Program Description
Monitoring and evaluation is an undergraduate degree program. This program will have a total of fifty course. Fourteen of which will be concentrations courses, ten MAGU distinctive course and the remaining twenty six are commerce common courses.
Program Aim
The program’s main aim is to guide students in understanding the methods and applications of monitoring and evaluation to improve performance and achieve results. The program shall offer the most comprehensive, up to date theory and practice of assessing the performance of projects, international organizations and NGO’S.
Program Learning Outcomes
By the end of the program, students should be able to:
- Design data collection tools.
- Analyze data for project management.
- Formulate feasibility study of projects, budgeting and scheduling projects.
- Formulating strategies for planning and project execution.
- Administer leadership and governance for non-profit organization.
- Create indicators that effectively identify achievement of project outcomes.
- Create appropriate methods of analyzing, presenting and disseminating information to different stakeholders.
Program Duration
4 Years
Mode of Delivery
Blended learning (also known as hybrid learning) whereby traditional classroom teaching is will be combined with online learning (digital library) and independent study, allowing the student to have more control over the time, pace and style of their learning. This can come in form of Regular, Evening/Weekend and ODL since most of our targeted groups will be employees in financial service sectors.
Program Eligibility
To qualify for this degree program, students will be required to be holders of six credit which must include mathematics and English or equivalent. These using the mature entry route must have a minimum of four credits plus two years relevant work experience.
Summary of Programs Route Maps.
| Qualification Type
Duration of Qualification |
Degree
(4 Years) |
|
| No of Courses | No of Credits | |
| MDC Courses | 10 | 20 |
| Commerce Common Courses | 27 | 81 |
| Research | 02 | 09 |
| Work Placement | 01 | 08 |
| Specialisation (concentration) courses | 14 | 36 |
| Total Courses | 54 | 154 |
| 138 – 146 | ||
Detailed Programs Route Maps.
| Degree | ||
| 1st Year 1st Semester | MDC Courses | 2 |
| Commerce Common Courses | 5 | |
| Specialisation (concentration) courses | 0 | |
| 7 | ||
| 1st Year 2nd Semester | MDC Courses | 2 |
| Commerce Common Courses | 5 | |
| Specialisation (concentration) courses | 0 | |
| 7 | ||
| 2nd Year 1st Semester | MDC Courses | 2 |
| Commerce Common Courses | 5 | |
| Specialisation (concentration) courses | 0 | |
| 7 | ||
| 2nd Year 2nd Semester | MDC Courses | 1 |
| Commerce Common Courses | 6 | |
| Specialisation (concentration) courses | 0 | |
| 7 | ||
| 3rd Year 1st Semester | MDC Courses | 1 |
| Commerce Common Courses | 5 | |
| Specialisation (concentration) courses | 1 | |
| Work Placement | 0 | |
| 7 | ||
| 3rd Year 2nd Semester | MDC Courses | 1 |
| Specialisation (concentration) courses | 6 | |
| Research | 1 | |
| 8 | ||
| 4th Year 1st Semester | Research | 1 |
| Work Placement | 1 | |
| 2 | ||
| 4th Year 2nd Semester | MDC Courses | 1 |
| Specialisation (concentration) courses | 7 | |
| 8 |
Bachelor of Commerce: Monitoring and Evaluation (Route Map with Course Names)
| YEAR 1 | SEMESTER ONE | |
| Code | Course Units | |
| 1. | CCC 1013 | Business Communications Skills |
| 2. | CCC 1023 | Business Mathematics |
| 3. | CCC 1033 | Fundamentals Of Accounting |
| 4. | CCC 1043 | Fundamentals Of Development and their Applications to Malawi and the World |
| 5. | CCC 1053 | Fundamentals of Information Systems |
| 6. | MDC 1013 | Church & Culture |
| 7. | MDC 1023 | Old Testament |
| YEAR 1 | SEMESTER 2 | |
| 1. | CCC 1063 | Business statistics |
| 2. | CCC 1073 | Business Law |
| 3. | CCC 1083 | Introduction to Cooperative Management |
| 4. | CCC 1093 | Financial Accounting |
| 5. | CCC 1103 | Organisational Behaviour |
| 6. | MDC 1033 | Essentials of Christianity |
| 7. | MDC 1043 | Introduction to Anthropology (Humanity) |
| YEAR 2 | SEMESTER 1 | |
| 1. | CCC 2013 | Audit and Risk Assurance |
| 2. | CCC 2023 | Costing |
| 3. | CCC 2033 | Corporate Law |
| 4. | CCC 2043 | Micro Economics |
| 5. | CCC 2053 | Malawi Taxation |
| 6. | MDC 2013 | Christian World Views |
| 7. | MDC 2033 | Human Development and Relationships |
| YEAR 2 | SEMESTER 2 | |
| 1. | CCC 2063 | Macro Economics |
| 2. | CCC 2073 | Fundamentals of Human Resource Management |
| 3. | CCC 2083 | Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management |
| 4. | CCC 2093 | Introduction to Banking |
| 5. | CCC 2103 | Principles of Marketing |
| 6. | CCC 2113 | Project Management |
| 7. | MDC 2033 | New Testament |
| YEAR 3 | SEMESTER 1 | |
| 1. | CCC 3013 | E-Business |
| 2. | CCC 3023 | Entrepreneurship |
| 3. | CCC 3033 | Ethics and Governance |
| 4. | CCC 3043 | Introductions to Public Administration |
| 5. | CCC 3053 | Personal Development |
| 6. | MAE 3013 | Framework for Data Collection and Analysis. |
| 7. | MDC 3013 | Effective public Communications |
| YEAR 3 | SEMESTER 2 | |
| 1. | MAE 3023 | Project Management for Monitoring and Evaluation. |
| 2. | MAE 3033 | Fundamentals of Performance Evaluation |
| 3. | MAE 3043 | Budgeting and Scheduling projects. |
| 4. | MAE 3053 | Project Execution and Strategy |
| 5. | MAE 3063 | Scaling Project Operation |
| 6. | Research Methods | |
| 7. | MDC 3023 | Pentecost: Personal & community Empowerment |
| YEAR 4 | SEMESTER 1 | |
| 1. | THS 4016 | Thesis Writing (Supervision) |
| 2. | WPT 4028 | Work Placement (Internship) |
| YEAR 4 | SEMESTER 2 | |
| 1. | MAE 4013 | Improving Leadership and Governance in non-profit organizations |
| 2. | MAE 4023 | IT Project Management |
| 3. | MAE 4033 | Data structures and performance |
| 4. | MAE 4043 | Recommender Systems: Evaluation and Metrics |
| 5. | MAE 4053 | Strategic Management and Innovation |
| 6. | ADM 4073 | Managerial economics |
| 7. | ADM 3063 | Productions and Operations Management |
| 8. | MDC 4013 | Foundation for Professional Excellence |