Semester 1

This module introduces foundational knowledge, skills and attitudes required for entrepreneurship and innovation, with a focus on agricultural and agribusiness contexts. It equips learners with entrepreneurial thinking, opportunity recognition skills, creativity, and the ability to develop customer-oriented solutions.

Module Objectives

1. - Understand key concepts of entrepreneurship and innovation.
2. - Develop entrepreneurial mindset and competencies.
3. - Identify and evaluate business opportunities.
4. - Apply creativity and innovation tools to real-life problems.
5. - Develop customer-driven solutions using design thinking.
6. - Understand risk management and learning from failure.
7. - Demonstrate communication and sales skills necessary for venture creation.

This module is designed to form the foundation for continuous learning with introduction to emerging trends such as collaborative tools, ICT fundamentals, advanced MS Office, security of the data, computer networks and the internet. The students will be able to adapt to ever changing innovations and use ICT skills in long-life learning. The computer skills standard course of study involves the development of skills over time. These skills become building blocks with which to meet the challenges of personal and professional life.

By the end of this module, the student will be able to:

•  solve the system of linear equations with different methods,
•  evaluate the limit with different methods,
• evaluate the derivative
• find area by applying integrals and  resolve problems involving 1^st and 2^nd order differential equations.
• Calculate Mean, Median, Standard Deviation), Data presentation using appropriate graphs (Bar, Histogram, Frequency polygon, Pie etc) and Tables (Frequency distribution, 2X2 Table), simple regression and correlation.

This course introduces the concepts of Physics to Students of Year One  Agriculture, Animal Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine options.

It divided into three chapters: Mechanics, Electricity, and Optics.

Having successfully completed this module, you should be able to:

• Analyze physical situations and physical phenomena and apply them in your respective specialization,
• Use the basic principle of physics to solve agriculture- and animal husbandry-related problems,
• Manipulate experimental equipment in the laboratory.

Welcome to the module BSC1224 of rural development and professional ethics in which you be taught three units. Rural development, Rural sociology, and ethics in the Rwandan culture.