EWM

This course is design to equip the students with the techniques needed for effective management of hotel and other catering services. The students will be taught on how to maintain and take proper care of guests. The students will equally be exposed to the preparation and the use of cleaning agents and materials. As a practical course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their capability to provide comfortable, accommodation, catering, feeding recreation and leisure to all guests. Topics to be covered include hotel classification and costing; catering organization, types and management technique including kitchen planning and management; equipment; materials; tools; safety and food hygiene; cooking methods and types of heat transfer. Proprietors’ obligations to receive all travelers to include provide accommodation, refreshment to guests, care of guests and their properties. Laws of contract: liquor licensing laws; food and drug decree; hygiene regulation, cancellation of hotel booking either by proprietor or guest and remedy for breach of contract.

This course is designed to provide basic concepts in economics and its application in ecotourism. The students will be exposed to the concept of economic development and the roles of ecotourism in economic development. The students will have the opportunity to know fundamental evaluation methods that can be used in evaluation of natural areas . Ither topics to be coversed include Impact of monetary economy on Ecotourism. Economic impact of Ecotourism on property rights and human behavioural changes. Utilization and marketing of different components of ecotourism. Pollution effects and cost benefits of ecotourism in the environment.

Identification and classification of important African wildlife species, morphology, anatomy, physiology and reproductive cycles of some selected species of important wild animals for bushmeat production. Characteristics features in various wild animal species that qualify them for meat production. Snail and grasscutter farming. Captive breeding and propagation of the identified endangered animal species of Nigerian origin. Breeding system; selection methods, sex determination; gene mutation and variance and co-variance; heritability and repeatability. Establishing and development of cross –breeding programme; farm animal domestication and ranching of the ungulate with potentials for meat and production.

This course is an exploratory: is an upgrade of the earlier course on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems designed primarily for students in wildlife conservation & ecotourism management and allied disciplines. However, it also meets the need of students in other fields, as a course that provides hands-on training in wetlands ecosystems management and Ornithology As a practical course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their ability tom manage wetlands ecosystems and identify different birds of conservation importance and prepare them for effective management of these resources. Topics to be covered include analysis of interface between terrestrial and coastal wetlands ecosystems, fauna and flora composition the two, ecological functioning process of these ecosystems; wetlands and their economic importance as well as wetlands management. The importance of avifauna to mankind, environment and the scientific world; morphological and physiological characteristics of birds for their correct identification; movement patterns and its management implication to conservation. The study of ecology of some selected bird of prey, game-bird and water-fowls.

This course is structured such that at completion, student should understand the complex relationship between the animals and their environment, the peculiarity of the rangeland to grazers and browsers. The importance of rangeland in ecotourism development will be understood. Range productivity for the sustenance of both domestic and wild species will be be taught. The principle for using fire as major tool in the management of savanna ecosystem should be fully understood.

This course is to enlighten the students of ecotourism and wildlife management on the marketing concepts of intangible (service) travel products which makes it different from good producing firms. The course introduces a range of concepts and issues relating to ecotourism marketing emphasizing the role of value in the marketing process, importance of understanding the marketing mix, understanding customers need and the role of marketing planning and various techniques used to analyse the marketing environment

EWM 513 is a course designed to expose the students to the hospitality arm of Ecotourism Management. It is a practical oriented course focusing on imparting the students useful skills in tourists care and satisfaction. Topics to be covered include: importance of the hospitality industry in the economy of a nation, tourist accommodation: types of accommodation; Hotels and guest-house; grade levels of hotels and types of the available facilities, and the significance of the hotel industry. Tourists care: health facilities; clinics; health centre availability. Transportation types i.e. Air travel availability and accessibility to Airports; road and rail travel opportunities

Students are given instructions on the preparation, presentation and discussion of critical reviews of topics important to Ecotourism and Wildlife Management and this will be followed by oral presentation by each student.

This course is structure in order to equip the students with the skills and techniques involve in the designing of paths and routes linking ecotourism facilities. This course will also afford the students with opportunity to know how the impacts of ecotourism on the ecosystem can be assessed. Accessibility with compatibility of the ecotourism facilities will be achieved through in depth knowledge of the techniques involve in proper planning of tourist facilities. Other topics that will be covered include waste management and maintenance of tourist facilities is considered to have negative impacts on the tourist activities. Assessment of rate of movement of tourists in and out of the preserved areas. Assessment of tourist population on the flora and fauna resources of the reserve; this involves checking level of damages done to various species of flora and fauna resource during the period of tourist visit. Effects of tourist services on introduction of diseases and parasites into the parks. Assessment of impact on park infrastructural facilities.

This course is basically designed primarily for students in ecotourism and wildlife management. However, it also meets the need of students in other environmental management fields. The focus is to impart useful knowledge and skills on the students in order to enhance their understanding level in environmental laws, policy and administration. Topics to be covered include significance or role of environmental law, prerequisites for effective national environmental law, environmental conservation laws and regulation, enforcement tools, liability and compensation regimes related to environmental damage and agencies responsible for natural resources protection in Nigeria.

This course is an upgrade of the earlier course on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems designed primarily for students in wildlife conservation & ecotourism management and allied disciplines. However, it also meets the need of students in other fields, as a course that provides hands-on training in the species composition of the CLASS Reptilian. As a practical course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their ability to manage some species of economic importance in this class and propagate them in captivity, particularly those whose population in the wild had been greatly depleted due to uncontrolled harvest for human economic development. Topics to be covered include: taxonomic classification and nomenclature of all species in the class; identification manual some species from different regions of the world with strong emphasis on the species that are of Nigeria origin; reproductive ecology. The global economic importance of Class Reptilian in wildlife trade as well as classification in CITES as candidate of Appendix-I and Appendix-II.

This course is an exploratory; an up-grade of the earlier low level course “Landuse Planning” designed primarily for students in wildlife conservation, ecotourism development and other ecological environment-base allied disciplines. However, it also meets the need of students in other fields, as a course that provides hands-on training in the use of natural resources for sustainable development. As a practical course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their knowledge and to understand the impacts that development projects could have on the sustainability of natural resources and the ecological environment as a whole. In addition, it takes care of how biodiversity is considered in an EIA investigation and report production process.

Each student will be supervised by a lecturer on a research topic that seeks to identify problems in the field of Ecotourism and Wildlife Management and proffering solution to such problems through research.