Students will be required to complete 1 piece of summative assessment.

Diary (100%). This will comprise answers to the questions posed for each of the topics covered. Each student must provide fully researched and referenced answers to 10 questions. The length of the answers will vary depending on the nature of the question, but none should be more than 300 words

Students will be provided with formative assessment and feedback via the opportunity to submit some answers for formative feedback

Access to the Internet.

Rackham, O.1996. History of the British Countryside. J.M. Dent & Sons, London

British Wildlife (Journal)
Specific references will be given for each lecture during the module

The wildlife of Britain is small relative to other European countries, and the landscape has been affected by humans for millennia. The first part of the module introduces selected groups of British wildlife (e.g. mammals, birds, herptiles, insects) covering aspects such as how they colonised the British Isles, aspects of their ecology, the impacts humans have had on them, and what can be done to ameliorate some of these impacts.

In addition, the module would typically cover issues such as the historical ecology of the British landscape (e.g. the environmental impact of Mesolithic and Neolithic peoples), species extinctions, the impact of alien species, the role of hunters in conservation, the impacts of pollution, the implications of global environmental change, and the role of habitat management and species reintroductions.

Each week a 1-hour lecture (12 hrs in total) will introduce an aspect of British wildlife or a human impact on it, and you will then be set a question related to the topic. The independent study time will be spent researching and preparing answers to the question posed each week.