UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA CENTRE FOR EXTERNAL STUDIES ...

make students aware, as well as sensitize them towards gender issues and how they affect our society, Sub-Region and continent atlarge.English Communication and Study Skills73ULCE3419NQF Level: 4 Credits: 16 Module Assessment: CA (60%) Examination (40%) - 1 x 3 hour paperPre-requisites: NoneModule description:This module is aimed at assisting students in the development of their reading, writing and speaking and listening skills, in order to copewith studying in a new academic environment and in a language which may not be their first language. The module also focuses on studyskills that students need throughout their academic careers and beyond. The module serves as an introduction to university levelacademics, where styles of teaching and learning differ from those at secondary schools in that more responsibility is placed on thestudent. The module therefore, focuses on the skills that students need throughout their academic careers and beyond.English for Academic PurposesULEA3519NQF level: 5 Credits: 16 Module assessment: CA (60%) Examination (40%) - 1x3 hours paperPrerequisites:NoneModule description:This module develops a student's understanding, and competencies regarding academic conventions such as academic reading, writing,listening and oral presentation skills for academic purposes. Students are required to produce a referenced and researched essay writtenin formal academic style within the context of their university studies. Students are also required to do oral presentations based on theiressays. The reading component of the course deals with academic level texts. This involves students in a detailed critical analysis ofsuch texts. The main aim is therefore, to develop academic literacy in English.All other syllabi:Basic MacroeconomicsCEMA3572NQA level: 5 Credits: 16 Module assessment: CA (50%) Examination (50%) - 1 x 3 hour paperPrerequisites: NoneModule description:This course introduces basic concepts and tools used in macroeconomic analysis: the theory, measurement, and determination ofnational income; business cycles; the multiplier; fiscal policy, budget deficits, and the national debt; aggregate supply and aggregatedemand; money, banking, and monetary policy; exchange rates and balance of payments accounts; and stabilization policy forunemployment and inflation.Basic MicroeconomicsCEMI3571NQA level: 5 Credits: 16 Module assessment: CA (50%) Examination (50%) - 1 x 3 hour paperPrerequisites: NoneModule description:Economics is the study of how society allocates scarce resources to satisfy the wants of its members for goods and service. As such, itis a subject concerned with issues of both efficiency and equity. An efficient economy gets the most it can from its scarce resources; anequitable economy fairly distributes the benefits of its resources among its members. Is the economy efficient? Is the economy fair? Thecourse is aimed at introducing students to key concepts used in microeconomics and facilitates a basic understanding of the economicphenomena. The course is designed to help students understand that society’s economic choices often involve tradeoffs betweenefficiency and equity serves as preparation students for further study of the disciplines within the economics field. Course contentincludes: an introduction to microeconomics, demand and supply, market structures, Factor markets and introduction to internationaltrade.Business MathematicsCBCM3579NQA level: 5 Credits: 16 Module assessment: CA (50%) Examination (50%) - 1 x 3 hour paperPrerequisites: None Continuous assessment: 2 x tests (80%) plus 1 assignment (20%)Module Description:The module is designed to give students an overview of various business mathematical calculations and topics and to enable them tosolve business related problems. The topics to be covered are number and systems, rates, ratios, percentages, measurement andmensuration, equations and inequalities, and introduction to algebra.