Ghana

This course introduces students to the concept of community health and primary health care as it is delivered in Ghana.  The course provides students an opportunities to learn about diseases of public health importance and selected endemic diseases specific to Ghana as well as their epidemiology and control in Ghana.  The course looks at the emerging non-communicable diseases in Ghana such as HIV/AIDS, hypertension, and breast and cervical cancers.  Students have first-hand learning opportunities on the psychosocial and social aspects of living with HIV, class discussions, and assigned readings with presentations. Students examine the importance of sexual reproductive health with a special emphasis on the needs of adolescents. Students learn the causes, symptoms, and treatment of hypertension and examine sanitation and food security as keys to community health.  

This course is about the history and dynamics of world economy and global power configurations; impact on Africa and Africa’s responses. 

This course deals with the diversity of plant life in the marine environment. It provides an overview, including Ghanaian examples, of the main groups of marine microalgae and cyanobacteria; macroalgae (seaweeds); seagrass, the submergent aquatic flowering plant; and mangroves, emergent marine flowering plants; with a focus on their identification, biology, physiology, and ecology. A practical component of the course includes visiting estuaries, saline lagoons, and beaches to observe algae, seagrasses, and mangroves; observe the ecological relationships of these plants; and collect material for study in the laboratory. 

This course covers the types of economic activities that were pursued on the sub-continent before colonialism and how economics were influenced by the coming of the Europeans. Particular emphasis is placed on the African initiative and how economic activities developed during the colonial era. The course is a study of the patterns of production and exchange of surplus goods and services, which have influenced the fortunes of the sub-region, and the creation of wealth and power from traditional beginnings to the present structure. The course explores: natural and human resources of West Africa, development of labor, organization of trade, international trade, intra- and inter-state trade, the trans-Saharan trade, sources of traditional or pre-colonial state revenue, West Africa's early trade with Europeans, legitimate trade, and partition of West Africa.