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Department of English

Research Activities
Postgraduate research areas are: Evaluation of English for Specific purposes, Code Switching, Evaluation of English Language Testing,Teaching of Spoken English in Kenya SecondarySchools and Evaluation of Grammar Teaching.
Academic staff are currently carrying out research in the following areas:

  • Development of English literacy in Kenya.
  • Research in English language texts
  • Additional languages acquisition.
  • Language and gender.
  • Mother tongue education.

Department of Foreign Languages

Research Activities
Our Postgraduate students are involved in research in Didactics, Literature and Linguistics. Staff have in the recent past carried out research and presented papers on a wide variety of topics including:

  • Language Development in the Region
  • The Teaching of French
  • The training of teachers of French.
  • The role of competition in the learning of the German language

On-going Research: These include:
Translation of folktales from the rest of the region. similarities and differences.

  • Interaction of Languages along the Borders in the East African Region.
  • "Difficulties in oral expression - the case of future teachers of French."
  • Languages of Tour Operators along the Kenyan Coast.
  • "La sagesse du peuple exprimeè dans les inscriptions sur les matatu."
  • The evolving role of the woman in the african novel written in French.
Department of History, Archeology And Political Studies
Research Activities
Our postgraduate students conduct research in the three special areas of history, archeology and political studies. Among the areas of research include history of International Relations, history of community relations, Museum studies, Cultural tourism and Resource Management, Gender Studies and Agricultural History. Our students and staff actively participate and competitively obtain research funding from renowned international research bodies such as DAAD (Germany), FORD Foundation, CODESRIA and the Organization of Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA). This research funding enables our students to complete their studies and research in good time and also get an international research exposure through seminars and conferences.

Department Of Philosophy And Religious Studies

Research Activities
Postgraduate students are engaged in various research activities which include: Human rights, corruption, gender philosophy, biomedical ethics, Logic and law, management ethics, methodology of science, and conflict management.

Staff Members are presently engaged in research in the following areas:
• Critical and Creative thinking skills
• Decision analysis and problem solving
• Leadership studies
• Gender philosophy
• African philosophy
• Logic and Law
• Philosophy of development
• Environmental ethics
• Professional practice and ethics
• Religion and Conflicts
• Religion and HIV/ AIDs
• Religion and Substance abuse
• Challenge of Interfaith dialogue
• Religion and Science
• Religion and Environmental Management
• Religion and Globalisation
• Religion, Politics and Public Morality

Department of Kiswahili And African Languages

Research Activities

Our members of the academic staff have engaged and continue to engage in research Linguistics, African Languages and Literatures, Theatre and Performing Arts and Translation and Interpretation.

Our department has been conducting a series of workshops and seminars. Distinguished guests speakers are normally invited to give seminar papers e.g. The distinguished Ghanaian novelist Ayi Kwei Armah, the renowned Tanzanian writer Shafi Adam Shafi, and the internationally known Kenyan Kiswahili expert Ahmed Nabhany among others. Both the lecturers and postgraduate students present seminar papers regularly. The workshops and seminars focus mainly on Linguistics, Literature in Kiswahili and other African Languages.

Last Updated on Thursday, 05 March 2009 08:54