Course Title: Develop a management plan for a designated area
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2009
Course Code: ENVI5049C
Course Title: Develop a management plan for a designated area
School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5161 - Diploma of Conservation and Land Management
Course Contact: Bruce Partland
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 8323
Course Contact Email: bruce.partland@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Nominal Hours: 200
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
Satisfactory completion of all First year courses
Course Description
This competency standard covers the process of developing a management plan for a designated natural resource area. It requires the ability to define the need for a management plan, undertake preliminary
planning activities, prepare a site description, analyse site information, identify management strategies and prepare the management plan. Developing a management plan for a natural resource area requires
knowledge of management planning principles and issues, basic civil design, environmental assessment, survey and analysis techniques, native fauna and flora, pest plant and animals, revegetation techniques,
wildlife habitats, and soil, plant and water testing processes and procedures.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
RTC5504A Develop a management plan for a designated area |
Element: |
1. Define the need for a management plan |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Management plan objectives are identified for the designated area. |
Learning Outcomes
This is a competency based course
Details of Learning Activities
Seminars, classroom instruction and site visits will support students into forming cohesive work units who will co-operatively produce professional management plans. Students are expected to incorporate skills learned in other Units of study to aid in the site and land capability assessment of a designated area, and the production of a Management Plan as a major assessable work project.
Teaching Schedule
Semester 2, 2009. Classes will take place on Monday afternoons from 1pm-5pm.
In addition up to 5 compulsory all-day Site visits will be confirmed in the Timetable.
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
None |
References
Other Resources
Internet, RMIT DLS (Blackboard), and Library resources, including published Management Plans.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment for this course may include tests, assignments, reports and observation of work in the field
Assessment Tasks
Individual:
Report on a Management Plan……………………………….…10%
Satisfactory engagement with co-authoring and communications technology……….10%
Hardcopy of individual contribution to Management Plan… ..20%
Individual edit of entire document……………………………..…10%
Group:
Collection and analysis of site information……………………..10%.
Management aims and strategies flow logically from site / land capability assess…………………………….10%
Management Plan meets agreed Objectives………………… 20%
Management Plan presentation to ‘stake-holders’ ……………10%
Assessment Matrix
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