Ghana

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.

This is a special studies course with projects arranged between the student and faculty member. The specific topics of study vary each term and are described on a special study project form for each student. The number of units varies with the student's project, contact hours, and method of assessment, as defined on the student's special study project form.

The course examines regional climates and anomalies with particular emphasis on the temperate and tropical regions. Topics include evapotranspiration, water balance concepts and Koeppen‘s classification system, general circulation, mid-latitude climates, tropical climates, and inter-tropical discontinuity (ITD) and weather zones of Ghana and West Africa.