Ghana

This course explores the application of psychological principles, theories, and methods of research in studying religious behavior, cognition, and motivation, as well as the role of religion in human life. The course draws on the contributions of other fields of psychology and focuses on the attitudes, values, and experiences of people and their relationship with the supernatural. Topics covered include: the emergence of psychology of religion; approaches to the study of psychology of religion; religious experience; morality; coping and adjustment; and functions of religion in adult life.

This course focuses on aspects of toxicity among invertebrate and vertebrate groups, paying particular attention to differences between poisonous and venomous animals, as well as the evolution of venom in animals. It discusses the classification and recognition of venomous and poisonous animals and explains the need for this by stakeholders including clinicians. The course provides information on the nature and mechanism of envenomation and reviews the knowledge about the various aspects of the biology, ecology, and medical importance of venomous and poisonous animals of the major animal phyla. Key components of the course include the prevention and management of bites and stings and the important roles these animals play in the ecosystem.

The courses covers imperatives of African rural development; development and underdevelopment theory and comparative perspectives; globalization and the political economy of rural poverty; rural poverty indicators; the roles of the state in rural development; social infrastructure and rural development; women, children, and rural poverty alleviation; the land question and rural development; NGOs and local initiatives in the rural sector; environmental issues in rural development; and a critique of selected rural development projects.

This course examines all aspects of Black people’s history; it even attempts to trace the origins of the Black race, leading to the present distribution of the Black race in the world, the causes for migration and routes along which they traveled, Blacks in South America, in the Caribbean and in other parts of the world, the Blacks and Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries and the Black Renaissance.