Delivery method: In person teaching in Hugh Owen B21b, Penglais Campus. 

Britain’s coastlines are dynamic landscapes shaped by time, energy, natural processes and human activity. In today’s climate of extreme weather, environmental degradation and socioeconomic instability, it is increasingly important to consider the factors that create and reshape coastal areas, as well as current pressures, solutions and future possibilities for ‘life on the edge'.

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

We all interact with each other and the wider environment that we live in. With such intertwined and complex systems how can we begin to understand how it all fits together and how our actions affect the natural world around us?

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

This Rocky Shore Ecology course focuses on the effect of tides and wave action on the rocky shore environment.  

Delivery method: Online scheduled sessions, Saturdays 10.00am - 12.00pm. 

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support.

Clean freshwater is a vital component in the maintenance of all living organisms. Clean freshwater is a vital resource for all the processes of our modern life.

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

This course seeks to introduce you to the vast diversity of invertebrates (both land and sea), including examples from the UK that you might find in your garden or the sea.

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

Studying field survey techniques is valuable for anyone involved or interested in land management as you learn key practical skills such as how to use the relevant landscape and regulatory frameworks, designations and policies relating to the historic environment.  

Delivery method: Blended; Online learning with a compulsory two day in-person session on the 24th and 25th of October in Denmark Farm, Lampeter, 10am to 5pm. 

This course is one in a series on British mammals and focuses on insectivores, rodents and lagomorphs. It gives a thorough introduction to these mammals including shrews, moles, hedgehogs, mice, voles, rats, squirrels, beaver, rabbits and hares. This course also covers non-native and invasive species. 

Delivery Method: Online learning with tutor support.

This course explores the fascinating world of the birds that visit Wales during the breeding season before undertaking remarkable migrations to spend the winter in warmer regions of Europe and Africa.

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

One of our great wildlife spectacles are huge flocks of wintering water birds. Waders, ducks, geese, swans and gulls, there are a huge range of species and lots of exciting identification challenges to get to grips with. 

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

The course will begin with a review of world peatlands and how peat and peatlands form. The vegetational and structural history of peatlands in Wales will then be considered in this wider context. 

Delivery Method: Blended; Online learning with two in-person sessions on the 28th and 29th of November in Denmark Farm, Lampeter, 10am to 5pm.

This course gives a basic but wide-ranging introduction to permaculture as an approach to designing more sustainable and regenerative ways of living and working on the earth. 

Course Overview

Students will have access to a PDF of each week's lesson along with any additional support materials as needed. These resources can be accessed at your convenience - and a minimum of about an hour will be needed to comprehend the content weekly.

Additionally, there will be a group seminar to practice the key concept(s) from that week, at a time to suit the group. These will be optional, but we encourage attendance so that you can get to know your fellow students.

Participants will need to be familiar with the key concepts before the weekend at Denmark Farm Conservation Centre, which will include practice sessions and site visits to deepen your knowledge of the permaculture design approach.

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support. 

Tackling the pollution we produce as well as mitigating its effects has become a vital, global mission.

Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support.

The module will introduce learners to cryptogamic botany characteristics, focusing on ferns (vascular plants without flowers and seeds). Skills will be extended towards identification and understanding their lifecycle, economic importance and conservation.