University of the West Indies

This course examines the decisions and processes involved in the development of an integrated marketing plan. It covers the benefit of an integrated marketing plan and its importance to marketers; each element of the promotional mix; the advantages and disadvantages of each element of the promotional mix; how each element of the promotional mix can be implemented; objectives for a campaign; developing a budget; and creating marketing messages appropriate for broadcast, print, direct marketing and social media.

This course examines the study of the interactions between crop plants and their abiotic and biotic environments within the tropical agroecosystem. In this course, the focus is on the environmental relations of individual crop species (autecology). Characteristics of the crop production system will be studied along with human and environmental influences on the provision of ecosystem services, resource use efficiency, crop yield, and sustainability. Crop evolution, breeding and distribution will be explored using selected crop examples and taking into account propagation issues, environmental influences and crop production goals. Physical factors of particular interest include solar irradiance, temperature, water supply, atmospheric conditions, and soil characteristics (including mineral nutrient supply). The balance of carbon, energy, water, and mineral nutrients in crop ecosystems is also relevant for the analysis of input use efficiency. Biotic factors of interest include cropping system features, plant density, weeds, pests, diseases, and beneficial organisms. Biotic and abiotic stress factors will be identified along with the nature of plant stress injuries and adaptations/manipulations that favor growth and production in suboptimal environments. Integrated approaches for the management of abiotic and biotic constraints to crop production will be considered.

This course studies the main cultural practices in the Caribbean and relates them to the study of culture in general and the Caribbean in particular. Students analyze the impact of race, class, and gender experiences in Caribbean cultural practices, and interpret cultural expression in its broadest political sense. By the end of the course, students are able to show familiarity with the leading intellectual interpretations of Caribbean culture.

This course examines theoretical ethics and applied ethics. The focal point of the first part is an explication of some basic moral principles and theories. Theoretical ethics is concerned with understanding the nature of ethics, ethical language and ethical reasoning. On the other hand, the focus of applied ethics is more practical—it seeks to reach a practical judgment about what should be done in particular situations, or what is the most coherent ethical view to take towards a serious issue, such as abortion or euthanasia.

This course examines the development of social policy in Barbados since emancipation. It traces the transformation in government and popular approaches to education, health services, poverty alleviation, housing, community development, culture, and women's affairs from a laissez faire orientation to the birth and interventionism of the Welfare State.

This course examines the major problems and issues, both historiographical and historical, relating to women in 20th century Africa, including focusing on the changing status of women in Africa within the context of the efforts to extend capitalism and to democratize society across the continent. The course covers the following themes: the discourse on the impact of the emergence and operation of modern nation-states upon the status of African women; the pervasive role of traditional, Islamic and Western influences in African historical evolution tradition.