Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:08
Lectures by research staff working in aquaculture provide you with specialised knowledge in a range of current issues, including growth, nutrition, health and disease resistance, genetics, and environmental interactions.
Preparation for seminars and course work allow you to direct your own learning and explore methods and current advances in your chosen topic.
Participation in the seminars helps you to develop your communication skills and provides you with feedback on your understanding of the issues.
Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Overview of aquaculture and its global contribution marine food production:
• Nutrition: fish feeds, fish meal fish oil, global shortage, how to overcome this shortage with new diets (plant protein oils)
• Health of farmed animals: diseases, vaccination methods of controlling health, parasitic diseases interaction wild and farmed.
• Selective breeding, genetics, effects on wild populations - future genomic applications to aquaculture.
• Environmental impacts - ecological impacts of aquaculture, diversity, and approaches to reduce environmental loading. Future directions of aquaculture.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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Written feedback on their essays. |
Word Count | 1500 |
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Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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Seminar to the class based on essay title. Students get verbal feedback on their seminars |
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There are no assessments for this course.
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Factual | Remember | ILO’s for this course are available in the course guide. |
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