This module aims at providing basic English knowledge and skills leading students to an advanced proficiency level in English. It comprises essential practices to strengthen their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills for their general communication purposes. The module will be taught using the Integrated Skills Approach that engages students to do research and get opportunities to communicate effectively across all lectures.
This module provides students with the general knowledge and skills in civic education, integrity principles and practices, human rights and education for peace. It has been designed for first-year students in the University of Rwanda with aim to equip them with the basic notions on civic education that are meant to contribute to their transformation into patriotic and responsible citizens.
This module aims to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and entrepreneurial mindset to identify opportunities, apply creativity and innovation, and develop viable, sustainable, and customer-centred technology ventures that address real-world challenges responsibly.
The module covers a number of topics which will give a broad appreciation of a number of economic principles including the basic economic issue of resource allocation and scarcity. Alternative economic systems will be considered as well as supply, demand and elasticity concepts and market structures - perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition and oligopoly. The module also examines the key issues of economic growth, inflation and unemployment and general macroeconomic policy. The module is a core module on the programme and forms a foundation for the business component of the programme.
This module provides students with the key concepts of computing, practical applications of computer hardware and software, and the fundamental skills required for work-related computer use. Students will gain hands-on experience in assembling and troubleshooting hardware, installing and managing software, using Microsoft Office productivity tools, configuring basic networks, and using the Internet safely and effectively.
This module introduces students to the essentials of marketing (key concepts, methods of analysis, strategies and tactics) critical to managing profitable customer relationships in today’s dynamic and connected environment. It equips students to understand how marketing decisions are made and how technology and data support them.
This module develops students’ knowledge and understanding of advanced mathematical concepts and techniques in matrices, differential calculus, functions of several variables, ordinary differential equations, and three-dimensional analytical geometry. It equips students with the analytical and problem-solving skills to compute eigenvalues and eigenvectors, analyse curves and surfaces, solve differential equations, optimize multivariable functions, and apply mathematical methods to geometric and engineering problems.
This module introduces students to the fundamental concepts and principles of physics relevant to information technology. It equips students with the knowledge and problem-solving skills to understand and apply principles of mechanics, electricity and magnetism, waves, optics, and modern physics in the analysis, operation, and design of IT systems and electronic devices.