Non Category for CASS

This course will enable students to translate texts of specialised nature, It deals with various aspects of law as used by legal experts.

In most African societies, including the Rwandan Society, differences between men and women have been based on differing responsibilities. A woman was prepared from an early age to assume her future role as wife and mother. The woman’s place remained largely domestic or working in the fields for those from rural communities. A woman learned from her mother about all household tasks performed by the women of her social class. As head of the family, a man was in charge of earning the livelihood for his entire family by working outside the home.

Malengo ya Moduli

Moduli hii inakusudiwa  kumpatia mwanafunzi ufahamu wa jumla kuhusu fasihi ya Kiswahili. Ndani ya Fasihi hii ya Kiswahili mwanafunzi atajifunza juu ya historia ya fasihi ya Kiswahili, Tanzu zake, Dhima ya fasihi, na pamoja na namna ya kufanya uchambuzi wa kazi ya fasihi.

Maelezo ya Moduli

Moduli hii imejikita katika kuweka msingi wa masuala ya fasihi ya Kiswahili na fasihi kwa jumla. Moduli inashughulikia masuala kadhaa kama uhusiano wa fasihi na sanaa, uanishaji wa tanzu za fasihi ya Kiswahili, pamoja na mambo yote ya msingi yanayohusiana na fasihi.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF AIMS AND CONTENT

The aims of this undergraduate course is:

- to gain familiarity with the connections between leadership, values, and ethics

- to explore and explain the idiom(s) of Rwandan ethical values, their grounding(s) and their expressions, and their applications

1. BRIEF BESCRIPTION OF AIMS AND CONTENT

The primary aim of this module is to make students gain a detailed understanding of how the investment process works to maximize the investor’s returns, to make investment goals and objectives within a risk tolerance. This module makes investing less difficult, by clearly explaining the risk and return concepts, various investment terms; by elucidating the possible investment alternatives; and by discussing many of the techniques professional use to value assets/securities and to conduct diversified portfolios that increase investor’s chance of making informed decisions.

2. LEARNING OUTCOMES 

Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of:

1. Different types and use of investment vehicles: certificates of deposits (CD); government and agency securities; municipal bond, corporate bonds; promissory notes; stocks; derivatives; Exchange Traded Funds(ETFS); index securities; insurance based investments; investment companies; mutual funds; Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT); Private Placement/venture capital; Asset Backed securities; natural resources and tangible assets, etc.
2. Measurement of investment risk; coefficient of determination; variability of returns, standard deviation; Beta; covariance and semi-variance.
3. Measurement of investment returns and the differences between three words of return; Expected Return, Required Rate and Realized return.
4. Bond and Stock Valuation Methods i.e. the determination of stock prices or valuation of shares and Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).
5. Portfolio theory, selection, analysis and management; measurement concepts; construction of a diversified portfolio.
6. Investing strategies: Marketing Timing; Passive Investing (Indexing) or Buy and Hold strategy and Active Investing.
7. Investing in Tax Advantageous Accounts:  Taxation of capital gains and losses from the sale of securities and tax shelters associated with pension and retirement plans.
8. The relevance of using Fundamental analysis, Technical analysis and Efficient Market anomalies to influence investors’ decision making.
9. Asset allocation and portfolio diversification; asset pricing models and leverage investment assets.
10. Hedging, Option Strategies; mechanisms of investing in Futures (Commodity Futures Contracts) and demonstrate how futures and swaps help manage risk.

 Cognitive/Intellectual Skills/Application of Knowledge

Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:

1. Contrast efficient and inefficient portfolios and identify which portfolios the investor should build .
2. Calculate Beta, the measure of systematic risk, an index of the volatility of the individual asset to the volatility of the market.
3. Compute the value of a stock by using a simple present value model.
4. Determine the price of a bond; explain the relationship between changes in interest rates and bond prices.

5. Calculate the bond current yield, yield to maturity and yield to call

   INDICATIVE CONTENT

1. Investment process and financial concepts; an introduction to investments; preliminary definitions; portfolio construction and planning; diversification and asset allocation. Investment companies; Concepts of mutual funds; REITSs; EFTs; hedge funds and private equity funds; investment companies and foreign investments.

1. Securities markets; Primary market and secondary market investments the mechanisms of investing in securities; foreign securities, the short sale.
2. Financial planning and tax considerations.
3. Risk and Portfolio Management: sources of risk; measurements of risk, Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM); Beta coefficient. Portfolio theory, total portfolio risk; the risk reduction through diversification (with examples). Portfolio Performance Evaluation, Passive and Active portfolio management
4. Investment in stocks and bonds; investment in common stocks and bonds; stocks and bond present value valuation. Common stock valuation basing on dividend and growth.  Alternative valuation techniques like Multiplier Models.
5. Investing in fixed income securities; bond market, types of  bonds, bond valuation using present value method, ,risk and fluctuation in yields, fluctuation in bond prices; management of bond portfolios.
6. Investment returns and aggregate measures of stock markets: measures of stock performance-Averages and Indexes (example: The Dow Jones Industrial Average).
7. Fundamental analysis, Technical analysis and Efficient Market hypothesis to influence investors’ decision making and Behavioral Finance.
8. Derivatives: introduction to Financial Futures and Options

The module will discuss the staffing, management, operation, and financing of social service programs in response to relevant issues in the country.

It is the essential topics of program development, as well as, program monitoring, and evaluation, will be integral in the module.

Students will design a social program which directly addresses contemporary issues Rwandans and regional citizens experience.

Students will also examine ways to engage in social entrepreneurship as social work consultants.

The course is about  to provide an advanced level of understanding of the philosophical and theoretical foundations of social work/social welfare as a system to meet human needs. It includes the following theories:

The strength perspective

The ecological perspective

The problem-solving approaches

The postmodern practices  

This foundational module reviews methods to assess, plan, intervene, evaluate and terminate services with clients at the micro (individual or family), mezzo (group and local community) and macro (broader community, nation) levels.

It will also require students to expand upon theories and major concepts in social work.

Students will critically discuss the global definition of social work, ideologies of social welfare and the response to needs through organized services, and principles of the profession, such as social justice and human rights in community, economic and political contexts.

This module aims to provide an advanced level of understanding of the philosophical and theoretical foundations of social work/social welfare as a system to meet human needs. It also aims to highlight the fundamental social work practices, including the strength perspective, the ecological perspective, the problem-solving approaches, the postmodern practices, etc, 

The module introduces students to social work theories and practice skills from a critical perspective, on theories/models used in direct practice. Utilizing classroom/lab settings, students critically examine personal conceptions of social work and their professional role/identity.

The module will address varied and many challenges (social, psychological, cultural and economic) confronted by the individuals, families and small groups.

The module will address varied and many challenges (social, psychological, cultural and economic) confronted by the communities, organizations and societies.

This module will give Masters students in Development Studies a deeper understanding of the main methods of doing robust, scientific research. It will cover research theory, design, data collection, data analysis and interpretation. Masters students will become familiar with the process of conceptualizing, organizing and conducting their own research, as well as how to write up their research once they have their data

This module focuses on the issue of the prevention of genocide. More specifically, it examines the critical need to address systemic issues/problems as a form of prevention. It also addresses various types of preventative actions that can be used for the purpose of attempting to prevent genocide from becoming a reality.

International Humanitarian Law, IHL in short (also referred to as Jus in Bello or Law of armed conflicts) continues to enjoy an overwhelming attention. Armed conflicts continue to claim the loss of millions of human beings all over the world. Humanitarian Law rules exist with outstanding challenges for their application. It is important that students understand the following:

• Basic principles underlying the rules of armed conflicts;
• Knowledge of the major treaties in relation to IHL;
• Relationship between Humanitarian Law and Public International Law, especially laws / treaties governing Human Rights;
• Modalities of repression of violations of IHL;
• Regulation of humanitarian intervention and assistance in armed conflict zones. 

Training on Constructive Alignment of Teaching, Learning and Assessment.