**Course Overview**
Climate change and biodiversity loss are the twin challenges of our time, choose woodland ecology and conservation to gain the expertise to enable you to become part of the solution.
Delivered by research active academics, some of whom have recent woodland management experience; the course includes lectures, laboratory practicals, computer sessions and fieldwork in the ancient semi-natural woodlands and commercial forest plantations around our beautiful Ambleside Campus, in the heart of the Lake District National Park. You will be inspired by passionate lecturers telling you about their own research findings, and by fieldtrips where staff discuss the ecologically evidence based decisions they made.
The National School of Forestry has been producing future foresters and woodland ecologists for fifty years. A professional body, the Institute of Chartered Foresters, accredits this course, and the Woodland Trust awards the prize for best graduate. Some recent students have also benefitted from our exchange programme with Humboldt State University, studying among the redwoods of California.
**Why Choose University of Cumbria**
- This is the only Woodland Ecology and Conservation course in the UK, possibly the world.
- Woodland Ecology and Conservation (with and without placement) received 100% Overall Satisfaction in the 2019 NSS as part of a group of forestry and conservation courses.
- Full employment of 2019 Woodland Ecology and Conservation (with and without placement) graduates in the woodland ecology and forest industry sector.
- Recent graduates have become National Park Wildlife Rangers, Planning Foresters with Forest and Land Scotland, Woodland Management Consultants and Assistant Forest Managers with Tillhill Forestry.
Course Details - Modules
Year one - Compulsory modules:
Introduction to managing trees, woods and forests,
Biodiversity 1,
Measuring trees and forests,
Ecology,
Silviculture 1,
Biodiversity 2,
Professional Development.
Year two - Compulsory modules:
Biodiversity Monitoring,
Geographic Information Systems,
Forest Policy and Governance,
Silviculture 2,
Forest Health and Protection,
Research Methods and Data Analysis.
Year three - Compulsory modules:
Woodland Ecology and Conservation,
Forest Management Planning,
Dissertation.
Optional modules (subject to availability and demand):
Forest Carbon Management,
Advanced GIS,
Applied Field Studies,
Business Skills,
Urban Forestry and Arboriculture,
Conservation & Society.
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
D440
Institution code:
C99
Campus Name:
Ambleside
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
Must pass all 60 credits, 45 at level 3
GCSE Maths at grade C/4
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Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
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Unistats information
Student satisfaction :
88%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs):
65%
Go onto work and study:
90%
Fees and funding
EU
13250.0
Year 1
England
9250.0
Year 1
Northern Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
Scotland
9250.0
Year 1
Wales
9250.0
Year 1
International
13250.0
Year 1
Additional Fee Information
Visit www.cumbria.ac.uk/studentfinance for more information about student fees and finance, and for details about our alumni discount.
Provider information
Registered Office
Fusehill Street
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Carlisle
CA1 2HH
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