Higher Education Certificate for Arts

This course enables students to further develop and understand common English usage and acquire the ability to express themselves fluently. Students are introduced to word English classes and their functionality in syntactic structures. This will enable them to write various types of essays. The course will also involve conversational English, various levels of English (spoken, written, slang, colloquial, etc), spelling and pronunciation. It also involves basic understanding of English grammar and developing reading and writing skills.

This is a bridging course and is an introduction to the basic tools, principles and concepts of Micro and Macro- economics. The first part focuses on microeconomic issues such as supply and demand, theories of the firm and individual behavior, competition, monopoly, markets and income distribution. The later part of the course focuses on macro-economic issues such as national income, employment, inflation, money, banking and monetary policy, market systems and circular flow analysis, fiscal policy, interest rates, etc.

The course covers the historical evolution, linking community dialogue to participatory approaches, communication trends, community dialogue in the context of human rights based approach to programming, steps and processes of operationalizing, coordination and tools of community dialogue, organizing and managing, monitoring and evaluation of community dialogue.

The aim of this course is for students to know the social-cultural aspects of Africa in order to help gospel workers reach the unreached people. The course will introduce students to different issues of people in Africa. Some of the major topics to be covered include cultural diversity (what culture is and component of culture), marriage and family issues, among others.