| Module Identifier | ES20210 | ||
| Module Title | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE FIELDWORK | ||
| Academic Year | 2000/2001 | ||
| Co-ordinator | Dr Henry Lamb | ||
| Semester | Semester 1 | ||
| Other staff | Professor William Adams, Dr Tony Jones, Dr Peter Abrahams, Professor David Kay, Dr Bill Perkins, Dr Ron Fuge | ||
| Pre-Requisite | Acceptance to Level 2 Environmental Science | ||
| Course delivery | Lecture | 4 Hours 4 x 1-1.5 hours | |
| Practicals / Field Days | 8 Hours | ||
| Assessment | Project report | Written reports on each of the field days to be submitted by the end of the following semester. | 100% |
| Supplementary examination | Students who fail to attend the field course without good reason will not be permitted a resit. Students who attend the field course but fail the assessment will be given the opportunity to resubmit assessments by the first day of the resit period for a maximum mark of 40%. Students whose reasons for failing to attend the field course are condoned will be permitted to submit a project for assessment of a type and by a date to be agreed with the module co-ordinator, for a maximum mark of 100%. | 100% | |
Module outline
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Aims and objectives
This module aims to give students first-hand knowledge and understanding of the environmental impacts of water and mineral resource exploitation in mid-Wales, and the longer-term context of human impact on the landscape. It also introduces plant ecological methods, exemplified by a detailed study of three habitats.