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A research Project can be used for exploring and identifying scientific, technical and social issues. If it's your first time writing a research project document, it may seem daunting, but with good organization and focus of mind, you can make the process easier on yourself. Writing a research Project document involves four main stages: choosing a topic, researching your topic, making an outline, and doing the actual writing. The document won't write itself, but by planning and preparing well, the writing practically falls into place. Also, try to avoid plagiarism.

In Retail banking markets, banks are encountering specific challenges due to increasing competition, the need for customer-employee interactions and at the same time need for cost cutting and efficiency. The module Retail Banking presents strategic and operational management concepts that are employed by Retail Banking providers to be successful in the market, such as business modeling, customer segregation, product innovation management, service quality and recovery. The contents are applied in many exercises and case studies, and students take part in a group regarding real business question in cooperation with local banks

Since the University of Rwanda has embarked on the move to adopt the blended learning mode in teaching, learning and assessment approach, there has been seamless effort in order to upload modules on the UR eLearning platform. However, it was observed that there is a need to improve their quality by adopting a common blended learning module template where they meet the quality assurance standards for Open and Distance eLearning ( ODeL).

It is against this backdrop that the University of Rwanda has organized, at all Campuses, a series of Training Workshops for all its academic staff on Accelerated Uploading of Modules on UR eLearning Platform.

This module was designed to offer guides to all required elements in a given module.

The module is designed to train students in evaluating, measuring and managing a range of financial risks to which Banks are exposed. Particular emphasis is placed on the measurement of market risks, cash-flow risks, interest rate risks and credit risks. The course also includes discussion on current issues on risk management- global economic crisis (subprime crisis, the role of risk management failures, etc).

The course of rural construction will introduce the learner to the concepts and techniques to establish different rural structures.

This course describes the dynamic nature of rural societies in developing countries with particular emphasis on Rwanda and other East African countries. it concerns with students’ understanding of concepts such as rural sociology, social relationships, social institutions, social groups, culture and social change with its characteristics in rural areas. The course also focuses on how the nature of rural societies in general affects agricultural extension activities in rural areas and how to analyse rural people’s lives.

 This course focuses on water flow, including precipitation, evapotranspiration, stream flow, soil moisture, watershed properties, and storm water etc.

Since the University of Rwanda has embarked on the move to adopt the blended learning mode in teaching, learning and assessment approach, there has been seamless effort in order to upload modules on the UR eLearning platform. However , it was observed that there a big change to be done .

          Sample Survey and Design Experiment is an undergraduate  module for second year students in Applied statistics.

The aim of this module is:

1.      To know how organizing Statistical Survey and Collection of data;

2.      To cover sampling design and analysis methods that would be useful for research and management in many field. A well designed sampling procedure ensures that we can summarize and analyze data with a minimum of assumptions and complications.

3.      To know the fundamental designs of experiments.

This module is designed to teach students how to solve problems strategically. In particular, it demonstrates how to solve problems using an 8-step, data- and analysis-driven approach to clearly articulating the problem and objective, conducting a root cause analysis, generating and selecting solutions, planning for implementation and evaluation, and finally, implementing and evaluating the solution. This process mirrors the Plan-Do-Study-Act quality cycle, a fundamental principle of health care quality improvement

This course  will be focused on understanding the social entrepreneurship field, the role of social enterprise, typology of social enterprise in the legal aspect, sustainability of social enterprises, innovation and scaling, development of business plans for social enterprises, measurement of social impact, networking in social enterprises and the leadership of social entrepreneurs. This course emphasizes that theory and practice go hand in hand with each other.  Thus, there can be ‘no theory without practice and no practice without theory.’ Therefore, the essence of this course will be applying theory to practice and investigating the possible ways how social entrepreneurship can be applied to transform our communities.

In the final year of medical school, students will be asked to submit their dissertation as a core requirement for the completion of the last year.

Student needs to present their proposal to the rest of the group and their mentors and will be given feedback to improve their skills during the module.

In their final year, students will be required to get their IRB, collect data, analyze them and write a dissertation. They will have to defend their project via an oral presentation, which will be evaluated using a standardized form. There should be a mid-term submission of the progress report to their supervisors.

The written proposal will be evaluated based on standardized rubrics.

The dissertation will have to be submitted one month before sitting for final exam.