Minimum Entry Requirements

  1. Mean grade of C+ at KCSE or equivalent with at least C+ (plus) in:
    Alternative A: Biology/Agriculture, Geography/Home Science. Alternative B: Business Studies, Accounting, Commerce or any Art based subjects.
  2. OR mean grade of C (plain) at KCSE or equivalent with a Diploma of at least a Credit Pass in Community Development or Extension related work from a recognized Institution.
  3. OR mean grade of C- (Minus) at KCSE and progressed from certificate to Diploma of at least a Credit Pass in Community Development or Extension related work at any recognized/Accredited Institution.

Fees per academic year

East Africans: Ksh 110,000
Non-East Africans: Ksh 130,000
Statutory: Ksh 18,000

Unit Codes and Titles

First Year Units

LEVEL 100 Sem 1 Sem 2
University Common Units    
UCU 100: Communication Skills +  
UCU 104: Introduction to Entrepreneurship +  
UCU 103: Introduction to critical and creative Thinking   +
 Departmental Core Units    
HCR 100: Community Resources Management +  
HCR 101: Human Development +  
HCR 102: Trends in Community Development   +
2nd and 3rd Department Units 

 

Students take 3 units each from 2 other departments of choice at 100 level
Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics Units    
HFN 102: Introduction to Foods Nutrition and Dietetics +  
HFN 105: Nutrition in the Life Span   +
HFN 101: General Biology +  
Sociology Units    
ASC 100: Introduction to Sociology +  
ASC 101: Introduction to Anthropology +  
ASC 102: Social Statistics I   +
Gender and Development Studies Units    
AGD 100: Introduction to Gender and Development +  
AGD 101: Evolution of Gender & Development +  
AGD 102: Gender Culture and Development   +
Environmental Health Units    
PPH 101: Foundations and Principles of Population Health +  
HEH 100: Foundations of Environmental Health   +
HEH 109: Food Sanitation and Safety   +

Second Year Units

LEVEL 200 Sem 1 Sem 2
HCR 200: Community Development Planning +  
HCR 201: Youth and Development +  
HCR 202: Community Outreach and Extension Programs   +
HCR 203: Community Mobilization and Social Action.   +
(Students 4 units each from 2 previously chosen departments at level 200)

 
Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics Units    
HFN 213: Human Nutrition +  
HFN 208: Nutritional Anthropology +  
HFN 209: Nutritional Counselling   +
HFN 204: Nutrition Disorders   +
Sociology Units      
ASC 200: Social theory 1 +  
ASC 201: Social Change and development +  
ACU 202: Methods and Techniques of Social science Research   +
ASC 205: Rural Sociology   +
Gender and Development Studies Units    
AGD  200: Gender Issues in Governance & Development +  
AGD 201: Gender development Theories +  
AGD 202: Participatory Approaches in Gender & Development   +
AGD 203: Gender & Agriculture development   +
Environmental Health Units      
HEH 200: Introduction to Epidemiology    
HEH 215: Water quality and disease Control   +
PPH 208: Communicable diseases +  
PPH 219: Primary Health Care   +
2nd and 3rd Department Units

 

(Students 4 units each from 2 previously chosen department at level 200)

 

Third Year

LEVEL 300 Core unit Sem 1 Sem 2
HCU 301: Introduction to statistics (school Common unit) +  
HCU 300: Introduction to Research Methods (School Common Units) +  
HCR 302: National Development Policies +  
HCR 315: Professional Community Practice   +
HCR 306: Practicum   +
HCR 307: Leadership and Management in Community Practice +  
HCR 310: Children in Need of Special Protection +  
HCR 312: Community Advocacy and Network +  
HCR 309: Community Housing and development   +
Electives    
HCR 308: Household Resources Management   +
HCR 314: Survey of Community Welfare Programs   +
HCR 304: Integrated Rural Development   +
EDC 321: Resources Mobilization & Economic Empowerment   +
2nd and 3rd Department Units

 

Student to take 4 units from 1 of the previously chosen department at level 300
Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics Units    
HFN 331: Maternal & Child Nutrition +  
HFN 334: Therapeutic Nutrition I +  
HFN 335: Therapeutic Nutrition II   +
HFN 337: Nutrition Education +  
Sociology Units    
ASC 309: Social Stratification   +
ASC 310: Political Sociology   +
ASC 305: Criminology and deviant Behavior +  
ASC 307: Medical Sociology +  
Gender and Development Studies Units    
AGD 300: Gender Analysis Frame Work    
AGD 301: Gender and Violence +  
AGD 303: Gender and Environment Management    
AGD 309: Gender Economic planning & Policy   +
Environmental Health Units    
HEH 302: Hazardous Waste Management +  
HEH 304: Occupational Health and Safety +  
HEH 305: Human Population Studies and Health +  
HEH 309: Solid and Liquid Waste Management   +

 

Fourth Year

LEVEL 400 Sem 1 Sem 2
HCU 400: Project Design Monitoring & Evaluation   +
HCR 401: Community Nutrition and Food Security +  
HCR 402: Poverty, Wealth Creation and Development +  
HCR 404: Participatory Approaches in Community practice +  
HCR 405: Community Intervention Programmes   +
HCR 406: Community Capacity Building   +
HCR 407: Project in Community Resource Management   +
HCR 413: Management of Community-Based Organization +  
LEVEL 400 (Electives)    
HCR 409: Communities with Special Needs   +
HCR 410: Management of Children’s Service +  
HCR 411: Aging and Social Welfare Services +  
HCR 412: Resources Management for Urban Communities +  
2nd & 3rd Department units:

Take 4 units from 1 of Previously chosen department at level 400 

   
Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics Units    
HFC 430: Food Safety, Hygiene & Legislation +  
HFN 431: Food & Nutrition Policy & Planning +  
HFN 433: Nutrition in Emergencies +  
HFN 409: Principles of Food Processing, Preservation & Storage   +
Sociology Units    
ASC 400: Law and Society +  
ASC  401: Sociology of Developing countries +  
ASC 406: Social Dynamics   +
ASC 409: Sociology of Mass Communication   +
Gender and Development studies Units    
AGD 402: Gender Planning and Policy Formation & Implementation    
AGD 405: Gender human Rights and Development   +
AGD 410: Gender and Economic Empowerment    
AGD 407: Peace Building & Conflict Management from Gender Perspective    
Environmental Health units    
HEH 401: Environmental Health Law   +
HEH 405: Environmental Health Economics +  
HEH 408: Health Services Management   +
HEH 409: Biotechnology and Health   +

 

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