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This course is designed to equip students with essential skills and knowledge in leadership and project management specifically tailored for the procurement domain. It explores the dynamic role of effective leadership and project management practices in achieving successful procurement outcomes.

Students will delve into the principles of leadership, communication, and team building, examining their significance in driving procurement initiatives and fostering collaboration among stakeholders. Emphasis will be placed on understanding different leadership styles and their impact on procurement decision-making processes.

Furthermore, the course delves into project management methodologies, tools, and techniques relevant to the procurement context. Students will learn how to initiate, plan, execute, and control procurement projects to ensure efficient delivery and adherence to objectives, timelines, and budgets.

Throughout the course, case studies and real-world scenarios will be incorporated to provide practical insights and challenges faced in procurement leadership and project management. By the end of the course, students will have the competencies to effectively lead procurement teams, manage complex projects, and drive successful procurement outcomes within their organizations.

This Mobile Forensics  course will equip students with skills relevant to recover digital evidence or relevant data from a mobile device through sound application of digital forensics methods and techniques, which respect the international guidelines for acquisition, and examination of mobile devices

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Congratulations on your acceptance into this prestigious program. Your decision to pursue further studies in econometrics reflects your dedication and commitment to mastering this critical field of study.  Throughout this course, you will delve deeper into advanced concepts and methodologies that will sharpen your analytical skills and equip you with the tools needed to tackle real-world economic challenges. Whether you aspire to pursue a career in academia, government, or industry, the knowledge and expertise gained here will be a solid foundation for your future endeavors. I am here to support you every step of the way. I encourage you to engage in discussions actively, collaborate with your peers, and seize every opportunity to expand your understanding of econometrics.  As you embark on this academic adventure, remember that challenges are opportunities in disguise. Embrace them with enthusiasm and perseverance, and you will emerge stronger and more knowledgeable than ever before. Once again, welcome to the Advanced Applied Econometrics class of 2024. I look forward to witnessing your growth and success over the coming months.

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Welcome Advanced Industrial Relations

Industrial relation is a key aspect in every organisation, establishing effective communication between employees and management.  The main purpose of this course is to provide you with the necessary skills of maintaining a sound working relationship among all employment relationship stakeholders. Conflict, negotiation and dispute resolutions are some of the topics discussed in this module. The course further looks at labour relations framework, collective bargaining and labour economics amongst others.  The module is goal-oriented, allowing you to interact with other students and IR laws, which affect the way businesses operate.

Information literacy for senior and postgraduate students, as well as staff. Information provided will attempt to cover all aspects of the research cycle.

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This course aims to equip students with a deepened understanding of advanced microeconomics concepts. The course deals with consumer theory and the theory of demand, decision making under uncertainty, general equilibrium and the welfare theorems, oligopoly behaviour and game theory, and the asymmetric information theory and applications. The course will also enable students to evaluate and apply related concepts and theories to real world situations.

This course aims to support students in the field of agriculture to acquire the relevant basic technical and practical skills that will enable them to perform mechanical duties and tasks.

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Analytical Chemistry involves separating, identifying, and determining the relative amounts of the components in a sample of matter. Qualitative analysis reveals the chemical identity of the species in the sample. Quantitative analysis establishes the relative amount of one or more of these species, or analytes in numerical terms. Qualitative information is required before a quantitative analysis can be undertaken.

This course aims to equip the student with the required knowledge of the gross anatomy and physiology of the normal human body and how they are functionally related.

This course is a broad introduction to this interdisciplinary field based on processes and colloidal phenomena at interfaces, viz. gas-liquid, gas-solid, liquid-liquid, liquid-solid and solid-solid. Taking a genuinely applied approach, with applications drawn from a wide range of industries, we will attempt to meet your demands of working in the field. The course will, therefore introduces you to a wide range of real industrial examples. These examples range from water treatment through to soil management as well as examples taken from the coatings, detergency, ore flotation and photographic industries. To understand the course better, some of the more demanding mathematical derivations will be treated in a more subtle manner. With carefully structured units, starting with an introduction, and practice questions, this course is invaluable for undergraduates like you taking a first course on colloid and surface chemistry.

This course is about the fundamentals of pastry, bakery and desserts preparation in a commercial environment. It will expose you to important aspects that you need to know to successfully run a catering outlet in a hospitality establishment.

This course aims at enabling students to solve mathematical problems using numerical approaches, specifically considering numerical quadrature, ordinary/partial differential equation examples and numerical optimisation models.

This course aims to provide students with knowledge and skills to assess the different spatial planning systems and methods currently applied in Namibia on local and regional level. Students will be able to identify both strengths and shortcomings of the present spatial planning practice under consideration of the existing legal and socio-economic framework.

The aim of this course is to introduce students to various historical periods and styles of architecture through exemplary buildings and landscapes with special focus on context; critical thinking and analysis; stimulating students’ interest in architecture and the possibilities of design.
Additionally, the course encourages the perception of architecture and design as a response to the social, natural and built environment context, while allowing students to make informed and contextually sensitive design decisions.here...

This course introduces students to the principles and techniques of Audio-Visual Media. Students are also introduced to television equipment and its operations.

This course, Auditing 310 (GAU711S) is designed to give you a comprehensive understanding of the audit process, from obtaining evidence to reporting on financial statements. You will learn the auditor's responsibilities, key audit procedures, and how to evaluate audit evidence, both in manual and computerized environments.

The course covers several key areas, including:

• Audit Evidence: You'll understand how auditors collect evidence, the hierarchy of evidence, and how to assess financial statement assertions.
• Test of Controls: You'll explore how auditors test controls across various business cycles like revenue, payments, and payroll, in both manual and automated settings.
• Internal Auditing: You'll dive into the role and responsibilities of internal auditors, as well as the relationship between internal and statutory audits.
• Substantive Procedures & Sampling: Learn how to design and apply substantive audit procedures and how to use sampling techniques to test audit items.
• Audit Reporting: The course will cover how auditors structure reports, including unmodified and modified opinions, and how to handle matters like fraud or going concern issues.

Additionally, the course introduces you to modern developments in the auditing world, such as the use of digital technology and sustainability audits.

Assessments are hands-on, with face-to-face tests to assess your understanding of the material. Overall, this course prepares you for a career in auditing by providing both theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed in the field.

The course aims to equip students with a general overview of the predisposing factors and direct causes of disease, as well as their effects on the human body. Secondly,  the student will gain an understanding of the systematic approach to the basic disease processes in terms of etiology, symptomatology, general pathological changes, diagnostic procedures and types of treatment.

Welcome to the world of Biostatistics. This course will help you understand public health research in terms of research designs, measures of disease risk, statistical modeling with public health data and survival analysis. We introduce to a family of models called GLMs, Generalised Linear Regression models such as logistic and Poisson regression models. Of importance will be the estimation of parameters, making appropriate inferences on these parameters and the explanatory variables. Model diagnostics will be delt with in detail to enable you to assess the goodness of fit of your models before you publish results that are based on these models. Hope you will enjoy the course!!!

This course is designed to enable students to acquire and apply fundamental cartographic principles in map design. Students should be able to understand the principles of map composition and design, as well as to describe the developments and trends in modern cartography and visualisation.

Enrollment key: CTM611S

Hi {firstname},

Welcome to the Classroom and Workshop Management in TVET (CWC510S) course! My name is Ms Juliet Eiseb, facilitator, along with Ms Brenda Kahuikee administrative support for this course.

Upon completion of this course, you should be able:

• examine the different definitions of classroom and workshop management.
• analyse various theories of classroom and workshop management.
• discuss trainees' profiles about their personal beliefs and styles of classroom and workshop management.
• investigate different strategies to improve classroom and workshop management.
• implement action plans for effective classroom and workshop management.

You will have the opportunity to work on your own as well as connect with your peers to share knowledge and experiences.

The course starts on Monday, 12 February 2023 and runs through until17 May 2023.  

The course aims to introduce aspects of trauma systems, assist the student in appraising current treatment guidelines for specific trauma cases and introduce the application of medical imaging within the emergency medical care setting. 

This course aims to prepare the student for entry into industry through the real life management of patients and application of learnt cognitive and psychomotor skills and procedures under the supervision and guidance of registered practitioners.  The course will further enable the student to build an experience database from which to work once employed in industry.

This course prepares students for entry into the industry as advanced life support (ALS) paramedics. Through supervised real-life patient management in pre-hospital and hospital environments, students will apply advanced cognitive and psychomotor skills, building a solid foundation of practical experience. The course aims to prepare the student for entry into industry as an advanced life support paramedic through real-life patient management and applying advanced cognitive and psychomotor skills and procedures under the supervision and guidance of registered advanced life support paramedics and clinicians. The course will further enable the student to build an experience database from which to work once employed in industry.  

By the end of this course of study, students should be able to:

• Describe a computer and identify its basic structure.
• Use a computer effectively to source for information and to solve problems.
• Use and apply computer application packages for word-processing, spreadsheets, presentation and presentation graphics,
• Use mathematical/numerical data processing packages to assist in carrying out engineering tasks (e.g. Mathcad, Mat lab etc.)
• Use common software applications as tools in solving engineering problems.
• Use computer applications as tools to assist in carrying out engineering tasks.
• Use mathematical packages to solve engineering problems (e.g. Microsoft Excel, MathCAD)
• Apply engineering problem-solving techniques to analyze and develop basic algorithms

The course is designed to provide students with advanced knowledge and approaches to manage correctional facilities successfully. Special emphasis is directed toward applying concepts to the management of multi-focused institutions that provide for security and rehabilitation programmes. The course further enables students to manage the overall correctional operations, including the facility setting, offenders, and staff. Additionally, students will be able to discuss and examine emerging contemporary issues, such as developing correctional staff as human service professionals, community alternatives to incarceration, privatisation, and other emerging issues.

This course is about the fundamentals of pastry, bakery and desserts preparation in a commercial environment. It will expose you to important aspects that you need to know to successfully run a catering outlet in a hospitality establishment. However, it should be stressed that this course only covers the theoretical aspects and need to be taught concurrently with the course Applied Culinary Arts 1: Pastry, Bakery and Desserts ACP 610S which solely takes place in the kitchen. Without doing the practical course at the same time, which will apply all the knowledge and skills learned in this course a full comprehension of the course will not be reached. You would agree that you cannot bake “with a book and a pen” as you need to go into a kitchen and really do it.

The aim of the course is to impart knowledge and skills to enable students to manage a DBMS in order to optimise its use, administer users, create an operational database and properly manage the various structures in an effective and efficient manner including performance monitoring, secure databases as well as plan and implement recovery strategies. The course provides a hands-on administrative approach using current relational DBMSs.

This course aims to equip students with Design Thinking concepts and tools synthesising human-centred techniques to solve problems in a more creative and innovative approach. The course concentrates on evaluating alternative methods to solve problems that might not be instantly evident. Students will be able to integrate the iterative design thinking process of empathising with users of the product or service, defining ideas, producing a prototype and testing.

This course is designed to enable student to develop knowledge and understanding of the strategies, techniques and technologies used in the investigation of crime involving computing devices, the Internet and associated networks. The course will further, enable students to develop a sound understanding of the practical aspects involved in preparing, presenting and explaining computer-derived evidence in non- computer literate courtrooms

Econometrics is a major part of degree programmes in economics. Indeed, economists, especially those in the areas of macroeconomic modelling and research, amongst others, need reasonable knowledge of this course in order for them to operate in a more efficient manner. Given this background, this course essentially aims at equipping the students with the basics of Econometrics as well as some aspects of Applied Econometrics. The students should be able to build econometric models, estimate econometric models, evaluate econometric models and also forecast macroeconomic variables.

The course, Electrical Machines 214, introduces students to the fundamentals of electrical machines, i.e., the construction, operation and applications of electrical machines.

The course aims at equipping the students with the necessary skills required to carry out the basic analysis of electrical machines and electrical machine systems. The course also provides the necessary theory of electro-mechanical energy conversion principles required to understand the construction, operation and control of electrical machines and machine systems.

This course forms the core of the Programme of Emergency Medical Care together with Clinical Practice.  The course is divided into theory and practicum components. The practicum comprises Simulated Patient Assessment and Management & Simulated Clinical Skills and Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE).  This course will provide you with the necessary learning resources to acquire the knowledge, practical skills, and critical thinking relating to the pre-hospital emergency medical care of patients.  At this level, you are introduced to most medical and trauma concepts laying the foundations for further learning in the coming years of study.

The course aims to equip students with the cognitive and psychomotor skills of the advanced life support paramedic and enable the student to rapidly, efficiently and safely assess, diagnose and manage the critically ill or injured patient up to the advanced life support scope of practice.  The course further aims to prepare students to enter industry and take up supervisory/leadership roles in pre-hospital emergency medical services.

This course introduces students to a set of methods of solving differential equations. Students are learning the techniques of solving first order Ordinary Differential equations and second order ordinary linear differential equations. They further go to engage in solving ordinary differential equations by means of Laplace transforms, Fourier Series, Numerical Methods, as well as application of Matrices.

This covers the plane kinematics and dynamics of particles and systems of particles.

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Welcome to Environmental Engineering!

This course takes us to the environment!

...as we search to balance the economic, social and environmental aspects of our current society's needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.... Brundtland, 1987 

Assessment of the water quality of Gorengab dam.

Student should write a full report of the water quality of the samples of water collected from Gorengab dam

This course is developed by the Cooperate Education Unit to prepare you for the world of work/Work integrated learning. The course is offered throughout the year. However, you should complete it before completing your WIL and submitting your WIL deliverables. You should therefore engage in all activities and completed quizzes and a certificate will be automatically generated for you.

The overall aim of the course is to give the students the necessary skills to assess cooperate networks for vulnerabilities and mitigate them before security attacks. The students will secure a medium-sized company network against possible attacks and intrusions, test and configure network security, ensure network devices can operate securely. Further, this course will enable students to report on network security issues and trends, as well as protect networks.

This course is designed to: equip students with the knowledge in the evaluation of public health programs with respect to healthcare data management; enable students to determine the effectiveness of existing programs and to critically analyse the public health initiatives, as well as to develop an evaluation plan for community-based public health initiatives.

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