Latest Module Specifications
Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026
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Description Fieldwork is an integral part of a geographers training and education, providing opportunities to acquire a huge range of skills that cannot be gained in a classroom setting, while allowing engagement with, and opportunities to better the world. Building on learning and experiences from geographical fieldwork, research and communication skills modules completed in previous years, this third year residential field course provides each student with an opportunity to deploy, refine and augment these core skills and capabilities during an intensive period of fieldwork. Conducting fieldwork in a range of locations including varying landscapes, ecosystems and urban environments, this module creates unique opportunities for experiential learning, as students identify, examine, record, measure, analyse and provide solutions / outcomes to a range of real world themes and issues within the fields of physical / environmental and human geography, facilitating the bridging of concepts and ideas covered in class to the real world. Each student working both individually and in smaller teams, will informed by context based applied learning, design and investigate a specific theme and / or challenge, plan and implement their fieldwork, gather relevant data and information, manage and analyse it, and finally communicate their findings / solutions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Identify and refine an appropriate and achievable research question that can be tackled through fieldwork 2. Work effectively as part of a team, in designing and implementing effective fieldwork 3. Employ appropriate techniques and skills in capturing, measuring, recording, storing and analysing fieldwork findings and data 4. Communicate their fieldwork findings in a range of innovative and original formats 5. Record and reflect in a meaningful manner on their own experience, process and practice of fieldwork | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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