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This course includes lecture components, experiential components and project components. The lecture material will be assessed through different assignments. The experiential component will be assessed through journal entries, presentations, class participation. The project-based component of your grade will be assessed through project evaluation.

Commercial graphic design is about and takes part in packaging and marketing by providing designs for labels, trademarks, colophons, and advertising materials (such as posters, catalogs, booklets, banners, prospectuses etc). Commercial graphic designers also provide such materials vital to industry as business forms and envelopes.

BDSE 1102: COMMUNICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT

This is an interactive and skill-centred course aimed at helping students develop oral communication and human relations skills and build confidence as interpersonal communicators and public speakers as well as effective listeners. It focuses on a communication approach and methods that help a community and individual meet their needs.

COURSE LEVEL: YEAR 3, SEMESTER 2        CREDIT UNIT:  CU 3

TYPE OF COURSE: ELECTIVE

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course prepares students to take charge of communication operations and/or interventions in organisational or community settings. It equips students with the skills to initiate communication policy and strategy, oversee situation analyses, lead communication design and testing, oversee implementation of communication initiatives and ensure evaluation and re-design of the designed/implemented strategies.

COURSE OBJECTIVE

The objective of this course is to prepare students to take leadership of communication operations and/or interventions in organisational or community settings.

Course description 

The course aims at providing understanding of the economic context of social work with special focus on grassroots social-economic structures, institutions and economic policy management. It emphasizes critical analysis and thinking of non-market aspects of the social economy in least developed economies taking into account community-based economic management initiatives world-wide.

It focuses on the interface between the “community economy” and the market economy while emphasizing the need to re-orient/direct policies towards communities as a tool for social development through pro-poor, inclusive economic growth. Much of the focus is on the transition from subsistence-based peasant economy to a fully monetized economy through policy-driven commercialization of agriculture and service facilities.

The student is expected to understand and explore the links between grass roots socio-economic change and the role of social workers in improving the well-being of citizens in general and specific vulnerable groups (VGs) in particular.

The main objective therefore is to assist social work professionals and other development professionals to learn how to build, manage and develop communities through effective and sustainable public and private action for poverty alleviation, employment creation, empowerment of marginalized groups and community solidarity using diversity of community development approaches.

The key questions addressed   in this module include among others: How communities organize, assess and plan for development. How community development is defined by the cultural, social, political, and economic realities of particular countries and communities how and   Gender sensitive and Microfinance lead to  development, what good governance entails and how it leads to development , what is needed to integrate economic and social development among others

This course is designed with a focus on community health nursing; Environmental factors that affect health are discussed through community mobilization and assessment for health interventions at the community and family levels. Family theories and coping indices are explained in relation to home nursing of clients with chronic and or acute illnesses in their home environment. In addition, integrated PHC activities are implemented to address family and community health problems.

The course highlights  key concepts in Geo-politics and foreign policy and national interest. It will examine the theoretical assumptions in foreign policy analysis, objectives of foreign policy, pre-requisites of foreign policy, the role of domestic and external factors in the foreign policy process, foreign policy as a tool in international relations and in the service of a state. This course targets, people from all academic and professional backgrounds, who are interested in promoting good relations between countries, and  peaceful co-existence in the international system.

You are welcome to Computer Application II a course unit offered in the second semester of year one. In this course, students are exposed to an in depth understanding of computer applications like Access, excel, PowerPoint and publisher. The use of related applications in different operating systems will also be explored, computer Maintenance, 3D and virtual Reality.