Centre for Communication and Entrepreneurship Skills
CENCES is an acronym for “Centre for Communication and Entrepreneurship Skills”. CENCES was established in the 2011/2012 academic year to co-ordinate the teaching and learning of all the non hard core science (and technology) disciplines at the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT). It is to serve as the nucleus of the future Faculty of Integrated Management Sciences. CENCES operates at the level of a department but it is not subsumed under any faculty; it is a servicing department and does not run its own degree programmes.
Courses offered under CENCES are as follows:
Semester I
• Communication Skills I
• Literature in English I
• Basic French I
• Research Methods
• Ethics in Science
• Principles of Economics
Semester II
• Communication Skills II
• Literature in English II
• Basic French II
• Public Relations
• Business Entrepreneurship
• Principles of Management
The department has a total of ten (10) staff members, out of which seven (7) are permanent and three (3) from other departments.