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ZANZIBAR UNIVERSITY PROSPECTUS FOR THE YEAR 2010/2011 P.O. BOX 2440 E-mail: [email protected] ZANZIBAR Website: www.zanvarsity.ac.tz TANZANIA
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ZANZIBAR UNIVERSITY
PROSPECTUS
FOR THE YEAR 2010/2011
P.O. BOX 2440 E-mail: [email protected] ZANZIBAR Website: www.zanvarsity.ac.tz TANZANIA
COPYRIGHT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE
Zanzibar University Principal Officers ..………………………………….………………………… 1
Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………. 4
Faculties and Institutes ……………………………………………………………………………… 6
University Degrees, Diploma and Certificate Awards ……………………………………………... 6
Academic Prizes ……………………………………………………………………………………. 7
General Admission Requirements ………………………………………………………………….. 8
Zanzibar University Fees Structure ………………………………………………………………… 20
General University Examination Regulations …………………………………………..................... 23
Faculty of Business Administration …………………………………………………….................... 47
Undergraduate Programmes ……………………………………………………………................... 49
Course Listing ………………………………………………………………………….................... 51
Faculty of Law & Shariah ………………………………………………………………………….. 71
Undergraduate Programmes ……………………………………………………………................... 73
Course Listing ………………………………………………………………………….................... 76
Graduate Programmes ……………………………………………………………………………… 84
Course Listing ……………………………………………………………………………………… 86
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences ……………………………………………………................... 90
Undergraduate Programmes ……………………………………………………………................... 91
Course Listing ………………………………………………………………………….................... 93
Institute of Continuing Education …………………………………………………………………. 103
Pre-University Programmes ………………………………………………………………………. 104
Diploma Programmes …………..……………………………………………………….................. 104
Certificate Programmes …………………………………………………………………………..... 112
Library Services ...…………………………………………………………………………………. 120
Computer Facilities ………………………………………………………………………………… 121
Students Affairs Department ………………………………………………………………………. 121
Zanzibar University Academic Staff List ………………………………………………………….. 125
Zanzibar University Members of the Senate ………………………………………………………. 128
Zanzibar University Members of the Council …………………………………………................... 130
Almanac for the Academic Year 2009/2010 ……………………………………………………….. 131
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1.0 ZANZIBAR UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT 1.1 PRINCIPAL OFFICERS
Vice-Chancellor Prof. Mustafa A. A. Roshash LLB (Hons.), LLM, Ph.D Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Dr. Miraji Issa Saleh MSc. (Econ.), Ph.D Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration) Ms. Hamida A. Muhammed M.A (Public Policy & Administration)
1.2 DEANS OF FACULTIES
Faculty of Business Administration Mr. Ahmad M. Ali (Acting Dean) Faculty of Law and Shariah Mr. Faruq Kyalo Mwaniki Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Mr. Mohammed A. Jiddawy
1.3 DIRECTORS OF INSTITUTES
Institute of Postgraduate Studies and Research Mr. Mtoro Almasi Ali Institute of Continuing Education Dr. Nsubuga Haroonah Directorate of Library Services Mr. Haji Ali Haji
1.4 HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS (ACADEMIC AFFAIRS)
Department of Accounting and Finance Mr. Mohammed Khamis Marshed Department of Marketing Mr. Ahmad M. Ali
Department of Business Information Technology
Mr. Suleiman Hamyar Suleiman
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Department of Shariah Mr. Y.M. Luwalira Lubowa Department of Common Law Ms. Fatma Rashid Khalfan Department of Public Administration Mr. Masoud Salim Mohammed Department of Economics Mr. Mohammed Said Mohammed 1.5 ASSISTANTS TO THE DEPUTY VICE CHANCELLOR (ACADEMIC)
Admissions Mr. Ali Ayoub Omar Examinations Mr. Nasib Ali Wazir Quality Assurance Unit Mr. Mussa S. Mussa 1.6 HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS (ADMINISTRATION)
Department of Human Resource Mr. Shaaban Hassan Haji Department of Public Relations Mr. Gharib Mohammed Gharib Department of Finance Mr. Mohammed Khamis Marshed
Department of Students Affairs Mr. Mavua Hassan Mussa
Department of Health Services (Al-Zahraa Dispensary) Dr. Ali Mohammed Ali Department of Buildings and Estates Mr. Abdul Juma Hamadi
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2.0 CONTACTS
Vice-Chancellor’s Office P.O Box 2440 ZANZIBAR Mobile Tel. No: +255 773 901 217 Fax No: +255 773 901 217 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.zanvarsity.ac.tz Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs Mobile Tel. No: +255 777 436 530 E-mail: [email protected]
Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Administration Mobile Tel. No: +255 732 940 302 E-mail: [email protected]
Admission Officer Mobile Tel. No: +255 777 418 161
E-mail: [email protected] Director of Library Services
Mobile Tel. No: +255 777 460 174 E-mail: [email protected] Public Relations Officer Mobile Tel. No: +255 777 854 331 E-mail: [email protected]
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3.0 INTRODUCTION TO ZANZIBAR UNIVERSITY 3.1 Location
The Zanzibar University, the first University on the Isles, is a private institution sponsored by an NGO – the Darul Iman Charitable Association. It is situated at Tunguu area, in the Central District, some 12 miles from the Zanzibar town. The University campus, with a total area of 170 acres of land, is located among pleasant and quiet countryside surroundings overlooking vast expanses of deep blue waters of Indian Ocean. It is an ideal place for serious academic work. Public transport (bus No. 339) from the Zanzibar Town will bring you to the University campus gates.
3.2 Registration
The Zanzibar University was officially opened in April 1998, and was registered in Zanzibar on the basis of the constitution of the Darul Iman Charitable Association, which received the Certificate of Registration No.22 under the Societies Act No. 6 of 1995 issued on 2nd August,1996. The University was registered in Zanzibar with Certificate of Registration SO. No. 9177, under the Societies Ordinance Act of 1954, issued on 28th October, 1997. The University received the Certificate of Registration No.118, under the Societies Act No. 6 of 1995 issued on 28th July 2000.
3.3 Mission
The Zanzibar University’s mission is essentially to promote discovery and application of knowledge, the acquisition of skills, and the development of intellect in the East African region with a view to prepare students to contribute effectively and morally to the developmental processes of their countries as good citizens of a rapidly changing world dominated by technological advancement. The mission is currently achieved through high quality undergraduate and postgraduate academic programmes which are designed to make graduating students capable of employing themselves and others as well.
3.4 Vision
The Zanzibar University is a place for excellence and is expected to increase its role in the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in the areas of computer engineering, social and management sciences through training, research and consultancy with the view to catch the wider markets within Tanzania and beyond by the year 2020.
3.5 Academic Programmes
3.5.1 The proliferation of business enterprises and hotel beach resorts, and the gradual expansion of the tourism industry in the country have convinced the development partners to begin the University programmes first with the Faculty of Business Administration in 1998, with the view to satisfy the immediate needs of the business community.
3.5.2 In 1999, the Faculty of Law and Shariah was established and in the year 2002 the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences was also established. Within seven or so years that followed however more but quite modern structures with larger classrooms were erected to accommodate bigger students intakes.
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3.5.3 A Faculty of Engineering is planned to be established on the University campus. All the Faculties will in the near future offer Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate Degrees.
3.6 Accreditation
After getting a letter of Interim Registration in 1998, the Zanzibar University (ZU) had tried its level best to implement all the recommendations put forward by the Technical Evaluation Committees of the Higher Education Accreditation Council of Tanzania, currently known as the Tanzania Commission for Universities. The University then received a Certificate of Provisional Registration in 1999, and a Certificate of Full Registration on 4th May, 2000.
3.7 Membership
The University is a full member of the following institutions:
3.7.1 Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals – Tanzania (CVCP-T);
3.7.2 Tanzania Association of Private Universities (TAPU);
3.7.3 The Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA);
3.7.4 The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU);
3.7.5 The Association of African Universities (AAU).
3.8 Links
It has links and working relationships with the following institutions:
3.8.1 The University College of Education (Zanzibar);
3.8.2 The State University of Zanzibar (SUZA);
3.8.3 The Zanzibar Institute of Finance and Administration (ZIFA);
3.8.4 The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM);
3.8.5 North South South Project of the Government of Finland;
3.8.6 The International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM);
3.8.7 Kingston University;
3.8.8 The National Board of Accountants and Auditors (NBAA);
3.8.9 The Islamic Development Bank (IDB);
3.8.10 The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
3.9 Quality Assurance
There is a Quality Assurance Unit at the University. Its main function is to facilitate Quality Assurance standards at all University levels with the objective of attaining Total Quality Management through out the University.
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4.0 FACULTIES AND INSTITUTES
4.1 FACULTIES
4.1.1 Faculty of Business Administration
It consists of the following Departments:
i) Department of Accounting and Finance;
ii) Department of Marketing;
iii) Department of Business Information Technology.
4.1.2 Faculty of Law and Shariah
It consists of the following Departments;
i) Department of Common Law;
ii) Department of Shariah (Islamic Law).
4.1.3 Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
It consists of the following Departments:
i) Department of Public Administration;
ii) Department of Economics.
4.2 INSTITUTES
4.2.1 Institute of Postgraduate Studies and Research
4.2.2 Institute of Continuing Education
5.0 UNIVERSITY DEGREES, DIPLOMA AND CERTIFICATE AWA RDS
5.1 FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
5.1.1 Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting and Finance;
5.1.2 Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Marketing;
5.1.3 Bachelor of Business Information Technology (BBIT)
5.2 FACULTY OF LAW AND SHARIAH
5.2.1 Bachelor of Law and Shariah (LL.B);
5.2.2 Masters of laws (LLM) in Comparative Laws.
5.3 FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
5.3.1 Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Public Administration;
5.3.2 Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics.
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5.4 THE INSTITUTE OF CONTINUING EDUCATION
5.4.1 Pre University Courses
i) Field of Business Administration;
i) Field of Information Technology;
iii) Field of Law and Shariah;
iv) Field of Economics;
v) Field of Public Administration.
5.4.2 Diploma Courses
i) Diploma in Criminal Justice;
ii) Diploma in Islamic Banking and Finance.
5.4.3 Certificate Courses
i) Certificate in Management;
ii) Certificate in Computer Applications;
iii) Certificate in Law and Shariah;
iv) Certificate in Human Resources Management;
v) Certificate in Journalism;
vi) Certificate in Tourism.
6.0 ACADEMIC PRIZES
6.1 Awards for Academic Staff are given for:
6.1.1 Teaching effectiveness;
6.1.2 Publication;
6.1.3 Publishing Research Report;
6.1.4 Consultancy.
6.2 Graduation Awards for Students
6.2.1 University Prizes (Best Overall Students in the programme):
i) BBA (Accounting and Finance);
ii) BBA (Marketing);
iii) BBIT (Business Information Technology);
iv) LL.B (Law and Shariah);
v) BA (Public Administration);
vi) BA (Economics).
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6.2.2 Darul-Iman Prizes (First Class Graduating Students in the Field of Study of):
i) Accounting and Finance;
ii) Marketing;
iii) Business Information Technology;
iv) Law and Shariah;
v) Public Administration;
vi) Economics.
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7.0 GENERAL ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
7.1 All inquires regarding admission should be addressed to:
The Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Zanzibar University, P.O. Box 2440, Zanzibar, Tanzania. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.zanvarsity.ac.tz The Director, Postgraduate Studies and Research, Fax No: +255 732 940 214; Mobile Tel. No: +255 784 842 484; E-mail: [email protected] The Director, Institute of Continuing Education, Fax No: +255 773 901217; Mobile Tel. No: +255 773 932710; E-mail: [email protected]
7.2 Admission Regulations
7.2.1 The Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs/the Director of Postgraduate Studies and Research/the Director of Institute of Continuing Education will then send to prospective applicants forms and other information on condition that they have submitted in writing full details of their academic qualifications. The forms, dully filled, must be returned to the Deputy Vice Chancellor not later than 15th July for October intake.
7.2.2 The academic year begins in October and ends in September of the following year. New students are admitted in October of every year. During the registration, documents are thoroughly checked. Prospective students are therefore required to bring with them official original transcripts, certificates and other relevant documents as declared on the application forms. Legal action shall be taken against any applicant who presents forged documents.
7.2.3 No change of names by students shall be allowed during the registration or the course of study at this University; students shall only be allowed to use names appearing on their birth certificates.
7.2.4 Registration can only be considered if the University receives satisfactory evidence that the prospective students will be adequately financed during their course of the study at the University.
7.2.5 Fees paid shall not be refunded. Students should carry with them enough money for contingencies.
7.2.6 All students may be required to sit for a University Entrance Examination.
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7.2.7 The medium of instruction at the University is English. Thus, prospective students must have reading, writing and speaking proficiency in English.
7.2.8 During registration students will be required to submit a satisfactory medical report.
7.2.9 Prospective foreign students must necessarily seek and obtain police clearance and submit it to the Admissions Office.
7.2.10 Every applicant must submit two letters of referees who are in a position to give a detailed recommendation of the applicant.
7.2.11 Foreign students applying for admission should submit 10 passport size photos, while Tanzanian students should submit three passport size photos only.
7.2.12 Deadline of registration for first year and continuing students shall be three weeks from the first date of Orientation Week.
7.2.13 A student who has previously attended any University and was discontinued on academic grounds may be admitted to this University after being tested/examined and proved that she/he is capable of carrying out studies in the field of study other than the one taken at the previous University.
7.2.14 A candidate discontinued on academic grounds from one Faculty may be allowed to apply into another Faculty provided that the University Senate approves.
7.2.15 Candidates discontinued from other Universities on disciplinary grounds or on grounds of an examination irregularity, which include cheating in the examination, possession of unauthorised material in the examination room, or cheating to gain admission, shall not be admitted to this University.
7.2.16 A candidate who was discontinued on academic grounds wishing to re-apply in the same Faculty shall be re-admitted if she/he produces evidence which satisfies the University Senate that he/she has done some further studies and he/she is capable of taking University studies.
7.2.17 If any candidate will be found to have cheated to gain university admission, he/she shall be discontinued from studies without incurring any liability whatsoever.
7.2.18 If any candidate previously discontinued from University studies will be found to have cheated to gain admission, they shall be discontinued from studies at this University.
7.2.19 Except in exceptional circumstances, no student shall be allowed to change courses or subjects later than the fourth week after the beginning of the first semester of the academic year.
7.2.20 No student shall be allowed to postpone studies except under special circumstances, such as severe sponsorship problems, poor health or social problems supported by satisfactory material evidence.
7.2.21 Students may be allowed to be away from University studies for a maximum period of two years, if they are to be re-admitted into the same programme and year of studies where they left off.
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7.2.22 i) Students discontinued from studies on grounds of examination irregularity shall be considered for re-admission into the same programme and year of study after being away for two years. They shall be required to apply for re-admission through their respective Heads of Departments and Faculty Deans.
ii) It is upon the University Senate to grant or refuse the re-admission. Such students may also be requested by Senate to re-apply and compete with other applicants for admission into the first year regardless which year they left the University
7.2.23 All students, if admitted, are required to conform entirely to the University Charter, as well as Rules and Regulations, which may be issued, from time to time, by the University Council and Senate.
7.3 Programmes for First Degree Courses
The Zanzibar University prepares students for the following first-degree courses:
7.3.1 The Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing;
7.3.2 The Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting & Finance;
7.3.3 The Bachelor of Business Information Technology;
7.3.4 The Bachelor of Law and Shariah;
7.3.5 The Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration;
7.3.6 The Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
7.4 Minimum Entrance Requirement for the First Degree Courses
The general requirements for the above mentioned first degrees are such that the applicant should have:
7.4.1 A Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (C.S.E.E.) or East African Certificate of Education (Ordinary Level) or Credit equivalent with passes in THREE approved subjects obtained prior to the sitting of the Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (A.C.S.E.E.) or East African Certificate of Education (Advanced Level) ; AND
7.4.2 A minimum of Two Principal Level passes in appropriate subjects and the aggregate number of points shall be 4.5 and above; OR
An appropriate equivalent Diploma/Certificate of not less than Second Class/Credit level and approved by the Senate of the Zanzibar University.
7.4.3 Have passed Pre-University Programme of the Zanzibar University or of any other institution recognized by the same.
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7.5 Foreign Applicants
For foreign applicants (students) with Ordinary Certificate of Secondary Education and who are coming from countries whose Educational Systems are based on 8 years for primary school education, 4 years for secondary school education, and 4 years for University education or equivalent, the minimum entrance requirements shall be as follows; applicants must:
7.5.1 have completed one year of study in a University in his/her own home country; OR
7.5.2 have an appropriate equivalent Diploma/Certificate of not less than Second Class/Credit level and approved by the Senate of the Zanzibar University; OR
7.5.3 have taken in Tanzania the Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education Examinations, or equivalent; OR
7.5.4 have Baccalaureate Certificate in approved subjects.
7.6 Additional Requirements for Different Degree Programmes
7.6.1 Bachelors of Business Administration, Bachelor of Business Information Technology and Bachelor of Arts in Economics
Candidates applying for the above three degrees must:
i) Possess a Principal or Subsidiary Level pass in Mathematics at “A” level; OR
ii) Have passed the subject with at least “C” grade or higher at “O” level; OR
iii) Have a pass in Statistics or Mathematics or Quantitative Methods at Ordinary Diploma.
7.6.2 Bachelor of Law and Shariah
Candidates must have “O” Level Credit passes in English OR History or any other equivalent subject.
7.6.3 Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration
An appropriate equivalent Diploma of at least Second Class level or its equivalent.
7.7 Mature Age Entry Examination
7.7.1 Mature Age Entry Examination Scheme This approach is to allow candidates who wish to study for a first- degree programme of the Zanzibar University, but unfortunately, do not possess the qualifications, which satisfy the University Direct Entry requirements. The conditions for Mature Age Entry Approach are as follows:
i) Candidates must be 25 years of age or above, on October 1st of the year in which admission is sought;
ii) Candidates should have obtained at least three Credits Passes in approved subjects at “O” level;
iii) Candidates must have passed mature age entry examinations set by the University;
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iv) BBA, BBIT and BA (Economics) applicants must have at least a Pass in Mathematics either at “O” Level or at “A” Level;
v) LLB applicants must have at least a “C” Grade at “O” Level in History OR English OR any other equivalent subject;
vi) BA applicants must have at least a “C” Grade at “O” Level in English.
7.7.2 Application for Admission
i) Candidates who meet Conditions (i) - (vi) of the above Scheme and wish to apply for admission to a degree course of the Zanzibar University should write to:
Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Zanzibar University, P.O. Box 2440, Zanzibar, Tanzania. E-mail address: [email protected];
ii) Application forms should be filled completely;
iii) When the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) receives application letters, formal Mature Age Entry Examination application forms shall be sent to the applicants;
iv) Prospective candidates of the Mature Age Entry Examination are required to return duly completed application forms immediately to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Office.
7.7.3 Examination Fee
A non refundable fee of US $ 10- for local students and US $ 20- for foreign students will be charged.
7.7.4 Mode of Examination
The Mature Age Entry Examination of the Zanzibar University consists of two parts:
PART I: Tests the candidates’ knowledge of English Language and reasoning ability. This part has three sections: Section I (VERBAL ABILITY): It tests the candidates’ knowledge of spoken English;
Section II (NUMERICAL ABILITY): It tests the candidates’ ability to think and reason numerically;
Section III (COMPREHENSION): It tests the candidates’ ability to read and understand English Language.
PART II: Tests the candidates’ knowledge in academic fields that they seek to study at the University.
PASS MARK: Candidates must pass both PART I and II of the examination. The Examination is graded on PASS/FAIL basis. Candidates who have satisfied examiners in the Mature Age Entry Examinations shall be considered for admission.
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7.8 Transfer of Students
7.8.1 The University may accept transfer of students from other Universities provided that: The maximum transferable load for a four year programme is two semesters if the student has studied for six semesters from his/her former University.
7.8.2 For a three-year programme a student can transfer an equivalent of one semester if he/she has studied for two academic years in his/her former University. However, students may be exempted from taking some corresponding courses taken at a former University. In this regard students are required to seek Senate approval through their respective Faculties.
7.9 Short Term and Occasional Students
The University may accept students from other Universities who would like to take some courses offered at the University through short term or occasional studentship arrangements.
7.9.1 Short Term Arrangements
Students who meet the Zanzibar University admission prerequisites may be allowed to register for one or two academic semesters to take full time courses at the University. However, they will not be offered certificate, diploma or degree at the end of their programme. They may be given statement of results for examinations they have attempted at the University.
7.9.2 Occasional Students
These are students who meet the minimum Zanzibar University admission requirements and would like to audit some courses at the University. They usually stay at the University for one semester. Unlike short-term students, they are not required to sit for University Examinations and hence they are not entitled to certificate, transcript or any other academic document, unless a special arrangement is made.
7.9.3 Admission Requirements
For Short Term and Occasional Students from other Universities in the country or abroad, shall be admitted to this University as Short Term or Occasional Students on the following conditions:
i) They must possess the Zanzibar University minimum entry qualifications or their equivalent;
ii) Must send applications to the Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs;
iii) Must pay all fees as stipulated by the University Authorities;
iv) Their applications must be supported by their Universities or Colleges;
v) Must comply with all rules and regulations as stipulated by the University Authorities.
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7.9.4 Termination and Discontinuation from Studies
Short Term students may be terminated or discontinued from studies on the following grounds:
i) Breach of University regulations (including examination and admission regulations);
ii) Breach of Immigration Regulations;
iii) Abscondment from studies;
iv) Irregular attendance in classes.
7.9.5 Change of Status
A short term or an occasional student may be allowed to change his/her status to a fully registered student of Zanzibar University on the following conditions:
i) Must meet all admission prerequisites;
ii) Must show satisfactory performance in courses and examinations taken at the University;
iii) Must be able to cover at least two thirds (2/3) of the requirements of the Zanzibar University.
7.9.6 Payment of Fees
Short term and Occasional Students shall pay fees as may be determined by the University.
7.10 Non Degree Programmes
Non Degree programmes comprise Pre-University Programmes, Diploma and Certificate courses that are run for less than three years.
7.10.1 Pre-University Programmes are:
i) Field of Business Administration;
ii) Field of Information Technology;
iii) Field of Law and Shariah;
iv) Field of Economics;
v) Field of Public Administration.
7.10.2 Diploma Programmes are:
i) Diploma in Criminal Justice;
ii) Diploma in Islamic Banking and Finance.
7.10.3 Certificate Programmes are:
i) Certificate in Basic Law and Shariah;
ii) Certificate in Basic Management;
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iii) Certificate in Human Resources Management;
iv) Certificate in Basic Journalism;
v) Certificate in Computer Applications;
vi) Certificate in Basic Tourism;
7.11 Minimum Admission Requirements for Pre-University Programmes
Students shall be admitted into the various programs basing on the following admission and/or registration requirements:
7.11.1 Form IV (O-Level) Certificate of at least Division II or a mean Grade C or its equivalent from Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and any other country where “A” Level Certificates are not offered;
7.11.2 Form IV (O-Level) Certificate with three credits or its equivalent together with a Diploma in a relevant field of study from a recognized University or Institution approved by the Zanzibar University;
7.11.3 Form VI (A-Level) Certificate with three credits or its equivalent at “O” Level or Diploma holders from Tanzania. But they must have attained at least one Principal Pass and 2 Subsidiary Passes or a Grade III Diploma.
7.12 Minimum Admission Requirements for Diploma Programmes
7.12.1 Three passes of Grade C or above in approved subjects in the Certificate of Secondary Education at “O” Level; OR
7.12.2 A Certificate of Secondary Education (O-Level) or equivalent with at least five (5) passes; OR
7.12.3 An Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (A-Level) or its equivalent with at least one (1) principal pass or two or more subsidiaries; OR
7.12.4 Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education with at least one Principal Pass or Grade III Diploma from recognized Universities or Institutions; OR
7.12.5 Any first degree from a recognized University; OR
7.12.6 Four years of exceptional experience in the relevant field or profession may be considered on its own merits as mature age entry. However, such a application may be required to undergo a test that may be conducted by the office of the DVC (Academic) in coordination with the Directorate of the Institute of Continuing Education; OR
7.12.7 Any Certificate and/or Diploma in a relevant field of study of duration of at least one year from a recognized institution.
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7.13 Minimum Entry Requirements for Admission to Postgraduate Degree Programmes
7.13.1 Entry qualifications for the programme
The general minimum entry requirements for the admission into the programme of Master of Laws (LLM) in Comparative Laws are as follows:
i) A candidate must be a holder of the LL.B degree of not less than the second class awarded by the Zanzibar University; OR
ii) A candidate must be a holder of the LL.B degree of equivalent merit from any other approved University; OR
iii) A candidate must satisfy the requirements for the award of the LLB degree, provided the said LL.B degree shall be of GPA 3.0 or above; OR
iv) A candidate must be a holder of a Bachelor Degree in Islamic Law of not less than second class awarded by any other approved University; OR
v) A candidate must be a holder of Postgraduate Diploma in Law from any approved University, and who is also a holder of a First Degree in Law (pass classification);
vi) A minimum working experience of two years in the field of law will be considered as an added advantage;
vii) A candidate who has not taken, in his/her first degree, some core courses of either Common Law or Islamic law shall be required to take respective pre-requisite courses and pass their examinations so as to meet the minimum requirements.
7.13.2 Registration for the Program
Candidates who register for the LLM degree by thesis shall only be required to attend lectures and seminars on research methodology before commencing on thesis writing.
7.13.3 Regulations for Registration Process for the LLM by Thesis
Candidates who wish to register for the LLM degree by thesis shall be required to follow the following procedures:
i) A candidate shall write and submit a two to three page statement of the research topic to be done. This is a Stage I registration. After that the Faculty of Law & Shariah shall assign supervisor(s) to the candidate, who shall then immediately begin his/her studies.
ii) Within six (6) months the candidate, who has been assigned with a supervisor, shall be required to present his/her complete research proposal in a seminar for the Postgraduate Studies Committee (PSC) and the public at large to review his/her progress.
iii) The comprehensive research proposal shall not be more than 15 pages in length. It should be typed in font 12 and to have double spaced lines. Copies of the research proposal in a seminar shall be distributed to all the PSC members for scrutiny at least ten (10) days before the seminar presentation.
iv) When the research proposal is found to be satisfactory, PSC shall forward its recommendations to the Senate for approval and registration.
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v) Upon satisfaction, the Senate shall approve the PSC recommendation and give registration for the preparation and, finally, the thesis writing. This is Stage II registration.
vi) On the basis of the PSC recommendations, the Senate shall appoint supervisors to guide the candidate in his/her research and, who shall provide candidate's progress report to the PSC after every three months period.
vii) The maximum period for the registration process is six (6) months. Beyond that period a candidate shall have to pay US$ 50 for each month of extension.
viii) The duration of the registration period for thesis candidates, including the 26 weeks (6 months) processing of registration, shall be 104 weeks (24 months) for full time students.
ix) In case, for some reasons, a candidate fails to continue with his/her studies, he/she may apply to the Senate for the postponement of the registration through PSC. The maximum period for the freezing of the registration shall be three years.
x) If a candidate fails to complete the Masters study program within the given period of time, that shall lead to his/her discontinuation from studies, unless the Senate approves his/her application for extension.
xi) If a candidate, for genuine reasons, fails to complete his/her thesis within a given period of time, he/she may apply for an extension of the registration period, which shall not exceed six months. The fees paid for each month of extension shall be US$ 50.
xii) Candidates who have registered for Masters Degrees studies by thesis may be required, on the recommendation of the Faculty of Law and Shariah, to do some formal courses that are appropriate to their field of study.
7.13.4 Regulations for Registration Process for the LLM by Coursework
i) Regulations on duration of registration, submission of dissertation, and examination of dissertations are generally the same as the ones that appear in section 7.12.3 dealing with a LLM degree by thesis.
ii) However, candidates who wish to do their LLM degree by coursework and dissertation shall have to follow the following procedures:
a) To fully complete the coursework component, a candidate must pass all courses in the programme.
b) On the Senate's approval of the coursework results, the candidate shall be allowed to proceed to the dissertation phase of the Masters programme. The candidate shall necessarily present his/her comprehensive research design to the FPSC members and at the Faculty of Law and Shariah seminars for review purposes.
iii) The Faculty shall submit proposals of candidate(s) for dissertation to FPSC to grant registration of research study and appoint supervisor(s).
iv) The FPSC shall approve the candidate(s) registration for the dissertation and shall subsequently submit the proposals to SPSC.
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v) SPSC shall note and endorse FPSC approvals of the proposals, and shall request the Senate to grant registration for the dissertation phase.
vi) Time for registration: deadline for registration shall be at the end of the second week of the first semester of the academic year.
7.13.5 Duration of the Registration for the Programme
i) Period of both categories of the LLM programmes shall be 104 weeks (2 years).
ii) Failure of a candidate to complete the LLM study programme within the specified time frame shall mean his/her discontinuation from study, unless application for extension has been submitted before the expiry of the stipulated period and approved by the Senate.
iii) However if a candidate, because of certain reasons fails to submit the application before the expiry of the stipulated period as explained in paragraph 7.12.3 (xi), he/she may apply within 26 weeks for the extension.
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8.0 ZANZIBAR UNIVERSITY FEES STRUCTURE
8.1 FEES STRUCTURE FOR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES
Table 1: Fees Structure for all undergraduate programmes for one academic year (in USA Dollars $)
ITEM LOCAL STUDENTS FOREIGN STUDENTS
Application 10.00 20.00
Registration 30.00 30.00
Tuition 1100.00 1100.00
Accommodation 200.00 200.00
Examinations 80.00 80.00
Identity Card 10.00 10.00
Students’ Union 10.00 10.00
Graduation 40.00 40.00
Caution Money 20.00 20.00
Research 25.00 25.00
TOTAL 1,525.00 1,535.00
8.2 FEES STRUCTURE FOR NON DEGREE PROGRAMMES
Table 2: Fees Structure for Non Degree Programmes
1st SEMESTER 2nd SEMESTER 3rd SEMESTER TOTAL
US DOLLARS US DOLLARS US DOLLARS US DOLLARS
Application 25 - - 25
Registration 20 - - 20
Identity Card 15 - - 15
Examinations 70 - - 70
Graduation 50 - - 50
Tuition 350 350 350 1050
Research *
530 350 350 1,230
NOTE: ALL ABOVE FEES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE FROM TIM E TO TIME
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8.3 FEES STRUCTURE FOR THE LLM BY COURSEWORK AND DI SSERTATION Table 3: Costs payable directly to the University (in US Dollars)
Description
Year 1
Year 2
Application Fees 20 -
Registration Fees 20 - Tuition Fees 2000 1000 Examination Fees 50 50 Dissertation/Thesis Supervision - 400 Special Faculty Requirements 75 75 Research/Field Costs - 1000 Students Union 10 10
Total 2,175 2,535
Table 4: Recommended costs payable directly to the student (in US Dollars)
Description
Year 1
Year 2
Books 200 200
Stationery 100 100 Accommodation 300 300 Meals 1,760 1,760 Thesis Production - 150 Medical Expenses 75 75
Total 2,435 2,585
NOTE: ALL ABOVE FEES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE FROM TIM E TO TIME
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8.4 FEES STRUCTURE FOR THE LLM BY THESIS ONLY Table 5: Costs payable directly to the University (in US Dollars)
Description
Year 1
Year 2
Application Fees 20 - Registration Fees 20 -
Tuition Fees 2000 1000
Viva Voce Examination Fees - 100
Thesis Supervision - 400
Special Faculty Requirements 75 75 Research /Field Costs 500 500 Students Union 10 10
Total 2,625 2,085
Table 6: Recommended costs payable directly to the student (in US Dollars)
Description
Year 1
Year 2
Books 200 200
Stationary 100 100 Accommodation 300 300 Meals 1,760 1,760 Thesis Production - 150 Medical Expenses 75 75
Total 2,435 2,585
NOTE: ALL ABOVE FEES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE FROM TO TIME
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9.0 GENERAL UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION REGULATIONS
The University shall have three types of examinations, namely, entrance examinations, mature age entry examinations and university examinations. 9.1 Entrance Examination
Candidates who meet the University’s minimum admission requirements shall be required to sit for entrance examination before they are admitted. The examination is divided into two parts:
9.1.1 Morning Session:
This is a three hour paper consisting of three sections, whereby candidates are required to answer all questions:
Section I: English Language (Grammar, Structure and Comprehension); Section II: Basic Mathematics Reasoning Test (Simple Arithmetic);
Section III: General Knowledge (Current Affairs).
9.1.2 Afternoon Session:
This paper contains questions from A Level subjects. Candidates are required to answer questions from three sections of their choice provided they make a Form VI subject combination.
9.2 Mature Age Entry Examination
Details for the Mature Age Entry Examination Scheme are provided under section 7.7 of the Admission Regulations. 9.3 University Examinations
These are all examinations, tests, quizzes, class assignments and other forms of examinations administered to candidates registered at the University as full time, short term, occasional, or Pre-University students. 9.4 Registration for Examinations
9.4.1 Registration by a candidate and payment to the University of all required prescribed fees for the University shall be deemed as adequate registration for the requisite examinations in the particular study.
9.4.2 Subject to the approval by the Senate, Faculty shall make such internal examination regulations as necessary for the proper conduct, management and administration of examinations in accordance with the specific requirements of particular degree.
9.5 Eligibility for Examinations
9.5.1 No candidate shall be admitted to any examination in any subject unless the candidate has fully completed all the requirements of the course.
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9.5.2 Where a candidate who has been barred from an examination enters the Examination room and sits for the paper, his/her results in the paper shall be declared null and void.
9.5.3 A candidate who has not scored thirty (30) percent of the total coursework will be required by the Senate, on the recommendation of the appropriate Faculty Board, to repeat any part of the course before admission to an examination.
9.6 Assessment
9.6.1 All courses shall be examined during the academic semesters in which they are studied. The examinations shall consist of continuous assessment of written assignments, tests, quizzes, projects, and written examinations at the end of each semester. Course work assessment shall account for 30 percent of the total final marks, while the final examination shall account for 70 percent of the overall total final examination marks;
9.6.2 Pass mark for each examination paper shall be 40 percent; 9.7 Oral Examination
9.7.1 A candidate at any examination may, at the discretion of the Board of Examiners, be required to attend an oral examination in addition to written and practical examinations.
9.7.2 When Oral Examination is applicable the percentages of the total marks awarded shall be as follows (written examinations 60%, practical examinations 20% and oral examinations 20%). Otherwise the Senate on the recommendation of the appropriate Faculty Board shall determine the distribution.
9.8 Absence from Examinations
A candidate who absents himself/herself from an examination or examinations without convincing reasons shall be discontinued from studies on grounds of abscondment.
9.9 Board of Examiners
9.9.1 Every University Examination shall be conducted by a Board of Examiners, which shall consist of one or more examiners appointed from outside the University, in conjunction with one or more of the lecturers of the candidates in the subject under examination. In the case of supplementary or special examinations, all the examiners may be appointed from within the University, provided that at least one of them had no part in lecturing the candidates the subject or subjects under examination.
9.9.2 External and internal examiners shall be entitled to such honoraria as the Council shall prescribe.
9.9.3 Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-paragraph 9.9.1, University examinations conducted during and/or at the end of the first semester may be conducted by internal examiners only, provided that:
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i) The relevant examination papers and answer scripts by candidates shall be submitted to external examiners together with the papers and scripts of each semester for moderation.
ii) The results of such examinations shall be published in accordance with regulation 10.1 at the end of each semester.
9.10 Dates of Examinations
9.10.1 Examinations in all Faculties shall be held at a time to be determined by the Senate, which shall normally be at the end of each semester, subject to such exceptions as Senate may allow upon recommendation by the Faculty Board.
9.10.2 Candidates who are referred shall be re-examined in the referred subjects at a time to be determined by the Senate. Each final examination paper shall have the duration of at least three hours.
9.10.3 A candidate who for any genuine cause was unable to present himself/herself in the ordinary examination may, with the special permission of the Senate, present herself/himself for first sitting examination, at a time fixed for any supplementary examination.
9.10.4 In case such a candidate again for genuine cause was unable to sit for any supplementary examination, he/she shall be required to postpone examinations.
OR
Any such candidate who fails in his/her first sitting in any examination done at a time other than ordinary examination period shall be allowed to do a special supplementary examination later on in the ordinary examination period.
9.11 Conduct of Examinations
9.11.1 University examinations shall be conducted under the control of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs) or such other officer of the University as the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs) may appoint.
9.11.2 Senate shall appoint the examiners for the University Examinations in the manner it shall prescribe.
9.11.3 Subject to endorsement by the Senate, the Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs) shall have powers to issue instructions, notes and guidelines to candidates, invigilators, and examiners.
9.12 Examination Irregularities
9.12.1 An examination irregularity may include unauthorized absence from or presence of a candidate in the examination room, possession of unauthorized material in the examination room, causing disturbance in or near any examination room, or cheating in examination.
9.12.2 In this regulation
i) “Unauthorized material” includes written or printed materials, any part of University answer scripts, possession of the examination paper by a candidate before the examination or possession of the examination paper by a student (non-
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candidate) before and during the examination, electronic devices such as mobile phones, computers, radio cassettes or other types of cassette players, radios, drinks, food and any other material specified from time to time by the University Senate.
ii) “Unauthorized absence from examination room” includes going out of the examination room by a candidate, temporarily or otherwise, or staying outside the examination room for unduly long period without permission from the invigilator.
iii) “Unauthorized presence in the examination room” includes fraudulently entering in the examination room by a student, temporarily or otherwise, pretending to be a candidate who is supposed to write that specific examination.
iv) “Cheating in examination” includes any form or kind of dishonesty or destruction or falsification of any evidence of examination irregularity.
9.12.3 All cases of alleged examination irregularities shall be referred to the Examination Disciplinary Committee, which shall consist of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs) as a Chairperson, all Faculty Deans, Dean of Students, Examinations Officer, and the Admissions Officer.
9.12.4 The Committee shall have powers of summoning students and members of staff, as it deems necessary. The Chairman shall submit a report of findings and recommendations to the Senate for approval.
9.12.5 No unauthorized material shall be allowed into the examination room.
9.12.6 Notwithstanding the above provisions, the Senate may impose such a lesser penalty on a candidate found guilty of committing an examination irregularity, depending on the gravity of the facts or circumstances constituting the offence, as the Senate may deem appropriate.
10.0 Release of Examination Results
10.1 The Dean of the relevant Faculty shall release the provisional results in every examination arranged in a manner prescribed by Senate, soon after the Faculty Board meeting but the results shall not be regarded as final until Senate confirms them.
10.2 The Faculty Board may release provisional examination results at the end of each semester. These results are subject to approval by the Senate.
11.0 Appeals
11.1 Any appeal must be lodged with the Faculty/Institute Board to which the appellant belongs. The Faculty/Institute Board shall make observations or recommendations and then forward them to the Senate for approval.
11.2 Appeals shall be lodged and registered using appropriate forms maintained by the appellant’s Faculty.
11.3 Failure to comply with the requirement as per Regulation 11.1 shall result in dismissal of the appeal by the Head of the Department/Faculty Dean or Institute Director.
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11.4 An appeal pertaining to the conduct of any University examinations, marking scripts, projects, dissertation and thesis must be lodged in accordance with these regulations within thirty (30) days from the date of release of the results by or under the authority of the Senate.
11.5 Any member of the appellant’s Faculty, who participated in the making of the decision against which the appeal is lodged shall not have a voting right in the Senate over such an appeal and may participate therein only in terms of presentation of findings and recommendations of the appellant’s Faculty, and shall otherwise be absent from the Senate session considering any such appeal.
11.6 Any student or candidate aggrieved by a decision of the Senate in terms of the provisions of regulation 11.5 may apply for the review and the appeal shall be lodged directly with the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs) who shall forward them to the Senate with observations and recommendations thereon.
11.7 All appeals shall be externally marked by someone who had never been external examiner of the examination in question.
11.8 The Senate Chairperson shall, immediately after receiving the appeal results, officially inform the appellant of the same, which shall be recommended to the Senate for approval.
12.0 Appeal Fee
12.1 All appeals shall be accompanied by an appeal fee to be determined from time to time by the Senate.
12.2 The fee shall be reimbursed to winning appellants.
13.0 Preservation of scripts
The University shall preserve the students’ scripts for the purpose of reference for a period of two years.
14.0 Progress From Year to Year
14.1 Supplementary and Special Supplementary Examinations
14.1.1 A candidate failing in not more than three courses may be allowed to supplement.
14.1.2 First year candidates, failing in more than three courses may be allowed to supplement provided that the candidate’s GPA is 2.0 or above.
14.1.3 A second, third or fourth year candidate, failing in four courses in a semester, may be allowed to clear his/her failed courses when next offered provided that the candidate’s CGPA of the year in which he/she is studying is equal or above 2.0.
14.1.4 Candidates who have completed their degree programmes in the prescribed period but have supplementary examinations shall sit for special supplementary examinations.
14.1.5 First sitting, supplementary and special supplementary examinations shall be held in the month to be determined by the Senate.
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14.2 Repeating a Semester
14.2.1 No candidate shall be allowed to repeat any semester in the first year.
14.2.2 In the second, third and fourth years, no candidate shall be allowed to repeat a semester more than once.
14.2.3 No candidate shall be allowed to repeat a semester more than twice during his/her course of study.
14.2.4 A second, third or fourth year candidate failing in four courses in a semester shall be required to repeat a semester if the candidate’s CGPA of the year in which he/she is studying is below 2.0.
. 14.3 Carry Over 14.3.1 A failed course to be cleared when next offered shall be referred to as a carried
over course.
14.3.2 The Senate may allow a candidate who failed a supplementary examination in one course to carry over the failed course to the next semester.
14.3.3 A candidate allowed to carry over a course shall have to clear it within two academic semesters.
14.3.4 A candidate may be allowed to carry over more than one course in one semester provided that the candidate’s GPA is equal or above 2.0.
14.3.5 First year candidates, failing a supplementary examination shall be allowed to clear the course when next offered provided that the candidate’s GPA is 2.0 or above.
14.3.6 With the Senate’s permission, Faculties may set assessment procedures for carried over courses.
14.3.7 A carried over subject shall be awarded not more than a “C” grade.
14.4. Repeating a Carried Over Courses
14.4.1 The Senate may allow a candidate, who failed carried over course within two academic semesters, to repeat the course provided that the candidate’s CGPA is equal or above 2.7.
14.4.2 If the Senate allows the candidate to repeat a failed carried over course, then the candidate shall have to complete all requirements for the course and sit for the final examination.
14.4.3 A repeated or carried over course shall be awarded not more than a “C” grade.
15.0 Discontinuation from studies on academic grounds.
15.1 First year candidates failing in more than three courses shall be discontinued from studies if the candidate’s GPA is below 2.0.
15.2 A first year candidate failing one supplementary examination shall be discontinued from studies if the candidate’s GPA is below 2.0.
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15.3 First year candidates, failing supplementary examination in more than one course shall be discontinued from studies.
15.4 A second, third or fourth year candidate failing in more than four courses shall be discontinued from studies.
15.5 A candidate who failed to clear a carried over course within two academic semesters shall be declared to have failed the course and therefore shall be discontinued from studies.
16.0 Grading System
For purposes of the classification of degrees, a Five-Point system shall be used in averaging the final grades. The letter grades shall be assigned as follows:
Table 7: Grading System
Marks = Grade Points Remarks
70 - 100 = A 60 - 69 = B+ 50 - 59 = B 40 - 49 = C 35 - 39 = D 0 - 34 = E
5 4 3 2 1 0
Excellent
Very Good Good
Fair/Satisfactory (Pass) Fail
Absolute Fail
17.0 Classification of Degrees
17.1 Courses shall be weighted by multiplying the points associated with the final grade of a given course by the number of its course units. A candidate’s overall performance, i.e., Cumulative Grade Points Aggregate (CGPA) is then found by dividing the total scores taken for all course units by the total number of all courses taken.
CGPA = Total scores taken for all course units by total number of all courses taken.
17.2 The Bachelor Degree of the Zanzibar University shall be graded as first class, upper
second class, lower second class, and pass (third class). These categories shall be awarded as follows:
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Table 8: Degree Classification
Grade Range of Marks
(CW + Final Exam)
G.P.A Range Degree Classification
A
B+
B
C
70 – 100
60 – 69
50 – 59
40 – 49
4.4 – 5.0
3.5 – 4.39
2.7 – 3.49
2.0 – 2.69
First Class
Second Class (Upper Second)
Second Class (Lower Second)
Pass (Third Class)
18.0 Certificates and Transcripts
18.1 The Zanzibar University Certificates shall carry special features as prescribed in the University Charter. Original Certificates and Transcripts shall be issued to graduates upon successful completion of their programme. The Admission Officer or any other person appointed by the University Authorities may certify copies of certificates as true copies of the original.
18.2 A Finalist student requiring an academic transcript shall submit an application, fill a clearance form and two passport size photographs for the preparation of transcript. The application shall begin with the Academic Department. The applicant shall be issued with an original academic transcript.
18.3 Any finalist student or former student who requires certified copies of academic transcript shall pay a fee of 3,000/= (three thousand Tz. Shillings).
18.4 A fee of 5,000/= (five thousand Tz. Shillings), as the Senate may from time to time prescribe, shall be charged for certifying a copy of a degree certificate.
19.0 Loss of Certificate
19.1 In case of loss of the original certificate or a copy thereof of the Zanzibar University, the Senate or its Chairman may authorise the Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs to issue a copy after fulfilling the following conditions:
19.1.1 The applicant produces a sworn affidavit declaring the loss of the certificate;
19.1.2 The applicant produces evidence that the loss has been reported to applicant’s nearest Police Station;
19.1.3 The applicant produces evidence that the loss has been widely announced on the newspaper and other media;
19.1.4 The applicant has paid the replacement fee as prescribed by the Senate;
19.1.5 A copy of the lost certificate shall be issued after one year from the date the applicant has submitted the requirements stated (i) – (iv) above, then the University shall issue a new certificate stamped COPY across.
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19.2 In case of partial destruction of the original certificate or a copy thereof of the Zanzibar University, the Senate or its Chairman may authorise the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) to issue a copy after fulfilling the following conditions:
19.2.1 The applicant produces a sworn affidavit declaring the destruction of the certificate;
19.2.2 Submits a letter to the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) requesting the Zanzibar University to replace the destroyed certificate;
19.2.3 Submits the destroyed certificate;
19.2.4 The applicant has paid the replacement fee of Tshs10,000/= (ten thousand Tzs. Shillings) as prescribed by Senate from time to time, then the University shall issue a new certificate stamped COPY across.
20.0 Progress Reports
20.1 Any continuing student requesting for a progress report shall submit an application letter to his/her Academic Department Head.
20.2 The progress report shall be issued and signed by the Faculty Dean concerned.
20.3 The applicant shall pay a fee as may be prescribed by the University from time to time. 21.0 Payment of fees
21.1 Students who have not registered shall not be allowed to attend classes.
21.2 Any candidate who owes the University shall not be allowed to graduate.
21.3 A candidate who owes the University shall not be issued with an academic transcript, certificate, statement of results or any other academic document.
22.0 Non-Degree Examination Regulations
22.1 The Examination regulations for non-degree programmes are similar to those of the undergraduate degree programmes except for grading system.
22.2 Non-degree programmes apply examination regulations for undergraduate programmes.
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Table 9: Grading System for Non-Degree Programme
Marks Grade Points Remarks
80 – 100 A 5 Excellent
70 – 79 B+ 4 Very Good
60 – 69 B 3 Good
50 – 59 C 2 Fair
40 – 49 D 1 Fail
0 – 39 E 0 Absolute Fail 22.3 Candidates who successfully complete any Short Term or Short Course of the Zanzibar
University shall be awarded either a Certificate or Diploma of the Zanzibar University. 23.0 Graduate Examination Regulations
23.1 All students pursuing LLM degree programme shall be required to take prerequisite courses particularly those students who had not taken such courses in their undergraduate degree programmes.
23.2 Coursework component 23.2.1 Distribution of coursework marks in each course during the semester shall be as
follows: i) Assignment…………………………………………………......... 10 marks. ii) Timed Test 1……………………………………………………… 10 marks. iii) Timed Test 2……………………………………………………… 10 marks. iv) Project Paper……………………………………………….......... 20 marks.
Total………….……………………………..……….…..……….. 50 marks
23.2.2 All coursework submitted for assessment should be of original nature, rather unique, and differs significantly from the conventional work of other students. All reference materials used must be shown and acknowledged accordingly.
23.2.3 The coursework component of each course shall carry 50 percent of the total final mark and the final semester examination shall carry 50 percent of the overall total final examination marks.
24.0 Coursework evaluation for the program
24.1 Every student pursuing LL.M degree program by coursework shall be assessed during each semester.
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24.2 There shall be final semester examinations at the end of every academic semester. Each registered postgraduate student shall be required to sit for examinations for all courses offered during the semester.
24.3 The assessment of academic performance shall be both in coursework and final semester examinations.
24.4 The assessment of academic performance shall be in every subject offered and taught during the semester.
24.5 A candidate shall be declared to have passed the examination if he/she scores a total of coursework marks and final examination marks of 50 percent marks or more for every subject examined; and he/she scores at least 25 percent out of the 50 percent at the final semester examination in every subject examined.
25.0 Supplementary Examination
25.1 Whereas a candidate fails to meet the requirements as stipulated in paragraph 24.5, he/she shall be required to sit for a supplementary examination subject to the conditions provided in paragraph 25.2.
25.2 The maximum number of failed courses for any postgraduate candidate to qualify for supplementary examinations shall not exceed two (2).
26.0 Extended Supplementary Examinations
A final year candidate who fails in not more than two courses during the supplementary examinations shall be allowed to sit for extended supplementary examination during the supplementary examination session of the following academic year.
27.0 Discontinuation from Studies
A candidate shall be allowed to sit only twice for extended supplementary examinations as provided for under paragraph 30.2 after which if he/she fails he/she shall be discontinued from studies.
28.0 Special Examinations
28.1 A candidate, who fails to attend part or the whole of the examination due to genuine reasons which are beyond his/her control, shall be allowed to sit for special examination in the subjects the examination of which he/she did not complete, provided that he/she produces authentic written evidence, a written recommendation of the Faculty Dean, and an approval by the Senate.
28.2 A candidate who appears for special examinations under paragraph 28.1 shall be treated as if he/she is sitting for the examination for the first time.
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29.0 Grading System
29.1 The grading system for the LL.M programme courses shall be as follows: Table 10: Grading System
GRADES
REMARKS
A = Excellent
B+ = Very Good
B = Good
C = Marginal Fail
D = Fail
E = Absolute
29.2 The letter grades shall be assigned as shown in the following table:
Table 11: Significance of Letter Grades
MARKS GRADES POINTS REMARKS GRADE POINTS AGGREGATE (GPA)
70% -100% A 5 Excellent 4.4 – 5.0
60% - 69% B+ 4 Very Good 4.0 – 4.3
50% - 59% B 3 Good 3.0 – 3.9
40% - 49% C 2 Marginal Fail 2.0 – 2.9
35% - 39% D 1 Fail 1.0 – 1.9
0% - 34% E 0 Absolute Fail 0 – 0.9
30.0 Examination Regulations
30.1 Candidates must successfully complete the coursework part and the final examination component with at least a mean overall grade of "B" (that is, GPA of at least 3.0) in all courses designated for the degree programme.
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30.2 The pass mark for courses shall be a "B" grade average. Candidates who fail in more than two (2) courses shall be required to do supplementary examinations in the subjects failed provided the overall GPA is at least 3.0 or above.
30.3 Candidates whose overall grade points averages are below “B” grade (that is, GPA of less than 3.0) in the coursework component shall be discontinued from studies.
30.4 Candidates failing in any supplementary examination shall be discontinued from studies.
30.5 Faculty shall administer supplementary examinations at least six weeks since the Senate approval of the examination results.
31.0 Examination Irregularities
31.1 All cases of alleged examination irregularities shall be referred to the Postgraduate Studies Committee (PSC), which shall have powers to summon students and members of staff as it deems necessary.
31.2 The Committee, within a period of 14 days after receiving information regarding examination irregularities, shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations to Senate for approval prior to any action to be taken.
31.3 Any candidate who shall be shown to have cheated in any part of the examination shall be discontinued from studies.
31.4 A candidate discontinued from studies on academic ground shall not be re-admitted for the same or any other course before three years have elapsed.
32.0 Regulations on Theses and Dissertations
32.1 Candidates who qualify to continue with dissertation research, after the completion of the coursework part, shall be required to submit a dissertation, in partial fulfillment of the LL.M degree requirements, after a specific period of thirty weeks (seven months) set by the Faculty.
32.2 Candidates shall be required to give at least one seminar presentation before the initial submission of the dissertation/thesis.
32.3 Three months before submitting a dissertation a candidate shall, through his/her supervisor and Faculty, give notice in writing to the Chairman of PSC showing his/her intention to submit the dissertation/thesis. The Faculty shall then propose examination arrangements to that effect.
32.4 Every dissertation/thesis submitted for the degree must be accompanied by a declaration by the candidate to the satisfaction of Senate, stating that it is the candidate's own original work and that it has not been submitted for a similar degree in any other University. The dissertation/thesis shall be submitted in four copies.
32.5 A dissertation/thesis submitted for an LLM degree must be satisfactory as regards to format and literary presentation. It must also contain an abstract of 250 to 300 words. It shall indicate in a summary form, essential points of the dissertation/thesis, the important results achieved, and the conclusions reached.
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33.0 Examination of Dissertation
33.1 Every dissertation/thesis submitted shall be examined by at least two specialists approved by the Board of the Faculty of Law and Shariah, PSC, and the Senate. At least one of them must be the supervisor of the candidate or a competent staff member of the Zanzibar University.
33.2 The Examiners shall be required to submit their detailed reports on the dissertation/thesis within a period of two months from the date of receipt of the dissertation/thesis. If the reports are not received within a period of two months, new examiners shall be appointed.
33.3 Each examiner shall be required to summarize his/her report about the dissertation/thesis by filling Summary Recommendation Form with definite recommendation for one of the following actions:
33.3.1 The degree be awarded unconditionally; OR
33.3.2 The degree be awarded subject to typographical corrections or minor revisions; OR
33.3.3 The degree not be awarded but the candidate be allowed to revise and submit his/her dissertation/thesis for re-examination; OR
33.3.4 The dissertation/thesis to be rejected outright.
33.4 A dissertation/thesis recommended for re-writing must be re-submitted for degree award within six (6) months after notification.
33.5 A dissertation/thesis passed subject to typographical corrections or minor revisions must be submitted for degree award within three (3) months after notification.
33.6 A candidate who fails, without convincing reasons, to submit his/her dissertation/thesis within the time frame stated in (33.4) and (33.5) above shall be discontinued from studies.
33.7 Whereas the examiners are not in agreement with these overall recommendations, PSC shall examine the case and recommend one of the following actions:
33.7.1 The recommendation of the External Examiner (s) be adopted; OR
33.7.2 An additional independent examiner to be appointed; OR
33.7.3 The Faculty shall be requested to establish a panel from amongst the experts available to examine the candidate orally.
33.8 Candidates are free to appeal to Senate against any decisions regarding the results of the examinations.
33.9 The Directorate of Postgraduate Studies and Research Institute shall pay honoraria to the external examiner and to each internal examiner on receiving detailed reports of the dissertation/thesis under examination. However the honoraria shall be determined from time to time by the Council.
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34.0 Viva-Voce
34.1 Candidates who are registered for LLM by Coursework and Dissertation may be required to appear for viva-voce examination if such an examination is deemed to be necessary in the Faculty of Law and Shariah. This is an oral examination.
34.2 Candidates, who do examinations by thesis without any course work component, shall, in addition to writing a thesis, also appear for a viva voce examination.
34.3 Viva-voce examination shall take place only after the PSC and Senate have been satisfied that the thesis/dissertation submitted by the candidate is satisfactory.
34.4 Questions to be asked in the viva-voce shall primarily focus on the candidate’s dissertation research area.
34.5 The Faculty of Law and Shariah shall appoint and recommend a viva voce panel of at least three (3), but not more than five (5) experts, who shall be approved by the Senate.
34.6 The viva-voce panel shall be as follows:
34.6.1 External examiner (Chairperson), who shall be appointed by the PSC;
34.6.2 Internal examiner (the supervisor who guided the candidate in his/her research);
34.6.3 Head of the relevant department (or his/her appointee);
34.6.4 Two other members appointed by the Faculty of Law and Shariah.
34.7 Where the panelists are unable to reach unanimous agreement as to whether the candidate passes or fails, a vote shall be taken to arrive at a decision. A majority vote shall be required for passing the viva-voce examination.
34.8 At the end of the viva-voce examination, the panel members shall sign a Viva-voce Examination Results Form that gives recommendation on the candidate’s performance. Each panelist shall receive an honorarium, to be determined by the Council from time to time.
34.9 Where there is disagreement between the recommendation of the thesis and viva voce examiners, the Postgraduate Studies Committee shall study the case and recommend to the Senate one of the following options:
34.9.1 The candidate revises and re-submits the thesis and to finally re-appear for further oral/written examination, within a period of six (6) months since the date of the decision by the Senate; OR
34.9.2 The candidate is deemed to have failed outright.
34.10 The purpose of the viva-voce shall be as follows:
34.10.1 To ascertain that the dissertation presented is the original work of the candidate;
34.10.2 The candidate has grasped the broader subject area in which the study is based;
34.10.3 Any weaknesses in the thesis/dissertation are adequately clarified by the candidate;
34.10.4 To recommend whether the candidate should be passed or failed;
34.10.5 A majority vote in favor of passing the candidate shall be required.
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35.0 Degree Award
35.1 To be awarded an LLM degree of the Zanzibar University by coursework, a candidate must pass the course work and dissertation separately within a given time frame.
35.2 A thesis candidate must pass thesis and the viva-voce separately within a given time frame.
36.0 Payment of Fees
36.1 Every admitted candidate shall pay fees as approved by the Zanzibar University Council. Information regarding the fees to be paid is available in the University Prospectus, as well as from the office of the Director of Postgraduate Studies & Research Institute and the office of the Faculty Dean.
36.2 Every candidate must pay tuition fees as required before registering for the study programme. No candidate shall be allowed to sit for examinations if he/she has not paid tuition fees.
36.3 Every candidate must settle all fee arrears and clear all debts to the Zanzibar University before graduation. Students with fee arrears shall not be allowed to graduate, receive certificates, academic transcripts, progress reports or any other academic documents.
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37.0 MATERIALS PERTAINING TO THE CONDUCT OF UNIVERS ITY EXAMINATIONS
37.1 EXAMINERS
37.1.1 Internal Examiners
i) All academic members of staff who have participated in teaching subjects under examination shall constitute Board of Internal examiners. Where more than one teacher are involved in the teaching of a subject, one of them, who is the most senior, shall act as a principal examiner.
ii) In a case where all staff members have the same rank, the Head of Department may recommend to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), the appointment of one of them as a principal examiner. The appointment criteria may include the following:
a) Experience in teaching the subject;
b) Publications on the subject;
c) Teaching portion of the subject.
iii) Duties and Responsibilities of Internal Examiner
a) Participate fully in the Examination Process.
b) Recommend Invigilators of his/her examination.
c) Provide examination papers and other materials to Invigilators.
d) Attend the examination room before and after the examination to assist Invigilators.
e) Mark the examination and submit provisional results to the Head of Department.
f) Any other duties.
37.1.2 External Examiners
i) External Examiners shall be appointed from qualified persons outside the University who have not served the University for any post (part time, temporary, or permanent) for at least two years before the appointment.
ii) One person may serve as an external examiner for four consecutive years. After four years, another person must be appointed unless the Senate decided otherwise.
iii) For a person, who has already served as an external examiner at Zanzibar University, must stay for at least two year before being re-appointed.
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iv) Appointing Authority for External Examiners
a) After informal communication with the proposed external examiner, the Department through the Faculty may recommend to Senate the appointment of External Examiner. The recommendation must be attached with the candidate’s CV and reason as to why the Department and Faculty are in favour of the appointment of the candidate;
b) The minimum period of field experience before someone can be eligible for appointment, as external examiner should be at least three (3) years for Masters candidates. For people with Doctorate Degree should be at least two (2) years or one year for people with honorary degrees from the date they receive their respective degree.
v) Appointing Procedures for External Examiners
It is recommended that the following procedure be used as guidance for Faculty Deans and Heads of Departments in the appointment of external examiner:
a) At the beginning of the First Semester, each Head of Department will have to informally approach the proposed External Examiner.
b) In their communications, the proposed External Examiner must be provided with the following information to enable him/her to decide to accept or reject the offer:
1) Examination questions;
2) The marking scheme;
3) Course outline;
4) Reading List;
5) Examination period as shown in the University Calendar;
6) Allowances paid by the University.
c) At the beginning of the semester, each Faculty Dean shall be required to submit a list of external examiners who have accepted the offer to Senate. The list must be attached with curriculum vitae of each proposed external examiner. It must also show names and full address (including e-mail, postal address, residential address, telephone, and fax numbers)
d) The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) shall then send them formal appointment after the Senate approval.
e) External Examiner shall be invited at the end of each semester.
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37.1.3 Release of Semester Examination Results
Candidates must be given provisional results for the semester examinations. Continuing students who have failed in not more than three courses shall supplement for the failed examinations in the month of September. Similarly, the first year and finalist students must do their supplementary examinations in September.
37.1.4 Marking by External Examiners
External examiners should mark examination scripts of both semesters. Where there is a substantial discrepancy in grade between internal and external examiner, the Examiners Board shall have the mandate to direct the Department concerned on how to resolve the issue.
37.1.5 Allowances
In consideration of their services to the University, External examiner shall receive:
i) Honorarium as prescribed by Senate;
ii) Free Hotel accommodation in case they came to Zanzibar for a period not exceeding seven days;
iii) Return ticket;
iv) Meal allowance (the amount to be prescribed by Senate);
v) Refund of incidental expenses (postage, fax, local transport, Visa etc.) upon submission of relevant receipts.
37.1.6 External Examiners’ Reports
External Examiners are required as part of their duties to report to Senate on the general standard of the examination papers and the candidates’ performance. The external examiners shall be provided with the syllabus, course outlines and course contents on their first appointment. It is recommended that the report should follow the following format:
i) Introduction (General overview of the syllabus, course outline, course content, examination questions and material covered);
ii) Relevance of the material covered to the subject matter;
iii) Relevance of the examination in relation to the syllabus course outlines and course contents and the material covered;
iv) Comments on each examination question;
v) Recommendation on areas of improvement;
vi) Conclusion.
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37.1.7 Meeting with Internal Examiners
It is recommended that external examiners and internal examiners for each Faculty to meet on the last day of their stay. The meeting will put them together and exchange ideas for further advancement of their frontiers of knowledge on their relevant academic disciplines.
37.1.8 External Examiners for Supplementary/Special Examinations
There shall be no external examiner for Supplementary/Special Examinations. However, the Faculty may appoint another staff member who is not teaching the course but is knowledgeable in the subject under examination to act as external examiner.
37.2 INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
The following instructions shall be read together with other University regulations governing the conduct of examinations.
37.2.1 Candidates are encouraged to go to toilets before examinations start. Later on during examination, if it is extremely necessary for a candidate to go to a toilet, he/she shall be accompanied by an invigilator.
37.2.2 All candidates should have their examination cards and which shall be availed to the supervisor/ invigilator for inspection.
37.2.3 Candidates shall make sure that they have been issued with Examination Numbers two or three days before examinations begin.
37.2.4 Candidates shall read the examination timetable and if they need any assistance on the timetable, they are required to see the Examinations Officer as soon as they discover a problem on the timetable.
37.2.5 Candidates are required to acquaint themselves with the seating arrangement for each examination well in advance.
37.2.6 Candidates are required to be at the examination centre at least twenty minutes before the commencement of the examination.
37.2.7 No candidates shall enter into the examination room unless they are told to do so by the Invigilator.
37.2.8 The Invigilator shall allow candidates to enter into the examination room at least ten minutes before the examination begins.
37.2.9 In case the Invigilator fails to turn up at the examination room twenty minutes after the time scheduled for the commencement of the examination, candidates’ representative shall necessarily report to the Head of Department, who shall then report to the Faculty Dean and Examinations Officer.
37.2.10 Candidates shall be required to leave all their belongings outside the examination room.
37.2.11 After being admitted into the examination room, candidates are required to sit quietly at their respective seats.
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37.2.12 Female candidates who cover their faces with veils shall necessarily uncover their faces during examination.
37.2.13 Rough work shall be done at the end of the examination answer book and crossed.
37.2.14 If a candidate needs an additional answer book, she/he shall ask for it from the Invigilator.
37.2.15 No books, papers, bags, mobile phone, radios, cassette players, computers and all other electronic devices, and any kind of unauthorised material shall be taken into the examination room.
37.2.16 Each candidate shall have his/her own stationery, i.e. pen, pencil, eraser, ruler, etc. Sharing of any of the above mentioned items is strictly prohibited.
37.2.17 Candidates may request the Invigilator to provide logarithmic tables, statutes, and/or any other material required for a particular examination.
37.2.18 No unauthorized materials printed or not shall be allowed in the examination room. All answer papers to be used shall be supplied by the examination office.
37.2.19 Once a candidate is found with unauthorised materials in the examination room, he/she shall be made to sign on the materials to confirm that they are his/hers.
37.2.20 Failure of the candidate to adhere to the Regulation no. 37.2.19 above shall constitute another offence.
37.2.21 Invigilator shall have the power to confiscate any book; manuscript, paper, electronic device or other unauthorised material brought into the examination room by a candidate.
37.2.22 The Supervisor/Invigilator may inspect any candidate at any time. This may include but not limited to body search.
37.2.23 The invigilator shall have the power to expel any candidate who creates disturbance in the examination room.
37.2.24 No candidate shall be allowed to enter into the examination room after lapse of thirty minutes from the commencement of the examination.
37.2.25 No candidate shall be allowed to leave the examination room during the first thirty minutes after the commencement of the examination.
37.2.26 All candidates should remain seated during the last 10 to 20 minutes before the end of the examination.
37.2.27 No candidate shall be allowed to leave the examination room without permission from the Invigilator.
37.2.28 Silence shall be observed at all times during the examination.
37.2.29 At the end of the examination and on instruction from the Invigilator, candidates shall stop writing and remain seated until all examination scripts are collected and counted by the Invigilator.
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37.2.30 Each and every candidate shall sign the attendance sheet before leaving the examination room.
37.2.31 Candidates shall not leave the examination room until the Invigilator tells them to do so.
37.2.32 Candidates are not allowed to take any thing from the examination room unless they are instructed otherwise.
37.2.33 Non-adherence (observance) of any of the above rules shall constitute a breach of examination rules and regulations. Any candidate found guilty of the same shall be liable to discontinuation from the examinations, expulsion, and/or any other punishment as prescribed by the University rules and regulations.
37.2.34 If a candidate falls sick during the examination, he/she shall report the matter to the Invigilator, who shall allow him/her to see the University doctor for treatment.
37.2.35 A candidate who falls sick prior to the examination, and cannot sit for it, he/she shall have to produce to his/her faculty Dean a medical certificate from a clinic he/she has been treated, and the certificate shall have to be approved by the Zanzibar University doctor.
37.2.36 A candidate who sits for examinations, fails and is discontinued from studies at the University, and then he/she submits a medical certificate to his/her Faculty Dean appealing that he/she was sick during the examinations and that he/she be allowed to sit for supplementary examinations, that medical certificate shall be null and void. The appeal shall be rejected.
37.2.37 Candidates who write on their hands and other parts of their bodies with henna or any other chemical material shall not be allowed to enter the examination rooms and sit for examinations.
37.2.38 Examination rules shall be announced and attached to the appropriate notice boards.
37.3 INSTRUCTIONS TO INVIGILATORS
37.3.1 Procedures before the examination:
i) The Invigilator shall be present in the examination room at least twenty minutes before the commencement of the examination.
ii) If he/she finds some students in the examination room, he/she shall order them to vacate the room.
iii) Invigilators shall make sure that the University Examinations Officer provides them with the following items:
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a) Question papers: Sealed envelopes containing question papers must be personally collected by each Invigilator from the Examinations Officer at least thirty minutes before the examination. If the envelope containing examination papers is not sealed the Invigilator must report the incidence to the Examinations Officer;
b) List of candidates required to sit for the examination;
c) Attendance sheet to be signed by each candidate;
d) Examination answer books;
e) Any other material needed for the examination (e.g. charts, log tables, statutes etc.).
iv) Invigilators shall announce that bags, books, attached cases, papers, electronic devices are not allowed in the examination room. For security of some items, the Invigilator may allow candidates to deposit them with him/her before the candidate is permitted to enter the examination room.
v) Invigilators shall admit candidates to the examination room ten minutes before the commencement of the examination. In case of a big class twenty minutes is recommended.
vi) Invigilators shall make sure that all candidates have taken their proper seats.
vii) After all candidates have seated, the Invigilator shall inspect the room to make sure that there is no unauthorised material.
viii) After everybody is seated the Invigilator shall:
a) Remind the candidates that unauthorised material are not allowed in the examination room;
b) Distribute examination papers;
c) Distribute examination answer books;
d) Call attention to any instructions on the answer book and question papers questions if necessary;
e) Announce time of the examination;
f) Give candidates three to five minutes to read the examination paper and ask question if there is any;
g) Tell the candidates to start writing the examination.
37.3.2 During the Examination
i) Invigilators shall not admit any candidate to the examination room after thirty minutes from the commencement of the examination.
ii) Invigilators shall not allow any candidate to leave the examination room within the first thirty minutes of the examination.
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iii) After the first thirty minutes the Invigilator shall pass around the attendance sheet. She/he shall also note the total number of candidates present and collect examination papers and answer books from vacant seats.
iv) During the examination, the Invigilator shall make sure that candidates are provided with any additional requirements like papers, log tables, statutes, etc.
v) Candidates may be provided with rough papers or allowed to do rough work at the end of their answer books.
vi) No candidate shall be permitted to leave his/her seat during the examination.
vii) In case of an examination irregularity, (especially cheating i.e. copying, communicating, or causing disturbance and any other unfair practice) the Invigilator shall call the attention of another Invigilator or any other staff member who is around to act as a witness, if available. Then the case shall be reported to the Head of Department immediately.
viii) Once the Invigilator finds a candidate with unauthorised material, she/he shall make the candidate sign on the material to confirm that the material belongs to him or her.
ix) Invigilators shall have the power to confiscate unauthorised material and order the candidate to leave the examination room if she/he creates disturbance.
x) In the case of Regulations (vii) and (viii) above, the candidate shall be informed that he/she has contravened The University Examination Regulations and that he/she shall be reported to the University Authorities, but she/he shall be allowed to continue with the examination.
xi) After the examination the Invigilator shall write a report on the incident and submit report and the confiscated material to the Examinations Officer.
xii) In case of an examination irregularity the Examinations Officer shall inform the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) who shall call the Examinations Committee to discuss the matter and send recommendations to Senate. The accused student and other witnesses shall appear before the committee.
xiii) During the examination, the Invigilator shall move around the examination room as frequently as possible.
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37.3.3. At the End of the Examination. i) No candidate shall be allowed to leave the examination room before
their scripts have been collected. However, candidates wishing to leave before the end of the examination shall be permitted to do so after handing over their examination scripts.
ii) At the end of the examination period the Invigilator shall ask students to stop writing and then collect all scripts.
iii) Invigilator shall count the examination scripts and compare them to the
attendance sheet. This is to ensure that all scripts have been collected.
iv) Invigilators shall sign the attendance sheet before they hand over the scripts to Examination Officer.
v) The Examination Officer or his representative, who shall also be present during the examination, shall counter check the number of scripts and countersign the attendance sheet.
vi) Invigilators shall hand over all extra examination papers and answer books to the Examinations Officer.
vii) In case of illness of a candidate the Invigilator shall report the incident immediately to the Examinations Officer or his representative.
viii) In case the Invigilator failed to collect question papers and other material from the Examinations Officer five minutes after the time scheduled for commencement of the examination, the Examinations Officer shall report the incident to the Head of Department who shall then appoint another Invigilator.
ix) The Head of Department shall request the Invigilator who failed to execute his/her obligations to provide a written explanation before reporting the matter to the Faculty Dean.
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38.0 UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES
Currently, six different degrees are offered by the three faculties: Faculty of Business Administration; Faculty of Law and Shariah and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. In the very near future a Faculty of Engineering will start its operations and two degrees will be offered: B.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering and B.Sc. in Computer Engineering and Information Technology
39.0 FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
39.1 Name of the Faculty
The official name of the Faculty is the Faculty of Business Administration (FBA).
39.2 Structure of the Faculty
The Faculty is operating with the following three departments:
39.2.1 Department of Accounting and Finance;
39.2.2 Department of Marketing;
39.2.3 Department of Business Information Technology.
39.3 Degrees Offered
The programmes of study that are being offered at the Faculty lead to the award of the:
39.3.1 Degree of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting and Finance;
39.3.2 Degree of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Marketing;
39.3.3 Degree of Bachelor of Business Information Technology (BBIT).
39.4 Duration of the Study
The degrees offered are of three year duration, whereby the programmes are run through semester system. Each semester extends over a period of fifteen (15) teaching weeks. Each module or course unit is allocated a total of three contact hours per week, two hours for lecturing and one for seminar.
39.5 Programme Objectives
In line with the mission and vision of the Zanzibar University, the Faculty of Business Administration is committed to:
39.5.1 Produce graduates who are technically well trained in all the fields of study that are necessarily required by every prominent and excellent business manager.
39.5.2 Generate hybrid managers by providing strong conceptual ICT, technical, interpersonal, and communication skills in the course of training.
39.5.3 Generate organized and incorruptible graduates, by deliberately including in its demand driven curriculum a formal training in ethical values, attitude and good conduct.
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39.6 Programme Structure
39.6.1 Each degree programme consists of fourty (40) courses (units or modules). In each of the first four semesters students have to take seven (7) courses. In the last two semesters they are required to take six (6) courses in each semester.
39.6.2 In the first year of study, students are required to take all the compulsory, basic courses. At the beginning of the second year BBA students are required to opt for one of the two career fields of concentration, namely, Accounting and Finance or Marketing; while BBIT students start their IT specialization in the first year-second semester.
39.6.3 Between the fourth and the fifth semesters of the programme BBA students are required to undergo practical training whereupon they are attached to business organizations in order to expose themselves to real working conditions and enable them to marry the theories they have learnt at the University with practice; while BBIT students undergo industrial attachment at the end of each year for the purpose of enhancing their skills in server and network administration etc.
40.0 DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE
40.1 Degree Offered
This department offers a degree of Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance.
40.2 General Programme Objective
The programme is designed to train potential experts at middle level positions in the field of accounting and finance so as to work in the business sector as well as in the public sector.
40.3 Specific Programme Objectives
At the end of the programme the graduates should be able to:
40.3.1 Carry out accounting and financial functions in the public and private organizations;
40.3.2 Critically analyze job-related problems and develop solutions;
40.3.3 Provide professional advice and guidance in the handling of day to day duties and responsibilities to both superiors and junior accounting and finance personnel.
41.0 DEPARTMENT OF MARKETING
41.1 Degree Offered
This department offers a degree of Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing
41.2. General Programme Objective
The programme is designed to train potential business personnel who will be able to effectively use their marketing knowledge and skills in analysing business trends locally, regionally and internationally.
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41.3 Specific Programme Objectives
At the end of the programme the graduates should be able to:
41.3.1 Carry out marketing functions in business organizations.
41.3.2 Undertake strategically and analytically planning, implementation and controlling functions with respect to marketing-related activities.
42.0 DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
42.1 Degree Offered
This department offers a degree of Bachelor of Business Information Technology.
42.2 General Programme Objective
The programme is designed to equip students with basic knowledge and skills of Business Information Technology in the IT profession.
42.3 Specific Programme Objectives
At the end of the programme the graduates should be able to:
42.3.1 Design and carry out business related and IT-related function efficiently and effectively;
42.3.2 Conduct computer programming and maintenance of equipment and facilities;
42.3.3 Design data communication systems for business applications, and;
42.3.4 Establish their own private business ventures that will employ others as well.
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Table 12: Programme Structure for Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance
FIRST YEAR SECOND YEAR THIRD YEAR
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER1 SEMESTER 2
1.
MS 111 Business
Mathematics
MS 121 Applied
Statistics
MS 211
Quantitative
Methods
EC 221
Islamic Banking
and Finance
MG 311 Strategic
Management
MK 321
Marketing of
Services
2.
AF 112
Principles of Accounting I
AF 122
Principles of Accounting II
LW 212
Business Law I
LW 222
Business Law II
AF 312
Corporate Finance I
AF 322
Corporate Finance II
3.
EC 113
Principles of Microeconomics
EC 123
Principles of Macroeconomics
EC 213
Microeconomics Analysis
EC 223
Macroeconomic Analysis
AF 313 Financial
Planning and Budgeting
AF 323
International Finance
4.
IT 114 Computer
Skills
IT 124 Computer
Applications
IT 214 Business
Management Information
System
FE 224 Foundations of Ethics & Conduct
AF 314 Auditing and Investigation I
AF324 Auditing and Investigation II
5.
BC 115 Business
Communication
MK 125
Principles of Marketing
BS 215
Business Studies
BS 225
Entrepreneurship and Business
Plan
AF 315 Financial
Accounting I
AF 325 Financial
Accounting II
6.
MG 116
Principles of Management
and Administration
DS 126
Development Studies
AF 216
Intermediate Accounting
BS 226 Business Research Methods
AF 316 Taxation
Theory and Practice I
AF 326 Taxation
Theory and Practice II
7.
AL 117 Arabic
Communication Skills I
AL 127 Arabic
Communication Skills II
AF 217
Managerial Accounting I
AF 227
Managerial Accounting II
8.
FA 228 Field
Attachment
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Table 13: Programme Structure for Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing
FIRST YEAR SECOND YEAR THIRD YEAR
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER1 SEMESTER 2
1.
MS 111 Business
Mathematics
MS 121 Applied Statistics
MS 211
Quantitative Methods
EC 221
Islamic Banking and Finance
MG 311 Strategic
Management
MK 321
Marketing of Services
2.
AF 112
Principles of Accounting I
AF 122
Principles of Accounting II
LW 212
Business Law I
LW 222
Business Law II
AF 312
Corporate Finance I
AF 322
Corporate Finance II
3.
EC 113
Principles of Microeconomics
EC 123
Principles of Macroeconomics
EC 213
Microeconomics Analysis
EC 223
Macroeconomic Analysis
MK 313
International Marketing
MK 323
Marketing Plan
4.
IT 114
Computer Skills
IT 124
Computer Applications
IT 214 Business
Management Information
System
FE 224
Foundations of Ethics & Conduct
MK 314 Sales
Management I
MK 324 Sales
Management II
5.
BC 115 Business
Communication
MK 125
Principles of Marketing
BS 215 Business Studies
BS 225
Entrepreneurship and Business Plan
MK 315 Strategic Marketing
MK 325 Consumer Behaviour
6.
MG 116
Principles of Management
and Administration
DS 126
Development Studies
MK 216 Marketing Research
BS 226 Business
Research Methods
MK 316
Publicity and Public
Relations
MK 326
Advertising and Sales Promotion
7.
AL 117 Arabic
Communication Skills I
AL 127 Arabic
Communication Skills II
AF 217
Managerial Accounting I
MK 227 Marketing
Management
8.
FA 228 Field
Attachment
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Table 14: Programme Structure for Bachelor of Business Information Technology
FIRST YEAR SECOND YEAR THIRD YEAR
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER1 SEMESTER 2
1.
MS 111 Business
Mathematics
IT 121
Computer logic and Arithmetics
IT 211
Management Information
System
IT 221 Business
Intelligence and Data Warehousing
MG 311 Strategic
Management
IT 321
ICT Security Issues
2.
AF 112
Principles of Accounting I
IT 122
Computer Care and
Maintenance
LW 212
Business Law
IT 222
Telecommunication Management
IT 312 ICT Law
IT 322
Electronic Government
3.
EC 113
Principles of Economics
IT 123
Computer Network & Data
Communication
IT 213
Computer Programming
IT 223
Object Oriented Programming
IT 313
ICT Economics
IT 323 Research Project
4.
IT 114
Information Communication
Skills I
IT 124
Information Communication
Skills II
IT 214
System and Network
Administration
IS 224
Foundations of Ethics & Conduct
IT 314
Information Technology Auditing
5.
BC 115 Business
Communication
MK 125
Principles of Marketing
BS 215 Business Studies
BS 225
Entrepreneurship And Business Plan
IT 315
ICT Project Management
6.
MG 116
Principles of Management
and Administration
DS 126
Development Studies
MG 216
Management of Change
BS 226 Business
Research Methods
7.
AL 117 Arabic
Communication Skills I
AL 127 Industrial
Attachment I
IT 217
Database Management
Systems
IT 227
Industrial Attachment II
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43.0 COURSE LISTING
MS 111 BUSINESS MATHEMATICS The course content includes introduction to real number systems, rational and irrational numbers and integers, the four basic operations of arithmetic, properties of prime numbers, algebraic polynomials and equations, and the operation of roots extraction, elementary properties of sets, mathematical induction, simple finite series and sequences, permutations and combinations, binomial theorem, differential and integral calculus, matrices and determinants, analytical geometry and trigonometry.
AF 112 PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING I The course content includes the basic structure of accounting, the accounting mechanism, the accounting records and cycles, processing of sales cash receipts, purchases and cash payment, specialized journals, control accounts and subsidiary ledgers. EC 113 PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS The course content includes introduction to basic concepts and definitions of economics, demand and supply, market equilibrium, price elasticity, consumer theory, cost analysis and production theory and marketing structure. IT 114 COMPUTER SKILLS The course content includes the main concepts of ICT at general level, components of the computer systems and organization, data representation, computer security and social aspect, health and safety and environmental issues in relation to using computer, legal and regulatory issues in ICT, the concept of system word processor and Microsoft Word and business analysis with electronic spreadsheet, computer software and computer data files. BC 115 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION The course content includes role of communication in the business organization, main forms of organizational communication, mode of the communication process, barriers to communication, fundamentals of business writing, qualities of effective correspondence. MG 116 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION The course content includes management overview, definitions and meaning, functions and roles of managers, organization and its environment, managerial planning, planning process, goal setting, types of plans, managerial decision making, management by objectives, management functions, bureaucracy and adhocracy, motivation theories, leadership contingency theories, control processes. AL 117 ARABIC COMMUNICATION SKILLS I The course content includes listening and conversational components, Arabic phonological system, formation of simple phrases and sentences, comprehensions and reading. MS 121 APPLIED STATISTICS The course content includes meaning of Statistics, planning of a statistical study/survey, research methods of data collection, sampling and presentation of data, data analysis, measures of central tendency, elementary probability theory, Bayes’ theorem, probability and its role in decision making.
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AF 122 PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING II The course content includes accounting for current assets, accounting for plant, equipment and intangible assets, basic accounting for manufacturing firms, partnerships and companies and analysis of financial statements. EC 123 PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS The course content includes macroeconomic issues and policy instruments, income accounting, income determination, money and banking, economic growth, employment and inflation. IT 124 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS The course content includes approaches to database management system (DBMS), database management system implementation, the concept of electronic presentation and power point, discovery, communication and collaboration, the use of internet and web browsing application. MK 125 PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING The course content includes marketing terminologies, evolution of marketing concept, marketing organizations, main topics of marketing like marketing research, marketing of services, etc. DS 126 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES The course content includes concepts of development$ globalization, North-South integration and interaction, private foreign investment, benefits and costs, international aid and loans; need and usefulness, repercussions, transfer of technology to developing countries, poverty in sub Saharan Africa, fender and development, the UN’s role in development, the impact of World political scenario on UN neutrality, UN’s development initiatives, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Structural Adjustment Programmes, UN’s “Human-centered Development” concept AL 127 ARABIC COMMUNICATION SKILLS II The course content includes comprehension, grammatical rules like verb tenses, past, present, imperative, verbs conjugation, subject, pronouns of subject, past tense object, pronoun of object, past tense with the pronoun of object, present tense with the pronoun of object, singular, dual, plural, relative pronouns, possessive pronouns, and nouns of genitive construction, counting Arabic numbers. MS 211 QUANTITATIVE METHODS The course content includes hypotheses testing and the various hypotheses tests, regression and correlation analysis (both simple and multiple), time series and forecasting and its applications, data analysis and computer based statistical software – SPSS to cover: variables definitions, data entry, data transformation, data analysis and data output interpretation and linear programming model as a decision making technique.
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LW 212 BUSINESS LAW I The course content includes law of contract, nature, classification and sources of law, formation of contract, domestic agreements, commercial arrangements doctrine of activities of contract, exception to the rule, vitiation factors, discharge of contract, remedies, damages, remoteness of damages, and specific performance, sales of goods, definition of contract of sale, meaning of goods, existing specific goods, future unascertained goods, transfer of property, title and risks, conditions and warranties, implied terms, performance, duties and rights of the seller, duties and rights of the buyer, and remedies. EC 213 MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS The course content includes theory of consumer behaviour, production theory, the cost theory, perfect competition and analysis of competitive markets, market power, monopoly and oligopoly. IT 214 BUSINESS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS The course content includes approaches to management information system, business strategy and information systems, managing information resource and security, approaches to website design, the use of computerized accounting software and the concept of e-commerce. BS 215 BUSINESS STUDIES The course content includes general principles, organization of production, business units, wholesale and retail trade, means of payment, buying and selling procedure, transport, stock exchange and common markets, banking and central banking, insurance and international trade. AF 216 INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING The course content includes the accounting profession and conceptual framework of accounting, incomplete records and single entry systems, accounting for investment in corporate securities, accounting for companies, published accounts of limited companies, acco5nting standards and guidelines, MK 216 MARKETING RESEARCH The course content includes introduction, meaning and definitions of marketing research, research design, sampling and sample designs, essentials of sampling, methods of sampling, sample size, sampling errors, non-sampling errors, reliability of samples, hypothesis, data collection, analysis of data collected, hypothesis testing, research findings and recommendations. AF 217 MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING I The course content includes scope of managerial accountant, cost concepts, classifications and systems, cost accounting, cycle and cost procedures, product costing, break, even analysis and cost-profit volume analysis, marginal costing and decision making, measuring costs and benefits from decision making. EC 221 ISLAMIC BANKING AND FINANCE The course content includes introduction to Islamic banking and insurance, balance sheet analysis of Islamic banks, Islamic insurance, establishment and operations of Islamic banking.
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LW 222 BUSINESS LAW II The course content has two main parts: part one deals with company law and part two covers negotiable instruments. Company law includes classification of companies, differences between companies and partnerships, corporate personality, consequences of incorporation, lifting the veil of incorporation, memorandum and articles of association; negotiable instruments includes characteristics and types, bill of exchange, capacity, signature and delivery, consideration, negotiation and endorsement, liability, forgery and fictitious payee, and discharge cheques, and promissory notes. EC 223 MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS The course content includes income and expenditure determination, money, interest and income (IS-LM Analysis), demand management policies, monetary and fiscal policies, international linkages and income transmission, aggregate demand and aggregate supply, demand for money and supply of money. FE 224 FOUNDATIONS OF ETHICS AND CONDUCTS The course content includes Islamic history and culture, history of Islam and Christianity in East Africa, and impact of Islam on East Africa Customs, Islamic philosophies, ethics and good conduct II, Islam and modern philosophies, fundamental human rights if Islam; the concept of Jihad” in Islam, contemporary Muslim World, Islamic constitutions, Politics and Administration, modern Islamic School of thoughts (contemporary Islamic movements), principles and methods of Daawah and Islam and the Universal development challenges, Islam and environment, Islam and the gender issue. BS 225 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS PLAN The course content includes foundations of entrepreneurship, ownership and franchising, planning for management succession, entrepreneur as a leader, hiring the right employees, building the right culture and structure, management succession and the growing business, constructing a business plan. BS 226 BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS The course content includes introduction to business research methods, formulation of the research problem, literature review, research design, research proposal, sampling design and procedure, methods of data collection, processing and analysis, interpretation and report writing. AF 227 MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING II The course content includes joint product and by-product costing, the budgeting process, operational control and performance measurement, control systems, responsibility accounting and cost control, flexible budgeting, standard costing and variance analysis, measuring relevant costs for decision making and capital investment decision. MK 227 MARKETING MANAGEMENT The course content includes pricing concepts, promotion decision, sales force management definition, types of channels of distribution, functions of channels of distribution, factors effecting the selection of channels of distribution, channel dynamics, vertical and horizontal markets, consumer behaviour, ethical and social issues in marketing.
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FA 228 FIELD ATTACHMENT This is a six weeks period of field practice whereby students are attached to the real working environments at the end of the second year of study. Students have the opportunity to apply theories they have learnt in the classrooms to the real business company situations. They undergo on the job training to find out new ways of doing business, and develop skills in problem solving. MG 311 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT The course content includes introduction, nature and value of strategic management, strategic formulation, assessing the strategic environment, environmental forecasting, internal analysis of the firm, formulating long-term objectives and sound strategies, strategic analysis and choice, strategic implementation, implementing strategy through the business functions, implementing through structure, leadership and culture, strategic control, guiding and evaluating the strategy. AF 312 CORPORATE FINANCE I The course content includes nature and role of corporation finance, the corporate firm, relationship between corporation finance, international finance and accounting, introduction of primary and secondary markets, and relevance of the financial statements, sources of finance, capital budgeting techniques, decision making under uncertainty. AF 313 FINANCIAL PLANNING AND BUDGETING The course content includes introduction to finance, financial statement analysis, financial forecasting, profit planning, cash flow analysis and fund analysis, the statement of cash flows, purpose of the statement of cash flows, budgeting and control, budgets planning.
AF 314 AUDITING AND INVESTIGATION I The course content includes audit planning, recording and control of audit, internal check, internal audit and internal control, audit evidence, audit techniques and procedures, verification of assets and liabilities and vouching. AF 315 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING I The course content includes consignment accounts, hire purchase and credit sales, joint venture accounts, royalties that focus on royalty’s payable and royalties receivable, leasing, long term contracts, branch and departmental accounts, partnership accounts, accounts of group or companies. AF 316 TAXATION THEORY AND PRACTICE I The course content includes taxation theory, income tax in Tanzania (the Income Tax Act 2004), disclosure for income tax purposes, assessment of tax which include broad classification of assessments, final provisional, additional and amendment, general time limited for making assessment. MK 321 MARKETING OF SERVICES The course content includes introduction to services, consumer behaviour in services, service encounters, internal marketing, received services quality and customer satisfaction, customer retention and relationship marketing, service profitability and application of services marketing such as not-for-profit services marketing, tourism marketing, etc.
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AF 322 CORPORATE FINANCE II The course content includes capital structure and the factors influencing it, dividend policies, working capital management and the factors influencing it, valuation of shares and business, and the factors influencing them, financial interpretation. AF 323 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE The course content includes international financial and economic environments, multinational corporate management, international investment decisions and global financing decisions AF 324 AUDITING AND INVESTIGATION II The course content includes audit for stocks, auditing in computerized accounting system, liabilities for the auditor for professional negligence, professional conduct and ethics, audit report, public sector and special audit, fraud and other irregularities. AF 325 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING II The course content includes bankruptcy accounts, receivership and liquidation, execution and accounts of executors, trust law and accounts, inflation accounting/accounting for price level changes, foreign currency translation, amalgamation and absorption, reorganization and reconstruction, public sector and government accounts, human resource accounting. AF 326 TAXATION THEORY AND PRACTICE II The course content includes tax evasion, tax avoidance, include tax planning, East African Transfer tax management, importation, warehousing of goods, exportation, departure and clearing of aircraft and vessels, and provisions relating to securities. MK 313 INTERNATIONAL MARKETING The course content includes introduction to international marketing, global marketing environment, international trade theory, marketing analysis and global marketing entry strategies, introduction to strategies and policies in international marketing, export and import emerging markets such as marketing and economic development, marketing in developing country, developing countries and emerging markets, and strategic implications for marketing. MK 314 SALES MANAGEMENT I The course content includes overview of sales management, selling process including sales activities and careers, environmental influences on sales programmes and performance, marketing planning, sales programmes and account management policies, organizing the sales effort, demand estimation, sales territories, and sales quotas. MK 315 STRATEGIC MARKETING The course content includes consumer decision making, individual determinants of consumer behavior, environmental influence on consumer behavior, consumer decision process. MK 316 PUBLICITY AND PUBLIC RELATIONS The course content includes introduction to public relations and publicity, the use of publicity in marketing, public relations industry, publicity and media relations, major decisions in marketing, public relations tactics, public relations budget, public relations evaluation and control.
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MK 323 MARKETING PLAN The course content includes process of marketing planning, situational review, mission and objectives, setting marketing, objectives and strategies, marketing information, forecasting and organizing ratio analysis which deals with the use of ratio, analyzing rations and trends, ratios and inter-firm comparison, implementation issues. MK 324 SALES MANAGEMENT II The course content includes model of salesperson performance, personal characteristics, sales force recruitment and selection, sales training motivating the sales force, designing compensation and incentive programmes, sales analysis, cost analysis which deals with cost analysis development, accounting versus marketing costs, full cost versus contribution margin procedure, and return on assets managed. MK 325 CONSUMER BEHAVIOR The course content includes introduction to strategy, opportunity analysis, formulating marketing, strategies, implementation and control which deal with topics such as implementing business and marketing strategies, controlling marketing strategies and programme. MK 326 ADVERTISING AND SALES PROMOTION The course content includes communication and the promotional mix, advertising, sales promotion, personal selling and sales management, direct marketing, public relations, sponsorship and exhibitions. IT 114 INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SKILLS I: The course content includes introduction to computer and overview, components of the computer systems and organization, data: its representation and input, output methods, devices and media, computer security and social aspect, legal and regulatory issues in ICT, computer and information on the internet, effective use of computer software, computer data files, and computer networking. IT 121 COMPUTER LOGIC AND ARITHMETICS The course content includes computer operations, computer circuits, arithmetic element of the computer, memory element of the computer, computer organization and control, input/output devices for computers. IT 122 COMPUTER CARE & MAINTENANCE The course introduces computer systems and programmes, connecting computer system, overview of software applications, how computer works, system configuration, system resources, install and configure various computer peripheral devices, build, configure, upgrade and maintain a personal computer system and provide computer hardware and software support based upon a set of standard and systematic diagnostic principles. IT 123 COMPUTER NETWORK AND DATA COMMUNICATION The course content includes introduction to network and data communication concepts, the OSI model and network design, physical methods of digital data transfer, setup, configure and maintain a local area network, resolve network connectivity problems on a local area network using a systematic trouble shooting approach.
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IT124 INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SKILLS II The course content includes approaches to database management system (DBMS), database management system implementation, the concept of electronic presentation and power point, discovery, communication and collaboration, the use of internet and web browsing application. IT 127 INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT I A two month period of field practice offered partly during academic semester and the remaining part on long vocation at the end of first year of study. Students have the opportunity to apply theories they have learnt in the classrooms to real business company situation. They undergo on the job training to develop skills in problem solving, hardware maintenance, team building, character building and the like. IT 211 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM The course content includes introduction to information technology in the digital economy; information technologies: concept and management, strategic information systems for competitive advantage, electronic commerce, IT planning and BPG, network computing: discovery, communication and collaboration, supply chain management and ERP, transaction processing, innovative functional systems and CRM and integration, data management, knowledge management, building information systems, managing information resources and security, the impact of IT on organization, individuals and society, mobile computing, systems planning, systems analysis, systems design, systems implementation, systems operation and support. IT 213 COMPUTER PROGRAMMING The course introduces computer systems and programmes, computer types, connecting computer systems, windows desktop environment, overview of software applications, Boolean operations, binary to hexadecimal conversion, how computer works, system overview, boot process, hardware components, motherboard identification and memory components. IT 214 SYSTEM AND NETWORK ADMINISTRATION The course content includes network operating system basics, network operating system components, install the windows 2003 server and linux network operating system, configure TCP/IP static and dynamic host addressing, configure network file and point sharing, configure HTTP, FTP and telnet services for windows 2003 server and linux systems. Diagnose, trouble shoot, and resolve common network operating system problems. MG 216 MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE The course content includes introduction to change, what is cultural change, preparing for change, people change management plan, initiating and sustaining change, sustaining change. IT 217 DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS The course content includes introduction to data bases, data base development life cycle, data modeling, physical database design, SQL: a standard navigation language for relational data base, data administration and database administration and data warehouse.
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IT 221 BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND DATA WAREHOUSING The course content includes architectural overview, logical design concepts, dimensional modeling designs, namely, initial steps, fact table, hierarchies, integrity constraints and schema design; physical designs, namely, large data warehouse considerations, objects, parallelism, partitioning, indexes, integrity constraints, create dimensions, materialized view creation & maintenance and ETC; introduction to oracle data warehousing tools, introduction to oracle SQL advisor, DW performance considerations, IT 222 TELECOMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT The course content includes telecommunications industry and market place, liberalization and regulation, standards, analogue and digital services, public switched telephone network, integrated services digital network, direct and indirect services, range of exchange lines, private networking, signaling systems, wiring codes and practice, block wiring, structured cabling, what convergence means; systems, management: telephone systems and services and how to manage them; adding value: how telephone is developing. IT 223 OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING The course content includes software engineering, design model, the Java, Programming Environment, Java Language features and packages. Comparison of Java to other languages. IT 247 INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT II The students are expected to combine the theories they have learnt in the classrooms with the practice in the field and hence to enhance their skills in server and network administration application development, web development, data base administration, data base development and IT management. IT 312 ICT LAW The course content includes electronic signatures, e-commerce, e-taxation and e-government, personal data protection, cyber crime, organization and governance of the internet, legal issues concerning web services, privacy protection and identity management, legal issues regarding ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence, digital rights management, long-term digital preservation (e-archiving), legal issues regarding sector information, liberalization of telecommunications sector and the convergence with audiovisual media sector, protection of minors and the prohibition of racist speech, e-evidence. IT 313 ICT ECONOMICS The course content includes introduction: concept of network, physical network, social network, network principles, network externalities; concept of critical mass, transformation of demand curve, excess inertia and excess momentum, network externalities and compatibility, increasing returns World vs. decreasing returns World, network growth, natural monopoly and its transformation, market trend and policy issues.
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IT 314 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AUDITING The course content includes IT audit overview, frameworks, conducting IT audit, information security, information systems strategy and planning, database implementation and support, business continuity planning, information systems operations, application systems implementation and maintenance, relationships with outsourced providers, business process controls testing, network support, system-software support, hardware support and resources. IT 315 ICT PROJECT MANAGEMENT The course content includes project management, the environment and culture, project management process and life cycle, objective setting and links with business strategy, project planning tools and techniques, project planning using Microsoft project, leadership and team building in a virtual organization structure, financial analysis of projects and cost estimates, risk analysis and management, value management, engineering and contingency planning, monitoring and control, earned value analysis, project organization structures and stakeholder management, supply management, managing meetings and project documentation. IT 321 ICT SECURITY ISSUES The course content includes fundamentals of information security, information security policies, information security responsibilities, authentication and network security, internet security policies, physical security, compliance and enforcement, and policy review process. IT 322 ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT The course content includes definitions, prospects and challenges of e-government and e-governance, the relation between e-democracy and e-government, phases in implementation of e-government, the technology involved in e-government and managerial issues, ICT policy formulation processes, five elements of successful e-government transformation, e-business implementation roadmap, understanding business, select the activities for e-business, assess e-business trends and competition, set technology direction for e-business, collect information for e-business, analyze information for e-business, new e-business transactions and workflow definitions. IT 323 RESEARCH PROJECT Students have the opportunity to apply all the knowledge and skills they have acquired in the classroom in creating or developing their own initiatives. Their individual projects involve one of the following activities: website creation, data base management system, or any other software development programme. Students’ supervisors shall testify the authenticity of the projects, or which parts of the projects have been contributed by the students themselves. Thus, it is possible to evaluate the graduation projects.
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44.0 FACULTY OF LAW & SHARIAH
44.1 Name of the Faculty
The official name of the Faculty is the Faculty of Law and Shariah (FLS).
44.2 Structure of the Faculty
Faculty of Law and Shariah, at present comprises the following departments:
44.2.1 Department of Common Law;
44.2.2 Department of Shariah.
44.3 Degree Offered
The Faculty offers a four year programme leading to the award of the degree of Bachelor of Law and Shariah (LL.B) combining both Common Law and Islamic Law.
44.4 Duration of Study
44.4.1 The LL.B programme of studies offered by the Faculty is of four-year duration. In a nutshell, the extended duration of study is intended to create ample scope to make more elective courses as core and compulsory courses.
44.4.2 The programme for LL.B comprises a total of 8 semesters of 15 teaching weeks each, two semesters in every academic year.
44.5 General Objectives of the Programme
44.5.1 To provide sound knowledge and thorough training in Common and Islamic Laws and their respective legal techniques required for successful practice whether on the Bench, at the Bar or any other legal profession.
44.5.2 To promote students’ talents and potentialities in order to develop their legal skills, both, theoretically and professionally through practice.
44.5.3 To facilitate study of law in relation to the organisation of the machinery for the administration of justice, and to further students’ ability to understand the problems and concepts of substantive law by elucidating the process of judicial decision making.
44.5.4 To broaden the theoretical perspectives of law in relation to other areas of social sciences, and to increase the awareness of social and economic factors relevant to the application of law in society.
44.5.5 Motivate students to pursue graduate studies to enhance the legal profession in the country.
44.6 Specific Objectives of the Programme
44.6.1 To qualify and equip law graduates to play effective role towards enhancement of court system and tribunals so as to ensure swift, fair and unbiased dispensation of justice, as well as adequately guarantee protection for and enforcement of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
44.6.2 To guide students to build up professional skills for legal writing and research work as such skills would enable them to contribute towards nation building and community development.
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44.6.3 Work in the legal system as advocates or legal advisers;
44.6.4 Preside over civil and criminal cases in the country’s judicial system.
44.7 Curriculum Integration:
44.7.1 The course structure offered by the Faculty integrates both components of Shariah and Common Law. It reflects course structure, and contents of each course. The integrated nature of studies in the Faculty is well catered for in the curriculum.
44.7.2 This integrated approach to the study of the two systems of law is adopted to soundly equip and qualify law students to take up any legal profession, as well as to prepare them to deal with legal problems realistically and in harmony with the needs and culture of the society wherein they live.
44.7.3 In view of the diverse nature of law courses which every law student is required to offer, the four year duration aims at accommodating, as many as possible, courses in both fields of Common Law and Islamic Law. This is in a bid of qualifying and training law students in these two legal systems, which are applicable in Tanzania, and other countries in the African Continent and the World at large.
44.7.4 Moreover, since the whole Universe is deemed as catchment area for Faculty of Law and Shariah, Zanzibar University, as far as admission of students is concerned, the four year duration purports to cope with the universality of the University and Faculty of Law and Shariah as well, by offering intensive courses on the globally adopted two legal systems, to wit, Common Law and Islamic Law.
44.8 Programme Structure:
44.8.1 Elective courses are offered from the 3rd to 8th semesters. Elective courses shall carry code numbers according to the year of study in which each elective course is taught. Once an elective course is offered its status becomes compulsory.
44.8.2 Elective courses are offered from the 3rd to 8th semesters. Elective courses shall carry code numbers according to the year of study in which each elective course is taught. Once an elective course is offered its status becomes compulsory.
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Table 15: Programme Structure for the Bachelor of Law and Shariah
First Year Second Year Third Year Fourth Year Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 1 Semester 2
1
LW 111
Criminal Law I
LW 121
Criminal Law II
LW 211
Constitutional Law
LW 221
Human Rights and Humanitarian
Law
LW 311 Law of
Evidence I
LW 321
Law of Evidence II
LW 411
Labor Law
LW 421
Professional Ethics
2
LW 112 Law of
Contract I
LW 122
Law of Contract II
LW 212
Law of Torts II
LW 222
Islamic Banking Law
LW 312 Criminal Procedure
LW 322
Civil Procedure II
LW 412
Accounting for Lawyers
LW 422
Islamic Law of Procedure
3
LW 113
Legal System and Research Methodology
LW 123
Islamic Family Law
LW 213
Administrative Law I
LW 223
Administrative Law II
LW 313
Jurisprudence
LW 323 Public
International Law
LW 413
Islamic Law of Succession
LW 423
Clinical Law
4
LW 114
Introduction to Islamic Law
LW 124 Arabic
Language II
LW 214 Land Law
LW 224
Conveyancing Law and Practice
LW 314 Islamic
Criminal Law and
Procedure
LW 324
Companies Law
LW 414 Private
International Law
5
LW 115 Arabic
Language I
LW 125
Islamic Law of Contract
LW 215
Sales of Goods and Agency
Law
LW 225
Bankruptcy & Hire Purchase
Law
LW 315 Civil
Procedure I
LW 325 Islamic
Jurisprudence
LW 415 Legal
Research Writing and Drafting
6
IT 116
Computer Studies I
LW 126
Law of Torts I
LW 216
Family Law (Statutory)
LW 226
Equity and Trust
LW 316
Environmental Law
LW 326 Law of
Succession (Statutory)
LW 416 Research Project
7
LW 117
Development Studies
IT 127
Computer Studies II
LW 217 Islamic
Constitutional Law
LW 327 Judicial
attachment
8
EG 118 English
Communication Skills I
EG 128 English
Communication Skills II
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Table 16: Elective Courses for Bachelor of Law and Shariah (A Student is to select one elective course from each semester)
First year Second year Third year Fourth year Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 1 Semester 2
1
LW 227
Banking and Negotiable Instruments
Law
LW 317 Islamic
International Law
LW 328
Electoral Law
LW 417
Consumer Protection Law and Practice
LW 424
Law Science and Technology
2
LW 228
International Economics
Law
LW 318
Insurance Law
LW 329 Media Law
LW 418
Investment Law
LW 425
Computers and the Law
3
LW 229 Islamic
Administrative Law
LW 319
Partnership and Cooperatives
Law
LW 330
Gender and the Law
LW 419
Children and the Law
LW 426
International Criminal Law
4
LW 230
Sports Law
LW 320
Intellectual Property Rights
LW 331
Customary Law
LW 420
East Africa Community
Law
LW 427
Health Law & Policy
5
LW 231
Taxation Law
LW 332 Statutory
Interpretation
LW 421
Forensic Law
LW 428
Law of the Sea
LW 422
International Trade & Finance
LW 429
Criminology and Penology
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45.0 COURSE LISTING
LW 111 CRIMINAL LAW I The course content includes introduction to criminal law, presumptions and general principles of criminal responsibility. LW 112 LAW OF CONTRACT I The course content includes nature of the contractual relation and its social function, essential elements of an enforceable contract and its formation, void and voidable contracts, capacity of parties, form of consideration and vitiating elements: mistakes, misinterpretation, duress and undue influence. LW 113 LEGAL SYSTEM AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY The course content includes legal systems in general perspective, the court system of Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar, the court system before the revolution in Zanzibar , Peoples’ court system, Kadhi court system, the High court and subordinate court system, judicial service, function’s of the judicial service commissions of both Zanzibar and Mainland and judicial service appointment, disciplinary and termination and dismissal; laws applicable: written law or statutory law, customary law, Islamic law, common law and equity law. Legal research and writing, precedents and legal reasoning, customary law, statutory interpretation, the legal profession, legal education and social change and preparation for taking law examinations. LW 114 INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC LAW The course content includes definition and scope of Islamic Law, evolution and historical development of Islamic Law, pre – Islamic period legal institutions, sources of Islamic Law, emergence and development of the Islamic School of Law. LW 115 ARABIC LANGUAGE I The course content includes introduction to the Arabic alphabet and essential grammatical rules, Arabic consonants with/without equivalents in the English alphabets and the consonants with vowels (long/short). IT 116 COMPUTER STUDIES I The course content includes the main concepts of ICT at general level, components of the computer systems and organization, data representation, computer security and social aspect, health and safety and environmental issues in relation to using computer, legal and regulatory issues in ICT, the concept of system word processor and Microsoft Word and business analysis with electronic spreadsheet. Computer software and computer data files. LW 117 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES The course content includes capitalism and the capitalist ideology, post – colonial and neo – colonialism, orientation and its ideology, interaction and integration between the two World ideologies (civilizations), the development of relations between the capitalist West and the Muslim World, methods of interaction and integration include the role of education, technology, the media, conflicts and wars etc.
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EG 118 ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILLS I This course covers basic sentence structure, the tense system, class nouns, the use of articles, sentence connection, passive verb form, perfect verb form, model verb/verb phrases, conditional sentences, direct and indirect writing. LW 121 CRIMINAL LAW II The course content includes offences against body, property, the state of public order; defences and punishments. LW 122 LAW OF CONTRACT II The course content includes exemption clauses, discharge of contracts, breach of contracts, remedies of breach; types of damages: normal, special, compensatory and remoteness of damage; equitable remedies: injunctions and quantum merit; contractual relations and quasi contracts. LW 123 ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW The course content includes definition and the institution of Family in Islam, preliminaries to marriage contract, essentials of marriage contract, agency in marriage, impediments to marriage, mutual rights and obligations of spouses, dissolution of marriage, divorce and its consequences, custody of children. AL 124 ARABIC LANGUAGE II The course content includes reading and writing exercises involving who? What? and where? The pronouns, the letter of call, the possessor and the possessed, the definite and indefinite noun, the present tense and the adjective (feminine/masculine). LW 125 ISLAMIC LAW OF CONTRACT The course content includes definition and legality of contract, essentials, capacity for making contracts, the Islamic rights of option and remedies. LW 126 LAW OF TORTS I The course content includes general and specific principles of tortuous liability, distinction between criminal and civil wrongs, concept of liability in torts including remoteness of damage, specific torts, torts against the person, assault, battery, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, trespass to goods, detinu, conversion, and trespass to land. IT 127 COMPUTER STUDIES II The course content includes approaches to database management system (DBMS), database management system implementation, the concept of electronic presentation and power point, discovery, communication and collaboration, the use of internet and web browsing application. EG 128 ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILLS II This course is a continuation of the English Communication Skills I. It covers developing reading, speaking and writing skills, writing summary, structures, figures of speech, idioms, proverbs and phrasal verbs, techniques for organizing notes, and common mistakes in English.
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LW 211 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW The course content includes definitions and classifications of constitutions, principle characteristics of the constitution, state structure and organization, the cabinet and the machinery of executive governments; the legislature: its constitutional powers and privileges, the process of legislation, the courts and the independence of the judiciary, the civil service, government departments, the operations and control, diplomatic privileges, election and electoral systems; sources of constitutional change: popular uprising, military coups, referendum, constitutional amendments and judicial interpretation, constitutional remedies: Bill of rights, constitutional courts, Human rights commission. LW 212 LAW OF TORTS II The course content includes negligence, essential of negligence, specific situations of negligence, nervous shock, occupiers liability, vicarious liability, defence in Tort, contributory negligence, common employment, death of claimant, defamation, libel and slander, essential of defamation, defence, justification, fair comment, absolute and qualified privilege, nuisance, public and private liability for dangerous things, the rule in Rylands Vs Fletcher, liability for animals. LW 213 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW I The course content includes separation of powers, purpose and application, aspects of government responsibility, political and legal responsibility, basic rights and the rule of law, human rights, independence of the judiciary, subsidiary legislation, parliamentary and judicial control, limits of power, substantive and procedural, ultra vires doctrine, alta ego theory, judicial review appeal, exclusion of judicial review. LW 214 LAND LAW The course content includes history of land law and of real property, sources of land law, alienation and occupation of public lands, traditional land use and tenure, community control of individual acquisition and enjoyment of land, foreign and colonial influence, English land law concepts, property rights in land, leaseholds, easements and profits. LW 215 SALES OF GOODS AND AGENCY LAW (COMMERCIAL LAW) The course content comprises sale of good, the law of bankruptcy, contract of agency and negotiable instruments. LW 216 FAMILY LAW (STATUTORY) The course content includes general principles of family law, legal requirements for valid marriage, void and voidable marriage defences and bars, cohabitation, right and duties; dissolution of marriage, divorce and separation, grounds, bars and consequences, judicial separation and separation by agreement, restitution of conjugal rights, the implied obligation of husband and wife during marriage; willful neglect to maintain, maintenance and enforcement orders, matrimonial property of law, practice and procedure relating to matrimonial causes in courts, domestic violence law; parents’ rights and obligation towards their children, custody, maintenance and education; declarations of legitimacy, adoption and guardianship.
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LW 217 ISLAMIC CONSTITUTIONAL LAW The course content includes the Islamic State, sovereignty, the charter of Madina, the institution of Khalifa, leadership in Muslim world, Islamic constitutional principles, rights and duties of non-muslim in an Islamic state. LW 221 HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN LAW The course content includes definition of human rights, historical development human rights, religion perspectives on human rights, i.e. Islam, Christianity etc. rationale for human rights, sources of human rights, international sources: promotion and enforcement of human rights, domestic level, international level, constitutional guarantees of human rights, the judiciary (courts), civil societies and their associations, e.g. pressure grounds, role of the media, promotion of awareness of human rights, role of educational institutions, the future of human rights. LW 222 ISLAMIC BANKING LAW The course content includes concept of murabaha, ijara and muzarah, Islamic banking finance, deposit management, doctrine of gharar, profit sharing principles (PSP), profit and loss sharing principles (PLSP). LW 223 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW II The course content includes principles of natural justice, the rule against bias, the right to be beard, situations where natural justice may not apply, errors of law on the face of the record, administrative remedies, prerogative remedies, prerogatives orders: certiorari, mandarnus and prohibition, ordinary remedies: injuction and declaration and suit against the government. LW 224 CONVEYANCING LAW AND PRACTICE The course content includes restrictive conveyants, licences, transfer of property, disposition of registered land, transfer of land, landlord and tenant, land as security for credit mortgages, remedies of the mortgagee and trusts of land. LW 225 BANKRUPTCY AND HIRE PURCHASE LAW The course content includes bankruptcy, historical background and law applicable; definition and nature of bankruptcy, the doctrine of fresh start from petition, condition of bankruptcy, procedure in bankruptcy: from the demand and filling of the bankruptcy petition, to the adjudication order, distribution of the property; proof of debts and priorities, duties/obligations of the trustee in bankruptcy; discharge of the debtor, bankruptcy offences; hire purchases law, definition, duties and remedies. LW 226 EQUITY AND TRUST LAW The course content includes historical development of equity, the nature of equitable interest, maxims of equity, the nature of a trust, the formation of a trust, express private and secret trusts; appointment of trustees, the administration of a trust, breach of trusts and remedies of beneficiaries, equitable remedies, specific performance and injuctions, cancellation and rectification, rescission; accounts and enquiries; appointment of receivers.
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LW 311 LAW OF EVIDENCE I The course content includes general nature of the rules of evidence; presumptions (rebuttable and irrebuttable), weight of evidence, admissibility of extrinsic evidence, relevance of facts; what must be proved and need not be proved; method of proof, oral and documentary evidence, direct and indirect evidence, hearsay confessions and admissions; expert evidence. LW 312 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE The course content includes courts of criminal jurisdiction; outline of criminal proceedings from apprehension to punishment; procedure in summary proceedings and before, at and after the trial of an indictment; search and seizure, prosecution, rafting of charges, summons, pleadings, trial procedures; role of the court, judgments, sentences, appeals, supervision and control by the high court of subordinate courts and tribunals; investigation and revision LW 313 JURISPRUDENCE The course content includes nature of jurisprudence, principles of jurisprudence, pure theory of law, definition of law; the state, sovereignity, the administration of justice; the source of law, custom, precedence, legislation, statutory interpretation, concept of law, rights and duties, person, possession, ownership, property, liability, modern trends in jurisprudence; socio – economic philosophy. LW 314 ISLAMIC CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE The course content includes concepts of crime and punishment in Islamic law; principles of criminal law in Islam; Hudood offences, offences against property, offence of Zina, offence of Qadhf; Qisas; Taazir. LW 315 CIVIL PROCEDURE I The course content includes jurisdiction of courts; parties to a civil suit, institution of suits; affidavits, summons and service; discovery and inspection; the trial and judgement. LW 316 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW The course content includes international environmental law; the contribution of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) (RioConference) to environment law; principles and foundations of Zanzibar Environment Law; water pollution, Ocean pollution, industrial pollution tourism and environment, conservation of natural resources; land use and planning; implement of environmental law. LW 317 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS The course content includes introduction of key concepts, copyright, patent, trade mark, industrial design. LW 321 LAW OF EVIDENCE II The course content includes identification, identification parade; corroboration; burden of proof; judicial notice, competence of witness, examination of witnesses, exhibits; the oath examination and cross – examination.
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LW 322 CIVIL PROCEDURE II The course content includes orders and decrees, execution, appeals, review of revision; proceedings on appeal to and from the high Court; abatement of suits, summary procedure; interlocutory orders; alternative dispute resolution mechanism. LW 323 PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW The course content includes historical perspective; source of international law; the relationship between Municipal and International law; subjects, sovereignty and territory, recognition, state responsibility, international organizations; use of force under international law; settlement of international dispute. LW 324 COMPANIES LAW The course content includes formation of a company, the corporate personality, the memorandum of association, doctrine of ultra vires; prospectus, capital of the company, allotment and transfer of share dividends and debentures; directors, company management and administration; dissolution of companies, winding up; partnership, relation of partners to third parties, types of partners, liabilities of partnership, dissolution of partnerships. LW 325 ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE The course content includes definition of Islamic jurisprudence; the legal rule (al – hukm ashar): definition and its types; al–hukm al taklifi: definition and its types; al – hukm al wadh: definition and its types; rules of interpretation; the first source off Islamic law: The Quran; The Sunna; Ijma (Consensus of opinion); Qiyas (Analogical deduction); Istihsan (Equity in Islam); Masalih Mursalah (Public interest); Urf (Custom). LW 326 LAW OF SUCCESSION (STATUTORY) The course content includes the making and revocation of wills, construction of wills; probate, interstate succession; the position of the personal representative, the position of the beneficiaries, nature of the wills and codicils; devises and legacies on intestacy; the construction of wills; rules of succession on intestacy; grant of administration, including limited and special administration; revocation of grants of probate and administration; Donationes Mortise Causea.
LW 411 LABOUR LAW The course content includes contractual foundations of employment relations, terms and conditions of employment contract, collective agreements and their impact on contract of employment; statutory regulation of wages; discharge of the contract of the employment, employment of particular classes of persons; health and safety of employees; industrial disputes; trade unionism.
LW 412 ACCOUNTING FOR LAWYERS The course content includes include basic structure of accounting, journals, books of original entry, ledgers, trial balance, trading profit and loss accounts, balance sheet, accruals and prepayment, depreciation , incomplete records, auk reconciliation, partnership accounts for advocates, nature and purpose of budgets and financial planning, break – even analysis and trust accounts.
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LW 413 ISLAMIC LAW OF SUCCESSION The course content includes wills, gift; wakf and inheritance. LW 414 PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW The course content includes rights and duties of individual, nationality, aliens, extradition, and asylum, diplomatic. LW 415 LEGAL RESEARCH WRITING AND DRAFTING The course content includes introduction to legal research writing; building up the projection; literature review; data collection; report writing and drafting. LW 416 RESEARCH PROJECT In this project each student is required to submit his/her two research proposals to the Faculty Research Coordinator four week before the beginning of the final examinations of the sixth semester. The Faculty shall approve the research topics and assign a Research Supervisor for each student before the end of the final examinations of the sixth semester. The dissertation shall be between 15,000 and 20,000 words, i.e., 40 to 50 pages on A4 double space paper in size 12 Time Roman Font Character. Submission of the dissertation shall be one week before students going to the clinical law programme. The dissertation shall be assessed as a full unit compiling 100 (hundred) marks. LW 421 PROFESSIONAL ETHICS The course content comprises nature and need of the legal profession, the rule of law in modern society, legal profession as distinguished from other profession, code of legal ethics, lawyers’ obligation to different stakeholders, lawyers equipment, disciplinary rules LW 422 ISLAMIC LAW OF PROCEDURE The course content comprises judicial system, judge and their qualifications, plaints claims, court procedure, trial, evidence, judgement, revision and appeal.
LW 423 CLINICAL LAW Each student is required to do clinical law and submit a report at the end of the clinical law programme, which shall be assessed on a pass or fail basis. This is a compulsory subject for LL.B students. It is designed through externship attachment to prepare students to becoming practicing advocates on completion of the 4 year LL.B degree programme. The course is divided into two parts, i.e., a) pre – trial preparation and b) moot court. Pre – Trial Preparation comprises client counseling, preparation of court file, attending court session and visiting to Attorney General’s Chamber or other Public Legal Office. LW 231 TAXATION LAW The course content includes taxation, basis of charging, computation of total income, capital gains tax, allowable deductions, rebates and relief, other types of taxes.
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LW 322 STATUTORY INTERPRETATION The course content includes an introduction to the concept of interpretation, subject matter of interpretation, legislation, drafting of statutes, parts of statutes, basic rules of interpretation, internal and external aids to interpretation, presumptions and maxims of interpretation; delegated/sub – ordinate legislation, different types of statutes, interpretation of constitution; introduction to the law of limitation. LW 422 INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE LAW The course content comprises theory of trade, legal framework for trade, organization and the trade transaction, documentary sale, commercial terms, the trade contract, distributorship, counter trade and franchises, law of international trade, multi – lateral trade, trade practice regulation; regional trade and dispute settlement. LW 428 LAW OF THE SEA The course content includes 1st and 2nd conference on the law of the sea, territorial sea, contiguous sea, continental shelf, exclusive economic zone, piracy, land-locked states, deep-sea, fishing, settlement of disputes. LW 429 CRIMINOLOGY AND PENOLOGY The course content comprises introduction to criminology, causes of crime and punishment, sentencing in courts, probation, the role of prisons, reform centres and penitentiary centres; the role of criminologists in the third world countries.
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46.0 FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
46.1 Name of the Faculty
The official name of the Faculty is the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS).
46.2 Structure of the Faculty
The Faculty is operating with the following three departments:
48.2.1 Department of Public Administration, and
48.2.2 Department of Economics
46.3 Degrees Offered
The programmes of study that are being offered at the Faculty lead to the following degree awards:
48.3.1 Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration (BAP), and
48.3.2 Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Economics (BAE);
46.4 Duration of the Study
The degrees offered are of three year duration, whereby the programmes are run through semester system. Each semester extends over a period of fifteen (15) teaching weeks. Each module or course unit is allocated a total of three contact hours per week, two hours for lecturing and one for seminar.
46.5 Programme Objectives
In line with the mission and vision of the Zanzibar University, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is committed to:
44.5.1 To equip students with both theoretical and practical tools necessary for analyzing and solving both social and economic problems.
44.5.2 To enhance efficiency of civil servants, local governments and private institutions personnel.
44.5.3 To furnish students with quantitative, analytical and research skills in order to enable them to pursue further studies and work effectively and efficiently in either private or government institutions
46.6 Programme Structure
46.6.1 Each degree programme consists of thirty six courses (36) units . In the first year, in each semester one and two, students have to take seven (7) courses while in the second year, in each semester one and two, students have to take six (7) courses. In the third year, they are required to take a total of eight (8) courses.
46.6.2 Both BAP and BAE students commence their specialization in the first year-second semester.
46.6.3 Between the fourth and the fifth semesters of the programme FASS students are required to undergo practical training whereupon they are attached to business organizations in order to expose themselves to real working conditions and enable them to marry the theories they have learnt at the University with practice.
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46.6.4 In the third year all FASS students are also required to do a research paper whereby each student is assigned to an instructor for supervision.
47.1 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
47.1.1 Degree Offered
This Department offers a degree of Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration.
47.1.2 General Programme Objective
The programme is designed to train efficient and incorruptible administrators so as to work in the public sector as well as in the private sector.
47.1.3 Specific Programme Objectives
The Faculty intends to enable students to:
i) Handle and execute administrative duties and responsibilities at middle level in public as well as private institutions.
ii) Provide consultancy services to senior civil servants in the area of public policy formulation and good governance.
47.2 DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
47.2.1 Degree Offered
This department offers a degree of Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
47.2.2 General Programme Objective
The programme is designed to train students in planning for effective management of public and private business sectors.
47.2.3 Specific Programme Objectives
The Faculty intends to train BAE students in:
i) Analyzing critically economic conditions and trends and formulate macro as well as micro economic policies and plans for problem solving in the way of establishing a sustainable development;
ii) Using different techniques and analysis in development issues both locally and internationally;
iii) Using their own thinking and being creative and initiative in establishing and modeling appropriate measures for sustainable development.
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Table 17: Programme Structure for Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration
FIRST YEAR SECOND YEAR THIRD YEAR
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER1 SEMESTER 2
1.
PA 111
Organizational Theory and Management
PA 121 Public
Administration Theory and Practice.
PA 211
Comparative Public
Administration
PA 221 Regional
Administration
MG 311 Strategic
Management
PA 321
International Human
Resources Management
2.
MS 112
Mathematics and Statistics
PA 122
Organizational Psychology
PA 212 Human Resource
Management
PA 222
Public Policy Formulation
and Management
PA 312
Theory and Practice in
Decision making
PA 322
Organizational Development
and Management
3.
EC 113
Principles of Economics
LW 123
Administrative Law
PA 213
Procurement and
Logistics
Management
PA 223
Governance and Human Rights
PA 313
Strategic Human Resources
Development
RP 323 Research Project
4.
IT 114
Computer Skills
IT 124
Computer Applications
AF 214
Public Sector Accounting
LW 224 Industrial
Relations and Labour Law
BS 314
Entrepreneurship and Business Plan
5.
EG 115 English
Communication Skills I
EG 125 English
Communication Skills II
IT 215
Electronic Governance
FE 225
Foundations of Ethics & Conduct
RS 315
Social Research Methods
6.
DS 116
Development Studies
AF 126
Principles of Accounting
PA 216
Customer Care and
Public Relations
PA 226
Management of Public Services
7.
AL 117 Arabic
Communication Skills I
AL 127 Arabic
Communication Skills II
EC 217 Project
Management
FA 227 Field
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Table 18: Programme Structure for Bachelor of Arts in Economics
FIRST YEAR SECOND YEAR THIRD YEAR
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER1 SEMESTER 2
1.
MS 111
Mathematics for Business and Economics
MS 121 Applied Statistics
MS 211
Quantitative Methods I
MS 221
Quantitative Methods II
MG 311 Strategic
Management
EC 321
Economic Policy and Planning
2.
AF 112
Principles of Accounting I
AF 122
Principles of Accounting II
LW 212
Business Law I
EC 222
Islamic Banking and Finance
EC 312
Project Planning and Appraisal I
EC 322
Project Planning and Appraisal II
3.
EC 113
Principles of Microeconomics
EC 123
Principles of Macroeconomics
EC 213
Intermediate Microeconomics
EC 223
Intermediate Macroeconomics
EC 313
Agricultural Economics
RP 323 Research Project
4.
IT 114
Computer Skills
IT 124
Computer Applications
EC 214
Econometrics I
EC 224
Econometrics II
BS 314
Entrepreneurship
and Business Plan
5.
BC 115 Business
Communication Skills
EC 125 Islamic
Economics and Development
EC 215
Public Finance
EC 225
Development Economics
RS 315
Quantitative Research Methods
6.
MG 116
Principles of Management and Administration
DS 126
Development Studies
EC 216
Quantitative Economics and Computing
EC 226
International Economics
7.
AL 117 Arabic
Communication Skills I
AL 127 Arabic
Communication Skills II
EC 217
Money, Banking and Financial Development
FA 227 Field
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48.0 COURSE LISTING PA 111 ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AND MANAGEMENT This course covers evolution and development of management theories and organization thoughts, managerial functions and roles, organizations and organizational structures, management in organization in general and in African organizations, organization conflicts, and management of change. MS 112 MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS This course covers introduction to real numbers, algebraic polynomials and equations and the operation of roots extraction, elementary properties of sets, mathematical induction, simple finite series and sequences, meaning of statistics, planning of statistical study/survey research, methods of data collection, sampling and data presentation, data analysis, measure of central tendency, measure of dispersion, elementary probability theory. EC 113 PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS This course covers basic demand & supply, elasticities, cost of production, consumer behavior and utility theory, and market structures. IT 114 COMPUTER SKILLS The course covers introduction to computers and overview, components of computer systems and organization, data interpretation and input, output methods, devices and media, computer security and social aspect, legal and regulatory issues in ICT, computer and information on the internet, effective use of computer software, computer data file and computer networking. EG 115 ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILLS I This course covers basic sentence structure, the tense system, class nouns, the use of articles, sentence connection, passive verb form, perfect verb form, model verb/verb phrases, conditional sentences, direct and indirect writing. DS 116 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES This course covers the concept of development, globalization, North-South Integration and interaction, poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, gender and development, and UN’s role in development. AL 117 ARABIC COMMUNICATION SKILLS I The course covers the following topics; situational dialogues: greetings, meeting with dean of student warden, meeting with university director, meeting with storekeeper, meeting with other fellow students at student hostel, meeting with the students in the lecturer rooms, at the library; introductory grammar, masculine and feminine gender, demonstrative pronouns, personal pronouns, interrogative pronouns, adverbs of time and place, singular/dual/plural nouns, and verbs and their tenses; and readings.
PA 121 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE This course covers introduction to public administration, theory of bureaucracy, functions of public administration, theory and nature of management, and managerial functions and roles, organizational structures.
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PA 122 ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY This course covers the following topics: introduction: work and organization psychology, regulation of work actions, work and personality enhancement, stress at work, basic concepts and models; short-term and long-term consequences, psychological consequences of unemployment and job insecurity, human errors, and accidents and safety at work LW 123 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW This course covers nature and development of administrative law, the basic constitutional principles, delegated legislation, administrative justice, judicial control of administrative action, institutions of government, and liabilities of public authorities and the grown. IT 124 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS This course covers approaches to management information systems, business strategy and information systems, information systems and project management, information technology in digital economy, discovery, communication and collaboration, managing information resources and security, approaches to system development, and approaches to website design. EG 125 ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILLS II This course is a continuation of the English Communication Skills I. It covers developing reading, speaking and writing skills, writing summary, structures, figures of speech, idioms, proverbs and phrasal verbs, techniques for organizing notes, and common mistakes in English. AF 126 PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING This course covers the role of book-keeping, introduction to double entry system and accounting cycle, control accounts and balancing accounts, preparation of financial accounts from adjusted trial balance, accounting for purchases and sales, accounting for cash transactions, receivables, payables, and accounting for inventories. AL 127 ARABIC COMMUNICATION SKILLS II This course covers comprehension of Arabic language, Arabic verbal tenses, verbs conjugation, subjects, objects, nouns, numbers, iraab with letters instead of symbols, and readings.
PA 211 COMPARATIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION This course covers introduction to public administration, public administration in different countries, comparative approach to public administration, contrast of administrative systems, challenges in studying comparative public administration in Tanzania compared to selected other developing countries, structure of Tanzania government and future challenges of comparative public administration. PA 212 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT This course covers definition, meaning and importance of human resource management, human resource planning in organization, performance appraisal systems, compensation and benefits, discipline, labor relations, safety and health, recruitment and de-recruitment, and training and development.
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PA 213 PROCUREMENT AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT This course covers introduction, purchasing and issues, logistic and supply chains, public procurement, sourcing and management of suppliers, outsourcing, negation, and ethical code training in procurement. AF 214 PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING This course covers introduction to government accounting, officers and organs involved in government financing, reporting and accountability, accounting for government revenue, accounting for government expenditure, accounting for local government authorities and introduction to cooperative principles and accounting. IT 215 ELECTRONIC GOVERNANCE This course covers the definitions, prospects and challenges of e-government and e-governance, relationship between e-democracy and e-government, the phases in implantation of e governance, the technology involved in e-government and managerial issues, ICT policy formulation processes, five elements of successful e-government transformation, challenges and opportunities of e-government, and the impact of digital divide in implementation of e-governance in developing countries. PA 216 CUSTOMER CARE AND PUBLIC RELATIONS This course covers introduction to customer care , customer care/service in competitive business environment, customer behaviour and expectations, customer retention, customer relationship management (CRM) and customer care tools, management support to customer care ctrategy, listening and communicating to customers, monitoring of complaints and complements, customer satisfaction, the practice of benchmarking, effective communication skills, internal customer and customer care. Introduction to public relations, role of public relations, product public relations and corporate public relations, public relation mix, and public relation strategy and implementation. EC 217 PROJECT MANAGEMENT This course covers introduction, project identification, project design and formulation, simple project appraisal techniques, project organization and management, project financing, planning for project implementation and management, project structure/format, and general problems of planning and management of projects. PA 221 REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION This course covers conceptualization of urbanization and rural settings and development, urban-rural interface and migration, urban pathological issues, urban planning and management, roles of urban and rural development managers and strategies for urban and rural development. PA 222 PUBLIC POLICY FORMULATION AND MANAGEMENT This course covers concepts and issues in the study of public policy, policy formulation/decision, policy implementation, policy evaluation and public policy analysis.
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PA 223 GOVERNANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS This course covers Introduction, definition of human rights, historical development of human rights, contending theories, religious perspective of human rights, rationale for human rights, sources of human rights: international, regional, and cultural rights and protocols, and the future of human rights. LW 224 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND LABOUR LAW This course covers general principles of the law of contracts, formation of employment contract, wages repatriation, employment of women, care and welfare, disputes settlement, and disciplinary proceedings under the security of employment Act 1964. FE 225 FOUNDATIONS OF ETHICS AND CONDUCT This course covers Islamic history and culture, history of Islam and Christianity in East Africa, and impact of Islam on East Africa Customs, Islamic philosophies, ethics and good conduct II, Islam and modern philosophies, fundamental human rights if Islam; the concept of Jihad” in Islam, contemporary Muslim World, Islamic constitutions, Politics and Administration, modern Islamic School of thoughts (contemporary Islamic movements), principles and methods of Daawah and Islam and the Universal development challenges, Islam and environment, Islam and the gender issue. PA 226 MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICES This course covers background and policy perspectives, factors determining social services provision, poverty and social services provision, employment and employment in social administration, current trends and issues in social services provision. FA 227 FIELD ATTACHMENT This is a six weeks period of field practice whereby students are attached to the real working environments at the end of the second year of study. Students have the opportunity to apply theories they have learnt in the classrooms to the real business company situations. They undergo on the job training to find out new ways of doing business, and develop skills in problem solving. MG 311 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT This course covers introduction, nature and value of strategic management, strategic formulation, assessing the strategic environment, environmental forecasting, internal analysis of the firm, formulating long-term objectives and sound strategies, strategic analysis and choice, strategic implementation, implementing strategy through the business functions, implementing through structure, leadership and culture, strategic control, guiding and evaluating the strategy. PA 312THEORY AND PRACTICE IN DECISION MAKING This course covers introduction, decision making models and approaches, approaches to decision making, process of policy making, bureaucracy, participative approach to decision making, dictatorial policy decision making, influence of individual on policy making.
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PA 313 STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT This course covers the concept of internationalization and the international division of labour, recent developments in international human resources management (HRM), cross-national differences in human resources, HRM in Europe, HRM in East Asia, composing international staff, training and developing international staff, women’s role in international management and transfer of employment practices across borders in multinational companies. BS 314 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS PLAN This course covers foundation of entrepreneurship, strategic management and the entrepreneur, forms of ownership and franchise, building market plan, and planning for management succession, constructing a business plan. RS 312 SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS This course covers understanding the research and social research, research steps, literature review, research methodology, and writing research proposal and report. PA 321 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT This course covers the concept of internationalization and the international division of labour, recent developments in international Human Resources Management, cross-national differences in Human Resources, HRM in Europe, HRM in East Asia, composing international staff, training and developing international staff, women’s role in international management and transfer of employment practices across borders in multinational companies. PA 322 ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT This course covers over view of organization development, conceptual and theoretical foundations of organization development, the organization development process, organization development interventions, consulting process and organization development, and future of organization development. RP 323 RESEARCH PROJECT In this project each student is required to submit two copies of his/her research proposal to the Faculty Research Coordinator four weeks before the beginning of the final examinations of the year three semester one. The Faculty shall approve the research topics and assign a Research Supervisor for each student before the end of the final examinations of the same. The research report shall be between 6,000 and 10,000 words, i.e., 30 to 50 pages on A4 double spaced paper in size 12 Times Roman Font Character. Submission of the report shall be one week before the final examinations of year three semester two. The report shall be assessed as a full unit compiling 100 (hundred) marks. MS 111 MATHEMATICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS This course covers sets, equations and in equalities, functions and graphs, differential calculus, integral calculus, permutations and combinations, finite and infinite series, mathematics of finance and matrices.
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AF 112 PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING I This course covers introduction to accounting, accounting equation and double entry system, accounting records and cycle, special journal, trial balance and adjustment, completion of the accounting cycle, and control accounts. EC 113 PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS This course covers the nature and methods of economics, understanding individual markets (demand & supply), elasticities and applications, cost of production, consumer behavior and utility maximization, and market structures. BC 115 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION SKILLS The course covers role of communication in the business organization, main forms of organizational communication, mode of the communication process, barriers to communication, fundamentals of business writing, qualities of effective correspondence. MG 116 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION This course covers management overview, definitions and meaning, functions and roles of managers, organization and its environment, managerial planning, planning process, goal setting, types of plans, managerial decision making, management by objectives, management functions, bureaucracy and adhocracy, motivation theories, leadership contingency theories, control processes. MS 121 APPLIED STATISTICS This course covers meaning of statistics, planning of statistical study/survey research, methods of data collection, sampling and data presentation, data analysis, measure of central tendency, measure of dispersion, elementary probability theory, and probability and its role in decision making. AF 122 PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING II This course is a continuation of principles of accounting I. It covers inventories, fixed assets, accounting for partnerships, introduction to company accounts, manufacturing accounts, analysis and interpretation of financial systems, internal control, cash and short term investments, and trade accounts and notes. EC 123 PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS This course covers macroeconomic issues and policy instruments, national income accounting, economic growth, employment and inflation, income distribution, foreign trade, and demand for and supply of money. EC 125 ISLAMIC ECONOMICS & DEVELOPMENT This course covers nature of Islamic economics, consumer and producer behaviors in Islamic perspective, allocation of output to the factors of production in Islamic perspective, and market and its regulation in Islamic perspective.
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MS 211 QUANTITATIVE METHODS I This course covers probability theory, random variables and probability distributions, decision analysis, standard probability distribution, continuous probability distributions, and sampling distributions and interval distributions. LW 212 BUSINESS LAW I This course covers general principles of the law of contract, contents of contract, discharge of contract, remedies, company law, and vicarious liability . EC 213 INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS This course covers review and detailed analysis of the basic concepts and theories of microeconomics learned in Principles of Microeconomics. EC 214 ECONOMETRICS I This course covers introduction, method of estimation, using regression analysis, the classical regression model, hypothesis testing, diagnostic analyses, testing for structural or parameter stability of regression model: Chow test, specification, and multicollinearity. EC 215 PUBLIC FINANCE This course covers introduction, market failures: the role of the government in a market economy, externalities, public goods, and political economy; government expenditures programmes: cost and benefit analysis, health care, social security, income redistribution and expenditure programme for the poor; taxation and government revenue programmes: tax incidence, equity and efficiency issues, personal income taxation, corporate taxes, and taxes on consumption and wealth. EC 216 QUANTITATIVE ECONOMICS AND COMPUTING This course covers introductions to Ms-Windows 95/98/Me, word processing, internet, spread sheets (Ms-Excel), presentation software (Ms-Power Point), database management system (Ms-Access), other statistical packages such SPSS , and viewing the output/results, computable general equilibrium and macro-econometric models. EC 217 MONEY, BANKING & FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT This course covers why study money and banking, overview of financial systems, meaning of money, understanding the interest rates, behavior of interest rates, risk and term structure of interest rate, structure of central banks, conduct monetary policy (tools, goals and targets), the money markets, capital markets: the bond & stock markets, the foreign exchange market, the international financial system, and banking & the management of financial institutions. MS 221 QUANTITATIVE METHODS II This course is the continuation of Quantitative Methods for Business Decision I. It covers hypothesis testing, regression and correlation, time series and forecasting, linear programming, and simulation.
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EC 222 ISLAMIC BANKING AND FINANCE This course covers introduction to Islamic banking, balance sheet analysis of Islamic banks, Islamic insurance (Takaful) and establishment and operations of Islamic banking. EC 223 INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS This course covers review and detailed analysis of the basic concepts and theories of macroeconomics learned in Principles of Macroeconomics. Sectoral demand functions and extensions of consumer theory and consumer expenditures, Investment demand, demand for and supply of money, monetary and fiscal policy in an extended model, international adjustment problems and introduction to economic growth. EC 224 ECONOMETRICS II This course is the continuation of Econometrics I. It covers some assumptions: heteroscadasticity & serial correlation, linear probability models: probit & logit models, and some basic concepts of time series econometrics. EC 225 DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS This course covers introduction to development economics, neoclassical theories of development, approaches to analysis of development and underdevelopment, aid, foreign investment and development, and international trade and development. EC 226 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS This course covers introduction to international trade and finance issues, the effects of trade policies, market imperfections and environmental issues, the Recadian theory of comparative advantage, immobile factors and Heckscher-Ohlin, national income accounts and balance of payments, evaluation of trade imbalances, the foreign exchange market, exchange rates, interest rates, and interest rates parity, purchasing power parity, and fixed vs floating exchange rate regimes. FA 227 FIELD ATTACHMENT This is a six weeks period of field practice whereby students are attached to the real working environments at the end of the second year of study. Students have the opportunity to apply theories they have learnt in the classrooms to the real business company situations. They undergo on the job training to find out new ways of doing business, and develop skills in problem solving. MG 311 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT This course covers introduction, nature and value of strategic management, strategic formulation, assessing the strategic environment, environmental forecasting, internal analysis of the firm, formulating long-term objectives and sound strategies, strategic analysis and choice, strategic implementation, implementing strategy through the business functions, implementing through structure, leadership and culture, strategic control, guiding and evaluating the strategy. EC 312 PROJECT PLANNING AND APPRAISAL I This course covers the project planning concept, project identification and classification, project preparation, project appraisal and selection, project organization and management, and introduction to project monitoring and evaluation.
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EC 313 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS This course covers meaning and scope of agricultural economics, agricultural production functions, rationale choice of a peasant, farm management, agricultural price and marketing policies and some case studies. BS 314 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS PLAN This course covers foundations of entrepreneurship, ownership and franchising, planning for management succession, entrepreneur as a leader, hiring the right employees, building the right culture and structure, management succession and the growing business, constructing a business plan. RS 315 QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS This course covers introduction, the nature of quantitative research, research design, measurement, & analysis, variables and the relationship among them, the uses of descriptive statistics, survey and sampling, reliability & validity, the data sources & collection, and analysis & presentation of data. EC 321 ECONOMIC POLICY AND PLANNING This course covers subject matter of economic policy and planning: microeconomic foundation of macroeconomic policy and planning; planning approaches; planning methods/techniques, and the applicability and limitations of the method/techniques. EC 322 PROJECT PLANNING AND APPRAISAL II This is the continuation of Project Planning and Management I. It covers planning of raw materials supplies and product market, choice of technology, project analysis, project implementation and management, planning for project implementation, and techniques of monitoring and evaluation of project. RP 323 RESEARCH PROJECT In this project each student is required to submit two copies of his/her research proposal to the Faculty Research Coordinator four weeks before the beginning of the final examinations of the year three semester one. The Faculty shall approve the research topics and assign a Research Supervisor for each student before the end of the final examinations of the same. The research report shall be between 6,000 and 10,000 words, i.e., 30 to 50 pages on A4 double spaced paper in size 12 Times Roman Font Character. Submission of the report shall be one week before the final examinations of year three semester two. The report shall be assessed as a full unit compiling 100 (hundred) marks.
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49.0 GRADUATE PROGRAMME Currently, only one master degree is in operation i.e. Master of Laws (LLM) in Comparative Laws. It is offered by the Faculty of Law and Shariah. However, two other master degrees will be soon offered: Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Arts
49.1 Duration of Study
The LLM (Master of Laws) programme of studies offered by the Faculty is of two-year duration.
49.2 Programme Objectives
49.2.1 To equip students with the knowledge on the theory and application of Statutory Law and Islamic Law in Secular states and Islamic states, respectively.
49.2.2 To expose them to modern skills and knowledge of the Common Law and Islamic Law that will enable them to comprehend both theoretical and practical issues underpinning the practices under these two comparative laws.
49.2.3 To acquire a wide range of transferable sound skills in the application of comparative laws in the organization of administration of justice, critical comparable thinking and creative problem solving skills on comparative perspectives.
46.2.4 To expose them to sound skills in research and methodology of collecting, analyzing, synthesizing and interpreting legal data, that is, the skills necessary for scientific investigation of facts.
49.3 Outcomes of the Programme
At the end of this program, students should be able:
49.3.1 To assume middle and top legal professional positions for those who enter into the labor market or become competent successful law practitioners in the case of those who seek self employment.
49.3.2 To apply the acquired knowledge in providing better legal advices to clients in the public, private or community sector.
49.3.3 To cope with the increasing demand of clients who seek the services of competent law practitioners who are knowledgeable of Statutory Law or Islamic Law, as the case may be.
49.3.4 To inculcate self confidence and mastery of comparative law outlook among the most promising students.
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Table 19: Programme Structure for Master of Laws (LLM) in Comparative Laws
First Year Second Year
Semester I
Semester II
Semester I
Semester II
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Pre-requisite: LLM 511
Introduction to Tanzania
Legal System
LLM 521 Comparative Criminal law
LLM 611 Comparative Law of
Banking
2
Pre-requisite: LLM 512
Introduction to
Shariah Law
LLM 522
Comparative Law of
Property
LLM 612
Comparative
Company Law
3
LLM 513
Comparative Family Law
LLM 523
Cyber Law
LLM 613
Islamic Jurisprudence
4
LLM 514
Jurisprudence and Legal Theory
Elective
Elective
5
LLM 515
Legal Research
Methodology
LLM 621 Dissertation
Elective
Table 20: Elective Courses for Master of Laws (LLM) in Comparative Laws
1
LLM 516
International Trade Law
LLM 524
Law of Succession (Statutory)
LLM 614
Socio-Economic Law
2
LLM 517
Islamic Law of Evidence
LLM 525
Islamic Law of Succession
LLM 615
Islamic Law of Obligation
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50.0 COURSE LISTING LLM 511 INTRODUCTION TO TANZANIA LEGAL SYSTEM The course content comprises introduction to legal system in Tanzania (What is legal system & its types); Introduction to law (the meaning of law, the origin of law, the role and functions of law); classification and division of law; laws applicable in Tanzania; the historical background of court system in Zanzibar and Tanzania Mainland; position of Kadhis’ court; Judicial Service Commission of both Zanzibar & Tanzania Mainland (appointment, functions, dismissal and termination). LLM 512 INTRODUCTION TO SHARIAH LAW The course content includes nature, definition and scope of Islamic law (meaning of Islamic law, meaning of Fiqh, a comparison between Fiqh and Shariah, objective of Shariah, comparison between rules of Shariah and rules of law, basic function of Shariah, characteristics of Shariah); rules of Shariah and its classification (religious observance i.e. Ibadat & transactions i.e. Muamalat); evolution and historical development of Islamic law; pre-Islamic period legal institutions; sources of Islamic law (primary sources & secondary sources; emergence and development of the Islamic schools of law (Hanafi, Malik, Shafie and Hanbali Schools). LLM 513 COMPARATIVE FAMILY LAW The course content comprises introduction to comparative study of family law, the concept of family, institution of marriage, requirement of marriage and administrative procedures, the family and marriage, DNA and paternity in marriage; inheritance; feminism and marriage; pluralities of wives, maintenance of wife, maintenance obligations, family property, dissolution of marriage, rights and duties after divorce, child care and custody LLM 514 JURISPRUDENCE AND LEGAL THEORY The course content comprises nature of jurisprudence, principles of jurisprudence, schools of jurisprudence: analytical school, historical school, sociological school, pure theory of law, communist theory of law, natural law, definition of law, classification of law, law of morals, the state, sovereignty, The administration of justice. LLM 515 LEGAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY The course content includes meaning of legal research (a basic approach to legal research, types of legal research, various approaches to legal research, the legal research process); research design: theoretical research; sources of information and data; legal writing; use of computer in law research; mode of citation of references (periodicals, newspapers, unpublished materials, public documents, citation of cases, citation of statues, citation of subsidiary legislation, treatment of quotations, treatment of notes, treatment of bibliography, abbreviations used in citation); social research in the field of law; research design in social studies; techniques of data gathering; analysis, interpretation and presentation; Islamic legal research methodology.
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LLM 516 INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW The course content includes international sale of goods; special trade terms and their role; F.O.B. contracts (the essence of F.O.B. contract, types of F.O.B. contracts, duties of F.O.B. buyer and seller, passing of property and passing of risk); C.I.F contracts (definition, documents in CIF contracts, passing of property, duties of CIF buyer and seller); carriage of goods by sea (contact of carriage, liability of the carrier); payment international trade (different methods of payment, documentary credits and mechanism of a documentary credit transaction); disputer resolution in international trade ( conflict of laws, the law governing the contract under common law and its jurisdiction); international commercial arbitration(general aspects of arbitration, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards); Islamic aspect of international trade. LLM 517 ISLAMIC LAW OF EVIDENCE The course content includes nature of Islamic law of evidence, concept of “bayyinah”, types of evidence, the standards of evidence from different cases, burden of proof and shifting of burden, types of burden of proof (iqrar), iqrar of co-accused and its retraction, al-shahadah, al-yamin, al-kitabah, capacities in adducing evidence, testimony of women, testimony of non-Muslim. LLM 521 COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL LAW The course content comprises nature of criminal law and crimes, basis of Islamic criminal law, protection moral value in Islamic criminal law, principles of legality and Islamic criminal law, sources of criminal law, criminal liability-element of crimes, actus reus & mens rea, mens rea & strict liability, elements of crimes under Islamic law-general or fundamental element of crime, specific ingredients of crimes vary with the nature of the different offences-specific offices, general defense, selected offences-inchoate offences, attempt offence against person, culpable homicide and murder, sexual offences, offence against property. LLM 522 COMPARATIVE LAW OF PROPERTY The course content includes concept of “property” in common law and “al-mal” in Islamic law, classification of property in common law, classification of al-mal in Islamic law, concept of Al-Milkiyyah and its acquisition in Islamic law, concept of ownership and its acquisition in common law, restriction of ownership in common law, concept of charity and charitable trust in common law, concept of charity and Al-alaulad in Islamic law, restrictions and testamentary powers in English law, restrictions and testamentary powers in Islamic law, obligatory bequest, pre-emption in common law, shufa in Islamic law. LLM 523 CYBER LAW The course content comprises what is the internet?; content regulation: censorship; defamation; copyright infringement in cyberspace; domain names and trade marks; contracting in the cyberspace; consumer protection; jurisdiction and choice of law; computer crimes; trans-border data flows and privacy issues; encryption and digital signature; Islam (e-commerce, e-banking and Shariah); online database (spamming and trespass to chattels); novel issues in the cyberspace.
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LLM 524 LAW OF SUCCESSION (STATUTORY) The course content comprises the transfer of property on death; intestacy; nature of the will; formalities; the making of wills – the mind of the testor; promises to leave property by will, secrete trusts, mutual wills; alteration, revival and conformation of will; provision for the deceased’s family and dependents; contents of the will; the construction of the will; duty and care; executors and administrators; payment of expenses and debts; income and interest; distribution of the estate; remedies. LLM 525 ISLAMIC LAW OF SUCCESSION The course content comprises significance of law of inheritance; the rules of distribution of shares and persons entitled to it; special rules; Shia law of inheritance (Ithna ashari law); main differences between Sunni and Shia Laws; process of distribution; mathematical formula for calculating a deceased’s property; on women; on residuary; common denominator of fraction of shares; doctrine of return; doctrine of representation; hereditary rights of predeceased son’s sons; inequality of sexes; inheritance and distribution; division concerning the right of the true grandfather; devolution of vested inheritance; distance kindred; administration of estate of a deceased Muslim; exclusion and impediments; distribution of inheritance – Sunni ( Hanafi law). LLM 611 COMPARATIVE LAW OF BANKING The course content includes financial system in Tanzania (banking and non-banking, history of banking system in Tanzania, structure of banking system in Tanzania, sources of banking law and the role of regulatory bodies); banking system and relevant statutes in Tanzania; the nature of banker-customer relationship (definition of banking business, bank and customer, nature of contractual relationship); rights and duties of a banker; customer rights and duties; termination of banker-customer relationship and events affecting bankers’ mandate; recovery of money paid by mistake; banker’s legal liabilities: collecting bankers; banker’s legal liabilities: paying bankers; contemporary issues on conventional banking (electronic banking & money laundering); selected issues on Islamic banking (products and Shariah contracts, legal issues: constraints, challenges and prospects, legal documentation & case law). LLM 612 COMPARATIVE COMPANY LAW The course content includes the conceptual and regulatory framework; the separate legal entity, corporate criminal & tortuous liability, directors’ common law duties and statutory duties; directors’ fiduciary and statutory duties; duty of care, skill and diligence (standard of care, duty involved in delegating authority, business judgment rule); remedies against breach of duty (director’s disqualification, eliminating liability, power of members to ratify breaches & indemnification and insurance of directors); issues in corporate Governance; legal issues concerning majority and minority shareholders, majority and minority shareholders: The derivative action; capital maintenance doctrine; share buy back & redemption of shares; creditors’ protection mechanism
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LLM 613 ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE The course content includes defining Usūl al-Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence), definition of Usūl, definition of Fiqh, the general format for the study of Usūl al-Fiqh, the value system, subject matter of Usūl al-Fiqh, benefits of studying Usūl al-Fiqh, origin of Usūl al-Fiqh, methods and approach of jurist in deriving Shariah rulings, Islamic law – Hukm Shar’ī, definition of Hukm Shar’ī, elements of Hukm Shar’ī, classification of Hukm Shar’ī, Hukm Taklīfī Hukm Wad’ī (declaratory law), classifications of Hukm Taklīfī, sources of Islamic law. LLM 614 SOCIO-ECONOMIC LAW The course content comprises law relating to socio-economic offences. Policy of the state towards social and economic welfare of society in the constitution. Crimes by men in the profession. Crimes against social groups shall include illegal traffic in women and girls, bounded labours, adulteration in chemical and drugs, law relating to protection of environment, air and water, economic offences, offences against consumers, hoardings and back and duplicate brand goods, false trade marks, smuggling, insurances and accidents claims etc. LLM 615 ISLAMIC LAW OF OBLIGATION The course content includes sources of obligations, obligation to believe in God, obligations to fulfill terms and conditions of Shariah, contractual obligations between man and man, formation of different types of contracts, formalities in creating personal obligations, civil obligation and criminal obligation, sources of rights and liabilities, performance of obligation; its flexibility and impossibility.
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51.0 THE INSTITUTE OF CONTINUING EDUCATION
51.1 Introduction
The Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) of the Zanzibar University has been established to serve as a centre for the extension services; advocacy, human and civil rights services; part-time tailor-made education and entrepreneurial department services.
51.2 ICE Mission
Its mission is to enhance and disseminate knowledge and skills of Law, Shariah, Economics, Public Administration, Accounting, Finance and Marketing in allied and applied fields, by conducting Diploma courses, Certificate courses, seminars and workshops.
51.3 ICE Objectives
51.3.1 To expand the catchments area for the admission of students so as to increase the annual student intake at the Zanzibar University;
51.3.2 To bring services near to the people;
51.3.3 To provide rare opportunities to potential mature applicants who would otherwise miss universal knowledge by joining as mature entrants.
51.4 Entry Requirements
The Institution shall admit students into its programmes basing on the following requirements:
51.4.1 A Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (O-Level) or equivalent with at least 3 credits in subjects related to the course being applied for; OR
51.4.2 An Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (A-Level) or its equivalent with one (1) Principal Pass and one (1) or more Subsidiaries; OR
51.4.3 Four years of exceptional experience in the relevant field or profession may be considered on its own merits;
51.4.4 Form IV (O-Level) Certificate of lower than Division II together with a good Diploma from a recognized University/Institution;
51.4.5 Form VI (A-Level) Certificate with at least one (1) Principal Pass or a Grade III Diploma from a recognized University/Institution;
51.4.6 Any first degree from a recognized University.
51.4.7 For Mature Age Entry, applicants are required:
i) To have at least any 5 passes at O-Level;
ii) To have taken and passed an Entrance Examination Test (EET);
iii) To have four years of exceptional experience in the relevant field or profession.
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52.0 THE PRE UNIVERSITY PROGRAM (PUP)
52.1 Introduction
The Pre University Program (PUP) under the Institute of Continuing Education at the Zanzibar University is a make up program for the applicants who either fail to perform well at Form Six or those from countries which do not offer Advanced Level Certificate Studies.
52.2 Objectives of the Pre University Program
52.2.1 To give opportunities to students from countries where there are no Advanced Level Systems of Education to up-grade their qualifications before they can be admitted into the various degree programs of the Zanzibar University.
52.2.2 To provide the opportunity to those students who fail to secure admission into University Education through Direct Scheme.
52.2.3 To elevate the position of the Zanzibar University as a meaningful institution which plays an important social role in the communities it is serving.
52.3 Minimum Entry Requirements
Students shall be admitted into the various programs basing on the following admission and/or registration requirements:
52.3.1 Form IV (O-Level) Certificate of at least Division II or a mean Grade C or its equivalent from Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and any other country where “A” Level Certificates are not offered;
52.3.2 Form IV (O-Level) Certificate with three credits or its equivalent together with a Diploma in a relevant field of study from a recognized University or Institution approved by the Zanzibar University;
52.3.3 Form VI (A-Level) Certificate with three credits or its equivalent at “O” Level or Diploma holders from Tanzania. But they must have attained at least one Principal Pass and 2 Subsidiary Passes or a Grade III Diploma.
52.4 Specific Admission Requirements for the various fields of study
52.4.1 Field of Law and Shariah
Applicants should have passed either History or English at least with a Credit at “O” Level.
52.4.2 Field of Business Administration and Economics
Applicants should have passed Mathematic at least with a Credit at “O” Level.
52.4.3 Field of Information Technology
i) Applicants should have passed Mathematic at least with a Credit at “O” Level;
ii) Having a Certificate of at least One Complete Year in Computer Studies from a recognized Institute may be an added advantage;
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iii) Having a Diploma of at least more than One Complete Year in Computer Studies from a recognized Institute may be an added advantage for admission into the IT field of Study at the Pre University Program level.
52.4.4 Field of Public Administration
There are no specific admission and/or registration requirements for Public Administration.
52.5 Structure for the Pre University Program
52.5.1 This is a programme taken at a level lower than that of the University Degree Programs. It is a crush programme that combines Forms V and VI curricular. However, it is tailor-made to suit a specific purpose to enable students to fit into the Faculties of Business Administration, Law and Shariah and Arts & Social Sciences.
52.5.2 All PUP students are required to take the following courses as compulsory modules.
Table 21: Compulsory Core Modules for PUP Students
SEMESTER 1
SEMESTER 2
PU 011: English Communication Skills I
PU 012: Introduction to Computer Skills I
PU 013: General Studies I
PU 014: English Language I
PU 021: English Communication Skills II
PU 022: Introduction to Computer Skills II
PU 023: General Studies II
PU 024: English Language II
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Table 22: Programme Structure for the Pre University Programme
FIELD SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2
1 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
BE 111: Elementary Mathematics I BE 112: Accounting I BE 113: Commerce I EC 114: Economics I
BE 121: Elementary Mathematics II BE 122: Accounting II BE 123 Commerce II EC 124: Economics II
2 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BE 111: Elementary Mathematics I BE 112: Accounting I BE 113: Commerce I EC 114: Economics I IT 115:
BE 121: Elementary Mathematics II BE 122: Accounting II BE 123: Commerce II EC 124: Economics II IT 125:
3 LAW AND SHARIAH
LW 111: General Principles of Law I LW 112: Islamic Studies I LW 113: Arabic Language I
LW 121: General Principles of Law II LW 122: Islamic Studies II LW 123: Arabic Language II
4 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
PA 111: Elementary Mathematics I PA 112: Accounting I PA 113: Introduction to Public Administration I EC 114: Economics I
PA 121: Elementary Mathematics II PA 122: Accounting II PA 123: Introduction to Public Administration II EC 124: Economics II
5 ECONOMICS
BE 111: Elementary Mathematics I BE 112: Accounting I BE 113: Commerce I EC 114: Economics I
BE 121: Elementary Mathematics II BE 122: Accounting II BE 123: Commerce II EC 124: Economics II
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53.0 MODULE LISTING PU 011/21 ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILLS
This Module is intended to improve the students’ language skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking. PU 012/22 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SKILLS
This Module covers a gentle and comprehensive introduction to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in general, to computers in particular by giving an overview of computer operation systems, hardware, software, and internet. PU 013/23 GENERAL STUDIES
This Module covers the changing global scenarios that affect people of the developing countries, to examine the dynamics of socio economic interaction and integration between North and South, to appreciate the prevailing adverse conditions, especially on poverty and other social economic problems in developing countries. PU 014/24 ENGLISH LANGUAGE
This Module covers fundamentals of grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary and composition. BE 111/21 ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS
This module covers core branches of mathematics (including financial mathematics, linear algebra, linear programming and algebra), and allows them to choose additional branches of mathematics and the sciences appropriate to their interests and goals. BE 112/22 ACCOUNTING
This Module covers basics of accounting, in terms of systematic recording, classifying, summarising and interpreting financial information to meet the needs of various users who will be making decision based on these records. BE 113/23 COMMERCE
This module covers importance of commerce and its branches, production, types of business ownerships, home and internataional trade, means of payment, insurance, banking. EC 114/24 ECONOMICS
This Module covers fundamental knowledge of the principles governing the behavior of economic agents and their application in the analysis of economic issues and solving problems, an elementary analysis of the role of market and government in solving basic economic problems.
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LW 111/21 GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LAW
This Module covers the concept of law, issues of law and morality, classification of law, structure of Courts in Tanzania, basic concepts of Constitutional Law such as Human Rights, Rule of Law, Separation of Power, Democracy, fundamental rights and freedom. LW 112/22 ISLAMIC STUDIES
This Module covers fundamental articles of Islam and the sources of these articles, to present a better understanding of Islam to Muslim and non Muslim students so as to galvanize them to the message and concept of one God and unity of mankind, to transform our students into better citizens, bring them into vivid contact with Quranic model of society and the teaching of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). LW 113/23 ARABIC LANGUAGE
This Module covers introduction to Arabic Alphabets and essential grammatical Rules, Arabic consonants with/without equivalents in the English alphabets. The connected and unconnected consonants, the usage of special letters “W”, “Y”, and “Alif”. The definite Article “Al” and its two forms called “ Laam Shamsiya and Laam qamariya”.(Laam should be pronounced and should not), Arabic Numbers from zero to one hundred (0 to 100), Different kind of Pronouns- including 1st Person, 2nd Person and 3rd Person singular and plural respectively, Different kind of Verbs including – Present Tense, Past Tense and Command, the Arabic Adjective including –feminine and masculine. PA 111/21 ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS
This Module is designed to improve students’ calculation skills, to improve students’ skills to perform operations involving algebraic terms, to enable students represent data statistically and draw conclusions from numerical statistical information, to guide students to be able to apply the knowledge of linear programming in solving problems. PA 113/23 INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
This module covers meaning, nature and scope of public administration in the modern society, examine the role of Public Administration in the modern society in general and its importance in developing societies in particular.
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54.0 DIPLOMA PROGRAMMES
54.1 Duration of the Study
Diploma programmes shall last for three (3) semesters and this is equivalent to forty five (45) teaching weeks.
54.2 Modality of the Study
A candidate shall choose either to attend:
54.2.1 Evening sessions: starting from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm, Monday to Friday; OR
54.2.2 Week end session covering Saturday and Sunday from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm each day.
55.0 DIPLOMA IN ISLAMIC BANKING AND FINANCE (DIB)
55.1 General Programme Objectives
The programme aims at enabling students to compare and contrast the conventional and Islamic System of Banking. It is built on the premise of creating an interest free society.
55.2 Specific Programme Objectives
At the end of this programme the students are expected to be able to:
55.2.1 Apply the knowledge and skills of conventional banking system as well as that of Islamic approach to banking and finance.
55.2.2 Work for institutions that do not interest as well as being in a position to implement this very important aspect of the Islamic economics discipline.
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Table 23: Programme Structure for Diploma in Islamic Banking and
Finance
YEAR I YEAR 2
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 1
1
DIB 111
English Language
DIB 121
Business Mathematics
DIB 211 Islamic
Capital Markets
2
DIB 112 Computer
Application skills
DIB 122 Business
Communication Skills
DIB 212
Investment Banking and Financial Engineering
3
DIB 113
Foundation of Islamic Economics
DIB 123 Islamic
Banking Operations
DIB 213
Risk Management in Islamic Banking System
4
DIB 114
Principles of Economics
DIB 124
Islamic Insurance (Takaful)
DIB 214
Regulations, Supervision and
Cooperate Governance
5
DIB 115
Principles of Accounting
DIB 125
Islamic Law of Finance and Banking
DIB 215 Internship
6
DIB 116
Conventional Banking Operations
DIB 126
Arabic Language
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56.0 COURSE LISTING DIB 111 ENGLISH LANGUAGES The course content comprises grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary, composition and personal and business letter writing skills. DIB 112 COMPUTER APPLICATION SKILLS The course content comprises information technology and communication, computer software, computer and society, word processing and excel and laboratory practical session. DIB 113 FOUNDATION OF ISLAMIC ECONOMICS The course content includes meaning and scope of Islamic economics, nature of economic laws, Islam and other economics systems, consumption and production in Islam, factors of production, distribution of income and wealth in Islam, trade and commerce in Islam, prices in Islamic state, some aspects of public finance in Islam, fiscal policy and budgeting in Islam, planning and development in Islam. DIB 114 PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS The course content comprises introduction to economic concepts and systems, micro-economic theory of demand and supply (price theory), elasticity of demand and supply; cost of firm, market structure and banking sector; national income, inflation, unemployment; financial structure, money and interest rates; international trade and balance of payments, foreign exchange; government, the economy and banks DIB 115 PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING The course content includes introduction to accounting, accounting records, balancing ledger accounts and the extraction of trial balance; year-end adjustments, financial statements; assets valuation; accounting for cash and bank transactions; manufacturing accounts; partnership accounting, company accounts, companies published accounts; specific accounting requirements of banking institutions, introduction to costing and decision – making; performance assessments. DIB 116 CONVENTIONAL BANKING OPERATIONS The course content comprises introduction to banking operations, banking activities and current issues in banking operations, banking activities and current issues in banking; types of banking: international banking, central banking and bank regulation; banks regulation and supervision; banks’ balance sheet and income structure; banking risk and banking risk management. DIB 121 BUSINESS MATHEMATICS The course content comprises algebra, sets, statistics, co-ordinate geometry, function, linear programming, matrices and financial mathematics.
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DIB 122 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION SKILLS The course content includes process, types and principles of communication; effective communication and barriers to effective communication; non-verbal communication techniques, communication/language skills; writing as a process; pre-writing and post-writing; writing summary and note taking techniques; report writing, reading skills/strategies, speaking skills (business presentation), listening skills; grammar skills including but not limited to types of sentences, active and passive forms, tenses, direct and indirect forms; vocabulary and punctuations. DIB 123 ISLAMIC BANKING OPERATIONS The course content includes introduction, Islamic financial system, principles of Islamic banking, Islamic intermediation, Islamic banking products: Mudharabah, Musharakah, Murabaha, and so on; Islamic deposits sources of funds. DIB 124 ISLAMIC INSURANCE (TAKAFUL) The course content comprises concept, objective, basis and principles of Takaful; basic element of Takaful, Takaful business models and operational issues; family Takaful and areas of application; general Takaful and areas of application; Re-Takaful of Re-insurance; legal and regulatory framework of Takaful institutions. DIB 125 ISLAMIC LAW OF FINANCE AND BANKING The course content comprises history and development; theory and concepts of Islamic Banking; Prohibition of Riba in Islam; Shariah principles, deposit accounts, financial facilities, legal frame work and regulation; Islamic financial markets; integration into the international banking and financial system; selected judgements on Islamic banking. DIB 126 ARABIC LANGUAGE The course content includes introduction to Arabic Alphabets and essential grammatical rules, Arabic consonants with/without equivalents in the English Alphabets; connected and unconnected consonants; the use of special letters “W”, “Y” and “Alif”; the definite article “Al” and its two forms called “Laam Shamsiya and Laam Qamariiya” (Laam should be pronounced and should not); Arabic numbers from Zero to one hundred (0 to 100). DIB 211 ISLAMIC CAPITAL MARKETS The course content includes Islamic Investments; Sukuk: structuring, operation and performance of Sukuk, advantages of Sukuk insurance and investment, worldwide Sukuk structures, issues and challenges in Shariah compliant securitization, creating opportunities in emerging markets, issuance of Sukuk, factor to be considered and case studies; Islamic funds and Islamic credit cards; performance of Islamic funds and investments. DIB 212 INVESTMENT BANKING AND FINANCIAL ENGINEERIN G The course content includes investment banking and investment banking products, conventional investment banking; Islamic appraisal of conventional investment banking, Islamic alternatives, venture financing, creation of securities; stock broking, financial engineering; forwards and futures, swaps and options; Islamic alternatives to forwards and futures, swaps and options.
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DIB 213 RISK MANAGEMENT IN ISLAMIC BANKING SYSTEM The course content comprises introduction, risks in Islamic banks, comparison and contrast of risks in Islamic banks and risks in conventional banks, risks addressed by Basel II and IFSB; risk mitigation: kinds and effect on calculation of capital adequacy; the three pillars of Basel II Accord; monetary authority supervision. Does it make a difference between Islamic banks and conventional banks? Market disclosure in Islamic banks: a serious administrative-cum-political problem? Managing risks in Islamic banks, sensitivity of Islamic banking operations to Basel II proposals; capital adequacy; methodologies of credit risk calculation. DIB 214 REGULATIONS, SUPERVISION AND COOPERATE GOVERNANCE The course content comprises Shariah Board, compliance and related supervisory issues; accounting and taxation issues in Islamic banking, Islamic banks’ financial statements; practical steps for establishing an Islamic bank; conversion of interest – based banking to Islamic interest-free banking. DIB 215 INTERNSHIP ***
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57.0 DIPLOMA IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE (DCJ)
57.1 General Programme Objectives
The programme aims at enabling students to appreciate the issues and challenges that relate to the building of a stable and crime free society.
57.2 Specific Programme Objectives
At the end of this programme the students are expected to be able to:
57.2.1 To graph the legal and administrative procedure pertaining to the conduct of criminal justice
57.2.2 Deal with criminal issues that are brought at the middle level of the justice administrations.
Table 24: Programme Structure for Diploma in Criminal Justice
YEAR I YEAR 2
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 1
1
DCJ 111 English Language
DCJ 121 Police in Criminal Justice System
DCJ 211 Islamic
Criminal law
2
DCJ 112 Computer
Application skills
DCJ 122 Criminal Investigation and Law Enforcement II
DCJ 212 Evidence
3
DCJ 113 Criminal Law
DCJ 123 Business Communication
Skills
DCJ 213 Law of Torts
4
DCJ 114 Legal System and Legal Methods
DCJ 124 Constitutional Law and Administrative Law
DCJ 214 Law of Contract
5
DCJ 115 Criminal Procedure and Civil Procedure
DCJ 125 Criminology and Penology
DCJ 215 Arabic Language
6
DCJ 116 Criminal Investigation and Law Enforcement I
DCJ 126 Office practice and
Management
DCJ 216 Internship
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58.0 COURSE LISTING DCJ 111 ENGLISH LANGUAGE The course content comprises grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary, composition and business letter writing skills. DCJ 112 COMPUTER APPLICATION SKILLS The course content comprises information technology and communication, computer software, computer and society, word processing and excel, and laboratory practical session. DCJ 113 CRIMINAL LAW The course content includes mens rea, actual reams, offences, defenses and punishment (Theories). DCJ 114 LEGAL SYSTEM AND LEGAL METHODS The course content comprises nature of law, sources of law, courts and jurisdiction, statutory interpretation and doctrine of precedent and stare decis. DCJ 115 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CIVIL PROCEDURE The course content comprises criminal proceeding in subordinate court, criminal proceeding in High Court and Court of Appeal, search and seizure, drafting of charges, sentences, appeal, civil proceeding, and parties to civil suit, execution, and appeal. DCJ 116 CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT I The course content comprises historical background, the crime scene, type of evidence, and their usefulness, interviewing techniques, principles of interrogation, and jurisdiction issue. DCJ 121 POLICE IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM The course content comprises history of police, police strategy, police and the law: confession and arrest, shoot to kill, police brutality and remedy, patrols, community policing and search, and professional socials and legal issues in policing. DCJ 122 CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT II The course content comprises what is an investigation and who conducts investigation, characteristics of a good investigator, initiating investigations, source of information and confidential informants, locating and interviewing witness, surveillance and intelligence, collecting and presenting evidence and the laboratory. DCJ 123 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION SKILLS The course content comprises the process, types and principles of communication, effective communication and barriers to effective communication, non – verbal communication techniques, communication/language skills (general), writing as a process: pre-writing and post-writing, writing summary and notes taking techniques, report writing, reading skills/strategy, speaking skills (Business Presentation), listening skills, grammar skills including but not limited to types of sentence, active and passive forms, tenses, direct and indirect forms, vocabulary/types of words and punctuations.
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DCJ 124 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW The course content includes source and types of constitution; basic principles: democracy, rule of law, separation of power, independence of judiciary, supremacy of the constitution; fundamental rights and freedoms, civil service, election and electoral system, rule of natural justice, remedies, in judicial, and enforcing fundamental. DCJ 125 CRIMINOLOGY AND PENOLOGY The course content comprises theory of criminology, punishment, sentencing, probation and parole, juvenile justice, and death penalty. DCJ 126 OFFICE PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT The course content comprises nature of an office, office organization, office environment, office communication system, office personnel, office procedures, office records system. DCJ 211 ISLAMIC CRIMINAL LAW DCJ 212 EVIDENCE The course content comprises admissibility and relevance, burden of proof, hearsay evidence, documentary evidence, confessions and admissions, competence and compellability, and examination and question of witness. DCJ 213 LAW OF TORTS The course content comprises general and specific principles of tortuous liability, distinction between criminal and civil wrongs, concepts of liability in Torts including remoteness of damage, specific torts; torts against the person, assault, battery, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, and trespass to goods; detain, conversion; trespass to land. DCJ 214 LAW OF CONTRACT The course content comprises introduction: nature of the contractual relation and its social function, essential elements of an enforceable contract and its formation, void and voidable contracts, capacity of parties, form of consideration, vitiating elements: mistakes, misrepresentation, duress and undue influence. DCJ 215 ARABIC LANGUAGE The course content includes introduction to Arabic alphabets and essential grammatical rules, Arabic consonants with/without equivalents in the English alphabets, the connected and unconnected consonants, the usage of special letters “W”, “Y” and “Alif”, the definite article “Al” and its two forms called “Laam Shamsiya and Laam Qamariya”. (Laam should be pronounced and should not), Arabic numbers from zero to hundred (0-100), different kinds of pronouns, singular and plural respectively, different kinds of verbs, the Arabic adjective including – feminine and masculine, different famous greeting stile in dialogue format at variety places and reciting and writing the prominent Surat in the Holly Qur-an (Suratul Alfatiha) etc.
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59.0 CERTIFICATE PROGRAMMES
59.1 Duration of the Study
Certificate programmes shall last for two (2) semesters and this is equivalent to thirty (30) teaching weeks.
59.2 Modality of the Study
A candidate shall choose either to attend:
59.2.1 Evening sessions: starting from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm, Monday to Friday; OR
59.2.2 Week end session covering Saturday and Sunday from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm each
60.0 CERTIFICATE IN LAW AND SHARIAH (CLS)
60.1 Duration of the Study
This is a one-year, two semester programme, for introducing students to fundamentals of legal knowledge and skills. It is a full time programme.
60.2 General Programme Objectives
The programme is designed to train people who will be working as primary court technicians or clerical personnel with legal background in judicial knowledge in the judicial system in Tanzania
60.3 Specific Programme Objectives
At the end of the programme, the graduates should be able to:
60.3.1 Carry out clerical functions in the judiciary starting from Primary Courts to District and Regional Magistrate Courts, and
60.3.2 Use the aquired skills and knowledge to efficiently and effectively execute duties and responsibilities at places of work.
60.3.3 Understand, cope and manage the challenges that arise in the legal context of common and Shariah Law.
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Table 25: Programme Structure for the Certificate of Law and Shariah SEMESTER I SEMESTER II
1
CLS 111
Legal System
CLS 121 Islamic Law
2
CLS 112
Criminal Law
CLS 122 Business Law
3
CLS 113
Civil Procedure
CLS123 ICT Law
4
CLS 114
Introduction to Islam
CLS 124
Criminal Procedure
61.0 COURSE LISTING CLS 111 LEGAL SYSTEM The course content includes the court systems in Tanzania and Zanzibar; historical background; people’s court system; Kadhi’s Court System; High Court and subordinate court system; Judicial Service Commission; statutes, custom, Islamic Law, Common Law and Equity. CLS 112 CRIMINAL LAW The course content includes general principles of criminal responsibility; presumptions; offences against a person, property and state; defenses; punishments. CLS 113 CIVIL PROCEDURE The course content includes institution of the suits; affidavits; summons and services; discovery and inspections; the trial; judgments; orders and decrees; execution; appeals, review and procedures. CLS 114 INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM The course content includes courts of criminal jurisdiction; criminal procedure; search and seizure; prosecution; draft of charges; summons; pleading; trial procedure; judgemnet.
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CLS 121 ISLAMIC LAW The course content includes sources of Islamic Law; essential of a legal contract; marriage contract, dissolution and divorce; inheritance; concept of crime and punishment; types of offences. CLS 122 BUSINESS LAW The course content includes essential of contract; vitiating elements; discharging of a contract; formation of a company; memorandum and articles of association; dissolution of a company; formation of a partnership; dissolution of partnership. CLS 123 ICT LAW The course content includes main parts of personal computer; desktop environment; directories/folders; creating and saving documents; application and system software; legal issues concerning ICT. CLS 124 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE The course content includes courts of criminal jurisdiction; criminal procedure; search and seizure; prosecution; draft of charges; summons; pleading; trial procedure; judgemnet.
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62.0 CERTIFICATE IN MANAGEMENT (CIM)
62.1 Duration of the Study
This is a one-year, two semester programme. It is a full time programme.
62.2 General Programme Objectives
The programme is designed to train junior managers who have the potentials for assuming later on middle and top managerial positions in public sector and the private sector.
62.3 Specific Programme Objectives
At the end of the programme, the graduates should be able to apply:
62.3.1 The elementary knowledge and basic skills of management functions.
62.3.2 Effectively the basic concepts, and principles of management in solving managerial problems in public and private organizations in Tanzania.
Table 26: Programme Structure for the Certificate in Management
SEMESTER I SEMESTER II
1
CIM 111
Principles of Management
CIM 121 Office and Records Management
2
CIM 112
Organizational Behavior
CIM 122 Labour Relations and Law
3
CIM 113
Managerial Skills and Practices
CIM 123 Personnel Management
4
CIM 114
Principles of Islamic Management
CIM 124 Ethics and Morals
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63.0 COURSE LISTING CIM 111 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT The course content includes introduction to management through and theories, basic managerial functions and roles (POSDCORB), organizations and organizational structures, organizational dynamics. CIM 112 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR The course content includes meaning and scope of organizational behaviour, conceptual models, managerial assumptions about Human nature, levels of organizational behavior. CIM 113 MANAGERIAL SKILLS AND PRACTICES The course content includes motivation, leadership, authority and power, staffing and communication. CIM 114 PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC MANAGEMENT*** CIM 121 OFFICE AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT The course content includes introduction to office management; office working conditions and environment; office organization; office systems; records management; management of meetings; managing office Human resources; general office services. CIM 122 LABOUR RELATIONS AND LAWS The course content includes actor in labour relations; trade unionism; collective bargaining; conflict resolution and workers participation. CIM 123 PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT The course content includes meaning and scope of personnel management; personnel policies; performance appraisal; compensation and employee services CIM124 ETHICS AND MORALS ***
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64.0 CERTIFICATE IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (CHR)
64.1 Duration of the Study
This is a one-year, two semester programme, for introducing students to the fundamentals of Human Resource Management. It is a full time programme.
64.2 General Programme Objectives
The programme is designed to train junior officers in the field of Human Resource Management in the public and private sectors.
64.3 Specific Programme Objectives
At the end of the programme, the graduates should be able to:
64.3.1 Apply the basic concepts, principles and techniques of managing people in private and public organizations in Tanzania;
64.3.2 Develop and analyze human resources management problems and come up with viable solutions.
Table 27: Programme Structure for the Certificate in Human Resource Management
SEMESTER I SEMESTER II
1
CHR 111 Principles of Management
CHR 121 Labour Relations
2
CHR 112 Organizational Behaviour
CHR 122 Labour Law (Legisation)
3
CHR 113 Human Resource Functions and Practice
CHR 123 Ethics and Morals
4
CIM 114
Principles of Islamic Management
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65.0 COURSE LISTING CHR 111 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT The course content includes historical development of management, nature and scope of organization, theories of motivation, communication in organization, decision making, leadership, supervision skills. CHR 112 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR The course content includes meaning and scope of organization behavior, conceptual models, managerial assumptions about human nature, level of organizational behavior. CHR 113 HUMAN RESOURCE FUNCTIONS AND PRACTICES The course content includes origin of human resources, human resources planning, recruitment, training and development, health and safety, employee disciplining, terminating employment contract. CHR 114 PRINCIPLES OF ISLAMIC MANAGEMENT *** CHR 121 LABOUR RELATIONS The course content includes actors in labor relations, trade unionism, collective bargaining, and conflict resolution and workers participation. CHR 122 LABOUR LAWS (LEGISLATION) The course content includes the Tanzania Labor Institutions Act, 2004, The Tanzania Employment and Labor Relations Act, 2004, The Tanzania Social Security legislations, NPF, PPF, etc; the Tanzania Trade Union Act of 1998, The Zanzibar Employment Act No. 11 of 2005, The Zanzibar Social Security Fund Act. CHR 123 ETHICS AND MORALS ***
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66.0 CERTIFICATE IN JOURNALISM (CIJ)
66.1 Duration of the Study
This is a one-year, two semester programme. It is a full time programme.
66.2 General Programme Objectives
The programme is designed to train journalists at the lower management levels in the media industry in the public sector as well as in the private sector
66.3 Specific Programme Objectives
At the end of the programme, the graduates should be able to;
66.3.1 Practice the basic elements of journalism,
66.3.2 Master the basic techniques of writing and reporting investigative journalism;
66.3.3 Comprehend contemporary issues within the society as well as global issues needed for news analysis.
Table 28: Programme Structure for the Certificate in Journalism
SEMESTER I SEMESTER II
1
CIJ 111
Introduction to Journalism
CIJ 121 Presentation and Organizing Facts
2
CIJ 112
News and News Story
CIJ 122 Rules and Codes of Conduct in Journalism
3
CIJ 113
Writing of News Story
CIJ 123 Communication Skills
4
CIJ 114
English Language
CIJ 124 Ethics and Morals
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67.0 COURSE LISTING CIJ 111 INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATIO N The course content includes process of acquisition of knowledge, communication models, theory of the press, subject matters in journalism, media and youth. CIJ 112 NEWS AND NEWS STORY The course content includes news sources, components of news story, news gathering techniques, media drugs, media and HIV/AIDS. CIJ 113 WRITING OF NEWS STORY The course content includes writing the story, story shape and structure, media and democracy, media and environment. CIJ 114 ENGLISH LANGUAGE *** CIJ 121 PRESENTATION AND ORGANIZING FACTS The course content includes styles of presentation, organizing facts, media and poverty alleviation. CIJ 122 RULES AND CODES OF CONDUCT IN JOURNALISM The course content includes rules, ethics and codes of conduct, journalism/media associations and bodies, media and religions CIJ 123 COMMUNICATION SKILLS *** CIJ 124 ETHICS AND MORALS ***
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68.0 CERTIFICATE IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (CCA)
68.1 Duration of the Study
This is a one-year, two semester programme. It is a full time programme.
68.2 General Programme Objectives
The programme is designed to train officers working at the lower management levels in public and private organizations.
68.3 Specific Programme Objectives
At the end of the programme, the graduates should be able to:
68.3.1 Understand the usage of different functions of the computer;
68.3.2 Apply the basic computer skills in facilitating work progress;
68.3.3 Use computers in solving problems and minimize the time spent in individual operations.
Table 29: Programme Structure for the Certificate in Computer Applications
SEMESTER I SEMESTER II
1
CCA 111
Computer Skills
CCA 121 Ms Access
2
CCA 112
Ms Windows
CCA 122 Ms Power Point
3
CCA 113 Ms Word
CCA 123 Internet/E-mail
4
CCA 114 Ms Excel
CCA 124 Ethics and Morals
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69.0 COURSE LISTING CCA 111 COMPUTER SKILLS The course content includes physical makeup of a personal computer, data storage, memory and viruses, web browser application, email software, legal issues concerning, ICT, current trend in ICT. CCA 112 MS WINDOWS The course content includes GUI environment, installation of software, desktop environment, directories/folders, copy, move and delete, print management. CCA 113 MS WORD The course content includes operating word processor, basic principles and terminology of word processing, create, format and finish word processing. CCA 114 MS EXCEL The course content includes first steps with spreadsheets, adjust basics, document exchange, basic operations, insert data, copy, move and delete how to use function. CCA 121 MS ACCESS The course content includes fundamental of data base, flat files, RDMS, creating tables, forms, reports and relationships. CCA 122 MS POWER POINT The course content includes create, format and prepare presentation, graphics, charts and various slide show effects, internet/email. CCA 123 INTERNET/E-MAIL The course content includes overview of computer network, components of computer network, connecting to the internet, differences between internet, intranet and extranet, searching information in the internet, e-mail protocols, difference between internet and e-mail, using E-mail applications to send mails e.g. hotmail, yahoo etc. CCA 124 ETHICS AND MORALS ***
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70.0 CERTIFICATE IN TOURISM (CIT)
70.1 Duration of the Study This is a one-year, two semester programme, for introducing the students to the
elementary knowledge and basic skills in tourism business. It is a full time programme.
70.2 General Programme Objectives
The programme is designed to train officers working at lower management levels in organizations in the tourism industry in Tanzania.
70.3 Specific Programme Objectives
At the end of the programme, the graduates should be able to:
70.3.1 Apply the basic concepts and principles in practice in the tourism administration both in Zanzibar and Tanzania Mainland;
70.3.2 Develop analytical minds in the process of providing better tourism services.
Table 30: Programme Structure for the Certificate in Tourism
SEMESTER I SEMESTER II
1
CIT 111
Introduction to Tourism
CIT 121 Management of Tourism Organizations
2
CIT 112
Communication Skills in Tourism
CIT 122 Environment & Ecology
3
CIT 113
Zanzibar History & Stone Town
CIT 123 Tourism Trend World Wide
CIT 114
English Language
CIT 124 Disaster Management
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71.0 COURSE LISTING CIT 111 INTRODUCTION TO TOURISM The course content includes definition and preconditions, moral obligations, global tourism code of ethics, examples from others,legislations and regulations. CIT 112 COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN TOURISM The course content includes definition and principles, characteristics and techniques, tour guide rules as spokesperson, formal presentation. CIT 113 ZANZIBAR HISTORY AND STONE TOWN The course content includes outline of history of Zanzibar and East African coast, historical monuments and conservation of sites, Stone Town (WHS) and its cultural influences. CIT 114 ENGLISH LANGUAGE *** CIT 121 ZANZIBAR TOURISM ORGANIZATIONS The course content includes ministry responsible for Tourism; Zanzibar Commission for Tourism (ZCT); Zanzibar Tourist Corporation (ZTC); Zanzibar Hotel and Tourism Institute (ZHTI); Zanzibar Association of Tourism Investors (ZATI); role and representation for each Tourism policy and master plan. CIT 122 ZANZIBAR ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY The course content includes oceans, forest, and environment. CIT 123 TOURISM TREND WORLD WIDE The course content includes mains sectors of tourism, supply and demand, statistics, terminology, market mix, and globalization. CIT 124 DISASTER MANAGEMENT ***
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72.0 LIBRARY SERVICES
72.1 Library Mission
The Zanzibar University Library was established with the aim of assisting the University in achieving its mission in the area of teaching, research and consultancy services. It provides students and academic staff members with services of books, journals and other reading materials.
72.2 Library Functions
The librarians do the function of technical service for book selection and acquisition of new library materials. They perform reader services by conducting book circulation, cataloging and arranging books and other reading materials in shelves and stacks according to the fields of studies.
72.3 Library Resources
Currently, there is a big number of text books and other relevant materials for the courses offered in the three existing academic Faculties. The books that are available in the ZU Library are in the fields of Statutory Law, Shariah (Islamic) Law, Public Administration, Economics, Management, Accounting, Finance, ICT and Marketing. Most of these materials are kept on open shelves while others are held under closed access (in special reserve library) and can only be used for reference taking within the library. The Library has a sitting capacity of 200 readers at any given time.
72.4 Admission to the Library Services
All the ZU students are provided with University Identity Cards which allow them to get access to the library books. Students are entitled to borrow up to three copies in a two week period. Borrowing facilities are also available for academic and for administrative staff who have however a separate borrowing arrangement. 72.5 Opening and Closing Hours During Semester Working Hours
Mondays – Fridays 8:00 am – 12:30 pm 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
During Examinations Working Hours Mondays – Fridays 7:00 pm – 12:00 Midnight Saturdays 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
During Public Holidays Closed
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73.0 COMPUTER FACILITIES
73.1 The Zanzibar University (ZU) is committed to provide information technology facilities for both teaching and administration. There are two computer laboratories that are used for training. One laboratory has been designed for teaching and doing practicals for BBIT students only. The other laboratory is for general use of teaching and doing practical for the rest of ZU students. Lecturers and senior administrators have their own PCs in their offices while the University qualified technicians take care of the IT services.
73.2 To facilitate the use of ICT, the University has installed a local area network with at least four sites on the campus and have their computers already networked. ZU also provides internet services.
73.3 The United Nations Development Project (UNDP) has erected on the campus a tall tower equipped with antennas for communicating with other three academic institutions in the country, namely, The State University of Zanzibar (SUZA), Zanzibar Institute for Financial Administration and the College of Education of Zanzibar. All the institutions have similar ICT facilities including video conferencing facilities.
74.0 STUDENTS AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
74.1 Functions
The Students Affairs Department, headed by the Dean of Students, wardens, patrons and matrons, has been established with the aim of facilitating personal and social welfare aspects of the students, as well as extra curricula activities. Moreover it facilitates the attainment of students’ services in the area of students’ residence, food, health care and counseling. It also handles students’ disciplinary matters.
74.2 Objectives
The activities that are organized by the Department of Students Affairs primarily aim at achieving the following objectives:
74.2.1 Preparing and training the University youth in order to contribute to the betterment of their society and humanity at large;
74.2.2 Fostering moral behavior and spiritual aspect of the students and developing integral and balanced personalities;
74.2.3 Introducing and orienting students towards social participation and individual responsibilities, mutual respect and brotherly relation among students and with the University staff members;
74.2.4 Cultivating students’ talents and furthering their physical vigor and mental faculties.
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74.3 Student Services
74.3.1 Students Counseling Services
The Students Affairs Department conducts counseling services. It helps the students and guides them in solving their daily life problems (health, social, financial, academic and spiritual) which might otherwise hamper their academic progress, or prevent them from enjoying their lives generally.
74.3.2 Accommodation
There are four halls of residence, which accommodate male and female students separately. Those who are accommodated in the halls of residents have to pay an authorized fee before residing in their rooms. As the number of students on the campus expands and the number of rooms are limited, priority for dormitories accommodation are given to female students, students with disabilities, foreign students and those who are from outside Unguja (Zanzibar). Many students are also accommodated in private hostels in the neighbourhood.
74.3.3 Cafeteria Services
The University cafeteria, which is leased to an entrepreneur, is providing three course meals everyday to students and staff at reasonable prices. Special meal arrangements are made during the Holy Month of Ramadhan. Catering services are also being provided by several local restaurants just outside the campus.
74.3.4 Health Service
For developing and maintaining a healthy, active and productive manpower, the Zanzibar University Dispensary (Al Zahraa Dispensary) provides curative and preventive medicines to students, staff families (wife or husband, and for staff own children) free of charge, while people from the neighbouring villages pay for the medicines only. Services are offered through the outpatient, pharmacy and laboratory sections. The dispensary operates during official hours from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm from Monday to Friday. However, plans are in the pipeline to extend the medical services in the week ends and during the night time. Emergency cases at the dispensary are referred to the Mnazi mmoja Referal Hospital in Zanzibar Town, or to private hospitals.
74.3.5 Other Services
i) Orientation Week
a) The first year students (new comers) are given a period of acclimatization which is referred to as the “Orientation Week”. The new intake of students must report to the University one week before the continuing students arrive.
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b) During this week they are introduced to the senior University officers and instructors. Usually the University Administration organizes a welcoming function for the new students who are then addressed by the higher administrative and academic officials such as the Vice Chancellor, the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic), the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration), the Dean of Students, Deans of Faculties, the Chief Librarian, the Medical Doctor and Students Wardens.
c) Arrangements are made to enable the fresh students to acquaint themselves by touring in the University campus as well as some historical places and places of natural heritage on the island.
ii) Mall Services
There is a small private shop on the campus to cater for immediate needs and necessities of students and a plan is under way to establish a sizable one so as to cater for all sorts of needs to the University community at large.
iii) Extra Curricula Activities
a) All the students’ activities are planed and conducted jointly by the Students Affairs Department, and the Zanzibar University Students Organization (ZANUSO).
b) The Department provides welfare and sports services and organizes cultural, artistic and social activities. The students’ activities are co-coordinated through Students Committees which are chaired by experienced academic staff members. There are three Students Committees under which all students activities are conducted. These include Educational and Cultural Committee, Social Committee and Sports Committee.
74.4 Sports Facilities
74.4.1 The University has very good facilities on the campus and that includes football ground, volleyball ground, and a multi-purpose hall in which there are basketball, netball, volleyball and table tennis courts. There is a fitness center with some equipment, and efforts are underway to acquire more gym accessories.
74.4.2 The University has participated in various local and regional sports tournaments including the East African Inter-University Games (EAUG). The University is a member of Tanzania Universities Sports Association (TUSA) and East African University Sports Federation (EAUSF). The Zanzibar University students, through their sports committee, participate in sports and game competitions organized by various sports bodies locally, nationally and internationally.
74.4.3 The Department of Students Affairs, in consultation with the Students Organization (ZANUSO), organizes public lectures during the semester time. Speakers from outside the campus are invited to give talks on a variety of subjects. It organizes visits to various places of interest on the Island
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74.5 Students Organisation
74.5.1 The Zanzibar University Students Organization (ZANUSO) is concerned with the students’ academic, political, social and recreational activities. The University, through the Dean of the Students, encourages the students to form academic and professional associations. At present all these association are under the umbrella of ZANUSO.
74.5.2 These associations are:
i) Zanzibar University Law Society (ZULAS);
ii) Zanzibar University Accounting Association (ZUAFA);
iii) Zanzibar University Marketing Association (ZUMA);
iv) Zanzibar University English Speaker’s Society (ZUESS);
v) Zanzibar University Bachelor of Arts Students Association (ZUBASA);
vi) Zanzibar University Students HIV/AIDS Club (ZUSHAC);
vii) Zanzibar University Environmental Students Organization (ZUVESO).
74.5.3 However students’ activities are subjected to the following rules:
i) Total commitment in all aspects of students’ activities whether in planning, preparations or execution of the general education policy in the University in particular and in Zanzibar in general.
ii) Providing all University students – males and females – with opportunity to participate in accordance with the general regulations of the University and the Students Affairs Department.
75.0 RELIGION ACTIVITIES Mosque facilities, built by the University Board of Trustees, and other sponsors are providing religious services to the University community and people from the neighbourhood. The University community is predominantly Moslem. The Al-Zahra Mosque Committee (ALZAMC) organizes religious services and takes care of the mosque.
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76.0 ZANZIBAR UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC STAFF LIST
76.1 FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
1. Mr. Ahmad Majid Ali Lecturer Diploma (Dar) BEd (Science) (Hons.) (Dar), 1998 MBA (Dar), 2000
2. Mr. Mohammed Kh. Marshed Lecturer BSc (Engin.), (Turkey) 1993 MSc. (Financ) (Strathclyde), 1999
3. Mr. Suleiman Hamyar Lecturer Diploma (Mysore), 1989
BSc (Comp. Sc.) (Mysore), 2000 MSc. (Electronics) (Glamorgan), 2002
4. Dr. Miraji Issa Saleh Sen. Lecturer M.Sc (Econ.) (Prague), 1971 Ph.D (Prague), 1975
5. Mr. Ali Ayoub Omar Lecturer B.Sc. (Ed.) (Hons.) (Dar), 1979 M.A (York), 1982
6. Mr. Saleh Said Mwinyi Lecturer B.Com (Vidyapeeth),1999 MBA (Annamala), 2001 (On Ph.D Studies)
7. Mr. Omar Kassim Lecturer MSc. (Comp. Eng.) (Tashkent), 1993
8. Mr. Amiri K. Mwinyi Ast. Lecturer BSc. (Comp. Science.) (Uganda), 2000 MSc. (Eng.) (Hua Zhong), 2008
9. Ms. Zuhura Mohammed Ast. Lecturer BBA (Zanzibar), 2004 MSc. (Econ.) (Malaysia), 2008
76.2 FACULTY OF LAW AND SHARIAH
1. Mr. Faruq Kyalo Lecturer LL.B (Hons.) (Nairobi), 1997 Diploma in Law (Kenya), 1998 LL.M (Cape Town), 2003
2. Dr. Masoodi G. Saqlain Professor Post – Doctoral(Havard), 1995 Ph.D (Jammu),1990
3. Dr. Wilson Hassan Nandwa Lecturer LL.B (Khartoum), 1998 LL.M (Intl Univ. of Africa), 2002 Ph.D (Omdurman), 2004
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4. Dr. Ali Hemed Awadh Lecturer B.A (Isl.Law) (Khartoum), 1998 LL.M (Isl. Law) (Khartoum), 2001 Ph.D (Isl. Law) (Khartoum), 2007
5. Mr. Ali A. Uki Ast. Lecturer Diploma in Journalism (Dar),1994 LL.B (Zanzibar), 2004 LL.M (Tarino), 2008
6. Mr. Mohammed M. Haji Ast. Lecturer LL.B (Zanzibar), 2004 LL.M (Malaysia), 2007 (On Ph.D Studies)
7. Mr. Mwinyi Talib Ast. Lecturer LL.B (Zanzibar), 2004 LL.M (Malaysia), 2007 (On Ph.D Studies)
8. Mrs. Fatma R. Khalfan Lecturer LL.B (Hons.) (Zanzibar), 2003 LL.M (Warwick), 2006 LL.M (Tarino), 2009 76.3 FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
1. Mr. Mohammed A. Jiddawy Lecturer PD (Dodoma), 1984 M.A (Dev. Studies) (The Hague), 1989
2. Mr. Masoud S. Mohammed Lecturer B.A (Ed.) (Dar), 1977 M.A (Ed.) (Southampton), 1985
3. Mr. Mohammed S. Mohd Lecturer M.Sc. (Econ.) (Varna), 1986
4. Dr. Nsubuga Haroonah Sen.Lecturer PD (H/RM) (Yagyakarta) B.A (Ed.)(Hons), (Uganda), 2000 M.Sc. (Pub. Adm.) (Yagyakarta),1996 Ph.D (Pub.Adm.) (Yagyakarta), 1999 5. Mr. Mtoro Almasi Ali Lecturer AD. (Pub Admin), Mzumbe,1981
MSc (Fiscal Studies) Bath, UK 1993 PD (Tax Admin) DSE, Ger. 1995
6. Ms. Rukiya M. Issa Lecturer AD. (Ed.) (Dar), 1981 PD (Ed.) (London), 1985 M.A (Ed.) (Birmingham), 1995
7. Mr. Mussa S. Mussa Lecturer Adv. Dipl. (Econ. Pl.) (Mzumbe), 1988
M.Sc. (H/RM) (Manchester), 1991 PD. (H/RD) (Rotterdam), 1993
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8. Mr. Muhammed A. Dedes Lecturer AD (Mzumbe), 1980 PD. (Econ.) (Washington), 1980 MA (Dev. Econ.) (Vandabitt), 1984
9. Dr. Khatib Makame Omar Lecturer B.A (Linguistics) (Jeddah), 1986 PD. (Arabic) (Khartoum), M.A (Arabic) (Khartoum), 1992 Dipl. (Manag. & Adm.), UK, 1998
Ph.D (Curricula & Teaching Meth.)
10. Ms. Rukayya Wakif Mohd Ast. Lecturer B.B.A (Zanzibar), 2004 MoM (Malaysia), 2007
11. Mr. Masoud Rashid Mohd Ast. Lecturer B.A Econ. (Zanzibar) 2004 M.Sc. (Econ.) (Malaysia), 2008
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77.0 ZANZIBAR UNIVERSITY MEMBERS OF THE SENATE
1. Prof. Mustafa A. A. Roshash, Vice Chancellor, Zanzibar University Chairperson. 2. Dr. Miraji Issa Saleh
Ag. Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics), Zanzibar University
3. Ms. Hamida A. Mohammed Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration), Zanzibar University
4. Prof. Saleh Idriss Muhammed, Former Vice Chancellor, The State University of Zanzibar
5. Dr. Hamed R. H. Hikmany Ministry of Finance, Zanzibar
6. Mr. Ameir S. H. Njeketu Director, Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Vocational Training
Zanzibar 7. Mr. Ahmad Majid Ali Ag: Dean, Faculty of Business Administration
8. Mr. Faruq Kyalo, Dean, Faculty of Law and Shariah 9. Mr. Mohammed A. Jiddawy
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
10. Mr. Mavua Hassan Mussa Dean of Students
11. Dr. Nsubuga Haroonah Director, Institute of Continuing Education
12. Mr. Mtoro Almasi Ali Director, Postgraduate Studies and Research Institute
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13. Mr. Ali Ayoub Omar Admissions Officer
14. Mr. Mohammed Kh. Marshed
Ag. Head, Department of Accounting and Finance 15. Mr. Suleiman Hamyar
Ag. Head, Department of Information Technology 16. Mr. Masoud Salim Mohammed
Ag. Head, Department of Public of Administration 17. Mr. Mohammed Said
Ag. Head, Department of Economics
18. Ms. Fatma Rashid Khalfan Ag. Head, Department of Common Law 19. Mr. Haji Ali Haji
Chief Librarian
20. Mr. Ibrahim Ali Said President Zanzibar University Student Organization (ZANUSO)
21. Mr. Keis Hassan Ramadhan Secretary to the Senate
78.0 ZANZIBAR UNIVERSITY MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL
1. Prof. Saleh Idriss Muhammed - Chairman Former Vice Chancellor State University of Zanzibar Zanzibar 2. Prof. Mustafa A. A. Roshash - Vice Chairperson Vice Chancellor Zanzibar University
3. Dr. Miraji Issa Saleh Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) Zanzibar University 4. Ms. Hamida A. Mohammed Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) Zanzibar University
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5. Hon. Dr. Muhammed G. Bilal Retired Chief Minister Zanzibar 6. Mr. Nassor A. Mazrui Businessman Zanzibar 7. Ms. Mwanaidi Principal Secretary
The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training ZANZIBAR 8. Mr. Ali A. Omar Council Secretary Admissions Officer
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