The course is designed to help students understand policy formulation and administration and methods of strategic planning in public and private institutions. The topics include: theory and practice of policy and administration; framework for evaluating policies; problem solving techniques and decision-making; public policy-making in developing states and improving public policy-making. A major focus will be on elements of strategic planning; strategic alternatives; designing a strategic plan and implementing, monitoring and evaluating the strategic plan.

The course develops in students, the ability to confront problems of gender and gender relations at the workplace and beyond.  It covers the gendered structure of labour markets and trade union participation in the specific context of Ghana. Characteristics of male and female employment in Ghana; gender relations at the workplace; sexual harassment in the workplace; gender relations and trade union participation; labour legislation and gender interests and framework for addressing gender needs in the workplace are the major topics to be treated.

This is a practical course in which students are exposed to contemporary global and local issues particularly in the area of politics and economics and how these impinge on labour relations in national development. The course seeks to expose students to contemporary issues, as well as equip them with the capacity to present commentary of such issues in a take home term paper. Students will be required to conduct secondary data research on the issue of interest to write their commentary.

The course deals with the English Language as a tool for communicating ideas.  Topics to be treated include: grammar, the nature of communication, work classes, phrases, and clauses, type of sentences, concord, reading and comprehension. Writing skills (making an outline, writing the paragraph, essay, minutes, speeches, reports, and memoranda) and editing (spelling, collocation, appropriate register, cohesion and punctuation) are also to be discussed.

The focus of this course is to provide students with the knowledge for understanding the structure and operation of the Ghanaian informal and rural economy and trade union efforts at organising and defending labour interests within informal economy. Specific topics to be treated are: Definition of the rural and urban informal economy; approaches to conceptualising informal economy; Informal economy growth factors such as globalisation; labour relations in the informal economy; labour force needs in the Informal economy and organising labour in the rural and urban informal economy.

In this course, topics highlighted include: Concepts such as employment, unemployment and under- employment will be explained and operationalised in Ghana. Labour Migration implications for urban and rural labour markets; Jobs and skill demands in the modern economy as well as wage determination and income distribution differences will be discussed. The course will also deal with working conditions in Ghana; labour market discrimination; sources of employment growth in Ghana; government and Labour unions in and industrial relations practice in Ghana.

This course equips students with the skills in computer hardware and software to enable them to use the computer for data analysis as well as report writing. The discussions focus on information processing cycle; Microsoft word basics for word processing; data input and analysis in SPSS; data input and analysis in excel as well as the internet functions and tools for accessing the internet.

The course is designed to introduce students to basic statistical concepts and their application in research project work as well as in the world of work. Detailed course content include: Nature and meaning of statistics, variable classification, scales of measurement, and data description and presentations (Charts, tables, graphs etc.). Topics such as relative frequency (percentages, proportions and ratios) as well as measures of central tendency (mean, mode, median) and measures of dispersion will also be treated.