Duration
36h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course covers a non-exhaustive list of concepts, practices and tools for biodiversity management that will help students understand, reflect and question from the perspective of 7 themes:
- The concept of nature and biodiversity.
- The history of nature and biodiversity management and how it helps to understand current challenges.
- Managing biodiversity, negotiating with communities
- A nature to be protected, that is established
- Managing the living, dealing with relationships and situations
- The protected species is not an ideal modes of existence...
- The skills of nature managers.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The course aims to equip future environmental managers to enable them to deal with the issues related to the management of biodiversity. The latter are characterised by a multitude of actors, institutions, projects and standards. The objective is for students to become capable of autonomously developing critical analysis protocols in the face of the multitude of norms, practices and tools in circulation in the world of nature management.
Learning outcomes :
- Thinking about biodiversity issues by crossing disciplines (based on knowledge from anthropology, philosophy, ecology, management sciences, etc.).
- thinking about biodiversity management through problem-situations (based on case studies, audio-visual aids, reports from stakeholders in the field, etc.).
- to work autonomously and collaboratively (through active and collaborative teaching methods)
- to develop reflexivity.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The learning activities are designed to provide autonomous and collaborative input to the study of the different themes of the course through :
Theoretical and thematic presentations
Reading scientific articles
Viewing audio-visual content
Debates
Personal research
Formulation of reflections and questions
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
The course is balanced between traditional face-to-face sessions and individual distance work to feed into a collaborative learning platform.
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
Recommended or required readings
Course accompanied by a portfolio of readings, videos and power-point, available on the ecampus platform.
A virtual collaborative learning space is developed on the padlet platform to accommodate the content brought by students and keep track of the process.
Assessment methods and criteria
Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.
Closed book written examination in January session + participation (20%).
Examination based on three components :
- personal work through an individual case study instructed from the angle of the different themes of the course
- personal and collaborative work around emerging issues in the process
- ability to discuss the theoretical material of the course
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Dr. Dorothée Denayer
Socioecology and Nature Management
Dpt Environmental Sciences and Management
d.denayer@ulg.ac.be
University of Liège - Campus d'Arlon
Avenue de Longwy 185, 6700 Arlon
Tél : 0032 63 23 09 44