Academics
The Zimbabwe Open University is a multidisciplinary and inter-faculty institution. It offers both degree courses and non-degree courses. The university has three faculties: the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Arts, Education and Humanities and the Faculty of Commerce. A total of 24 programmes are offered under these faculties. As of 2006, the Faculty of Arts, Education, and Humanities has three departments:
- Department of Education,
- Department of Languages and Media Studies
- Department of Social Sciences.
The Faculty of Science has four departments:
- Department of Health Science,
- Department of Agriculture,
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- Department of Geography and Environmental Studies.
The Faculty of Commerce is the largest faculty. It has three departments:
- Department of Banking and Finance Management and Business Studies
- Department of Accounting
- Department of Human Resources, Marketing and Labour Relations.
The course delivery methods include print media, compact cassettes, videocassettes, telephone, fax, e-mail, CDs and radio broadcasts. ZOU arranges for its students monthly face-to-face meetings with tutors in its regional centers. The university is envisaging the introduction of telelearning/teleteaching methods in its course delivery.
ZOU was a partner in the Electronic Distance Training on Sustainability in African Local Governments (EDITOSIA), a project started in 2001 aimed at formulating recommendations for policymakers of the government, training institutions, municipal associations and other agencies regarding promotion of teaching methods for building the capacity of African governments to deal with the challenges of local sustainability.
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