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Student’s Industrial work experience of 3 months’ duration. Students’ reports will be presented in a seminar. Students would have, before this time, in collaboration with supervisor and the Department secured an appropriate place to have industrial experience in their areas of specialisation. SIWES placement should be done at the end of the first semester 300 Level. During the SIWES period, students should keep their eyes open to various aspects of research and travel related to the fashion industry, such as transportation, scheduling, budgeting, professional practices, tools, fabrics, presentation, critique and develop a sketchbook for fashion, textile and knitwear. Students are encouraged to visit fashion shows, boutiques and study the dress style of celebrities; ceremonial wears in weddings and festivals, so as to appreciate trends in fashion around them. They are also encouraged to collaborate with their classmates to generate hands-on group projects. The Department should develop a list of potential areas appropriate industries with the following information: addresses of location, telephone, email and contact person. The programme takes the full semester and is graded as follows: i, Industrial Experience (Evaluation by employer and supervisor) = 70% ii, SIWES Presentation (by the student) to Faculty = 30%. The presentation is treated like an examination done and assessed on the same day. Students are encouraged to learn software applications during this period for their chosen area of specialisation and produce a portfolio to be assessed at the end of the SIWES programme. 400 level

Students are to spend twelve weeks in their places of attachment. Depending on the nature of their places of attachment, they are to participate in activities like map making, planning practices, land, soil and water resources evaluation; human and socio-economic surveys, basic operation of field and laboratory equipment and facilities, practical and operational climatology, instrumentation in geography; and any other assignment given to them by their industrial based Head of Department and Report on the entire exercise/ experience.

Students are supposed to get familiar with the major activities taking place in their places of attachment. Depending on the nature of their places of attachment, they are to participate in activities like map making, planning practices; land, soil and water resources evaluation; human and socio-economic surveys, basic operation of field and laboratory equipment and facilities, practical and operational climatology, instrumentation in geography; and any other assignment given to them by their industrial-based head of department. Report on the entire exercise/ experience. 500 Level Estate management

Students are supposed to get familiar with the major activities taking place in their places of attachment. Depending on the nature of their places of attachment, they are to participate in activities like map making, planning practices land, soil and water resources evaluation; human and socio-economic surveys, basic operation of field and laboratory equipment and facilities, practical and operational climatology, instrumentation in geography; and any other assignment given to them by their industrial based Head of Department. Report on the entire exercise/ experience. 500 Level

Opportunity Identification (Sources of business opportunities in Nigeria, Environmental scanning, Demand and supply gap/unmet needs/market gaps/Market Research, Unutilised resources, Social and climate conditions and Technology adoption gap). New business development (business planning, market research). Entrepreneurial Finance (Venture capital, Equity finance, Micro finance, Personal savings, Small business investment organizations and Business plan competition). Entrepreneurial marketing and e-commerce (Principles of marketing, Customer Acquisition & Retention, B2B, C2C and B2C models of e-commerce, First Mover Advantage, E- commerce business models and Successful E-Commerce Companies,). Small Business Management/Family Business: Leadership & Management, Basic book keeping, Nature of family business and Family Business Growth Model. Negotiation and Business communication (Strategy and tactics of negotiation/bargaining, Traditional and modern business communication methods). Opportunity Discovery Demonstrations (Business idea generation presentations, Business idea Contest, Brainstorming sessions, Idea pitching). Technological Solutions (The Concept of Market/Customer Solution, Customer Solution and Emerging Technologies, Business Applications of New Technologies - Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual/Mixed Reality (VR), Internet of Things (IoTs), Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Renewable Energy. Digital Business and E-Commerce Strategies).

Site layout, setting out, design of simple buildings, studio works, site supervision and building production management, documentation and management.

Entrepreneurial theories, interpersonal or personal character and behavioral traits. External aspects of entrepreneurship. Operational functions of an entrepreneur (production, marketing, financial management, accounting). Basic consideration in starting business. Organization and management of business. Business ethics, social responsibility of business. Business promotion agencies in Nigeria. Business and government. Role of Nigerian government in business. Business promotion agencies in Nigeria. Problems of Nigerian business enterprises. Peculiarities of construction business enterprises. Construction and property business in Nigeria. Service organization, labor management relations. Case studies in construction entrepreneurship. National occupational standards for building trades. National skills qualification framework for building industry in Nigeria. Skills Sector Council, Awarding Body and Training Provider. Skills acquisition in construction and supervision of building trades in construction.

The concept of social change. Benefits and challenges of social change. Analysis of the nature and mechanisms of the transformation that African societies have undergone (and are undergoing) since the colonial encounter with the Western world. The colonial situation and African responses; the emergence of new economic, social, political institutions, status structures and ideological orientations, as well as the crisis of development in the post-colonial era will be explored. Theories of social change (functionalist; conflict,) and its applicability to modern societies. 300 Level

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.

Basic principles of soil mechanics and their application to the solutions of problems in earthwork and foundation engineering. Soil moisture content, California Bearing Ratio – liquid and plastic limit. Classification, identification, properties of soils, soil components, clay minerals, organic, volcanic and made-made solids Grain size, particle shape -plasticity and the Atterberg limits. Soil as a multiple phase system. Seepage analysis, groundwater and soil moisture. Permeability tests, Graphical solution of seepage problems. The flow nets (Two-dimensional seepage analysis) Consolidation. Bearing capacity of soils. Laboratory testing of liquid limit, plastic limit. Special type of soil. Soil exploration.