APS255 Environmental Interpretation Field Course (10 credits)

Year Running: 2016/2017

Credit level: F5

Pre-requisites		APS246
Pre-requisites for		APS332 (when the module is running)
Co-requisites		APS246
Additional Information		Restricted to students registered for GEPU210, GEOU211, GEOU17, GEOU98. Compulsory for Environmental Science Students, spare places made available, by application, to students on degree courses in Animal & Plant Sciences.

Description

This module provides interdisciplinary training in skills for environmental interpretation and assessment through field work, lectures and mini-projects. It will include studies of botany, geology, geography, history and environmental science. It will provide an in-depth study of some important habitats, major rock types and landscape processes. It will provide training in methods for description, sampling, quantification and data analysis in the environmental sciences. The field studies will be complemented by lectures that explain key concepts and techniques, together with an overview of regional, historical, political and economic factors governing land usage and the impact of human occupation on the landscape.

Reading List

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Teaching Methods

Delivery Type	Hours
Field Work	42.0
Independent	29.0
Lab	21.0
Lecture	8.0

Methods of assessment

Assessment Type	Duration	% of formal assessment	Semester
Course Work	0.0	100 %	S2

Teaching methods and assessment displayed on this page are indicative for 2023-24.