Each student will be required to contribute to group-prepared talks, and deliver their findings to the whole class. Poster presentations will encourage students to prepare work to a high professional standard, and allow them to demonstrate their design skills. Written communication will be tested mainly in the examination. Personal and group initiative will be encouraged. Students will be asked to choose their own polar topic and search out relevant material, although staff will be willing to provide some guidance.
Some suitable materials can be down-loaded from the module website.
Each group will need to identify their own responsibilities. Other transferable skills include use of bibliographic databases, use of Internet to examine work of polar organisations, computer-based presentation of poster materials and scientific synthesis. Polar politics and environmental management 5. The arrangement of topics is not necessarily indicative of the final balance of this module. Longman, Harlow, Essex.