University of Ghana, Legon

The course focuses on issues of post-conflict reconstruction and security - arms proliferation, drug trafficking, mercenaries as well as institutions of transitional justice - International Criminal Court, Truth Commissions, Special courts and tribunals.

This course focuses on concepts and contents of human rights. It examines international, regional and national conventions and legislations on human rights with specific reference to the rights of vulnerable populations. Additionally, the course reviews Ghana's compliance with human rights laws.

This course introduces students to some major growth models (both traditional and contemporary) and cross-cutting issues such as gender and sustainable development, poverty, and inequality. The course also exposes issues such as the relationship between Aid debt and growth and trade and growth.

This course focuses on applications of basic statistical techniques. In particular, we explore model formulation, model fitting, interpretation and presentation of analysis results for simple and multiple linear regressions, and logistic regression models. Some applications to data from the field of Agriculture, Biology , Economics, Finance etc. will be explain various concepts. Applications using R statistical software is also considered.

The course introduces the Old Testament: the History of formation, the Canon, the basic literary problems associated with the three divisions of the Hebrew Bible (Tanak), the ancient Translations (LXX; Vulgata), and the relevance of the Old Testament in contemporary Africa Context. It also looks at basic literary features associated with the three divisions of the TANAK (Torah, Neviim, Kethuviim). The course discusses questions of Jewish, Christian (Catholic and Protestant) positions about the Old Testament Canon and how they affect the interpretation of the Old Testament Scripture (e.g. the Septuagint, Apocrypha, Deutero-canon, etc).

The course deals with photographic and scanner remote sensing; basic principles of remote sensing; electromagnetic spectrum; the multiband concept of imagery interpretation; photographic remote sensing and its application in urban and rural land use studies. It also reviews the definition and types of remote sensing; a historical review of the development of environmental remote sensing, the physical basis of remote sensing (the electromagnetic spectrum), aerial photographs, characteristics, types, flying for cover and types, scale, overlaps, stereo-vision, relief displacement; photo evaluation (photo reading, analysis and interpretation); principles of object recognition: shape, size, texture; project procedure (including library search, reconnaissance survey, fieldwork, analysis and recording); application in urban and rural inventories; and principles of Geographic Information Systems.