Courses with Gaps

Definitions and concepts of land and land use; the need for planning land use. Attributes of land use planning, methods of land use planning, principles of land use; land use determinants, land use dynamics and integrated spatial solutions for problems on different scales. Area-oriented integration of various tools for land use planning, regional and environmental management. Agricultural/rural land use planning: models of land use planning, and concept of entrepreneurship (entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship/Corporate entrepreneurship,). theories, rationale and relevance of entrepreneurship (Schumpeterian and other perspectives. Risk-taking, necessity and opportunity-based entrepreneurship and creative destruction). Characteristics of entrepreneurs (opportunity seeker, risk taker, natural and nurtured, problem solver and change agent, innovator and creative thinker). Entrepreneurial thinking (critical thinking, reflective thinking, and creative thinking). Innovation (concept of innovation, dimensions of innovation, Change and innovation, knowledge and innovation). Enterprise formation, partnership and networking (basics of business plan, forms of business ownership, business registration and forming alliances and join ventures). Contemporary entrepreneurship issues (knowledge, skills and technology, intellectual property, virtual office, networking). Entrepreneurship in Nigeria biography of inspirational entrepreneurs, youth and women entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship support institutions, youth enterprise networks and environmental and cultural barriers to entrepreneurship). Basic principles of e-commerce.

Statistics systems. Nature, types, sources, methods of collection and problem of official statistics. Index numbers, theory, construction and problems. Descriptive statistics. Basic principles of probability; discrete and continuous random variables (binomial, normal, t, chi-square, Poisson, other univariate distributions); joint distributions; sampling distributions; central limit theorem; properties of estimators; linear combinations of random variables; testing and estimation; maximum likelihood principle, basics of hypotheses testing. Socio-economic indicators: nature, types, uses and computation. Nature, sources, contents and problems of official statistics in selected sectors.

Income tax: nature and incident. Allowances on deductions. Assessment of owners and occupiers of landed property. Taxation of capital estate duty. Capital transfer tax. Elementary principles of national finance with particular reference to central and local government finance. The caucus and principles of taxation. Taxation distinguished from other land burdens. Methods of taxation proprietary interests in land. Income tax. Inheritance tax. Local rates and other statutory charges. National taxation policies relating to land. Organization and administration of rating. Valuation list and preparation objections; proposal and appeals. Assessment of property. Occupation and hereditament. Tone of list; gross value; net annual value; rateable value. Rebus sic stantibus. Rating valuation practice. Hypothetical tenant. Valuation assumptions. Vacant and to let exemptions. Adjustment of gross value to net annual value. Alterations of the valuation list. 400 Level Estate Management

Scope of philosophy; notions, meanings, branches and problems of philosophy. Logic as an indispensable tool of philosophy. Elements of syllogism, symbolic logic— the first nine rules of inference. Informal fallacies, laws of thought, nature of arguments. Valid and invalid arguments, logic of form and logic of content — deduction, induction and inferences. Creative and critical thinking. Impact of philosophy on human existence. Philosophy and politics, philosophy and human conduct, philosophy and religion, philosophy and human values, philosophy and character molding. 300 level Ceramics option

An introduction to economics, its scope methodology and relationship to the building/construction industry. Supply and demand considerations, elasticity, GDP, the Nigerian financial system, money and banking regulations. General principles of economics (micro/macroeconomics). The basic problems of resource allocation and modes of production (building components). Factors of production and law of diminishing returns, methods of production, market structures (perfect competition, monopoly, and oligopoly), structure of the Nigerian economy (real sector, service sector), marketing and sales management, and Pricing methods (demand and supply, tendering procedures). 200 Level

Factors affecting supply and demand for land and buildings. Principles of investment. Stocks and shares. Interest rates and investment yields, the property market methods of valuation. Factors affecting demand and supply of land and buildings of various uses. Outgoings and the different letting arrangements: FRI, IRI. of leases and tenancies. Income patterns and variations. Property valuation process/procedure generally, and of the different methods of valuation: Direct market price comparison, replacement cost. Profit/accounts, and land residual methods. Sources of data for valuation.

Analysis of sales and letting of freehold and leasehold property, use of valuation tables. Effect of income tax on sinking fund, premiums, surrender and renewals of leases. Investment/ income method of valuation approaches: term and reversion, hard-core; traditional/conventional (initial/all-risks yield cum fixed annuity capitalization), modern/contemporary (equated yield cum variable annuity capitalization). Determination of freehold and leasehold investment/initial/all-risk yield: analysis of transactions involving sales and lettings of comparable freeholds let at rack/full rental value. Virtual/sitting rent calculations. Valuations involving freehold currently let at full rental value (FRV) on full repairing and insuring (FRI) basis and currently not let at FRV and not on FRI basis. Valuations involving deferred receipts and payments, and varying incomes. Effects of capital expenditure and present and future premium payments on rental values and valuations associated therewith. Valuations of leaseholds: long and short terms. Effects of income tax on freehold and leasehold valuations and adjustment to the year’s purchase. Applications of statistics and computer techniques in valuation.

This course focuses on the interface between society and the product of art. How art serves the needs of society and the aesthetic dimensions of art, the democracy of art, the role of art in the education process, art and the ethics of living art as a product of culture, art and meaning in society Issues of culture and art education; examination of various forms of art as representations of knowledge, belief and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, art as symbolic and cultural capital. Epistemology, the meaning of function, and the conceptual location of visual culture in society.

Uses of computers in statistical computing. Introduction to various statistical packages. Use of statistical packages in solving problems in statistics. spread sheet applications. Such as SPSS, STATA, MINITAB. can be used to demonstrate statistical methodology.

To advance the knowledge of recreation and (R&T), attributes and categorization of (R & T) resources, infrastructure services and participation, socio-economic evaluation and the ecological impacts. Definition and Concept. Nature and classification of tourism resources and recreational land uses. Water base (R&T) Land base (R&T). Urban and Rural distributions Infrastructure and services. Administration and Management of (R & T). The positive and negative impacts of Recreation and Tourism.