Fields of Study: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences draft

Overdose

Causes and observable symptoms of overdose

Substances

Define substances
Reasons for taking substances into the body

Culture

Meaning of Culture
Types of culture

Family

Explain the meaning of family
Identify types of family
Explain the types of family

Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and NEEDS

Explaining the meaning of MDGs and NEEDS.
Aims and Objectives of the MDGs (the seven-point agenda).
Highlighting of the MDGs and Africa’s development.
NEEDS and economic empowerment in Nigeria.

Armaments, Nuclear Science and World Peace.

Explain the origin and causes of the cold war.
Discuss the outbreak of World War II and the potency of the Atomic bomb.
Know the meaning of armaments, acquisition of arms and arms trade.
Explain the circumstances that led to the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT).
Discuss Nuclear Science and the proliferation of Arms.
Explain Nuclear Science, Armaments and world peace.

Peacekeeping and Socio-political Interest of the Developed Societies

Explain the meaning of peacekeeping.
state the aims and objectives of peacekeeping;
give examples of internal and regional peacekeeping initiatives;
understand peacekeeping and the socio-political interest of the developed societies;
explain Nigeria’s role in peacekeeping programmes.

Debt Relief and International Aids

Explain the meaning of debt relief and international aids;
examine the role of poverty in Africa’s indebtedness.
discuss corrupt leadership and Africa’s indebtedness.
need for Debt Relief and Aspects of International Aids.

History of Developed Societies

The renaissance in Europe,
The industrial revolution and the /age of Machine;
The French Revolution and the growth of nationalism/democracy.
The emergence Asian tigers and lessons of it.

Racism and the African

The meaning and origin of racism;
Racial discrimination in the U.S.A;
Racial discrimination in Europe and Asia;
Apartheid in South

Africans in Diaspora in World Issues

Explain the meaning of Africans in Diaspora;
Discuss Africa’s contact with the outside world;
Explain how the slave trade catapulted Africans to the New World.
State the impact of Africans in Diaspora on world issues.
Discuss the phenomenon of Brain drain.

The Commonwealth, OAU (AU), ECOWAS, UNO and OPEC

Explain how the Commonwealth, OAU (AU), ECOWAS and OPEC meet the foreign policy objectives of Nigeria.
Examine the aims and objectives of these organisations;
Discuss the failures and problems of these organisations.
Compare the OAU Charter with the Constitutive Act of the African Union