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Advanced Horticulture Production Technologies module will cover the principles, applications and practical experience of growing horticultural crops in a modified/controlled growing environment.  This module will cover the principles and applications of greenhouse technology and soil-less/ hydroponics in horticultural plants.

Dear students ,

Welcome to the Advanced New-born Health Care Module.

This course is designed to support /assist you to identify physiological changes of the newborn during transition, potential risks in adaptation, and appropriate interventions. You will employ critical thinking skills to create safe systems, environments, and practice and learn to anticipate, recognize and respond to maternal and newborn emergencies in a professional and skillful manner.

In addition, you  will :

• Apply growth and development theory, identify patterns and risk factors for mother and infant, and work as members of an interdisciplinary team. In order to support evidence-based practice, students will learn to access research evidence for newborn care,
• Apply principles of family-centered care, social justice, and ethical care in a low resource context. Competently perform neonatal resuscitation skills including effective bag / mask ventilation, chest compressions, medication administration, and post resuscitation care. 
•  Evaluate emerging technologies in the context of a low resource settings, developmental care, kangaroo mother care, etc...
• Exhibit commitment to social justice by treating all infants and their families equitably and with dignity and respect

The module equips students with the most important concepts in Public Finance and makes them familiar with different tools for the analysis of public interventions. It includes the effects of government taxing and spending on the economy, including economic efficiency and the distribution of income and wealth. Core topics will be market failure and taxation as well as the political economy and public choice. It includes as well a framework, which enables students to better understand and investigate real world questions regarding public interventions, taxation and redistribution independently.

The module will provide the students with an opportunity to critically examine and utilize research and explore its application to practice, to develop ability to critically review existing literature and to identify gaps in practice and knowledge, to gain practical skills required to conduct research from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives.

The course provides advanced knowledge in taxation. the course will coverr areas PIT, CIT, Tax audit and investigation, tax planning, transfer pricing and VAT

This module aims to........

The main objective of this course is two-fold:

i) To equip students with a clear understanding of the meaning, importance and rationale for promoting VC approaches in promoting agricultural transformation for development; and

ii) To equip students with competences and capabilities to conduct VC mapping and critical analyses; with a view to identifying gaps to address; and devise appropriate strategic action plans to address them.

Specifically: i )To introduce students to the meaning of, importance, and to the rationale for promoting VC approaches; and ii)To guide students through the tasks of VC mapping and VC analysis - including in the Mapping of the 3 levels of VCs, Plotting the relationships in VCs and in Differentiating between various structures (maps) of various commodities and/or entities (Farmer organizations).

The module of Agricultural Production Economics and Applied Statistics is designed for helping students to learn advance the study of agricultural production economics and to learn applied Statistics to agricultural sector. 

1. Module General Introduction

The module of Environmental Economics & Natural Resources Management proposed here mainly concerns the third year students of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development and fourth year students of Agribusiness options of the Department of Rural Development and Agricultural Economics, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences of the University of Rwanda.

1.1. Pursued Objectives

(i)     The first objective is to acquire basic knowledge of the environment so as to obtain an overview of the impacts of the use of natural resources on the functioning and balance of the biosphere.

(ii)    As second objective, the module of Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Management aims to understand the principles of economic analysis applied to the management of the environment and natural resources while focussing on the microeconomic approach. Sometime economic models will be used to analyse the efficiency of market allocation of the various instruments available to policy makers through the comparison of methods and principles proposed by different authors.

1.2. Learning and Teaching Strategies

The learning and teaching strategy will comprise: lectures, practical exercises and assignments in the computer lab, group works and plenary presentations in the class. Participatory teaching approaches (e.g. give more space for students to express themselves), making available teaching materials and respective technologies (text book, hand-outs, Power Point presentations) and providing more group exercises to materialize theoretical aspects of the module and allow more interactions between students and lecturer(s).

 1.3. Assessment Strategy

The assessment will comprise group and individual assignments, presentations of proposed topics, Continuous Assessment Tests (CATs)/ and a written final exam. Examinations will cover lectures, assigned reading materials, and discussions. CATs, assignments and presentations will make up to 60% while the final exam will be counted for 40%.

 2. Module intended learning outcomes

Towards the end of the module, students will have acquired a framework allowing them to analyze environmental problems, natural resources issues and policies in an economic context. Students will appreciate the concepts of opportunity costs in political or private decision-making and the importance of discounting future costs and benefits, natural resources Management approaches, economic valuation of Ecosystems and biodiversity and externalities’ management and policy

 3. Key readings

1. James Matthew Alston (2020). The Best Books on Environmental Economics

2.  Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling - Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing

3. Actual issues of environmental economics [on line]. https://www.researchgate.net/publication /319433901_ENVIRONMENTAL_ECONOMICS_TEXTBOOKS

4. Rose Anne Devlin et al. (1999). The Benefits of Environmental Improvement: Theory and Practice.

5. Ian J et al. (2003). Applied Environmental Economics: A GIS Approach to Cost-Benefit Analysis By Cambridge University Press

6. John V. Krutilla et al.  (1988). Environmental Resources and Applied Welfare Economics: Essays in Honor. Resources for the Future.

7. Alan Gilpin (2000). Environmental Economics: A Critical Overview , Wiley.

8. Robert W. Crandall et al. (1983).  Controlling Industrial Pollution: The Economics and Politics of Clean Air, Brookings Institution.

9. Alfred GreinerWilli Semmler (2008). The Global Environment, Natural Resources, and Economic Growth,  Oxford University Press

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course students shall be expected to demonstrate a clear understanding and knowledge of

APA Concepts: Agricultural Policy; Policy cycle; Policy analysis; and

Global, regional and national Economic Development &Poverty Reduction Strategies:

The MDGs and  SDGs; AU Agenda 2063; EAC Vision 2050; and Rwanda’s Vision 2020

EDPRS I, II

NAP – National Agriculture Policy (including Animal, Forestry and Aquatic Resource Policies)

National Land Policy;

National Investment Strategy;

National Environmental Policy/Strategy; and

Strategic Plan for Agricultural Transformation (SPAT I, II, III, & IV)

Upon successful completion of the course students shall be expected to demonstrate capabilities:

To describe, compare and analyse various  policies in relation to global, regional and national development agenda

To propose appropriate interventions (if any) and design strategic remedial action plans

Upon successful completion of the course students shall be expected to demonstrate capabilities:

To write a concise report in originality

To present the results

To conduct reasoned discussions; and

To review relevant literature review and make an appropriate use of references

Upon successful completion of the course students shall be expected to demonstrate capabilities:

To independently carry out field surveys

To apply basic principles of policy analysis

Objectives

(i) The first objective of the module is to help students to understand the role of the evolutionary process and the role of institutions in shaping economic behaviour.

(ii) The second objective of the module is to equip students with the understanding of the concepts of Agricultural Policy Analysis in terms of the notions and in the international context:  Agricultural policy, Policy formulation & policy cycle, Policy critique/analysis (SWOT); and Rwanda’s Agriculture Policy. Also to equip students with skills & capabilities to conduct policy analyses  in any socio-economic setting – particularly those involved with Agric. & Rural Development  in Developing Countries in general; and Rwanda in particular.

Financial management provides a foundation of the main topics in financial economics covering selected topics in corporate finance and asset pricing. In corporate finance we will be discussing capital budgeting, valuation, capital structure, and payout policy.

Welcome to the module of Financial Management. Financial Management is a general management of principles to financial resources. The components has  7 chapters. In this component  different elements of financial Management will be shown in details. 

Research is a careful and detailed study into a specific problem, concern, or issue using the scientific method. In research you try and learn something by performing an experiment, usually when there is a problem that necessitate a solution. The role of statistics in research is to function as a tool in designing research, analyzing its data and drawing conclusions therefrom.

In this module, you will learn how to generate research projects from a problem, methods of data collection and analyse collected data statistically to generate results/information necessary to guide the process of problem solving

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By the end of this module, students should be able to differentiate different types of agroforestry systems, describe components interaction in agroforestry systems and identify and describe principles standards and practices of organic farming.

 The module aims at developing the students’ listening and reading skills, Academic Essay writing skills and referencing techniques; professional writing skills including letter, report, minute writing etc, to equip students with advanced computer application skills and learn how to use the computer as a problem-solving tool (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access) and to provide students with Networking and internet skills. The student will address the Agricultural Extension System and approaches of agricultural extension.

This module will equip students with strong practical skills in regard to integrating forest activities into other land use options for environmental, ecological, and socio-economic issues.

The attachment report will be evaluated by the teaching staff of the departments. The external supervisor will daily evaluate the internees and award marks which will be part of the final score for the students.

Strategy for feedback and student support during the module

During this module, the lecturer will interact with students with their external supervisors. Questions will be asked orally, students will obtain further help in their studies by approaching their lecturers at mutually convenient times. 

Also, a supervising lecturer will visit you at the industrial attachment placement so that you interact on the daily activities you are engaged in, the lessons that you are gaining challenges encountered and how you mitigate them, and if the activities carried out met the modules' intended learning outcome.

The field supervising lecturer will also meet the field supervisor to discuss the progress of the students, including professional ethics, and eagerness to learn.

The School Industrial Attachment Coordinator is Dr. Margueritte Mukangango.

Phone: (+250) 788545889

E-mail:  mukangango2@gmail.com