Academics at UCU
The Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (DVC AA) is the senior member of the University staff and acts for the Vice Chancellor in his absence.
The DVC AA has administrative oversight and responsibility for coordination of planning, policy, development, assessment and overall management of academic affairs at the faculties, campuses and departments of the University.
He is in charge of all the deans and directors at the University. The DVC AA has primary responsibility for all academic divisions and programs. He is also the secretary to the University Senate, the body that has oversight over all the University programmes.
The academic programmes are implemented through faculties or schools, each headed by a dean.
The faculties are:
- Bishop Tucker School of Divinity and Theology
- Business and Administration
- Education and Arts
- Law
- Science and Technology
- Social Sciences
- School of Research and Post Graduate Studies
Campuses:
- Uganda Christian University Mbale Campus (E Uganda - Mbale)
- Uganda Christian University Arua Campus (NW Uganda - Arua)
- Bishop Barham University College (SW Uganda- Kabale)
The University includes traditional day and evening academic programmes as well as several modular and recess programmes.
The University operates with three regular semesters per calendar year (September-December, January-April, and May-August) and schedules programmes for two of the three for effective use of facilities (averaging out to 6000 students at the main campus each semester). Modular programmes meet periodically according to their programme design.
Programmes offered at UCU
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Faculty / Department |
Programme |
Diploma |
Bachelor |
Post Grad |
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Faculty of Business and Administration |
Business Administration |
x |
x |
x |
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Project Planning and Management |
x |
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Economics and Management |
x |
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Procurement and Logistics Management |
x |
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Business Computing |
x |
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Entrepreneurship & Project Planning |
x |
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Organization Leadership & Management |
x |
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Faculty of Education and Arts |
Education |
x |
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Education (Art Double Main) |
x |
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Industrial Fine Art and Design |
x |
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Library and Information Science |
x |
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Education Administration & Planning |
x |
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Human Resource Management in Education |
x |
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Department of Mass Communication |
Mass Communication |
x |
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Department of Language & Literature |
Languages |
x |
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Literature |
x |
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Faculty of Social Science |
Counseling Psychology |
x |
x |
x |
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Public Administration and Management |
x |
x |
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Community Leadership |
x |
x |
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Department of Social Work |
Social Work and Social Administration |
x |
x |
x |
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Department of Development Studies |
Development Studies |
x |
x |
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Development Evaluation |
x |
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Faculty of Science and Technology |
Agricultural Science & Entrepreneur. |
x |
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Computational Science |
x |
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Environment and Disaster Management |
x |
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Environment Science |
x |
x |
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Department of Information Technology |
Information Technology |
x |
x |
x |
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Computer Science |
x |
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Department of |
Nursing Science |
x |
x |
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Public Health Leadership (Save The Mothers programme) |
x |
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Community Health/Public Health |
x |
x |
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Health Administration |
x |
x |
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Faculty of Law |
Laws |
x |
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Bishop Tucker School of Divinity and Theology |
Divinity |
x |
x |
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Theology and Development |
x |
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Ministry |
x |
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Theology |
x |
x |
x |
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Child Development & Children's Ministry |
x |
x |
