Delivery Method: Online  

This module 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.

Delivery Method: Online  

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.

Delivery Method: Online  

This module explores the impact of past and current climate changes on different levels of ecological organisation (populations, communities and ecosystems) and the interactions of biological systems with the climate system.

Delivery Method: Online  

This course will introduce students to the fascinating and often misinterpreted area of animal behaviour.

Delivery Method: Online  

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. 

Delivery Method: Online  

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: Online  

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.

Delivery Method: Online  

This module will introduce students to descriptive statistics. It will enable them to get to know basic terminology used in statistics such as measures of central tendency, hypothesis testing and statistical significance.

Delivery Method: Online  

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a process of evaluating the likely environmental effects of a proposed project or development, taking into account inter-related socio-economic, cultural and human-health impacts, both beneficial and detrimental.  

Delivery Method: Online  

Worldwide, agricultural landscapes and rural habitats have seen a dramatic decline in their biodiversity. Understanding and recording historic land use while managing archaeological and other heritage assets is now an integral part of sustainable, modern field conservation and zero carbon land use regimes.  

Delivery Method: Online  

This module is an introductory but wide-ranging introduction to permaculture as an approach to designing sustainable ways of living and working. It will give a good grounding in the core elements of a permaculture design approach including the ethical framework or values that underpin it, the principles from nature that it draws on, and a design framework for applying them.