At the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Identify possible sound patterns in English;
• List notable language skills and classify word formation processes;
• Construct simple and fairly complex sentences in English;
• Apply logical and critical reasoning skills for meaningful presentations;
• Demonstrate an appreciable level of the art of public speaking and listening; and
• Write simple and technical reports.

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate understanding of basic concepts related to management knowledge;
• Explain the roles, skills, and functions of management;
• Identify organizational problems and the processes of decision making;
• Describe the complexities associated with management of human resources in the organizations; and
• Apply the knowledge in handling management complexities.

On completion of this course, the students should be able to:

• Describe the nature and functions of Public Administration;
• Identify the different approaches to the study of Public Administration;
• Explain the role of Public Administration in national development; and
• Discuss the forms of control over Public Administration.

At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Identify the basic concepts in economics including scarcity, choice and scale of preference; basic laws of demand and supply;
• Explain the nature of elasticity and its applications, as well as short and long run production functions; and
• Discuss pricing of factors of production and market structure consisting of perfect competitive market and imperfect competitive markets.

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Understand the significance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and its application to libraries and Information Services;
• Acquire essential ICT skills for information professionals, understand data communication and internet resources in electronic storage systems, and explore web technology resources;
• Learn the impact of ICT on modern libraries, along with ethical considerations and challenges related to applying ICT in library settings, particularly in the context of Nigerian libraries.

At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Discuss key conceptions in political science such as politics, power, authority, influence, state, nation, and many others;
• Appreciate the nature, form, and character of politics;
• Identify the contributions of the founding/leading scholars of political science;
• Differentiate between political science as a field of study and politics as an art or Practise;
• Explain the relationship among the various concepts in political science and many others;
• Define the relationship between political science and other fields of study (other social sciences, humanities, and the natural sciences).

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Explain basic components of computers and other computing devices;
• Describe the various applications of computers;
• Explain information processing and its roles in the society;
• Describe the Internet, its various applications and its impact;
• Explain the different areas of the computing discipline and its specializations; and
• Demonstrate practical skills on using computers and the internet.

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Grasp environmental studies’ fundamental principles, human-environment relationships, and the impact of human activities on nature;
• Examine energy resource usage and its environmental consequences, and investigate chemicals and waste effects on ecosystems and health.

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Describe the nature and scope of accounting;
• Differentiate between bookkeeping and accounting;
• Discuss the objectives of financial accounting and appreciate various branches of accounting;
• Understand methods of recording accounting data using manual and electronic devices;
• Prepare basic accounting records, from primary books to the extraction of trial balances, correct basic posting errors, and prepare bank reconciliation statements.

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Outline contemporary health issues and broadly classify them;
• Discuss some basic concepts related to clinical medicine, disease prevention/management, and population health;
• Explain the etiology, prevention, and management of key non-communicable diseases;
• Discuss the epidemiology, personal and public health consequences of selected infectious diseases;
• Discuss the personal and social determinants of health;
• Explain the place of disease prevention and health promotion in personal and population health;
• Explain the connection between contemporary health issues and sustainable development goals;
• Relate contemporary health issues to global health challenges.

At the end of this course, the student will be able to:

• Have a deepened understanding of communication skills both in spoken and written English;
• Demonstrate an appreciable level of proficiency in the arts of public speaking, listening, and effective communication.

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Analyze the historical foundation of the Nigerian culture and arts in pre-colonial times;
• List and identify the major linguistic groups in Nigeria;
• Explain the gradual evolution of Nigeria as a political unit;
• Analyze the concepts of Trade, Economic, and Self-reliance status of the Nigerian peoples towards national development;
• Enumerate the challenges of the Nigerian State towards Nation building;
• Analyze the role of the Judiciary in upholding people’s fundamental rights;
• Identify acceptable norms and values of the major ethnic groups in Nigeria; and
• List and suggest possible solutions to identifiable Nigerian environmental, moral, and value problems.

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Define the concept and purpose of project management;
• Identify the processes and actors in project management;
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of key project management methods;
• Describe the tools and techniques used in project management; and
• Identify projects bottleneck and possible solutions.

At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Discuss the basic concept of functions, index numbers and dependent and independent variables in functions, as well as national income accounting;
• Examine circular flow of income with simple two-sector model;
• Explain elementary issues on consumption, savings, investment, and government’s revenue, expenditure and roles of domestic money and foreign exchange.

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Identify and explain basic concepts in the study of government;
• Bring out the relationship among these concepts to understand better how the government operates;
• Discuss the nature and functions of the three organs of government;
• Explain the reasons for the adoption of the different administrative systems;
• Explain the nature of the administrative systems and the differences between them;
• State the differences between the Presidential and Parliamentary forms of government;
• Identify the guiding principles of political systems such as separation of powers and rule of law;
• Explain the need for instruments of political interactions including political parties, pressure groups, interest groups, and public opinion.

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Understand the connection between the two revolutions of the 18th Century;
• Discuss the role of the Founding Fathers in the emergence of Sociology as a discipline;
• Analyze and describe the social structure and dynamics of human society;
• Identify the relationships between Sociology and other social sciences;
• Define the basic terms and concepts of Sociology, including culture and the process of socialization; and
• Familiarize themselves with key concepts in sociological discourse.

At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Discuss the basic theoretical orientation of the discipline and subject matter;
• Understand the basic theoretical orientations and how psychology relates to other social sciences disciplines;
• Understand basic research methods in psychology are introduced and the uses of Psychology in modern life.

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Identify the basic concepts of mathematics and demonstrate a preliminary understanding of mathematical applications in the field of management;
• Perform basic computations in algebra, differential, and integral calculus;
• Develop problem-solving skills from the mathematical ideas learned;
• Distinguish basic mathematics principles and their applications.

At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Identify and explain basic concepts in the study of government;
• Bring out the relationship among these concepts to understand better how the government operates;
• Discuss the nature and functions of the three organs of government;
• Explain the reasons for the adoption of the different administrative systems;
• Explain the nature of the administrative systems and the differences between them;
• State the differences between the Presidential and Parliamentary forms of government;
• Identify the guiding principles of political systems such as separation of powers and the rule of law;
• Explain the need for instruments of political interactions including political parties, pressure groups, interest groups, and public opinion.

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Explain the concepts, characteristics, and theories of entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, opportunity seeking, new value creation, and risk-taking;
• Analyze the importance of micro and small businesses in wealth creation, employment, and financial independence;
• Engage in entrepreneurial thinking;
• Identify key elements in innovation and describe the stages in enterprise formation, partnership, and networking, including business planning;
• State the basic principles of e-commerce.

On completion of this course, the students should be able to:

• State the classifications or typologies of organisations;
• State the basic principles of organisations;
• Distinguish between the functions of line, staff, and auxiliary agencies in Public Administration;
• Explain the meaning and functions of the Civil Service;
• Discuss the relationship between domestic and international public administrative practices;
• Examine the nature, strengths, and weaknesses of the bureaucracy.

On completion of this course, the students should be able to:

• Define the concept of office administration and its importance in the world;
• Describe the essentials of office training;
• Demonstrate the writing of business and official letters;
• Mention emerging skills and techniques for office administration;
• Assess the role of ICT in office management;
• Identify the differences between manual and electronic records management.

At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Examine the nature of legal administration in Nigeria;
• Discuss the need for judicial processes;
• State and explain the sources of Nigerian laws;
• Identify the powers and hierarchical arrangements of courts in Nigeria;
• Explain differences in the administration of justice between autocratic and democratic governments.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Examine public policy making, implementation, and evaluation;
• Identify policy actors and agenda setting;
• Evaluate the theories and models of public policy;
• Describe case studies in policy analysis;
• Discuss problems of policy making, implementation, and evaluation.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Describe how the world has been reduced to a global village due to ICT;
• Understand the critical relevance of ICT in policy analysis and administration, and executive and managerial positions;
• Understand the meaning and importance of Cyber security; Information management system; digital administration; Infrastructure and ICT;
• Practicalize administration in a technology-driven world;
• Integrate technology and software tools into administrative practices.

At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Discuss the nexus between economics and politics;
• Explain the determinants of class formations; and define class relations;
• Discuss the premises of contending theories on production, distribution, and exchange; and
• Explain the impact of such theories on the state, economy, and society.

At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Explain the connection between foreign policy and national interest;
• Identify that foreign policy formulation takes account of domestic and external factors;
• Discuss the composition of the foreign policy elite of a country;
• Analyze the dynamic nature of foreign policy;
• Highlight examples of foreign policy postures of different countries under different regimes, like French policy of no permanent enemy or permanent friend but permanent national interest under General Charles D’Gualle.

A student who has successfully gone through this course should be able to:

• Know the basic features of philosophy as an academic discipline;
• Identify the main branches of philosophy & the centrality of logic in philosophical discourse;
• Know the elementary rules of reasoning;
• Distinguish between valid and invalid arguments;
• Think critically and assess arguments in texts, conversations, and day-to-day discussions;
• Critically assess the rationality or otherwise of human conduct under different existential conditions;
• Develop the capacity to extrapolate and deploy expertise in logic to other areas of knowledge; and
• Guide his or her actions, using the knowledge and expertise acquired in philosophy and logic.

At the end of this course, the students should be able to:

• Recall the major colonial and post-colonial political, constitutional, and administrative developments in Nigeria;
• Examine the pattern of organisation of governmental institutions in terms of their composition, structure, functions, and reforms of the civil service;
• Evaluate the issues of transparency and public accountability;
• Discuss the reasons for and the impact of colonialism on the political and administrative development in Nigeria; and
• Appraise the landmark reforms of the Civil Service.

This course will enable the students to:

• Identify the opportunity of understanding and participating in Rural and Community Development;
• Define the basic related concepts in rural and community development;
• Explain the dynamics of community leadership;
• Evaluate the theories of rural and community development; and
• Appraise the role of community development in national development.

At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Explain the foundations of the policy process;
• Define and explain the key stages of the policy process;
• Obtain a broad understanding of the policy environment;
• Understand the salient institutions involved in the policy process and their roles;
• Understand how the structure of political institutions interacts with the policy process;
• Analyze how various factors that exercise influence in the various stages of the policy process; and
• Recognize the constraints that policymakers face when making decisions on behalf of the public.

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Explain the basic concepts in peace, security, and strategic studies;
• Understand the fundamentals of War Studies;
• Identify and describe the contemporary global security issues;
• Explain the strategies for meeting the emerging security challenges;
• Compare and contrast traditional and modern security threats; internal and external security threats;
• Situate Africa within the context of these new threats;
• Examine the preparedness or otherwise of African countries to meet the challenges.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Understand the basic concepts and principles of statistics in the decision-making process;
• Discuss the importance of statistics to the study of Public Policy and Administration;
• Identify the application areas of statistics in decision-making;
• Demonstrate the practical application of statistics to the analysis of public policy issues;
• Understand how to analyse contemporary issues through scientific logical deductions.

At the end of the course, students are expected to:

• Understand the place of leadership in the development of any group, organisation, or nation;
• Understand that leadership is a responsibility for decision-making and problem-solving;
• Describe the meaning and nature of leadership; theories of leadership;
• Explain leadership and the process of decision-making;
• Understand leadership and problem-solving as well as the link between leadership and management skills;
• Leadership and corporate governance, leadership and business ethics;
• Define the meaning of corporate social responsibility; leadership and effective communication /presentation skills;
• Explain leadership and office/people management, and improve their report writing skills.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Evaluate the theories of administration;
• Explain the links between Administrative Theories and Administration;
• Identify the difficulties in applying administrative theories in developing countries;
• Discuss the utility of the theory of administration; and
• Recommend better administrative practices for the Nigerian public service.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Identify the actors in the international system;
• Recognize the different international organisations;
• Examine the ways by which international organisations and actors are administered;
• Evaluate North-South Relations;
• Examine international law, morality, and their application; and
• Appraise international civil service.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Discuss the environment of Public Personnel Administration;
• Identify the functions of public personnel administration;
• Determine the need for training and development;
• Describe the management of separation – retirement, pension, and gratuity;
• Evaluate the practice of personnel administration in the Nigerian public sector.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• State the step-by-step approaches to starting and completing a research project;
• Apply computer applications in data management and analysis of research in Public Administration;
• Formulate hypotheses and testing of hypotheses;
• Report on the findings, documentation, and references of research work.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• State the meaning and relationship of public finance to other branches of study;
• Mention the instruments of macroeconomic policies in Nigeria;
• Identify the various sources of revenue accruing to the federal, state, local government, and public enterprises;
• Explain the concept of user charges in Public finance;
• Appraise the principles of revenue allocation in Nigeria;
• Analyze income and expenditure aspects of government.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• State laws, rules, regulations, and constitutions for professional administrators;
• Explain the fundamental human rights;
• Determine the sources of law;
• State processes for redress of grievances;
• Examine the separation of powers and control of administrative powers.

Students should be able to:

• Review the basic concepts of local government (e.g. decentralization in its various forms) and power relations;
• Develop themes around which governments of various countries (federal or unitary can be compared);
• Apply these themes in such comparisons; and
• Differentiate the ways local governments in advanced countries work with developing settings like Nigeria.

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Analyze the concepts of peace, conflict, and security;
• List major forms, types, and root causes of conflict and violence;
• Differentiate between conflict and terrorism;
• Enumerate security and peace-building strategies; and
• Describe the roles of international organizations, media, and traditional institutions in peace-building.

At the end of this course, students, through case study and practical approaches, should be able to:

• Describe the key steps in venture creation;
• Spot opportunities in problems and high-potential sectors regardless of geographical location;
• State how original products, ideas, and concepts are developed;
• Develop business concepts for further incubation or pitching for funding;
• Identify key sources of entrepreneurial finance;
• Implement the requirements for establishing and managing micro and small enterprises;
• Conduct entrepreneurial marketing and e-commerce;
• Apply a wide variety of emerging technological solutions to entrepreneurship; and
• Appreciate why ventures fail due to a lack of planning and poor implementation.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• State the reasons for different behaviours at work;
• Identify the role of leadership in organisations;
• Explain reasons guiding leadership decisions in organisations;
• Determine the effect of such decisions on the workers;
• State the relevance of information technology to organisational design;
• Discuss problems associated with organisational designs;
• Enumerate conflict management strategies for organisations.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Describe the nature, meaning, and assumptions of Development Administration;
• Analyse the issues of growth and development;
• Assess the various strategies for national development;
• State the obstacles to development administration;
• Examine case studies in development administration.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Identify the basic concepts and uses of ICT in public sector management;
• State the barriers to ICT in public sector management;
• Mention recent ICT developments and opportunities in the public sector;
• Determine the policies that promote the use of ICT in the public sector;
• Explain the uses of ICT in public service delivery;
• Demonstrate the utilization of one software for management.

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

• Describe the link between the administrative and financial relationship of the three tiers of government;
• Define concepts such as fiscal federalism;
• Understand the theories of fiscal federalism;
• Distinguish between fiscal imbalance and horizontal imbalance;
• Understand theories, practices, approaches, and historical evolution of Nigerian federalism;
• Explain the challenges of intergovernmental fiscal relations.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Describe the nature of traditional administrative systems before colonialism;
• Identify the forms and types of administrative systems in Nigeria prior to colonialism;
• Discuss the centralised institutions before colonialism;
• State the groups and administration within the groups;
• Identify similarities and differences between the traditional and colonial administrative systems.

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Explain the key concepts and principles of policy evaluation;
• Differentiate between formative and summative evaluation approaches;
• Explain the models, approaches, and frameworks for policy evaluation;
• Understand the criteria and indicators for evaluating policy effectiveness;
• Appreciate the role of evaluation findings in decision-making;
• Effectively communicate evaluation results to stakeholders;
• Analyze and evaluate real-world policy cases to apply evaluation concepts.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• State the reasons and types of planning;
• Discuss the theories of planning;
• State the relationship between budgeting and planning;
• Examine planning methods in developed economies;
• Identify the problems and prospects of planning;
• Evaluate the emerging strategies in planning;
• Evaluate development planning experiences in Nigeria.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Examine public policy making, implementation, and evaluation;
• Identify policy actors and agenda setting;
• Evaluate the theories and models of public policy;
• Describe case studies in policy analysis;
• Discuss problems of policy making, implementation, and evaluation.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Know the purpose and use of files;
• Explain the content and application of the civil service rules;
• Understand financial regulations and financial memoranda;
• Understand the art of minuting, drafting; letter writing, and filing;
• Understand office norms and languages such as priority, action, and reference slips, channels of correspondence, glossary of office abbreviations, etc.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Describe the general overview of revenue sources to governments;
• Examine the nature, scope, and objectives of Public Finance Administration;
• State differences between budget and budgeting;
• Examine accounting and auditing;
• Examine cash and treasury management;
• Identify sources and management of public debt and Nigeria’s External Reserves;
• Identify public finance administration reforms in Nigeria.

On completion of this course, the students should be able to:

• Identify the rules, regulations, and principles governing the behavior of public servants and the government;
• Determine strategies on how to promote ethical performance;
• State ethical dilemmas for government officials;
• Examine the effect of unethical behavior on service delivery and development;
• Identify the agencies for managing ethics and accountability.

At the end of this course, the students will be enabled to:

• State the meaning, nature, and philosophy of social welfare policy;
• Identify the role of social welfare in the developmental process generally;
• Evaluate the theories, models of social welfare, and their applications;
• Evaluate social welfare programs in Nigeria;
• Identify the problems of social welfare administration in Nigeria;
• Enumerate arguments for and against welfare schemes in developing countries.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Describe conflicts in human society;
• Government’s efforts at managing conflicts at the local, national, and global scenes;
• Describe the types of conflicts, causes of conflicts;
• Explain the meaning of conflict management, the concepts of conflict management, and principles of conflict resolution and prevention;
• Discuss the theories of conflict management, methods, and approaches to conflict management in Nigeria;
• Demonstrate the practical approaches to understanding and resolving conflicts in contemporary Nigeria.

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

• Explain the concept, evolution, and models of industrial and labour policy in Nigeria;
• Understand the core theories of industrial and labour relations;
• Trace the history of Nigerian labour from the colonial period to present;
• Discuss major government labour policies/legislations in Nigeria from the colonial period to the present;
• Discuss the role of the state in labour and industrial policy in Nigeria, rights and responsibilities of employees;
• Understand managing industrial and labour policy as well as labour disputes and their settlement;
• Relate industrial and labour policy and information technology as well as deregulation and trade unionism in Nigeria;
• Understand international labour laws.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Discuss the relationship between programmes, projects, and development plans;
• Explain the project life cycle;
• Determine the project appraisal techniques;
• Construct and analyze the project network diagram;
• Distinguish between different types of project appraisals;
• Explain the role of leadership in project management.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Define the basic concepts and characteristics of public enterprises;
• Identify the role of public enterprises in national development;
• Evaluate the performance of public enterprises in Nigeria;
• Identify the factors contributing to poor performance;
• Examine the public enterprise reforms in Nigeria.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• State the problems of research under investigation;
• Evaluate the literature review and theoretical framework of analysis;
• Identify sources of data;
• Develop skills in analyzing and writing reports based on an empirical or library study of a specific subject matter or topic in relevant areas of Administration;
• Summarize the findings, documentation, and report writing;
• Conclude and recommend measures where necessary.

After a successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:

• Examine the benefits of studying cross-national public administration;
• Explain the rationale and significance of a comparative approach;
• Identify the limitations of comparative public administration;
• Compare public administration practices in developing nations;
• Compare public administration in Europe, Asia, America, Africa, Latin America, etc.;
• Assess the impact of globalization on public administration in Nigeria.

At the end of this course students should be able to:

• Understand the concept and the subject matter of the legislature;
• Explain the interplay between legislative decisions and the development, implementation, and impact of public policies;
• Comprehend the legislative system and process;
• Analyze how policies are formulated within legislative bodies;
• Examine the factors influencing legislative agendas and policy priorities;
• Describe the steps by which legislative proposals are formulated and translated into legal provisions;
• Understand the role of legislative committees in policy analysis and development;
• Explain the theories and models of legislative decision-making.