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Module Code:                                   SOE3161

Module Title:                                      Research methodology

Level, semester                                  III,   I

Academic year:                                  2017/2018

Lecturer           :                                  James Ntaganda

Contacts           :                                  n.jemmy@yahoo.com

Office                :                                  KIST 1, 307

Class                 :                                   3^rd year ETE and EPE (Full time)

ASSESSMENT MODES

Component                                                             Weighting (%)

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In-course assessment:    

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Assignment, quiz                                                              20%

Project proposal format                                                30%

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Report submission (30%) presentation (20%):            50%

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Total                                                                                  100%

AIM:

The content of this course aims at equipping the senior undergraduate students with research skills and tools. It has been designed for third year students to assist them in their final year projects in fourth year. The course is spread into bands of several chapters as reflected from the table of contents

Engineering Project Management module is intended to help students understand the nature of Projects and the technicalities involved in handling projects and managing the various phases of the project life cycle. The module explores the project management functions that are carried out at the different stages of a project’s life cycle and the analytical tools applied thereof.

Dear Students Welcome to this course of SOE4261: Environmental Management!

This course is for Civil Engineering students and it aims to provide an understanding of the importance of Environmental management tools in the project /program designs and implementation. It provides a clear understanding of the linkages between Environment & Development, understanding of EIA, EA, SEA and builds confidence with their applications and limitations. The module helps to integrate environmental protection measures in deferent projects/programs before their implementation. 

The module deals with basic principles to integrate environmental protection measures in deferent projects/programs before their implementation. It introduces to students a description of Environmental Impact Assessment, project-based risk management, environmental management in an organization, environmental risk considerations in policymaking, risk communication, and sources of legal regulation of environmental problems.

Dear students, be motivated and engage all your motives in this course. At the end of this module, you will be able to: 

1.       Describe the basics and importance of Environmental Impact Assessment;

2.       Assess environmental impacts of anthropogenic activities through the EIA process;

3.       Conduct the Strategic Impact Assessment on policies, plans, or programs;

4.       Integrate the international treaties, conventions, national policies, laws, and standards in environmental protection;

5.     Conduct environmental auditing  for measuring the effects of certain activities on the environment

Lecturer(s):

Dr. Télesphore Kabera, Email: elearning.unirwanda2@gmail.com

Mr. Elisée Gashugi, Email: eliseeg@yahoo.fr

Mr. Jean Claude Safari, Email: safajeco2008@gmail.com

Mr. Joseph Hahirwabasenga, Email: josephhahirwa@gmail.com

Mr. Remy Patrick Tumwizere, Email: remick055@gmail.com

The Module aims at introducing to students various means of solving various professional problems and how to act and behave in a professional and ethical manner. It will focus mainly on issues of professional conduct in relation to their various activities at their work places.

Brief description of aims and content (Not more than five lines)
This Module aims at:
i) Educating students in the understanding of social work intervention ;
ii) Defining social work intervention and its importance for practice;
iii) Exploring key steps undertaken at each level of social work intervention;
iv) Training students to become creative and practical in daily encounter with clients.

The aim of this module is to provide students with skills, knowledge and values necessary for competently practicing Social Work at different levels with focus on Micro and Mezzo levels. Practice I is undertaken after preliminary activities that introduced students to the community through study visits (Observations and voluntary work in different agencies. Prior to this, students have been and they continue to be familiarised with social work ethics and values.

The module focuses on the placement of students in situations allowing them to work with individuals, families and groups of different sizes. Students manage to develop practical skills that they need for effective practice and these include active listening, assessment, communication, relationships building, report writing and administration. They work under supervision of a field work professional designated by the receiving agency and an academic staff delegated by the concerned Department. The two supervisors collaborate closely and they guide the student in a manner that the latter is enabled to work toward the fitness of theory and practice.

Overall, students are helped to understand the needs and problems of the people; at the same time they learn how to work effectively with (and not on their behalf) these people in the process of involving them in the problem-solving process by using the methods of social work intervention and referring as much as possible to the social development and welfare policies in place in Rwanda.

The key activities to be conducted in this module are threefold:

- Preparatory sessions in class

- Effective field practice

- Report writing and presentation 

 Before going in the field, students will take some refresher training about social work ethics and principles, social work theories, methods for effective social work intervention and specific exercises on case management and group work will be given. Three sessions of 5 hours each will be enough. They will get also opportunity to explore different policies and Home Grown Solutions (HGS) to refer to for social work practice in different settings.

This  is a first  year social work module taught by  Assoc. Prof Serupia Etienne (email: serupia@yahoo.fr,mobile: 0788804455) and Dr. Hahirwa G. Joseph (email: jhahirwa@gmail.com,mobile: 0788503090). Welcome to the course. The Module Description is below attached.

Aims:

This module of Introduction to law introduces students. to the concepts of Foundations of Law, social security systems and criminology.  The aims of the module are to:

1. Understand different components of family law and the contribution of Rwandan customary law to the written law, programs regarding prevention, correction, and rehabilitation within justice systems

2. Explore basic notions of different aspects of civil and labour law

Below is the detailed Module description

The aims of this module include to define the basic concepts in health: public health, health, mental health, to describe a person who is in good mental health; to describe mental health policy (history, policy, strategies) in Rwanda, define the psychopathology, define concepts in relationship with psychopathology (psychology, pathology, mental disorder, mental illness, mental distress, stress, behavior, psychiatry) and explain the meaning of mental disorder or mental illness or mental disease. 

This is introducing you to the concepts of gender and cooperative in a more detailed ways compared to what you were familiar with. 

The aim of this module is to provide students with fundamental theories of social work intervention; and Equip students with basic tools that can help them to use information drawn from the available resources of practical methods for problem solving.

- Explore the history and development of Human Rights

- Explore core Human Rights instruments

- Demonstrate the relationship between Human Rights, Social Work and Social Justice

- Explore the development of Human Rights in Rwanda

This module takes students through different skills of research methodology: qualitative and quantitative methods, basic skills in reporting results, and  discussing findings. 

In reference to the knowledge and skills acquired so far, this module seeks to explore and understand the theories, approaches and suitable models to be referred to throughout the social work intervention in the international context. The definitions respectively of 'international social work' and 'globalisation' as well as the theoretical orientation centred on the 'person-in-evironment' (PIE) constitute the core of the module flow.