Availability:
Available to external students in first Semester

Residential School: 24 - 29 April (Mandatory)

Online level: 0

Co-ordinator: Dr Peter grave

Objectives: Student who successfully complete this unit will be able:

• To develop students' basic field studies skills,
• To develop an appreciation of the importance of project design and the correct methodological and ethical approach to field studies,
• To develop student's capacity to utilise field data in project reports.

Content: This unit provides students with an understanding of the basic principles of field research that are of importance in environmental studies including physical geography, planning, and archaeology. After completing preliminary readings and exercises, the practical focus of the unit will be a six-day coastal field school which will include field note taking, field use of maps and air photos, field measurement, site surveys, basic plan making, cartographic skills.

Wherever possible, the appropriate context for the skills will be established in the field (such as in an exercise on the documentation of a site or archaeological site excavation). Assessment will be through both individual assignments and team projects.

Assessment:
Assignment 1. Preparation of sketch map and short text based exercises: 100 - 10%, 200 - 5%. Field School exercises: 100 - 50%, 200 - 50%.
Assignment 2: Field Study report: 100 - 40%, 200 - 45%.

Prescribed Text: No prescribed textbook.