Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

HAUS 304 — Hausa Thought and Literature

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
• decipher, through the study of literature, the Hausa thought and worldview
• debunk the Eurocentric conception that African do not have worldview; and
• hold in high esteem their African pedigree

Course contents

The course focuses on thought and worldview as reflected in the oral and literary genres of Hausa literature such as tales, song, epithets, legends, proverbs, modern prose, films and drama as well as in the poem.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study HAUS 304.

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• HAUS 103 · Introductory Grammar
• HAUS 104 · Orthography of Hausa
• HAUS 105 · Survey of Hausa Poetry Core
• HAUS 106 · Introduction to Linguistics
• HAUS 203 · Hausa Phonology
• HAUS 204 · Morphology of Hausa
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• HAUS 208 · Paremiological Study of Hausa
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