| Forest & Landscape Department of Agricultural Sciences 0 % Department of Animal Science and Animal Health (2003/2004) 0 % | |||||||||||||
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| Duration | 1 semester | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||
| Examination | written examination Aid allowed Description of Examination: 13-point scale, internal examiner Dates of Exam: | ||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures: 1 course module per week Excersis: 4 hours per week | ||||||||||||
| Block Placement | E2, fall Tuesdag 13-17 | ||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | 120611 Basic Statistics | ||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||
| The aim of the course is to provide students with essential fieldwork-related skills in relation to natural resource management. The skills acquired through this course will be useful in all agricultural systems (cropping, forest, livestock and rangeland systems), and relevant for academic work at all levels, including project and thesis work. | |||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||
| Increasingly, master students and graduates are confronted with highly complex agricultural environments, including both hard and soft systems, in which they have to collect data for project and thesis work. The complexity includes, for example, the resource efficiency of diverse cropping systems, the influence of decision-making structures in natural resource management on the well being of farmers, or the access to resources like water, agricultural land, fertilizer, pastures and/or forests. This course provides skills needed in the subsequent thematic courses, thesis work and post-graduate career, which are not covered in other disciplinary courses. Specifically, the students will learn: · to select and apply appropriate methods for collecting and analysing data; · to plan and conduct fieldwork; and · to apply a range of relevant data collection and analysis techniques relating natural resource management to household livelihood strategies. The student will obtain knowledge on: · systems thinking in problem analysis · research processes and design · planning and conducting fieldwork · qualitative data collection methods · quantitative data collection methods · data definition, data validity and reliability · data recording · selected case studies | |||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||
| 1. Lectures These focus on introducing research processes, data collection methods and case studies. 2. Exercises These focus on designing data collection forms and using data analysis tools. Students will collect data themselves and work with raw data, collected by the involved departments, related to natural resource management in complex systems in rural areas. Exercises will be based on direct participation as well as web-based learning. | |||||||||||||
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| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Finn Helles, fh@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Unit of Forestry, Phone: 35331738 Error. Person Not Found Helle Overgaard Larsen, hol@life.ku.dk, Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning/Unit of Forestry, Phone: 35331732 Henning Høgh Jensen, hhj@life.ku.dk, Department of Agricultural Sciences/Environment, Resources and Technology, Phone: 35333391 | |||||||||||||
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| Study Committee AHJ | |||||||||||||
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