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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.

This course provides students an introduction to general ecology, the science concerned with the complex interactions of organisms with each other and with their physical environment. In this course we study ecology at the scale of the individual organism up to the scale of whole ecosystems and global processes. We include the study of those processes that influence the
distribution, abundance and productivity of organisms and biological systems and consider how human activities alter these patterns and processes.

This course is designed to give all students intending to major in biology a knowledge of data collection and exploratory data analysis, graphical representation of data, experimental design, hypothesis testing and the use of a range of statistical tests (including descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, analyatistics, correlation, regression, analysis of frequency data, analysis of variasis of frequency data, analysis of variance and non-parametric tests). nce and non-parametric tests).

This multidisciplinary course aims to increase knowledge, facilitate learning and strengthen the generic and applied skills necessary for a career in the biodiversity and conservation sector. The course considers the international, regional and national biodiversity conservation frameworks plus concepts and principles of how to design, manage and implement conservation strategies for threatened species and ecosystems. The course is specifically designed for students wishing to do a Masters Degree but is also suitable for those that are interested in climate change or furthering their general biodiversity conservation/ environmental science knowledge.

This multidisciplinary course aims to increase knowledge, facilitate learning and strengthen the generic and applied skills necessary for a career in the biodiversity and conservation sector. The course considers the international, regional and national biodiversity conservation frameworks plus concepts and principles of how to design, manage and implement conservation strategies for threatened species and ecosystems. The course is specifically designed for students wishing to do a Masters Degree but is also suitable for those that are interested in climate change or furthering their general biodiversity conservation/ environmental science knowledge.