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Issues in New Zealand Biosecurity

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 November 2015
End Date: Sunday, 13 December 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 29 November 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 6 December 2015

Description

This course will establish a scientific, legal and practical definition of biosecurity and pursue the ramifications of breaches to the systems in place to protect New Zealand from such affronts to our security.

Prerequisites

60 points at 100-level

Restrictions

BIOS101

Course Coordinator

Tara Murray

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Multi-Choice Quizzes 5%
In-Class Test 15%
In-Class Test 15%
Media Assignment 15%
Research Report 50%

Notes

Lecture dates:  
Week 1: 23, 24, 26 and 27 November; Week 2: 30 November, 1, 2 December.

Test dates:
Week 1: 27 November 9-10am; Week 2: 3 December 9-10am.

Study days are scheduled into Weeks 1 and 2 and a computer lab has been reserved for Friday 4 December for students to work on and submit a 15% assignment. In Week 3 (7-11 November) students will complete an independent research assignment worth 50% of the course grade. This is the final piece of assessment for the course and is due at 5pm Friday December 11.

A draft timetable for the course can be requested from the School of Forestry office (jeanette.allen@canterbury.ac.nz) from Monday 16th November.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $697.00

International fee $2,913.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 250

For further information see School of Forestry .

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