specific projects with legal
and quasi-legal institutions. Also, during the long break, second and third year students with a grade point of 3.0 and above are recommended to the Judicial Service for internships. A number of our first batch of students interned at the Supreme Court during the long break of the 2014-2015 academic year. Such internships offer wonderful opportunities for gaining a hands-on practical experience.
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To be a worldwide – acclaimed law Faculty of excellence for teaching and research in legal studies.
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To produce well- trained law graduates and competent researchers to provide valuable services to the legal sectors of Ghana and the International Community.
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The Faculty of Law, UCC was established in 2011. In 2005, the University administration started the process that led to the establishment of the Faculty. Prof. Philip Ebow Bondzi-Simpson was then appointed to spearhead the implementation process. The Academic Board of the University approved a three-year LLB programme in 2009 and an accreditation was granted by the National Accreditation Board to run a three-year programme in April 2013. In the same year, the Faculty admitted its first batch of students and the Founding Dean, Prof. Philip Ebow Bondzi-Simpson, led a team of legal academics and researchers who made the needed sacrifices to teach and mould the maiden cohort. Professor Obeng Mireku, was appointed the Acting Dean of the Faculty when Professor Bondzi-Simpson was appointed as the Rector of GIMPA. I, Kujo Elias McDave was appointed as the third Dean of the Faculty of Law, UCC, in September, 2017.The mission of the Faculty is to produce law graduates with the knowledge, competence and skills to provide legal solutions to the problems confronting Ghana, Africa and the world at large; and to undertake cutting edge research to confront these problems. In addition, through collaborations with and education of the public, we work to make the community, the country and the continent a better place. The Faculty's vision is to become and remain one of Africa's best Law Faculties, providing rich, experiential, critical legal education.The Faculty of Law, UCC has five (5) functional departments namely; the Department of Legal Studies which is in-charge of the LLB legal studies programme; the Department of Advanced Legal Studies which will take care of post graduate legal studies programme when the programmes are finally rolled out; the Department of Legal Extension which deals with outreach and extracurricular activities, such as the mandatory internships, the Roll Call, Jusrists’ Confab and Moots. The Centre of Legal Research, takes charge of research and publication activities of both Lecturers and Research Fellows and the Information Centre and Law Library.The Faculty of Law, UCC has been tasked with taking students through legal studies where they pass with LLB degrees. Students are taken through training in the traditional law subjects such as Ghana Legal System, Law of Tort, Criminal Law, Law of Succession, International Law, Environmental Law, Commercial Law, Company Law, Law of Immovable Property, Insurance Law and some novel ones such as Sports Law, Medical Law, Education Law, Intellectual Property Law, Petroleum Law, Banking Law, among others. The students, at the end of their studies, should be able to function in various areas of law, be able to find cases to support their arguments, be able to engage in legal advocacy and legal research and the general work. The Faculty has begun taking the final year students who have completed their LLB programmes though preparatory classes towards the writing of their entrance examination into the Ghana School of Law.Since the creation of the Faculty of Law, CHALS, UCC, in 2011, the Faculty has been able to graduate three batches of which members of the first two batches made it to the Ghana School of Law. Close to sixty percent of the first batch passed the entrance and interview and the second batch were close to about seventy percent of the class. Members of the maiden batch who successfully passed their exams and qualified are about to be called to be called to the Ghana Bar Association. The second batch are preparing to take their bar exams. The third batch are preparing to take their entrance examination to enter the Ghana Law School.The Faculty has run and continue to run a three-year postgraduate programme which begins from Level 200 and end at Level 400. However, our Faculty is about to admit the first batch of Senior High School students to the SHS stream of the LLB programme for the 2018/19 academic year. They will have a four year study instead of the three-year study plan for the post graduate stream of students.These SHS stream students will take university-wide core courses such as Communicative Skills, African studies and Liberal courses as any UCC undergraduate student and some Faculty courses such as Introduction to Law and Logical Reasoning. In the second year of studies, they will then join the 1st year postgraduate students at Level 200 till they complete their LLB programme.The Faculty of Law, UCC has a unique tradition known as “Roll Call” where newly admitted students are matriculated and initiated into the Faculty to begin their legal studies beside the University-wide matriculation ceremony. Students of the second and final year classes who excelled in various areas of their studies are also awarded during the Roll Call ceremony. Another programme peculiar to the Faculty of Law, UCC is the “Jurists’ Confab”. This ceremony is also held annually where teachers of the law, the Bench and the Bar come together to discuss developments in the law and the way forward and a communique is issued. Some speakers at past Confabs are Justice S. Marful-Sau, Justice Jones Mawulom Dotse, Justice Sir Dennis Adjei, Justice S. A. Brobbey, Her Ladyship Georgina Theodora Wood, and Justice Professor Samuel Kofi Date-Bah, all of the Superior Courts of Ghana and Prof Henrietta Mensa Bonsu, University of Ghana.The Faculty encourages learning not only in the classroom but outside the classroom as well. Our students are also to take mandatory internships in the second and third years of their study with institutions such as Legal Aid, the Superior Courts, with offices of some of the Justices, the House of Chiefs among others. This is to enable them acquire a direct hands-on training in all areas of legal practice. The Law Students’ Union (LSU) also organizes the annual programme known at the Legal Luminaries forum where people from the legal fraternity such as retired and practicing lawyers, judges and legal brains are invited to share their thoughts on pertinent legal developments. Some past guests are the then candidate Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo Addo(now the president of Ghana), Justice Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles (V.C.R.A.C) Crabbe, Ace Ankomah among other notable Ghanaians from the legal fraternity.Our Faculty is also disability friendly and also gender sensitive. We make sure that everybody feels at home and is able to study at all times; in a congenial atmosphere.I wish to use this opportunity to extend felicitations to prospective lecturers who wish to join us at the Faculty of Law, UCC and urge you to come join our family of legal academics and students. To students who have also gained admission to the Faculty to begin their legal studies, we welcome you all and urge you to take your studies seriously and also abide by all the rules of the Faculty and the University of Cape Coast at large.
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The Faculty is driven by three core values in its teaching, research, community engagement and other activities. These self-explanatory values are: Integrity: Faculty of Law seeks to pursue the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles that you refuse to change.Diligence: Faculty of Law upholds acts of characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks.Service: Faculty of Law endorses an act of help or assistance.
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The Faculty of Law of the University of Cape Coast is the premier centre for legal education in the Central Region of Ghana, Cape Coast and continues to lead the way in preparing students for the legal profession. In August 2011, Prof. P. E. Bondzi- Simpson was appointed as the Founding Dean. Under the Vice Chancellorship of D.D. Kuupole, accreditation was formally granted by the National Accreditation Board in April 2013 to run the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) programme.
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The Department of Laboratory technology is resolved to become a training centre for the production of highly qualified Laboratory Technologists. Therefore, our programmes are designed to meet the demands of the nation as it progresses towards a developed society with modern hospitals, industries and research/educational institutions.
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The Laboratory Technician Diploma course started in the Faculty of Science in 1972 with the primary objective of producing trained personnel for the science laboratories in the second cycle institutions and training colleges in the country. However, some of the products of the course who gained employment in educational institutions were also made to teach science subjects, while others found their way into industry and research institutes.
In view of the interest shown in the course by various stakeholders, the Faculty of Science in 1998 decided that the diploma course should be reviewed with the aim of upgrading it to a degree programme. A committee was set up and tasked to prepare a comprehensive curriculum for training leading to a B.Sc. degree in laboratory technology. The Academic Board of the University of Cape Coast approved the programme in the year 2000 to commence in the 2002/2003 academic year.
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Department of Integrated Development Studies
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Our vision is to be an internationally recognized center committed to scholarly and professional excellence in Medical Laboratory Sciences.
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To provide quality Medical Laboratory Science education and training through creation, presentation, integration, transmission and utilization of health knowledge.
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Department of Medical Laboratory Technology
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To have a Department that is highly regarded for its academic excellence in Population and Social Dimensions of Health.
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Contribute towards the achievement of the mission of the University of Cape Coast of being ‘the University of Choice in Ghana’ by producing high calibre educators, facilitators and researchers in the areas of Population Science and Social Dimensions of Health.
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The Department of Population and Health was created in the 2007/2008 academic year out of the former Population and Family Life Education programme of the Department of Geography and Tourism Started in 1996 with support from United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Ghana Education Service (GES), to train personnel in issues of population and development, the programme (Population and Family Life Education) was reviewed in 2006 as part of the restructuring of the Faculty of Social Sciences. The review led to the emergence of a new department devoted to population science and the social dimensions of health in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
The Department offers courses and undertakes research on aspects of population and health such as the social dimensions of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, traffic-related morbidity and mortality, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, migration, refugee studies and poverty. The Department is involved in outreach programmes in population-related areas in national development.
Core Values:
As an institution of higher learning, University of Cape Coast is embedded in a set of core values and principles subscribed to and upheld by the faculty, students, staff and the administration and which provide general guidelines towards the realization of the vision of University of Choice. These core values are:
Academic excellence: UCC has created an exciting and enviable niche in higher education in Ghana through innovative academic and high standards in intellectual enquiry. These inform and permeate all aspects of learning and are subscribed to by all students, staff and faculty. The members of the university community strive to advance intellectual and culturally accepted inquiry.
Engagement: In furtherance of its core functions, members of UCC develop intellectually through active and reflective learning, which enables engagement with the wider community, thus influencing policy for sustainable development.
Ethical and responsible behaviour: All members of the university community act honestly and responsibly, holding themselves accountable to others for their actions. In all their economic, social and political activities, staff, students and affiliate bodies of the university conduct themselves in a manner that upholds the integrity of the person and the image of the university.
Equality of access to all opportunities and services: UCC is an equal opportunity institution and therefore strives to provide opportunity and access to quality education and services to all categories of person regardless of creed, race, gender, disability of all forms and social status.
Empowerment: UCC offers opportunities for staff and students to engage in critical enquiry and life-long learning meant to enhance confidence for contribution to personal and community development.
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Our vision is to provide excellence in music and dance education by offering innovative and timely courses and programs, delivered and administered by dedicated and competent faculty and staff.
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It is our mission to help students to develop their full intellectual potential and aesthetic sensibilities through
providing the space for the development of highly trained persons in music and dance performance;
providing the space for critical reflection and debate about music and dance and their social and cultural role;
seeking dynamic ways of restructuring programmes and projects to respond to contemporary needs of society;
undertaking relevant research and documentation in music and dance;
establishing linkages with institutions within and outside Ghana for the enhancement of the vision of the Department as well as the Faculty of Arts and the University as a whole.
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The Department of Music & Dance was established in 1975 to help fulfill the artistic and cultural needs of Ghana in particular and Africa as a whole, by training undergraduate students in Music and Dance and its related courses in the humanities.
Having undergone a number of reviews over the years, the current curriculum of the Department, designed to prepare its products to enable them function efficiently in contemporary Ghanaian society, includes the study of arts, popular, religious and traditional music. The Department offers various courses on theory, as well as practical courses in piano, voices, guitar and the study of African instruments.
Students who have graduated from the Department and offered single subject (Music only) are awarded the Bachelor of Music degree; while students who combine Music with any other subject offered in the Faculty of Arts are awarded the Bachelor of Arts (Music) degree.
The Academic Board gave approval for the commencement of a B.A. (Dance) Programme in 2009. The Department of Music was asked to host and nurture the new programme. The programme commenced in August 2010 when Dance was added to the subject combinations of students admitted into the Faculty of Arts.
Products of the Department mostly end up as Music educators teaching in the University, Secondary Schools and Colleges of Education, church organists, or choir masters in various Christian denominations and musicians. However, quite a good number of them too end up in other institutions such as Banks, Military services, and as Social workers.
The University Esuapon Band, established in 2004 as a resident Band, serves as a resource in support of teaching and research and also performs at social events organised in and outside the University campus. To ensure that our students are abreast with current trends in music teaching, the department now offers training in the use of computer programmes for compositions.
The Music Recording Studio, established with funds from the TALIF Project, has enhanced postgraduate work in music theory and composition. The studio also renders services to composers on and outside the University campus.
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The placement of a high premium on inter-disciplinary research
To train students to achieve the highest standards possible
To be innovative in program structure to help students get the best in the changing global environment.
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