Our undergraduate programme
The Centre for Communication Studies (CCS) offers Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies (B.A.CS) aimed at preparing a competent workforce in the communication sector. The proposed programme is committed to fostering an understanding and examination of the crucial role of communication in human relationships, organisations, cultures, society, and civic affairs, and to developing students’ personal and professional communication skills. This role is crucial not only during studentship in academic institutions but also long after the students have graduated and have been employed in various capacities in workplaces. Prospective graduates of this programme will be able to work as communication experts in business marketing, customer service, corporate public affairs, media and informational writing, media analysis and planning, administration and public relations, politics, public opinion research, social and human services, education, writing and publishing, conflict resolution, health communication, among others.
The Centre also offers university-wide communication skills courses to first year students of the University of Dar es Salaam enrolled in different degree programmes. These courses are offered to students taking Arts, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Business Studies and Engineering as follows:
CL106 Communication Skills for Arts and Social Sciences
CL107 Communication Skills for Sciences
CL108 Business Communication
CL111 Communication Skills for Engineers
Our postgraduate programme
Currently, we are offering a PhD in Communication Studies (By Thesis). Our PhD students are doing research in the areas of crisis communication, corporate and strategic communication, special needs and gender communication.
Master of Arts in Communication Studies is underway.
CONSULTANCY SERVICES
The Centre offers a wide range of language and communication related services to the university community and the general public. This includes, among others, short trainings and workshops on a number of issues in communication. Such courses are tailor-made and offered on consultancy basis.
Short Trainings
Our team is made up of experts in various fields of communication studies, professional writing and linguistics, who are able to help people or institutions to best communicate their goals through proper packaging and dissemination of information. Our trainings focus on writing skills (e.g. writing reports, speeches, academic papers, project and research proposals, minutes, memoranda etc. ), reading skills, listening and note-taking skills, public speaking and presentation skills. Other trainings offered to the general public (employers, employees and job seekers) include professional interviewing and employability skills.
Translation of Documents
We help to make information accessible in different languages by translating books, papers, press releases, reports, speeches, contracts, etc.
Editing Documents
We have well trained personnel ready to read and edit manuscripts or drafts of various documents, such as dissertations/theses, reports, speeches, research papers, and books. Our aim is to help clients’ works reach the acceptable standards.
Ghost Writing
Bring us your wonderful life and we will write it under your direction. Our team will write your biography as you unfold your life history through narration and follow up questions.
Rapporteuring in Meetings, Workshops, Seminars, Debates and Conferences
We provide rapporteuring services to different organizations during meetings, workshops, seminars, conferences and debates, cutting across various fields of specialization.
Dissemination of Various Research Works
We help to re-write various technical documents in a language that is more familiar to the target community. That is, we translate research publications into popular versions to enable the local communities to access the knowledge generated by researchers in the higher institutions.