| Department of Animal Science and Animal Health (200
60 % Department of Agricultural Sciences 20 % Forest & Landscape 20 % | |||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | |||||||||||||
| Duration | 1 semester | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||
| Examination | written examination Aid allowed Description of Examination: 13-point scale, internal examiner Dates of Exam: | ||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures: 1 course module per week Excersis: 4 hours per week | ||||||||||||
| Block Placement | E7, fall | ||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | 120611 Basic Statistics | ||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||
| The aim of the course is to give students essential skills in relation to conducting fieldwork in developing countries. The course is a compulsory part of the M.Sc. programme in Agricultural Development, but is also highly relevant for others interested in research design and methodology. The skills acquired through this course will be useful for research in all agricultural systems (cropping, forest and livestock), and relevant for academic work at all levels, including project and thesis work. | |||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||
| Research and development often takes place within highly complex environments involving both hard and soft systems thinking, in which professionals have to be able to plan and act. The complexity includes, for example, the resource efficiency of diverse cropping systems, the influence of decision-making structures in natural resource management on the well being of farmers, or the access to resources like water, agricultural land, fertilizer, pastures and/or forests. This course goes through research design and selected methods to complement disciplinary skills in order to get the full benefit of subsequent thematic courses, thesis work and post-graduate career. Specifically, the students will have the possibility to acquire knowledge within: when to select and how to apply introduced methods for collecting and analysing data; to plan and conduct fieldwork; and to apply selected data collection and analysis techniques (interview, questionnaire and rapid appraisal) relating natural resource management to household livelihood strategies. The student will obtain knowledge on: systems thinking in problem analysis research processes and design planning and conducting fieldwork qualitative data collection methods quantitative data collection methods data recording data quality data analysis | |||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||
| Lectures. These introduce the research process, methodologies, data collection methods and case studies, and encourage critical reflection of both research design and selection and application of methods. Exercises Group project. This involves designing a research study, designing data collection instruments, collecting data and using data analysis tools. Exercises will be based on participation of students in groups. Web exercises. Working through these will help the student understand most important aspects of concepts and terminology of research design and selected methods. | |||||||||||||
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| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Error. Person Not Found Error. Person Not Found Henning Høgh Jensen, hhj@life.ku.dk, Department of Agricultural Sciences/Environment, Resources and Technology, Phone: 35333391 | |||||||||||||
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| Study Committee AHJ | |||||||||||||
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