Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

HAUS 303 — Hausa Written Prosody

HAUS department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• At the end of the course, students should be able to
• demonstrate clear understanding of the science of rhyme in Hausa poetry
• explain and apply the acquired knowledge of prosody in examining written Hausa poetry

Course contents

The course aims at introducing students to the science of rhyme in written prosody. Commencing with a background survey of the metrical slots in Hausa poetry, the course further critically examines the poetic marriage and or the influence of prosodic and metric traditions of other languages over that of the Hausa.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study HAUS 303.

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