Bachelor of Education Arts

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BACHELOR OF EDUCATION ARTS

The Bachelor of Education (Arts) program is designed to produce professionally qualified teachers who will be competent in teaching arts subjects at secondary school level.

All students shall take an approved combination of the following teaching subjects from the school of Arts and Social Sciences: Kiswahili, Geography, History, literature, English, Economics and Religion, While Mathematics will be offered by School of Science. Objectives

All students admitted to the Degree of bachelor of Education must satisfy the minimum entrance requirements of the University as stipulated in the statutes. Candidates must also satisfy departmental requirements before registration for courses in a department.

First Year

First Semester

Code	Title	Units
IRD 101	Quantitative Skills	3
EDU 110	Introduction to Education I	3
IRD 100	Communication Skills	3
	Teaching Subjects 1,2,3,4.	12
	Total	21

Second Semester

Code	Title	Units
IRD 102	Communication Skill II	3
IRD 103	National Development	3
IRD 104	Quantitative Skills II	3
EDU 111	Introduction to Education II	3
	Subjects 1,2,3.	9
	Total	21

Second Year

First Semester

Code	Title	Units
PSY 210	General Educational Psychology	3
ECT 210	General Methods of Teaching	3
EDF 210	Philosophy of Education	3
IRD 200	State Society and Development	3
	Subject 1 (two courses)	6
	Subject 2 (two Courses)	6
	Total	24

Second Semester

Code	Title	Units
ECT 211	Educational Media and Resources	3
EDF 211	History of Education	3
PAC 210	Curriculum Development	3
	Subject 1 (two courses)	6
	Subject 2 (two Courses)	6
ECT 399	1st Teaching Practice (4 weeks)
	Total	21

Third Year

First Semester

Code	Title	Units
ECT 311 - 318	Subjects Special Methods	6
PSY 310	Human Growth and Development	6
	Subject 1 (two courses)	6
	Subject 2 (two Courses)	6
	Total	24

Second Semester

Code	Title	Units
ECT 360	Educational Technology	3
PSY 311	Educational Measurement and Evaluation	3
	Subject 1 (two courses)	6
	Subject 2 (two Courses)	6
ECT 399	Second Teaching Practice (12 Weeks)	6
	Total	27

Electives

Code	Title	Units
IRD 305	Entrepreneurship	3
IRD 306	Public Speaking Skills	3
IRD 308	Organizational Communication Skills	3

Fourth Year

First Semester

Code	Title	Units
EDF 410	Sociology of Education and Comparative Education	3
PAC 410	Environmental Education	3
PAC 411	Educational Administration and Management	3
	Subject 1 (two courses)	6
	Subject 2 (two Courses)	6
	Total	21

Second Semester

Code	Title	Units
PAC 412	Educational Planning and Economics	3
PSY 410	Human Behaviour and Learning	3
	Subject 1 (two courses)	6
	Subject 2 (two Courses)	6

Electives

Code	Title	Units
IRD 400	Development Project Appraisal	3
IRD 403	Social Change	3
IRD 407	Advanced Research and Writing Skills	3

Grading Scale

Degree Classification

Degree are classified into first class honours, second class honours (upper division) second class honours (lower division) and pass.

The degree shall be graded as follows;

Class	Mark range in %	Grade
First Class	70-100	A
Second class honours (upper division)	60-69	B
Second class honours (lower division)	50-59	C
Pass	40-49	C

For the purpose of the degree classification, all marks in all years shall be considered unless otherwise approved by Senate.