The reason for basic electrical , as part of a Civil Engineering discipline, is to expose trainees to the concepts of electricity, and some of the fundamentals.

Now, since , you are going into the discipline of Civil Engineering, there is the requirement for the utilities ,and the associated components that the discipline brings.

To this end, there are the various phenomena of the earth, these are the soils, and the land, the waters, and hydrology, the materials that are used, be it cement, concrete or aggregates, and their composites, and the fundamental reason that Civil Engineering exists.