This course is designed to provide further knowledge of the law relating to tortuous Liability by examining non-property wrongs and damage involving trespass to the person, Defamation, vicarious and employers’ liability, remedies and defenses.
This course provides students with a good understanding of waves and emphasizes the importance of wave theory in modern physics and engineering. Some of the topics covered are simple harmonic motion, reflection and refraction of light as wave phenomena, the action of thin lenses, progressive and stationary waves, transverse and longitudinal waves, polarization of transverse waves, superposition and interference, two-source interference patterns, diffraction of waves, the diffraction grating, the electromagnetic spectrum.
This course trains students to develop the speaking and listening skills that are needed for effective communication at an Elementary Level in English. Emphasis is placed on developing oral and aural proficiency in matters of the personal interest and familiar situations.
This course trains students to develop the speaking and listening skills that are needed for effective communication at a Pre-Intermediate Level in English. Emphasis is placed on developing oral and aural proficiency in matters of personal interest and in everyday situations.
This course trains students to develop the speaking and listening skills that are needed for effective communication at an Upper Intermediate Level in English. Emphasis is placed on developing oral and aural proficiency in matters of personal interest and in everyday situations.
This course reinforces and improves the speaking and listening skills that were developed in the Upper-Intermediate Level of English. Emphasis is placed on developing oral and aural proficiency in matters ranging from topics of personal concern to abstract issues. The courseaims at stimulating students' interest in current events and develops self-expression through debate, oral presentaion and discussion. Videos, both feature-length and short news-clips, will be major teaching aids in this course.
This course trains students to develop the speaking and listening skills that are needed for effective communication at a Pre-Intermediate Level in English. Emphasis is placed on developing oral and aural proficiency in matters of personal interest and in everyday situations.
This course trains students to develop the speaking and listening skills that are needed for effective communication at an Upper Intermediate Level in English. Emphasis is placed on developing oral and aural proficiency in matters of personal interest and in everyday situations.
This course develops an appreciation for literary works. Emphasis is placed on acquistion of vocabulary and idiom, and discussion and analysis. To cater to students of mixed ablilties, appreciation is further reinforced through drama activities, which help develop students' performance skills.Focus is placed on verbak and non-verbal communication.
This course will examine important themes and other social, historical and political concerns in African Literature from the 1950’s to the present. This course will examine one substantive novel, or play, short stories and/or poetry anthology.
This course aims to expose students to examples of prose fiction from different cultures and periods. Through exercises in practical criticism of the tale, short, story, novella and novel, students should become aware of the nature of prose fiction. Additionally, students should gain an understanding of the chronological development of prose fiction over the years.
This course will teach students to critically examine and analyze the major components of drama as they function within the style and structure of one Shakespearean comedy and one tragedy. Students will identify the themes in the plays and examine the literary and dramatic means by which these themes are developed. The course will also familiarize students with historical and sociological influences in the shaping of Shakespearean drama.
This course explores themes and issues common to the Caribbean experience and examines the different kinds of approaches in the treatment of these themes and issues. Students will be exposed to stylistic and other literary devices through exercises in practical criticism. Students may be asked to compare and contrast themes and writing with one British or American text.
This course will develop writing skills in critical analysis. Extracts will be chosen from the three main literary genres: drama, poetry and prose fiction. Students will also develop confidence in documenting and responding critically to secondary material or other critical views on literary texts.
This course introduces binary arithmetic and number systems to various bases. The functions of the inverter (NOT gate), AND, OR, NAND, NOR, Half Adder, Full Adder, Half Subtractor and Full Subtractor are derived. Combinational logic is implemented with the use of truth tables, Boolean algebra, DeMorgan’s theorem and tabular methods. Decoders, encoders, demultiplexers and multiplexers are examined and their operations and implementations are shown.
A development of the properties of S-R, J-K, T and D flip-flops and their applications to registers, shift registers and counters is carried out. An explanation and the construction of sequential logic circuits using Mealey, Moore, and Mealy-Moore machines’ principles are implemented.
A block diagram of a microcomputer system illustrating the address bus, data bus and control bus is drawn. The course also examines the architecture of 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit microprocessors, recognising their data transfer between registers, between CPU and memory, between CPU and input/output ports and direct memory accessing. For modern computers, the terms, cache memory, pipelining, enhanced IDE hard drive and SCSI are explained. Some programming is done in a high-level language, assembly language and machine code (hexadecimal) and their relative advantages and disadvantages are used and demonstrated.
This course is designed to integrate all the skills, which have been imparted to the participant in the areas of Systems Analysis, application software packages and English communication. Participants will be required to develop a workable system, incorporating all the phases of the project life cycle. It is also expected that a verbal presentation of the total system will be made so that individuals will have the opportunity to explain actions taken and the results obtained from the project.