FORE610-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Research Methods

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

The nature of the scientific method, planning research, defining objectives, writing proposals and workplaces, experimental design and analysis, statistical procedures using R, making inferences from analyses, drawing conclusions, scientific report writing.

This course is designed to assist students in planning research projects and in designing and analyzing appropriate experiments.

The course is offered in both 1st and 2nd Semesters.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students will gain advanced technical knowledge in
  • Planning research programmes
  • Forest measurement techniques
  • Experimental design & analysis
  • Sampling
  • Forest inventory

    Students will gain a critical understanding of key principles of designing, measuring, analysing and reporting on research studies

    Students will
  • Be able to design research programmes that are relevant to current questions and gaps in our knowledge
  • Be able to measure and analyse their experiments
  • Be able to report on the results of their research, both orally and in writing

    Students will
  • Be able to integrate measurement techniques, concepts and information systems in order to analyse research studies.
  • Be able to effectively communicate methods, results and conclusions of these analyses.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval by the Head of School

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 09:00 - 11:00 Rehua 329
8 Sep - 28 Sep

Timetable Note

The course is delivered via a mixture of online material on Learn and additional seminars notified as required. The seminars will cover the Philosophy of Science and Library resource skills modules.

Lecturer

Euan Mason

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,268.00

* 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.

For further information see School of Forestry .

All FORE610 Occurrences

  • FORE610-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025 - Not Offered
  • FORE610-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025