This is 12 credit course offered in first Semester for all first-year undergraduate students. The course aims to enable students to get knowledge, tools and skills to analyse different development processes. The course will engage students to undertake comparative analysis of different development processes in different countries. The course will also expose students to global political and socio-economic trends and relations, and their implications to Tanzania, Africa and the developing world at large.
PS225: Local Government is a second year course offered by the department of Political Science and Public Administration of the University of Dar es salaam as well as sister academic units at MUCE and DUCE. The course is concerned with critical understanding of the theories and principles informing territorial distribution of powers, functions and resources between central and local governments as well as the principles informing organization and management of Local Government generally and with a special focus on Tanzania.
The course provides an overview of the core components of linguistic analysis: phonetics (sounds of language), phonology (sound patterns), morphology (word structure), syntax (sentence structure) and semantics (meaning), as well as pragmatics (meaning in context). It also describes the nature and function of language.