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Housing needs, demand and supply. Basic principles guiding housing standards; housing finance; investment by public, private and cooperative sectors, subsidies, loans and mortgage funds. Characteristics of Housing in Nigeria: design methods, construction materials, maintenance, forms and functions of elements. Housing policy: objectives and programmes. Appraisal of existing housing options in Nigeria. Case studies – planned public housing, planned private housing and traditional housing. The universality of the housing problem. Classification of dwellings by building, materials, location, tenure and design variables. Assessing housing needs and demand in quantitative terms. Population structure, household, characteristics of housing, housing delivery systems.

Basic concept of hydro graphic surveying. Z-dimensional positioning at sea and on water. Depth determination, tides and mean sea level. Sounding methods and position fixing at sea. Three- point problem, Strength of fix, Sextants and station pointer. Positioning accuracies, measuring systems and sources of errors. Navigation and positioning, tides and tidal streams. Chart and sounding datums. Mean sea level determination. Tide gauge and poles. River surveys and measurement of current and discharge.

Sounding, wave propagation, Mathews chart and vertical beam, Echo Sounder instrumentation, operation and calibration. Acoustic waves. Ports development and management. Sweeping, side looking sonar, multibeam sonar and electronic sweeping. Elements of Oceanography, tides, currents, temperature, salinity, dredging and channelization. Pressure measurement, sedimentation and beach erosion. Modern techniques in hydro graphic, bathymetric survey in reservoirs and sediment monitoring in reservoirs using bathymetric data.

This course seeks to provide a studio exploratory experience on diverse illustration media for artistic self-expression and the printmaking medium. Relief and reduction, dry point and etching, screen printing techniques, lithography, and photographic processes shall constitute the core focus for the provision of competence in artistic self-expression. Students are made to learn techniques conducive to artistic growth, which is coupled with a sound, well-rounded background in the concepts, history, and craft of printmaking. Assignments stress the specificity of the medium, while regarding illustration studio assignments will range from illustrating the industry’s product, educational/social awareness campaigns to the generation of imagery for texts.

This course is a continuation of Printmaking FAC 341and seeks to provide fluency and confidence in manipulating the various illustration and printmaking media explored in the first specializing year. Studio explorations will include experiments in multicolour prints in the various media broached. Emerging Options and possibilities in digital image making and manipulation for a variety of expressive imagery shall be undertaken.

Figure drawing (human or animal) with special focus on anatomical rendition which will be in relation to objects or the environment: in addition, drapery and physical expressions, fore- shortening and perspective studies from human or animal poses will be studied keenly. Drawing from human figure the students will be able to visually observe, analyse and appreciate anatomical details, proportions, shape, forms and character of the human figure both in the nude, semi-nude, and clothed posture. Medium of expression at this level will usually be permanent or non-erasable medium.

Backed with technical skills, developing a unique drawing style, the presentation of skills to expressing individual design directions. Drawing knowledge and experience from the fashion industry, learning the principles of price point, becoming acquainted with domestic and international market places

The course is hinged on the application of the digital platform in the design of ceramic essentially. Conceptualization of three-dimensional ceramic forms through freehand to the use of software packages to develop the sketches into three-dimensional forms. The course enables students to use the digital tool in interpreting their works in three dimensions. Sketches will be transferred to 3-Dimensional digital modelling skills and 3D animation techniques, introductory learning about contemporary 3-D design modelling and animation will also be

The course helps students have theoretical and practical exposition into the design and formulation of glaze and applications, identifying different materials that can be used for the formulation of ceramic glazes and their chemical properties. Basic historical trend of glaze development. Different types of glazes and their peculiar characteristics. Opaque, raku, salt, and ash glazes. Theory of glaze formulation. Introduction of limit and unity formula; RO group, R2O3 group and RO2 group. Oxides and their functions in glazes. Glaze/glass colour study. Glaze application through dipping, spraying using trailing. Gloss firing procedure, glaze effects, marbling, pattern transfer, under glaze, in-glaze and on-glaze. Glaze properties and quality evaluation.

This course is expected to meet the students' need to produce ceramic prototypes with jiggering, jollying, and slip casting – use of Plaster of Paris mould for mass production of ceramic products that have uniformity in shapes, light in weight and easily reproduced without stress. Raw materials (plastic and non-plastic) will be identified and processed using different types of machinery in body preparation. For slip casting, students will be exposed to knowledge about slip property control (viscosity and thixotropic) and weight control by litre weight with the aid of appropriate equipment. In practice, students will learn to develop right quality control procedure using appropriate laboratory equipment such as ball mill, bungers, kilns, torsion viscometer, hydrometer, plastic meter, MOR machine, abrasive machine and dryer. Firing of produced wares in different types of kilns under different firing atmosphere will be practised.