The course prepares the students to learn the standard Hausa form of writing, its history, and development with reference to various conventions on Hausa orthography. It also enhances the student’s ability in composition and comprehension through the use of Hausa standard orthography.

This course seeks to explain what linguistics is about, its scope, its branches both macro and micro, its application as well as to examine its structure, its nature and relation to animal language. Basic linguistic terms, sings and symbols are also to be consider in the course.

The course is aimed at introducing the students to the nature and functions of Hausa nominal such as noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb etc. in addition, it examines their synthetic and semantic characteristics.

The focus of the course is to examine the social, political and literal background to the early Hausa novels up to the year 1960. The course will study their forms, theme, language, styles and their influences.

The course intended to introduce students to Hausa Verbal grade system and its morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects. The primary and secondary grades will also be discussed.

The purpose of the course is to improve upon the students knowledge on Ajami writing through examining its history and background, its sounds system and nominal its variation in the script and its prospects in practical terms and comparative study of Ajami and Boko script including textual study of works on Ajami poems, newspaper, historical fragments etc.

The course is designed to introduce the students to Hausa traditional drama, its background, development and types. There will be a practical study such as Wasan Gauta, ‘Yar Tsana, Kalanguwa, Wowwo, Langa etc.

The focus of the course is on the terminologies and definitions of Hausa culture. It also discusses on Hausa Cultural traits, its over view and classifications.

The Course will concentrate on an introductory survey of Hausa basic phonetics, its articulation and production of consonants and vowels. It also examines ways of identifying tone in Hausa

This course is a continuation of HAU 1203 (Introduction to Linguistics I) which is a prerequisite. It covers acoustic phonetics and a study of the non-segmental features of speech such as pitch, tone, stress and intonation. In addition the students will be expected to apply their acquired knowledge in practical way through the study, analysis, and transcription of the speech sounds of Hausa language.

The course intended to familiarize the students with the both oral and written history of Hausa land, its boundaries and geographical features. It also examines the origin of the Hausa people with reference to various views of scholars such as Mahdi Adamu, Muhammad Hambali Jinju, Ibrahim Yaro Yahaya, Abdullahi Smith, Xanmasanin Kano, Malam Aminu Kano, Abdullahi Rafi Augi, Sa’idu Muhammad Gusau etc.

This course is aimed at studying introduction to Hausa sentence structure. The components of Hausa nominal and verbal phrase will also be discussed

This course focuses o how to develop composition writing with emphasis on spelling, punctuation, organization and language use; comprehension exercise and oral delivery in the language.

The course is an advanced study on the Hausa standardization of its orthography under the various conventions. The further usage of Hausa word division, merger, spelling, punctuation marks, paragraphing etc Dictation of complex words, complex sentences and passages, comprehension on various registers and styles will also be further examined.

The Course is aimed at studying the genres, i.e. Hausa Verbal arts which include kirari, Karin Magana, Zambo, Habaici, Baqar magana, Ba’a, Zaurance, Qarangiya etc. Examination of Hausa mannerism, gestures and taboos will also be carried out.

The course will examine category on Hausa lexicons classifiable as verbal, the distinction between proper verbs and other types of verbs, transitive and intransitive verbs, their meanings and their syllabic structure such as the monosyllabic and disyllabic verbs of Hausa. The changing and the unchanging verbs will also be examined.

The course will focus on the history and issues in the study and appreciation of Hausa poetry: waqar baka (oral song) and rubutacciyar waqa (written poetry). The common features, characteristics, text, contents, forms, language and style as well as its various social contexts will be studied.

Basic meaningful units of Hausa words; structure of word classes and their morphology, noun, adjective, pronoun, verb, person/aspect markers. Derived forms of verbs, deverbal nominal will also be discussed. Plural classes and morphological processes will also be examined.

Hausa ceremonies such as Raxin Sunai, Bukin Aure, Bukin Sallah, Bukin Buxar Dawa, Bukin Saukar Karatu,Bukin Amfanin Gona will be discussed. Also traditional and sitting games e.g. Dambe, Kokuwa, Farauta, Tauri, Gaxa, Langa, Allan Ba Ku etc and significance of Hausa ceremonies and festivals with their roles in national integration will be examined.

The course intends to introduce the students to Hausa Literature, its definition, historical background and major categories and sub categories of Hausa literature of both traditional (oral) and modern (written). It also introduces the basic terms and concepts in its vocabulary of literary terms and criticisms leading to practical appreciation of a representative selections.

The purpose of the course is to discuss the universality of the folktales, types of folktales, motives in folktales, the world of folktales, characterization, setting, techniques, performance, narrator and the audience. The songs in the folktales, creativity and originality of rendering folktales and myths.

This involves a study of various prose forms in the language; novels, romance, short stories, essays and translated text e t c.

This course will discuss the structure of Hausa sentence, noun phrase constituents and its structure, verb phrase constituent and its word ordering and classification of Hausa nouns.

Hausa Traditional Occupations and Crafts

In this course and attempt is made to apply the transformational theory to analysis of sentences of the language.

Areas to be cover in this course are areas of dialectology, components of dialectology such as definition, dialectology demarcation and classifications of Hausa dialects e.g. Eastern and Western dialect complex, the geographical methods (isoglosses method) the quantitative method (lexicostatistical method). The structural variations which include phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic will also be examined. Lexical and syntactic characteristics of the major regional and social varieties of the language should be clearly defined here.

The course is intended to examine the general history of translation, the earliest famous centres of translation such as Toleda, Baghdad and Zaria, the various types of translation and the mechanism and the essence of translation. The course will also undergo practical application of the theories of translation from English to Hausa and vise-versa and/or from other languages to Hausa with the view to practice all the major ways of translation from and into Hausa.

The course covers the phonological processes of Hausa such as labialization, palatalization, details of Hausa syllable structure, vowel lowering and shorting, the closed syllables, epenthesis, metathesis, rules inversion, assimilation and rhotacisation.

The course entails the history of Hausa prosody and its development, the basic components of Hausa prosody e.g. syllable, tone, vowel length, foot and its part, affixes, prosodic unit, the Hausa metres, the deviation, zihafi and defects, illa. Practical applications of prosodic features from different Hausa written poetry will be analyze. Generally, the course intends to introduce the students to the science of rhyme in Hausa written poetry.

The theoretical stylistic in the language in the particularly various theories and ideas of the relationship between stylistics, literature and linguistics will be examined. Discussions of various literary feature or devices of literature in the language are what the course is all about.

The course covers concept of drama in the language, a survey of early attempts at play writing and play acting. The influence of traditional and folk drama and appraisal selected written plays will also covered by the course.

The course intended to undergo detailed study and description of thought, beliefs and religious system of the Hausa people from ancient society to present time.

The course is divided into two parts, the first part will examine historical background of Hausa oral songs their characteristics, appearance, mode of performance, musical instruments, distinctiveness and leadership hierarchy, qualities and also study of their life story. The second part will dwell on the study of themes, forms, contents, language and style of the Hausa oral songs.

The course focuses attention on the historical background of research methodology, basic instructions in research methodology such as structure, area of research, contents, formation, title, chapterization, bibliography, notes and footnoting, data collection, utilization of library and dissertation format etc. The views of various scholars on research areas will also be discussed.

The course involves study and examination of various theories of literary criticism such as the classical, the western, maxims and other literary theories. The applications of these theories on Hausa poetry, prose and drama will be the backbone of this course. Practical study should be carried out from the selected Hausa textual literature.

The course will begin on examination of basic semantic concepts with respect to lexical analysis of Hausa words. It will also touch the semantic analysis of Hausa sentential strings and the basic semantic models mainly interpretive semantics.

The course intended to give general introduction on the meaning of traditional medicine, a brief history of medicine in Hausa society, the cuta and magani among the Hausa people, the traditional healers in Hausa society such as magori, ‘yan bori, maxora, wanzamai, ungozoma, malamai etc. The various traditional methods of healing such as traditional prenatal, post-natal, diagnosis, prescription, skin and other external diseases and so on will also examined. The course will also consider the effect of modernization on the Hausa traditional medicine.

The course aimed at studying linguistic and cultural affiliation in the Hausa naming system. The course will elaborate on the historical background of Hausa names in the ancient society, the source of Hausa names, their classifications such as laqabi, sunan yanka, alkunya etc. Their concepts, influences and the effects of modernization on the Hausa names.

The course involves study on such semantic models as generative semantic/tagmemics, natural generative grammar and semantic specialties e.g. concepts and naming, referent, refence, synonymy, antonomy, polysemy, homophony and hyponymy. Others to be considered are relational, opposites, meaning components, collections and idioms.

This course prepares a detail study of stylistics features of prose and poetry both oral and written in Hausa language. Here the principles acquired in Hau 3310 are applied.

The course deals with two major areas, the practical approaches to artistic translation in poetry, prose and drama and the exploration of the problems of specialized translation especially in areas where both creativity and precision in the translation of concepts and the coining of terminologies are crucial. The emphasis of this course is on practice.

The course focuses on the background study of Hausa films from early Hausa majigi to the present time including the socio-economic factors that gave birth to the Hausa Home Video Drama. The study will include general analysis on performance, communication and effects on the Hausa society, Linguistics, literary and cultural aspects of Hausa films will also be studied. There are also be practical studies of some selected Hausa films.

The course deals with the contemporary prose in Hausa language as such a detail and analytic study of prose fiction will be discusse.

The course comprises of an advanced study of Hausa medicine from the following areas:

Dissertation is a research project on an approved topic to be conducted by the students at the final year of their B. A. Hausa and to submit five (5) bound copies of this written research project. The project is done under the supervision of an academic staff and in some cases; it can be started in an earlier level, i.e. third year. The project is a pre-requisite for graduation.

The course involves a consideration of the current and relevant issues in phonology of Hausa language (e.g. tone, vowel harmony, syllable structure, intonation etc).

The course examines the use of transformational grammar for handling sophisticated syntactic processes such as conjoining and embedding in compound and complex sentences. Other aspects such as complementation, relativisation, nominalization and the analysis of non verbal sentences will be taught under this course.

The course aimed at studying Hausa Islamic verse being produced from the 19th century to the present day. The poems will be studied from their semantic aspect, forms, contents, language and style. The historical background will be examined visa-vi. The advents of Islam in Hausa land in its various cultural and literary ramifications and the development of Islamic institutions and interaction with traditional institutions.

The materials of this course include Hausa oral and written poems with political undertone either directly or indirectly. The poem will be studied from various areas such as theme, form, style, influence, etc. There will be also a comparative study between the oral and the written poems or the earlier and the later poems. Practical analysis of some selected poems with political inclination will be carried out.

The course is aimed to exposing the students to the advanced cultural study of the Hausa people in examining some related issues such as:

The course will discuss aspects of Hausa material culture such as traditional arts, crafts, architect, house hold utensils, embolderies, dressing, transport system, traditional furniture, jere custom and Hausa traditional motility with regards to material possession.