Game Management in Forestry Planning (5cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

Course meetings once a week for the following:
- Course introduction/presentation 3 hours online
- 1 field day 8 hours led by experts in Rovaniemi or the student's independent field day organized by him/herself, for example at his/her workplace
- expert lecture 3 hours online/week, 3-4 in total

Reading the assigned study material in Moodle and writing a learning diary throughout the course.

Objective

Riistametsätalouden perusteet Riistan elinympäristöjen parantaminen ja hoitaminen Menetelmät ja niiden käyttö monitavoitteisessa metsäsuunnittelussa huomioiden myös muut monikäytön muodot

Content

Hyvän metsänhoidon suositukset koskien metsien monikäyttöä, luonnonhoitoa ja riistametsätaloutta Riistametsänhoito-työopas ja sen soveltaminen erilaisille metsäkohteille maastossa Riista osana metsien monikäyttöä Riista metsätalouden lisätulona ja harrastusmahdollisuutena Mahdollisten muiden metsän monikäyttömuotojen huomioiminen metsänkäsittelyissä

Location and time

Fall semester September-November.
Field day in Rovaniemi or student's independent field day with the same content and scope as in Rovaniemi.
Online lectures in the evenings.
Independent work in Moodle and writing a learning diary.

Materials

Game Centre online material in English https://riista.fi/en/

Metsähallitus online material in English https://www.metsa.fi/en/

Lecture materials from experts

Independent learning material from a teacher

Teaching methods

A field day led by experts from Metsähallitus in Rovaniemi at the scheduled time
OR an independent field day by the student in their own locality with the same content and scope as in Rovaniemi. Documentation of the completion is to be submitted on Moodle!
Remote lectures scheduled for the autumn semester from September to November.
Course materials on Moodle with assignment.
Course without an exam -Writing a learning diary throughout the course.

Employer connections

Expert guests from working life (Forestry organizations, Game Center, Natural Resources Center in Finland, local hunters, game project experts), their lectures, materials and the terrain sites in a field day they present.

Exam schedules

The course is organized once a year in the autumn.

There is no exam in the course, but the course involves writing a learning diary covering the entire course content based on expert lectures, a field day, the Game Centre and other assigned learning materials found in Moodle. The student compiles the things he or she has learned during the course into a written form according to the instructions given for the final project at the university of applied sciences.

There are 3 deadlines for returning the learning diary: 1. immediately after the end of the course lectures before Christmas, 2. immediately after the turn of the next year and 3. in January at the beginning of the new academic year. The course ends after the 3rd return and the student is welcome to complete the next implementation the following autumn.

International connections

A parallel sister course is offered in English concurrently with this course. Students may, if they so wish, also participate in lectures delivered in English by international experts.
Further details will be provided during the introductory lecture of the course.

Completion alternatives

It is possible to complete the course completely independently, as the materials and recordings of the lectures are available in the course's Moodle.

The student organizes the independent field day on his/her own, if he/she does not participate in the day led by Metsähallitus experts in Rovaniemi. The field day program and content are available in the Moodle workspace.

Student workload

Corresponds to 5 credits, i.e. 135h:
- a field day in Rovaniemi or an independent field day arranged by a student his/herself 8h
- expert lectures in English 3-4*3h= 9-12h
- independent studying, material in Moodle in English 65h
- writing a course learning diary according to final exam formula 50h