Integrated Development Studies
Dean’s Welcome Message
On behalf of our unique faculty and staff, I welcome you to the Faculty of Integrated Development Studies (FIDS) of the Simon Diedong University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Wa, Upper West Region of Ghana. As the pioneer Faculty of the then Wa Campus of the University for Development Studies, over two decades FIDS has made significant strides in developing and designing academic programmes, which are well suited for the ever-changing needs of industry. An outstanding quality of the bouquet of programmes that FIDS offers is its interdisciplinary nature. Imbibing knowledge and skills from selected core integrated disciplines of development studies, makes students pursuing FIDS’s programmes more versatile and effective in the current global working environment, which requires workers with broad-based knowledge and multi-skills. Read more….
Spotlight
Communication Studies
- Development Studies
- Environment & Resource Studies
- African & Endogenous Studies
Departments FIDS
Currently, FIDS is composed of four departments namely, Department of Communication Studies (DECS), Department of Development Studies (DDS), Department of Environment and Resource Studies (DERS) and Department of African and Endogenous Studies (DAES). The faculty runs attractive programmes for award of terminal and master’s degrees, first degrees and diplomas in range of disciplines with an orientation towards development.
Established in 1994, FIDS was the maiden Faculty of the then Wa Campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS). Since its establishment, FIDS has promoted integrated/interdisciplinary approach to teaching, learning and research. All students of the faculty were awarded degrees in BA Integrated Development Studies, until the 2008/2009 Academic Year when optional programmes were introduced to provide a variety of opportunities to graduates of the programmes in varied fields of development practice.