Institute of Geography and Development Studies

This is a course aims at improving student’s understanding of the origin, structure, functions and process accounting for changes in rural settlement system and the implication for rural development,…

This course focuses on the following: Types, functions and relationships of settlements. The city in history. Urban hierarchies. Land use patterns and their interrelationships in different types of s…

Socio-economic structure of rural households in Sierra Leone, rural poverty, approaches to rural development, information gathering techniques, participatory rural appraisal, indigenous knowledge sys…

Science: science and common sense, functions, aims, explanation and theory. The scientific approach: definition and scope. Ethics and politics in research. Social research strategy: deductive and ind…

This course builds upon the foundation in GEOG 112. It introduces students to Surveying instruments and exercise. It covers:- cartographic methods of representing relief, mathematical computations in…

Definitions, mechanisms, concepts (assimilation, acculturation, adaptation, conflict, rebellion, revolution and organisational change) and theoretical approaches to explanation and understanding of s…

Sources, collection, processing and interdependency of evaluating demographic data; techniques of data evaluation; total population and population change. Techniques of demographic analysis: mortalit…

This course aims at (i) introducing students to the concept of man in the realm of human geography; (ii) providing the chronological pathway in the study of geography; (iii) looking at human landscap…