| Ansvarligt institut | Institut for Jordbrug og Økologi
77 % Skov & landskab 23 % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| English Title | Thematic Course: Interdisciplinary Land Use and Natural Resource Management | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tidligst mulig placering | Kandidat 1.år til Kandidat 2. år | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Varighed | En blok | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Pointværdi | 15 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Kursustype | Kandidatkursus | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Eksamen | Sluteksamen skriftlig og mundtlig eksamen Alle hjælpemidler tilladt Beskrivelse af eksamen: Assessment of field report. Individual oral examination in synopsis, field report and course curriculum. Vægtning: Field report: 50% Oral exam: 50% 7-trinsskala, ekstern censur | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Forudsætninger for indstilling til eksamen | Min. 75% participation in excercises. Participation in excursions. Active contribution to groupwork. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rammer for Undervisning | Teaching divided in lectures, excercises and discussions, student presentations and individual supervision. 2-3 weeks field work in developing country. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Blokplacering | Block 3 Ugestruktur: Outside schedule, Field trip in 5th, 6th and 7th week of the course. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Undervisningssprog | Engelsk | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Anbefalede forudsætninger | For logistic reasons, students must enrol by November 5th 2010. Participants must hold a relevant bachelor degree leading towards specialisation within rural development, natural resource management and sustainable land use in developing countries. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Begrænset deltagerantal | None | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Kursusindhold | |||||||||||||||||||||
| The course contents are: - Familiarising with theoretical and methodological approaches to interdisciplinary studies of natural resource management and rural livelihoods in developing countries - Enabling students to apply their own disciplinary skills in interdisciplinary problem-based group work - Training in field based investigation of concrete topics/problems - Ensuring exposure to methods from both natural and social science - Providing students the experience of working with developing country counterparts - Stimulate reflection on all the above The course is jointly organised by Faculty of Life Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University, and attracts students from a range of natural and social science disciplines. Most land use and natural resource management issues in developing countries are best approached interdisciplinary. Hence, the central theme in the course is learning and using interdisciplinary methods and theoretical approaches through problem-oriented field work in a developing country in collaboration with local counterparts. While working with students from other disciplines, students should apply their own disciplinary skills in order to address the identified topics/questions within land use, rural development and natural resource management. Close co-operation with local students will ensure exposure to working in an inter-cultural environment. The course includes training in analysing and developing project proposals; planning and conducting field work; selection and application of data collection methods (e.g. questionnaire design, interview techniques, bio-physical sampling methods, PRA techniques); data recording and processing; and writing field reports. This will allow students to participate effectively in interdisciplinary assignments in developing countries, and serve as a basis for understanding strengths and weaknesses of each student's own discipline, including comparative advantages of academic disciplines relevant to rural livelihoods and natural resource management in developing countries. The SLUSE programme at the former KVL, KU and RUC have carried out interdisciplinary field courses in collaboration with university counterparts in Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Southern Africa since 1998. For logistic reasons, students must enrol by November 5th 2010. Check course homepage for more information: www.sluse.dk | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| The course consists of: -Lectures and practicals on natural and social scientific methods and tools used in field work. Theoretical/contextual and regional specific lectures. Theoretical lectures are followed by exercises demonstrating the practical applicability of the central concepts in field work. -Guest lecture. -Student presentations of key texts. -Group work: Each student will participate in a supervised group. Each group will prepare a synopsis before the field trip, conduct fieldwork, prepare and submit a course report. -2-3 weeks field work in a developing country | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Målbeskrivelse | |||||||||||||||||||||
| The course offers a training experience in selecting, applying and evaluating field methods for natural resource management from an interdisciplinary perspective. After completing the course the students should be able to: Knowledge: - Describe and define central concepts and terms within development and natural resource management - Show overview of field methods for data collection Skills: - Select relevant methods and design of research plan for field study - Collect and process relevant information in field - Make judgment of the usefulness of methods and the reliability of collected data as well as the significance of obtained results. Competences: - Discuss and compare data obtained by various methods in interdisciplinary field work. - Make judgment of own interpretation on complex topics and relevance for the investigated communities. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| A compendium is provided | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Thilde Bech Bruun, thbb@life.ku.dk, Institut for Jordbrug og Økologi/Miljø, Ressourcer og Teknologi, Tlf: 353-33412 Christian Pilegaard Hansen, cph@life.ku.dk, Skov & Landskab/Økonomi, Politik og Driftsplanlægning, Tlf: 353-31735 Torben Birch-Thomsen, tbt@geogr.ku.dk, Institut for Jordbrugsvidenskab/Plante- og Jordvidenskab, Tlf: 3528 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Participants are required to cover transportation costs and insurances to the field trip destination. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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