Curriculum
PROGRAM PRIORITIES
Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
OneAfrica University supports the Africa Union’s capacity building goals of 2063 and aims to become a major capacity building incubator on the continent to drive the efforts to achieve these goals.
Curriculum, teaching, and learning are like the source of a river and its tributaries. The river flows from its source; the tributaries join the flow; the flow gets stronger and bigger to carry the waters to the sea; and same, teaching and learning flow from the curriculum to feed knowledge. With good curriculums and good teachers, we can deliver good education. We are putting important financial resources toward the curriculum and will work with renown experts in the world to design the best curriculum for OAU.
Learning takes place in the classrooms, but it is deepened in the research labs where innovations and inventions are born. The research infrastructure will be robust; present from the start and expanded through the years. Research labs will be one of the biggest assets of OneAfrica University.
OAU - MAJORS AND ACADEMIC YEARS
The undergraduate program will run on a 4-year cycle, the graduate program on 2-year cycle and the PHD program on a 4-year cycle.
The following areas would be initial specialty areas with new ones added depending on need:
- AI and Robotics
- Software Engineering
- Computational Biology
- Machine Learning and Data Analytic
- Cyber Security
- Information Systems
- Communication Networks
- Computer Science with High-Performance Graphics and Games Engineering
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Mathematics and Computer Science
- Communication Networks
- Computer Engineering
- Biomedical Engineering
- Electronics and Computer Engineering
- Mechatronics
- Fintech
The Seedling Programme
The Foundation will create and fund a Seedling Programme which is a magnet programme in public schools to support, enrich and empower High School and Middle School students’ learning in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Increase Women Education in STEM Fields
The OneAfrica University of Computer Science Technology and Engineering Foundation will create and fund a programme to promote and increase women education in STEM Fields. Increasing female education has been a problem in most of Africa.
In recent decades, many countries have made great strides to enrol more girls in school. But in higher education, Africa still has a steep cliff to climb. And when it comes to the STEM fields in tertiary education, the numbers do not favour girls.
OneAfrica University of Computer Science, Technology and Engineering Foundation will make an effort to counter this major problem.
The OneAfrica University of Computer Science Technology and Engineering Foundation is proud to have among the OneAfrica University founding partners, a trailblazer, and a pioneer in STEM, Dr. Elsie Effah Kaufmann, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Ghana. Dr. Kaufmann is one of a few women leading in the STEM field in Africa. She has been a leading voice for girls’ education and has been recognized nationally and internationally for her outstanding academic and service work. Dr. Kaufmann earned her PhD from the prestigious University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). Dr. Kaufmann is also Host of the National Science and Math Quiz of Ghana.
Dr. Kaufmann will use the power of her voice to support OneAfrica University of Computer Science, Technology and Engineering Foundation in the effort to help promote girls’ education in Computer Science, Technology, and Engineering in Africa.
Support & Recruit Physically Challenged Students Education in STEM fields
The OneAfrica University of Computer Science Technology and Engineering Foundation will create, fund, and promote a programme to support and recruit physically challenged students in STEM fields.