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This mandatory entry level postgraduate diploma course provides students with an online generic and discipline-based training in research design and methodologies. It is a prerequisite course for students undertaking independent research at the postgraduate level in the humanities and social sciences and related discipline areas. The course delivers training in a range of generic transferable research skills, linking them to relevant research, pedagogical, epistemological and scholarship issues at the discipline level.

Equivalent to MS202. Invertebrates play key roles in all ecosystems and exhibit huge diversity. This course involves the study of invertebrate classification, identification, anatomy, functional biology and evolutionary adaptation to environmental change. A habitat-based approach is used to cover invertebrates living in terrestrial, marine and freshwater environments while using case studies to examine the economic and ecological importance of invertebrates in a local, regional and international contexts. The course also provides a link between 100-level and animal-oriented 300-level degree courses in biology, particularly BI305.

Equivalent to MS202. Invertebrates play key roles in all ecosystems and exhibit huge diversity. This course involves the study of invertebrate classification, identification, anatomy, functional biology and evolutionary adaptation to environmental change. A habitat-based approach is used to cover invertebrates living in terrestrial, marine and freshwater environments while using case studies to examine the economic and ecological importance of invertebrates in a local, regional and international contexts. The course also provides a link between 100-level and animal-oriented 300-level degree courses in biology, particularly BI305.

This course describes the skills and knowledge required to follow appropriate social principles and practice good governance procedures when undertaking Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) activities. It also requires a coastal fisheries or aquaculture MCS officer to outline knowledge of international legal instruments and policies that impact MCS work; explain defined MCS outcomes for effective fisheries management; and clearly communicate fisheries administrator related messages. The application of all this knowledge will then be demonstrated in exercising powers of authorised fisheries officers through conducting searches, cautioning or reporting suspects and assessing or preserving crime/incident scenes.