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The course will address both theoretical and practical aspects of analyzing, processing, and managing the objects of the past material cultures. In particular, the course will focus on stone artifact attribute, identification and analysis, classification, technology and raw material analysis, tool use and ware and implications for archaeological interpretations. The course will provide both lectures and practical laboratory experiences.  

This course has a fourfold objective: first to impart knowledge of how archaeology emerged as part of classical and ancient philosophy about human antiquity. Second is to illustrate how our value into human history and antiquity led to the rise of the discipline we today call archaeology. Third is to demonstrate how archaeology emerged from a practice of looking for treasure, and hence destructive method to a sober method of studying and preserving the past cultural materials. The fourth objective is to show how the archaeological theories practiced today evolved from 1800 to 1950.

The first part of the course reviews the evidence for biological and cultural evolution as well as environmental changes from Old World that documents the origin of humanity. It also examines the growing of cultural complexity, the evolution of food production and the beginning of permanent human settlement. Examples are drawn from many regions of the Old World to show commonalities and differences in growth towards cultural complexity.

This course will study the understanding of property rights in the major human rights instruments like International, Regional and National human rights instruments. The course will also study the theories that support the origin and importance of property rights, like those of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Hugo, Grotius, John Locke, Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, John Mill and Karl Marx.   

This course introduces a systematic framework for thinking about ethical dilemmas that arise in personal, professional and civic life. It will review theoretical, biological and socio-cultural conceptions of moral obligation, as well as relevant socio- historical, cultural and scientific contexts. The course will enhance your ability to recognize the complex interplay between moral concepts and lived experience and to resolve moral dilemmas.   

 Under the guidance of a member of staff, the student will prepare a paper on some topic relevant to one or more of the courses in the programme.  The paper is meant to introduce the student to the technical aspects of research and to help the student to present the results of such research in a scholarly manner.  

The course introduces students to the concepts of domestication and implementation of human rights. It exposes them to the agents and agencies in charge of human rights implementation. It discusses the role of the pillars of state in the implementation of human rights and more essentially the role of civil society in the task of implementation.   

African indigenous ethical systems is a course that examines the different ethical theories, values in traditional African societies with the intention of identifying that that still impact on the ethical behavior of the Africans of today. It also examines the foundation and the implications of these values for practical application today.   

The Course is a philosophical survey of the main strands of educational thought since ancient Greek philosophy to the present day, with specific reference to the ethical essence of education.  The African perspective of education is considered, with specific reference to Uganda.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Course Objective:

This course is an introductory course. It introduces students to a wide range of economic concepts. Microeconomics is concerned with how economic systems operate to allocate resources, distribute income, and organize production through the decisions of individual economic agents (e.g. firms and consumers). We will focus solely on the operation of a market economy in this endeavor. In such an economy, markets determine society's production and consumption decisions by transmitting information about the plans of buyers and sellers (consumers and firms).