Ghana

This course analyses domestic and global forces influencing Africa’s development, changing global power structure, and development strategies and trends in Africa.

This course introduces the study of mycology. It emphasizes both the lower and higher fungi and covers the basic characteristics and ecology of fungi. The course details the definition of fungi, general characteristics, forms and morphology, and habitat. It emphasizes modes of nutrition and beneficial and detrimental effects of fungi, as well as the economic importance of fungi in agriculture, the environment, health, medicine, and industry. The course also includes a brief introduction to medical mycology focusing on opportunistic fungi causing human and animal diseases and their possible control.

The course discusses principles of conservation as well as plant and animal protection and their application to the West African environment. Topics include management of renewable natural resources, conservation of plant genetic resources, pollution of the environment, the Ghana's Environmental Action Plan, climate change and other global environmental problems.

This course explores the relations between international politics and international relations; perspectives on international political/economic relations; the post-war economic order and its impact on African countries; globalization and the developing world.

The course treats in considerable detail a wide variety of historical subjects, including the East African and Indian Ocean trade. Topics include trade and politics in the Zambesi valley, the Trans-Saharan trade, the Sudanic states and the Moroccan invasion, developments in the Mahgreb during Ottoman rule, religion and conflict in Ethiopia, the inter-lacustrine cluster of States: Iwo, Bacwezi, Bunyoro and Buganda, the Luba and Lunda states, Pre-European trade and society in Southern Africa: Sana and Khoikhoi, the Nguni and Sotho chiefdoms, Dutch settlement, Boer dispersion and Khoisan resistance, the roots of the “native problem,” prelude to the Mfecane and the Great Trek.

The course focuses on concepts, theories, and problems of development and underdevelopment; social and economic challenges; external relations and trends in interdependence in the geographical regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The concept and practical issues of development; physical and cultural resources in spatial development; population dynamics; economic, social, and political development within the framework of spatial organization; spatial diffusion theories and application; trends interdependence, international trade and aid are also explored.