Courses with Gaps

Site analysis and site valuation. Capitalization of income from freehold interests in property including DCF approach. Capitalization of income from leasehold property. Dual rate adjusted for tax. Single rate valuation of leasehold interests in property. Categories of leasehold investment and valuation approaches. Valuation of leasehold investment; variable profit rents. Calculation of premiums. Renewal and extension of lease. Cost-in-the market area analysis. Effect of planning, current economic conditions and legislation on value of property. Developmental valuation. Mineral valuations; capital, budgeting, cash flow. Residual techniques of valuation. Valuation of specialized properties including petrol filling stations, hotels. Contemporary methods of valuation: capital asset pricing model (CAPM), real value approach, natural model, modified national model. Valuation of special properties: filling stations, hotels, recreational properties like stadia, privately owned schools, hospitals, and other property equipped for business to earn profit. Issues in mineral, plant and machinery valuations. Insurance valuations. Contemporary methods of income property valuation: historical background, real value approach, equated yield approach, real value/equated yield hybrid approach, capital asset pricing model (CAPM) approach, Arbitrage valuation model, Hedonic Valuation model. Environmental valuations. Compulsory land acquisition and compensation valuation: The Land Use Act and pre-land use Act legislations, severance and injurious affection, disturbance. Agricultural and cultural artefacts valuations. The Estate Surveyor and Valuer as an expert witness. Identifications and definitions of plant, machinery, equipment and industrial buildings/premises in their categories. Survey, inspection and determination of functional and economic lives and efficiency of plant, machinery and equipment. Theories of depreciation and methods of ascertaining accrued depreciation. Various purposes for which plant machinery, equipment and industrial premises may be valued. Different methods of valuing plants, machinery and equipment

This course is designed to explore multiple theoretical approaches to the study of advertising and the digital media vis-à-vis the dynamics of an ever-changing visual ecology. Chosen texts will be developed to examine the messages’ cultural reflections, nature, and characteristics. Students will initially be required to develop an image bank and an in-depth bibliography of critical texts addressing the construction of visual imagery within a defined period of time and/or location.

A chronological survey of art in Africa beginning with the rock art traditions in Southern Africa dated 70,000 BC typified among others in the Blombos Stone to the Saharan frescos in North Africa, the art of pharaonic Egypt and ancillary traditions of Nubians (Kushite kingdom), Meroe and Axium, Bantu and Sudanese kingdoms and city-states in Africa south of the Sahara to 1,700 AD. The focus shall be on the stylistic progression of forms, symbolism, and the social value of works as metaphors that bear pan-continental identities.

Introduction to graphics description and use of drawing equipment, basic drafting techniques, line drawing, scale and proportions, lettering convention, representation on drawing basic descriptive geometry, surface development, inclined cuts and true sections. Effect of light on shape and form, shadow protection rendering techniques. Simple projections, various types of tracing and drawing papers. Standard sizes, right and wrong tiles. Design process with example of a small house project, importance of various spaces, linking of various spaces. Development of elevations. Difference between presentation drawings and working drawings. Introduction to Draughtsman ship. Site: relation of site with design solution, site selection factors for various types of topographic construction of different scales and their uses in practice.

The course introduces majors in art history to the history and methods of the discipline. It surveys the approach and methods adopted by Gorgio Vasari’s Life of the Artists and its artistic biography approach. Johan Joachim Winkelmann, Jacob Burckhardt among others are explored. Topics such as determination of periods, stylistics and atelier attribution and provenance studies, the primitive and the progressive chronology applied to African art history constitute the core of this course.

General introduction to various aspects of surveying, use of simple survey equipment; principles and practice of chain surveying, compass traversing. Introduction to survey draughtsmanship.

General introduction to the various facts of land surveying, determination of vertical distance errors, and corrections in levelling cross-sections and profiles: contouring, enlargement and reduction of maps, years. Introduction to Geographic land information systems, use of basic GPS devices.

The course examines the basics of water supply prospecting, treatment, storage and distribution to communities-Domestic, Industrial and Commercial needs. Hot water equipment and installation. Calculations for demand, selection of pipes and fittings. Drainage systems, waste disposal, sanitary systems. Bye law requirements of fire-fighting equipment and installation. Gas services in buildings. Aspects of internal drainage design, rainwater drainage, subsoil drainage, external drainage design. Sewage treatment plants. Acoustics-fundamentals, concepts, hearing and noise acceptability, measurement of acoustic properties, calculation of noise levels (outdoors and indoors). Principles of noise control, noise control in practice. Design for noise and hearing. Use of electroacoustic aids.

Sound patterns in English Language (vowels and consonants, phonetics and phonology). English word classes (lexical and grammatical words, definitions, forms, functions, usages, collocations). Sentence in English (types: structural and functional, simple and complex). Grammar and Usage (tense, mood, modality and concord, aspects of language use in everyday life). Logical and Critical Thinking and Reasoning Methods (Logic and Syllogism, Inductive and Deductive Argument and Reasoning Methods, Analogy, Generalisation and Explanations). Ethical considerations, Copyright Rules and Infringements. Writing Activities: (Pre-writing , Writing, Post writing, Editing and Proofreading; Brainstorming, outlining, Paragraphing, Types of writing, Summary, Essays, Letter, Curriculum Vitae, Report writing, Note making and Mechanics of writing). Comprehension Strategies: (Reading and types of Reading, Comprehension Skills, 3RsQ). Information and Communication Technology in modern Language Learning. Language skills for effective communication. Major word formation processes. Writing and reading comprehension strategies. Logical and critical reasoning for meaningful presentations. Art of public speaking and listening. Report writing.

The basic techniques of map making, the use of variety of cartographic and other devices for mapping and gathering environmental data; scope and limitations of the visual presentation of statistics sources. Scale and error factors, map design, the logic of conceptual diagrams including system diagrams.