ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
BASIC ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
There are three forms of entry requirements:
University Matriculation Examination (UME)
Candidates seeking admission into the Department through the University Matriculation Examination (UME) organized by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) must in addition to passing the entrance examination at the University specified level, possess the Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSSC) or General Certificate of Education (GCE) or their equivalent, with ordinary level, (O’level) credits in at least five subjects. The core subject includes English and Geography, and any other three subjects chosen from the following: Building, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Government, Economics, Agricultural Science and Fine Art, obtained in not more than two sittings.
Candidates who passed the necessary qualifying examination organized by the University Pre-Science Unit at the end of one academic session of the Pre-Science Programme could be admitted to first year, provided they possess the relevant credit requirements at ordinary level.
Direct Entry (DE)
Holders of at least two Advanced level (A’Level) passes in Geography and any one from Physics, Chemistry, Government, Economics, Agricultural Science and Biology, including the relevant credit requirements at Ordinary level are eligible for admission. If Mathematics is not one of the A’level passes, an O’level credit in it is acceptable. In addition, WMO Class II Meteorologist certificate entitles one for direct entry, provided Departmental requirements are met. Holders of National Certificate of Education (NCE) with at least credit/merit in Geography, including at least five O’level credits in the relevant subjects are acceptable for admission.
Holders of Ordinary National Diploma (OND) with minimum of upper credit in Geography, Meteorology, Environmental Studies or any related field relevant to Geography and Meteorology will be considered for direct entry admission provided they satisfy in addition, the basic O’level entry requirements of the University with credit level passes in five relevant subjects, as stated in 2.1(i), in not more than two sittings.
MINIMUM GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
To qualify for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Science in Geography and Meteorology a student:
- must have spent a minimum of 3 or 4 years on the programme depending on the mode of entry for Regular
- must have passed all the University compulsory courses’ examinations.
- must have passed all examination in Departmental and Faculty core courses and required electives.
- should not have spent more than two years in excess of the prescribed minimum periods for the award of the degree.
- should not have less than CGPA of 1.0 at the end of the Programme.
- must have successfully completed a semester of Industrial Work Experience (SIWES) in a recognized and approved organization; a report of which must be submitted, in a bound typewritten form at the end of the exercise.
- must have passed ENT 200 (Entrepreneurial Education and Venture Creation) a university wide course examination.
COURSE REQUIREMENT
In order to achieve the objective stated above, the programme needs to emphasize core areas. This will ensure the acquisition of desired competence on completion of the programme. The course requirements are of different categories, namely core or compulsory, elective or optional courses. A core course must be taken and passed by all students before they can be awarded a degree. Elective courses consist of a wide range of courses from which students must select a given number, which they must pass before they can be awarded a degree. Students of the department would be required to take and pass ten credit hours of General Studies in the first year, made up of six credits in the first semester and four in the second semester. The first year students would be required to take 24 credit hours of inter-faculty courses, 4 credit hours of intra-faculty courses and 10 credit hours of departmental courses. The total credit hours required for a first year student is a maximum of 48 credit hours.
In the second year of study the student is required to take 44 credit hours on the whole, with 22 credit hours for each semester. The 44 credit hours comprise, four credit hours of inter-faculty courses, four credit hours of intra-faculty courses, 36 credit hours of departmental courses, Direct Entry students are required to take one GSS course in each semester, to make up 48 credit hours.
In the third year of study, the students are required to take 28 credit hours on the whole, 22 credit hours in the first semester and 6 credit hours in the second semester. In the second semester of the third year the students are required to undertake six months Students Industrial Work Experience (SIWES) programme. The SIWES is allocated 6 credits hours. Students with carryover course of 12 credit hours or more are not qualified to participate in the SIWES. In the first semester, the students are required to take two credit hours of Inter-faculty courses, 16 credit hours of compulsory departmental courses and four credit hours of elective courses to make it a total of 22 credit hours.
In the fourth year of study, the students are required to take 42 credit hours on the whole. Students should take 20 credit hours in the first semester, which comprise 16 credit hours of compulsory departmental courses and four credit hours of electives. In the second semester of the fourth year, the students are required to take 22 credit hours, which comprise two credit hours of inter-faculty course, ten credit hours of compulsory departmental courses; four credit hours of electives and six credit hours are allocated to their original research project. The programme structure is summarized in Table 1.
Table 1: Regular Programme Structure
| Category of Courses | Credit hours | ||||||||
| 100 Level | 200 Level | 300 Level | 400 Level | Total | |||||
| 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | ||
| General Studies (GSS) | 6 | 4 | -* | -* | -* | SIWES | -* | -* | 10 |
| Inter-faculty courses | 12 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | 2 | 32 | |
| Intra-faculty courses | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | 8 | |
| Departmental courses | 4 | 6 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 100 | |
| Electives | – | – | – | – | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
| 24 | 24 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 6 | 20 | 22 | ||
| Total | 48 | 44 | 28 | 42 | 162 | ||||
* Direct entry students are required to take GSS courses
A student is required to take a total of 162 credit hours before graduation.
TRANSFER
Transfer from other Universities or Intra-University transfers would be treated on their individual merits and subject to the University guidelines on transfer cases.
DURATION OF PROGRAMME
The Bachelor of Science Programme in Geography and Meteorology shall last for a minimum period of 8 semesters, which is four academic sessions for UME entrants and three academic sessions for direct entry students. However, any student who fails to graduate within the minimum duration is granted an extension of two extra academic sessions. This extension period is not automatic, it is granted through a written permission from the University Senate. If a student fails to graduate within this stipulated period, such a student must leave the University without a degree.
EXCESS CREDIT HOURS
All students in the Department offering this programme, shall take a minimum of 20 credit hours and a maximum of 24 credit hours per semester. If a student has excess credit hours to take, it is only on special Senate dispensation that such a student is permitted to take extra credit hours.
SUB-DIVISION OF COURSES
Courses in the Department are taught through tutorials and practical, as well as through formal lectures. Practical are taught mainly outdoor at the synoptic weather station and during Field Course. Field Courses last for 3 or 5 days depending on the level of the Courses.
COURSE NUMBERING SYSTEM AND CORE AREAS
Course Numbering System
Each course in the programme is designated by three letters followed by three digit numbers. The course code for Geography and Meteorology is “GME”. The three-digit numbers follow the course code. The first digit indicates the level of year of study at which the course is offered. The second digit indicates the core area and the third digit indicates the order of the course in sequence of the courses in the same core area.
Core Areas
The core areas of study in the programme and their code numbers are given below:
Core Area Code Numbers
| ·Practical, Field Course, Industrial Training, Synoptic Meteorology and Weather
Forecasting |
0 |
| · Physical Geography and Meteorology | 1 |
| · Human Geography and Bio-Meteorology | 2 |
| · Quantitative Methods in Geography and Meteorology | 3 |
| · Resource Management, Climatology and Applied Meteorology. | 4 |
| · Philosophy and Methodology of Geography, Historical Development in Meteorology | 5 |
| · Research Method in Geography and Meteorology | 6 |
| · Regional Analysis, Urban and Regional Planning | 7 |
| · Dynamic Meteorology | 8 |
| · Original Research Project | 9 |
EXAMINATION, PERFORMANCE EVALUATION CRITERIA, MODERATION OF EXAMINATION AND EXAMINATION OFFENCES
EXAMINATION
Examinations are conducted to evaluate students’ performance at the end of each semester. To be eligible for any end of course examination, students must duly be registered for the course. Any course registered must be taken and passed. All compulsory courses at any given level must be registered and taken in the end of semester examination. It is only in serious medical cases that a student may be exempted from an examination and this should be reported to the Head of Department with a medical report from the Doctor, within 24 hours from the time of admission in the hospital. If a student fails to comply with this regulation, such a student should carry the course over to the next academic session and re-register it. All failed courses should be registered firsts, before any new course. Registration of first and second semester courses should be done at the beginning of each new session.
To qualify to be part of the end of course examination, a student must have attended at least 75% of the lectures and practicals.
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION CRITERIA
Students’ performance shall be assessed through:
- Written examination
- Continuous assessments
The time allowed for written examination shall not normally exceed three hours and not less than one hour. All 100 level courses should be either multiple choice questions or short fill-in-gap questions. A minimum of 50 and a maximum of 100 such questions should be set for a course.
Continuous assessment is based on intra-semester examination or quizzes, term papers, compulsory practical and/or assignments. All grades in continuous assessment shall range from 20% to 40% of the students’ overall performance in the course in a semester, while written examination shall be graded from 60% to 80% as the case may be. Practical oriented courses shall be graded accordingly. All examination papers (theory and practical) shall be graded with a minimum pass mark of 40%, except otherwise directed by the Faculty or Departmental Boards.
Students’ performance during the semester shall be graded on a 5 point grading system. This is shown on table 2.
Table 3: Grading System
| Percentage Score | Grade | Grade Point (GP) | Remark |
| 70 – 100%
60 – 69% 50 – 59% 45 – 49% 40 – 44% 0 – 39% |
A
B C D E F |
5
4 3 2 1 0 |
Excellent
Very good Average Below Average Pass Failure |
The final degree a student obtains will be classified using the final cumulative grade point average (FCGPA) as shown in table 3.
Table 4: Final Cumulative Grade Point Average
| Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) | Final Cumulative Grade Point Average | Class of Degree |
| Derived By | 4.50 – 5.00 | First Class Honours |
| Multiplying Credit | 3.50 – 4.49 | Second Class (Upper) |
| Units and Grade | 2.40 – 3.49 | Second Class (Lower) |
| Point and Dividing by Total Credit Unit | 1.50 – 2.39 | Third Class |
MODERATION OF EXAMINATION
All question papers for the 100, 200, 300 and 400 levels shall be moderated internally by the members of Departmental Examinations’ Board (DEB). The final semester examination (degree examination shall be moderated by the DEB and the EXTERNAL Examiner). The External Examiner shall assess the quality of the students’ performance as well as the overall standard of the course offered in the Department. The External Examiner shall participate in the determination of overall results and in the classification of degrees.
EXAMINATION OFFENCES AND THEIR PENALTIES
| s/n | Nature of offence | Penalty |
| 1 | Impersonation | Expulsion for both students |
| 2 | Forged receipts(s)/document(s) | Expulsion |
| 3 | Unauthorized handling of examination questions | Suspension for three (3) years.
Expulsion at a repeat of the same offence. |
| 4 | Collaborative copying | Suspension for two (2) years.
Expulsion at a repeat of the same offence. |
| 5 | Exchange of answer booklet/written material | Suspension for two (2) years.
Expulsion at a repeat of the same offence. |
| 6 | Refusal to handover suspected/incriminating material | Suspension for three (3) years
Expulsion at a repeat of the same offence. |
| 7 | Destruction of suspected/incriminating material | Expulsion |
| 8 | Mutilation of or use of fake/false registration number | Suspension for three (3) years |
| 9 | Assault or fighting an invigilator | Expulsion |
| 10 | Presentation of false identity card | Suspension for three (3) years |
| 11 | Possession of unauthorized material relevant to the examination | Suspension for three (3) years |
| 12 | Smuggling of question paper out of the examination hall | Suspension for three (3) years |
| 13 | Smuggling of answer script into the examination hall | Suspension for three (3) years |
| 14 | Conviction in two or more misconduct offences | Add one year for each offence up to a maximum of four (4) years, thereafter expulsion |
| 15 | Conviction in three or more misconduct offences | Add one year for each offence up to a maximum of four (4) years, thereafter expulsion |
| 16 | Refusal to appear before a panel after three invitations | Expulsion |
| 17 | Refusal to sign examination misconduct form | Suspension for one (1) year |
General Conduct and Dress Code
Students of the Department are advised to be well behaved and exhibit exemplary manners at all times. The Department prohibits wearing of body exposing dresses and all other indecent dress patterns including sagging. In addition to wearing decent clothing, it is recommended that the Departmental wear be worn on approved day of the week and events, including examinations. See University dress code for clarity.