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This course shall cover the application of surface enrichment techniques of jewellery and metal design. Techniques such as pickling, etching, heat treatment of surface and other advance techniques such as forging, enamelling, advance stone setting, chasing and responses shall be studied.

Bioclimatology, agro climatology, climatology and the built environment, climate change and its impact on rural and urban environments, climate change and sustainable development goals, , and climate change and its implications on humans and various human and economic activities. Definition and delimitation of the “Tropics” Rationale for studying the climatology of the tropics. Radiation conditions in the tropics. Temperatures in the tropics. Tropical precipitation. Tropical disturbances: Tropical weather systems. Applied tropical climatology: Tropical agro climatology; tropical bioclimatology, global circulation system and its influence in the tropics., links between the tropical climates and the temperate climates, climate change and climate-premiership.

Development and re-development process. Property management in relation to social, political, economic, physical and location aspects. Property management process – strategy of estate owners and choice of alternative to achieve owner’s objectives. Estate-cycle and problems of obsolescence. Principles of estate management applicable to management of public and private estate, new towns, expanding towns, local authority redevelopment area. Implications for estate management of legislation pertinent to relationship between the landlord and tenant. Marketing and agency: legal positions of principal and agent; methods of sale promotion, selling market segmentation; market research, market planning, total project management. Parties involved in property development. Data and information for property development. Sources of finance and funding arrangements for development. Feasibility Studies – residential/commercial properties. Effect of government policy in development process with emphasis on land policy implications. Management of institutional housing and commercial estates: principles, procedures, and problems. Rule of thumb in real estate practice. Common scheduling tools, including critical path method and bar charts as an aid in project planning, budgeting, and cost control. Also introduces the gathering, processing, and evaluation of project information for effective project control.

Combined freehold and leasehold valuations. Equivalent yield valuations. Valuations for surrender/extension and renewal of leases. Marriage value valuations. Double sinking fund valuations. Valuations involving expenditures and their justification, and liabilities. Clearly distinguishing between the following terms/concepts: basis of valuation, purpose of valuation, use/function of valuation and method of valuation

Nature of arbitration; its origin and application to valuation. Act reference to arbitration by consent. Types of arbitration. Statutory and conventional advantages of arbitration. Arbitration and umpires. Principal rules of arbitrators. Reference by order of court; neutral and tripartite panel. Procedure for arbitration award. Expert evidence and proof of evidence. Arbitration of real estate and related disputes in construction industry. Particular skills required of a professional. Costing by arbitrators in the construction industry. Real estate documents and arbitration clauses. Resolution of disputes by arbitration in the allied professions in the construction industry. Distinction between valuation, arbitration and action methods of enforcing, impeaching and award. Arbitration agreement, composition of arbitral tribunal, jurisdiction of arbitral tribunal, award and termination of proceedings, recourse against award, recognition and enforcement of awards; difference between arbitration and conciliation.

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 sets out to provide the methods of evaluating art as a configuration of form. These include descriptive and analytical procedures that aid the definition of style/stylistics and meaning making in the art object. The course accommodates foundational knowledge in such theoretical and methodological conventions as formalism, iconography and iconology, semiotics, critical theory, and deconstruction. 400 LEVEL COURSES NEW MEDIA ART

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.

This course provides the conceptual frame of art in general education, calling attention to the location of art within the overall aim of educating the child. Studies in the artistic abilities of children, typologies of creative achievements concerning age and social class complex, from the age of scribbling to the age of artistic awareness, evaluating child art, strategies for building confidence artistic attainment in the child in critical practice and perception, understanding the workings of the art curricular for child pedagogy.

The foundation focuses on the basic concept of design, with reference to special attention on the elements and principles of design. Identification and selection of materials for basic design work; the basic tools and work space for designer. Practical exploration of the real-life applications of design element and principles.