BTEC Extended Diploma in Countryside Management level 3

UPDATED 20160114 16:03:30

Conservation of our environment and our wildlife is more important than ever before with the concerns that human impact has on our world. You will carry out surveys in woodlands, rivers, ponds, peat bogs, farms and learn about the our native wildlife and their habitats in much more detail than covered on the level 2 course, equipping you for a ranger job in the future. You will learn to be responsible for maintaining the infrastructure of a Country Park or National Park and learn fencing, path construction and maintenance, hedge laying, gate and stile construction and pond or river maintenance. If you want to go into a conservation or environmental career and progress into the organisations directly or go onto a university education in these areas, this course is for you. Year one modules: - Principles of wildlife populations, - Ecology and conservation, - Principles of physical and biological environmental processes, - Land use and environmental issues, - Ecological concepts and application, and - Undertaking and understanding woodland management. Year two modules: - Principles of plant and soil science, - Archaeology history, - Environmental interpretation, - Countryside tourism and recreation, - Farm habitat, freshwater and wetland management, - Urban habitat conservation and management, - Vertebrate pest and predator control. The course involves a work placement. You could, for example, work as a countryside ranger volunteer at a local Country Park, the RSPB, the National Trust or the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust where you will gain a valuable insight into what the job entails. These work placements will help raise your profile in the conservation organisations and our students have often gained work directly from these.

Course information

Name: BTEC Extended Diploma in Countryside Management level 3 Qualification title: Extended Diploma in Countryside Management (QCF) Qualification type: Assessment With tutorials, orals, written assignments and practical work. Awarding Pearson Education Ltd (Formerly EDEXCEL) Created 20160114 16:03:30 Updated 20160114 16:03:30

Entry requirements

None

Provider

KIRKLEES COLLEGE
Further Education
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