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Introduction to the use of basic surveying instruments: (Tapes, Theodolites, Total stations, GPS, and Levels). General principles involved in basic survey measurements: Control and accuracy checks in survey measurements. Sources and theory of errors in survey measurements. Introduction to plane rectangular coordinate systems. Basic Surveying Measurements: Linear & Angular measurements. Classical and modern methods of horizontal position establishment in surveying. Height determination by methods of spirit and reciprocal levelling. Methods of Trigonometrical, Barometric, and Hydrostatic levelling. Introduction to tacheometric surveying. Methods of obtaining field data for topographic surveys. Basic principles and uses of topographic maps. Introduction to photogrammetry.

The course gives the students an overview of epidemiology, disease control and surveillance. Specific areas highlighted include the uses of epidemiology; Epidemiology protocols and survey methods. Calculation of basic epidemiological measures. Epidemiology of communicable and non- communicable diseases. Vital statistical and national health information systems. Human ecology and disease processes. Public health laboratory practices methods and Intervention. Strategies in Disease Control and Surveillance. Immunisation for communicable diseases. Immunisation routine and procedures. Ethical issues on collection, use and dissemination of epidemiological data. Students are expected to participate actively in Disease control, surveillance as well as in the monitoring and evaluation processes of selected endemic diseases at the national, state, and local government operational levels. Students are expected to propose an appropriate epidemiological problem. Identify a population. choose a method and design for sampling from the population. Choose and propose records for ascertainment and classification of diseases and risk factors. Outline a plan of action for data collection and presentation. Students are expected to participate actively in fieldwork assignments and to submit reports. Both communicable and non-communicable morbidity and mortality patterns and trends in Nigeria and elsewhere should be highlighted.

Definition and scope of microbial fermentation; History of industrial fermentation processes; Batch and continuous fermentation systems; Solid state fermentation; Products of fermentation: primary and secondary metabolites; microbial biomass and indigenous fermented foods

Theories, principles/mechanisms of operation, calculations with necessary examples and design features of machineries which underpin the following preservation principles: Dehydration, Blanching, pasteurization, sterilization (and commercial sterilization), Review of Kinetics of chemical reaction. Microorganisms involved in canning. Thermobacteriology (meaning, history, thermal death time curve, decimal reduction time) and its applications to canning and aseptic processing. Heat penetration within cans; factors affecting heat penetration with cans; death order of microorganisms with cans. Thermal process calculations. Canning operations. Introduction to the following non-thermal novel processing techniques: High-pressure processing, pulsed electric field processing, pulse-light, ultrasound, food irradiation. Detailed description of mechanisms of operation including diagrams/sketches of different equipment involved in these thermal processes should be emphasized.

Introduction to GIS basic principles; GIS components; Subsystems; the basic concepts of space (spatial modelling); components of a spatial database, spatial data model; Geoinformatics tools. Introduction to GIS. Hardware and software requirements of GIS. Database management structure and formats. Vector data structure. Raster data structure. Data imputing, editing and topology in GIS. Integration of spatial and non-spatial data. Spatial data analysis (vector-based) and spatial data analysis (raster based). Remote sensing and GIS data integration. Application of GIS and Remote Sensing in Urban and regional planning-residential, commercial, transportation, recreational, open space and many others. 400 Level Urban and Regional Planning

Introduction to information system for the storage and retrieval of unstructured and structured information. Examines information retrieval architectures, processes, retrieval models, query language, and methods of system evaluation. Gives emphasis to internet-based services for storing and accessing information to be used in integrated application development.

Concept in landscape planning and design; Basic elements of landscape; History of landscape planning; Definition and scope of landscape planning, design and basic elements of landscape. Principles of landscaping. Landscape design process (site survey, site analysis, detailed design and implementation) factors influencing landscape design. Landscape evaluation techniques. Typology of human landscape. Landscape design consideration for housing, shopping, institutional, industrial, roads, agricultural, forestry, mining, outdoor recreation spaces, open spaces, urban parks and tourist development. Management of landscape.

This course exposes students to the science of, and the debates on carbon emission. The fact that carbon emission is the greatest contributor to greenhouse gases (GHG) that eventually accumulate in the atmosphere leading to global warming. Apart from the direct emission, the reduction in carbon sinks through the removal of vegetation enhances the accumulation of the GHG. It will argue that there are two approaches to achieve a low carbon society: reducing carbon emission and establishing more carbon sinks; identification of methods to be adopted for both approaches.

Basic concepts in management: management principles, functions of the manager. Planning: nature and purpose of the organizing function, department, line and staff. Authority, staffing and directing: selection of employees and managers, appraisal of managers, management development, nature of directing, motivation and leadership. Controlling: the control process, control technique, recent developments in the control function. The Nigerian environment: management problems in Nigeria, challenges of indigenization and transferability of management system.

Elements of managerial process. Analysis of problems involving the planning, developing, organising and administering physiotherapy services. Physiotherapy department, organisation and management, principles of management, human relations, management techniques, personnel management, communications, communication concerns, and strategies for change in the workplace, financial management, legal responsibilities. Nigerian Health Care policy, environment and delivery system, Physiotherapy practice in Nigeria. Principles of management – Organisations, organograms, organisational structure for Physiotherapy practice; Personnel management theory and implications for action, place of unionism in administration, Negotiation for conflict resolution. Operations management; Facilities planning. Ethical principles applied to moral issues in health care regulatory/business ethics. Healthcare marketing. Establishment and operation of a private physiotherapy practice.