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Industrial psychology. Principle, practices and problems. African perspective. Nature of work and organisations in Africa. Major deterrent factors. Psychological research in organisation. Personnel selection, Personnel testing in organisations and performance appraisal. Training in industrial organisation. Problems of personnel training. Managerial psychology. Leadership and supervision in organisations. Motivation morale, job satisfaction and incentives. Organisational psychology. Working condition in organisations. Engineering psychology. Human errors, fatigue, accidents and safety. Consumer psychology. Organisational effectiveness.

The course introduces the students in the public health program to the historical perspective of the international health agencies. It also highlights the policies governing international collaboration and coordination on issues relating to health and development at the global level. Various agencies involved and activities of these bodies are also highlighted. Historical backgrounds to the development of international collaboration in health issues are covered. Special attention is devoted to the activities of the United Nations Agencies, particularly those of the W.H.O, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA and Bilateral agencies such as ODA, USAID, the World Bank, amongst others. The policies governing International Coordination of Global health are also reviewed. Students should be taught role of International Philanthropic organisations such as Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation in Health care, also sources of funding global Health and access to funding.

Global Nutrition situation. Globalisation of food systems, Concepts of food and nutrition security and strategies. Global harmony through nutrition, Population, gender and world economies. Food biotechnology and nutrition; Multiple burden of malnutrition. World food and nutrition policy formulations. Global environmental protection and nutrition. Nutrition response in emergency. Role of international relief agencies. Political dimensions of Food and Nutrition. United Nation Agencies, Bilateral Organisations and International NGOs. Food subsidy as part of social protection. Nutrition interventions – supplementary feeding programmes (Food aids, food subsidy, food stamps, food for work and many others.), Scaling Up Nutrition Movement (SUN).

This is an introductory course on Artificial Intelligence. The topics include; Overview: foundations, scope, problems, and approaches of AI. Intelligent agents: reactive, deliberative, goal-driven, utility-driven, and learning agents; Artificial Intelligence programming techniques. Problem-solving through Search: forward and backward, state-space, blind, heuristic, problem-reduction, A, A*, AO*, minimax, constraint propagation, neural, stochastic, and evolutionary search algorithms, sample applications. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: ontologies, foundations of knowledge representation and reasoning, representing and reasoning about objects, relations, events, actions, time, and space; predicate logic, situation calculus, Content logics, reasoning with defaults, reasoning about knowledge, sample applications. Planning: planning as search, partial order planning, construction and use of planning graphs. Representing and Reasoning with Uncertain Knowledge: probability, connection to logic, independence, Bayes rule, bayesian networks, probabilistic inference, sample applications. Decision-Making: basics of utility theory, decision theory, sequential decision problems, elementary game theory, sample applications. Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition: learning from memorisation, examples, explanation, and exploration. learning nearest neighbor, naive Bayes, and decision tree classifiers, Q-learning for learning action policies, applications. Sample Applications of AI, student project presentations.

Philosophy and underlying principles of Audiology practices. History, ethical orientation and scope of practice. Roles of Audiology in preventive, curative and rehabilitative care. Importance of patients and patient’s family in audiological treatment. Responsibilities of the clinician and the patient. Student/patient relationship. Respect and confidentiality. Patient care communication – Professional conduct and ethical practice. Teamwork. Listening and interviewing skills. Use and interpretation of verbal and nonverbal communication. Emotional responses to, and strategies for managing patient’s behaviour, patient’s safety and comfort. Definition of terms like vibrations, frequency, intensity and duration as related to sound. Pitch, loudness and duration as related to psychoacoustics.

Description foundational concepts of biostatistics. Introduction to application of basic theoretical concepts of biostatistics in health science, epidemiology, and public health. Knowledge of measurement scales, types of variables and data along with various statistical methods for summarising and presenting different types of data will be provided. Introduction of the concept of probability with its applications in epidemiology and public health. Moderate level presentation of important probability distributions applied commonly in epidemiology and public health.

The heart; events of the cardiac cycle. Control of cardiac contractility. Cardiac electrophysiology. Properties of cardiac muscles. Cardiac output - measurement and control. Haemodynamics of circulation. Arterial blood pressure and its regulation. Cardiovascular reflexes. Peripheral resistance and local control of the circulation. Regional blood flow. Cardiovascular changes in exercise, haemorrhage and shock. Respiratory physiology – functions of upper respiratory tract. Mechanics of respiration including compliance. Surfactant. Lung volume and capacities. Pulmonary gas exchange. Blood gas transport. Pulmonary function tests. Nervous and chemical control of respiration. Response to hypoxia, high altitude, exercise and artificial respiration. 300 Level