BI2EJ4-Landscape Management Plans for Nature Conservation and Amenity

Module Provider: School of Biological Sciences
Number of credits: 10 [5ECTS credits]
Level: I (Intermediate)
Terms in which taught: Autumn
Module Convenor: Mr RJ Bisgrove
Pre-requisites:
Co-requisites:
Modules excluded:
Module version for: 2008/9

Email: r.j.bisgrove@reading.ac.uk

Aims:
To synthesise the student's knowledge of biological science in order to produce a managment plan of professional quality for a site of conservation and recreational potential.

Assessable learning outcomes:
The student will be able to work with and understand the requirements of a client seeking professional advice on the managenment of a landscape, to integrate a wide range of knowledge of ecology, soil science and other sciences underpinning landscape management and to produce and present a landscape management plan for a specific site to a professionally competent standard.

Additional outcomes:

Outline content:
There will be a short series of lectures on the landscape profession, landscape management plans and landscape specification. Students will work in groups to prepare and present a management plan.

Brief description of teaching and learning methods:
Fieldwork and discussions/workshops will lead to the production of a landscape management report, which will be presented to a client or client group.

Contact hours:

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Lectures		5
Tutorials/seminars
Practicals		25
Other contact (eg study visits)
Total hours		30
Number of essays or assignments		1
Other (eg major seminar paper)

Assessment:
Coursework: Assessment will comprise two parts: the preparation (which counts 60% of the assessment mark) and presentation (40%), of the management plan in the last week of term. The mark for the report is a group mark, that for the presentation is for individual achievement.

Relative percentage of coursework: 100%

Penalties of late submission: in accordance with University policy.

Examinations: none

Requirement for a pass: 40%

Reassessment arrangements: an individual submission of a landscape management plan of approximately 5,000 words in September.