Ecoleg / Ecology and ConservationEcoleg / Ecology and ConservationAL100E Peat and Peatlands in Wales (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support. The course will begin with a review of how peat and peatlands form, their vegetational and structural history and the range of peatland types to be found in Wales today.
AL101E Animal Diversity (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support. What is the difference between an earthworm, a round worm or a slowworm? Are goldfish more closely related to starfish or to jellyfish? This course will uncover the science behind sorting out members of the Animal Kingdom and reveal their evolutionary relationships.
AL102E Field Survey Techniques (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery 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.
AL103E Understanding British Mammals Insectivores, Rodents and Lagomorphs (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Blended learning with face to face sessions at Denmark Farm:- 19/10/24 & 20/10/24 This course gives a thorough introduction to shrews, moles, hedgehogs, mice, voles, rats, squirrels, beavers, rabbits and hares.
AL104E Understanding British Mammals: Mustelids, Canids and Ungulates (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Blended learning with a face to face session at Denmark Farm:- 02/11/24 This course gives a thorough introduction to the otter, badger, pine martin, polecat, stoat, weasel, red fox, wild boar and deer.
AL105E Water Birds Identification (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support. Our lakes, rivers, estuaries and seas are incredibly important for a whole variety of water birds that spend the winter here.
AL106E Discovering British Marine and Freshwater Invertebrates (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support. This module explores the vast diversity of marine and freshwater invertebrates, using British examples.
AL107E An Introduction to Fungi (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support. The Kingdom of Fungi is a fascinating, ancient and diverse one. In this introductory course, we delve into this world, looking at the vital ecological role fungi play in our forests and showing how species vary according to habitat - be this woodland or pasture.
AL108E Dealing with Data: An Introduction to Statistics (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support. Are you ready to unlock the power of data? This 6-week online course is designed to equip you with the essential skills to understand and deal with data.
AL109E Pollution Monitoring (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support. Tackling the pollution we produce as well as mitigating its effects has become a vital, global mission. On this module, students will learn about different types of pollution and how to identify the various sources.
AL110E Identifying Non-flowering Plants (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online self-paced learning. 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.
AL111E Introduction to Permaculture (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Blended learning with 2 Face-to-Face sessions at Denmark Farm - 09/11/24 and 10/11/24. 10 Credits This module begins with 3 short units online, followed by a weekend at an inspirational site where we will practice permaculture design tools and observation techniques. It introduces permaculture as an approach to designing more sustainable and regenerative ways of living and working on the Earth.
AL112E Reflection on how transport and health interconnections could improve your practice (2024/25)DescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support. You will learn how your own work can be informed by themes of feeling safe on the streets at all ages, taking the perspective of a whole journey and a whole system and how to use behaviour science and knowledge of cars as a cultural norm to make a change in your area of work.
AL113E Plant Diversity (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online with optional in person sessions Plant Diversity can be studied as a stand-alone course, but it is also a core module for the Certificate of Higher Education in Field Ecology at Aberystwyth University. This course will introduce students to the taxonomy and evolution of plants, enabling them to find some order in the huge variety of plant species inhabiting the earth. Evidence for evolutionary relationships will be discovered through examining the structure, diversity of form, and life cycles of major plant groups.
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