2025/6, Trimester 2, In Person,
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| Occurrence: | 001 |
| Primary mode of delivery: | In Person |
| Location of delivery: | SIGHTHILL |
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| Member of staff responsible for delivering module: | Robert Briers |
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| Student Activity (Notional Equivalent Study Hours (NESH)) |
| Mode of activity | Learning & Teaching Activity | NESH (Study Hours) | NESH Description |
| Face To Face | Lecture | 22 | Lecture sessions will provide the foundational knowledge which will be applied in tutorial and practical sessions to develop understanding of both core concepts and applied knowledge in environmental quality assessment |
| Face To Face | Tutorial | 4 | Tutorials will focus on developing skills in analysis and presentation in relation to the coursework report and subsequent take-home exam |
| Online | Guided independent study | 168 | Each week reading materials and resources will be released on Moodle. You are expected to read and reflect on the essential reading material as well as the directed questions provides for each week and bring any questions to the teaching sessions. |
| Face To Face | Practical classes and workshops | 6 | Practical classes where freshwater ecotoxicological experiments will be undertaken in groups. The data collected will form the basis of the coursework assessment. |
| Total Study Hours | 200 | |
| Expected Total Study Hours for Module | 200 | |
| Assessment |
| Type of Assessment | Weighting % | LOs covered | Week due | Length in Hours/Words | Description |
| Project - Written | 50 | 1~4 | Week 9 | , WORDS= 1500 words | The coursework report focuses on the analysis and interpretation of data from experimental work that was undertaken looking at ecotoxicological responses of a freshwater invertebrate (Daphnia) to pollutants. |
| Essay | 50 | 1~2~3~4 | Week 13 | , WORDS= 2500 words | The take-home exam consists of a series of four questions, of which you will choose two to develop answers to. The questions are aimed to require you to synthesise information across different module topics and undertake literature searching to identify and summarise relevant studies to support your answers. |
| Component 1 subtotal: | 50 | | |
| Component 2 subtotal: | 50 | | | | |
| Module subtotal: | 100 | | | | |