| Department of Agricultural Sciences
34 % Department of Plant Biology 33 % Department of Ecology 33 % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year to MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 15 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination and oral examination Portfolio Examination Some Aid allowed Report Description of Examination: Report on the chosen thematic subject. Report on excursion. Presentation of research papers, supplemented with oral presentation of report. Weight: Report 60%, oral presentation of report 15%, colloquia 15% excursion report 10% 13-point scale, external examiner | ||||||||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | Submission of part report and colloquia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Project group work (groups of 3 to 6 students) Theoretical exercises based on primary literature (journal club).Excursions to relevant research institutions, extension services and production forms. Selected presentations on plant production. Colloquia. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 3 Week Structure: A Block 3 Week Structure: C | ||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | 250031 Plant Infection and Disease Management 250048 Weed Science 250056 Insects in Agricultural and Horticultural Crops 250004 Applied Plant Nutrition 250045 Water and Soil in Plant Production Optional prerequisites for horticulture: 250058 250053. Students are strongly recommended to have a minimum of 2 of the above prerequisite courses, or similar prerequisite knowledge, in order to achieve course competence goals. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||||||
| Competences obtained within basic science: - The student should be able to use their prerequisite knowledge in some of the basic disciplines such as plant nutrition, pest, weed and disease management, irrigation, soil tillage etc. to analyse and discuss interdisciplinary problems related to plant production and protection in agricultural or horticultural systems. - The students should be able to analyse, present and discuss research papers. Competences obtained within applied science: - The students should be able to suggest solutions to interdisciplinary problems related to different types of plant production systems. - The students should be able to apply appropriate methods for evaluating consequences of various solution models Competence obtained within Ethics and Values: - The student should be aware of and discuss the ethical and environmental problems connected with plant production and protection. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||||||
| The students should be able to 1) analyse and estimate potential problems based on one or more chosen cases in plant production and protection (2) and relate it to an appropriate plant production and (3) solve problems related to different types of production. The course provides an important part of the training needed for students who wish to work in agricultural or horticultural extension services or in the administration of land use and environmental protection. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||||||
| It is an interdisciplinary course focusing on existing and future problems concerning planning of plant production and protection, where the students work on case studies. The students are supposed to have acquired knowledge of basic plant production and protection disciplines from previous courses or else where. In this course the relevant methods to solve plant production and protection problems are combined in order to obtain a integrated analysis and evaluation of selected plant production systems. In the beginning of the course students will be presented for some chosen cases they have to deal with to obtain some experience before they start their own case-study in groups of 3-5. The students choose a case-study in collaboration with supervisors. In the course the student can work on abiotic and biotic factors and interactions in relation to land use, resource utilization, crop production, quality of agricultural and horticultural products, environmental issues and production economy in various production systems (i.e., primary level: conventional and integrated production (IP) as well as organic production and secondary level: e.g., fruit, vegetable, greenhouse and arable production). The thematic project should address and identify a crop production problem using relevant agricultural or horticultural disciplines such as: land use and crop rotation; Soil tillage; Plant nutrition and fertilization; Water supply and irrigation; plans at farm and crop level for plant protection against diseases, pests and weeds; Harvesting, preservation and storage; Resources and technology including precision agriculture; Evaluation of consequences of preventative and curative measures on the environment; Quality and characteristic of crops and varieties; Plant breeding and seed treatment; Key aspects of national and international legislation pertaining to plant production and protection. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||||
| The teaching is problem oriented and project organized. The course begins with a 2 day excursion to some horticultural and agricultural plant production units where some specific plant production and protection issues are presented by farmers and discussed. During the excursion possible thematic projects for students are discussed. A few lectures and colloquia are included in the beginning of the course where existing and future problems in plant production and protection are presented and debated in a scientific and interdisciplinary perspective. In the first two week students works part time on some chosen cases suggesting solution concerning plant productions and protection problems and part time defining and describing the thematic project. A Journal Club is included in the course where selected papers of relevance for the project work are presented and evaluated by the students in groups in order to understand, present and explain problems, suggested solutions and opinions about specific plant production and protection issues. The students are expected to present and act as critics on at least one scientific paper, and each student has to attend at least 75% of the journal presentations to be allowed to attend the examination. The presentation is graded as a part of the portfolio examination. The students have to organize a specific excursion for there own group concerning there own subject and an excursion report is as well graded as a part of the portfolio examination. Some teaching may be joined with the course Thematic Course: Environment and Agriculture (course no. 310023) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||||||
| Literature depends of subject matter choosen by the students. Primary and review literature describing research and development of plant production and protection especially relating the subjects. Basic textbooks provide useful background information. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||||
| Christian Andreasen, can@life.ku.dk, Department of Agricultural Sciences/Crop Science, Phone: 35333453 Holger Philipsen, hp@life.ku.dk, Department of Agriculture and Ecology/Section of Zoology, Phone: 35332687 Hans Jørgen Lyngs Jørgensen, hjo@life.ku.dk, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology/Plant Pathology Section, Phone: 35332323 | |||||||||||||||||||
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