Wildlife and Conservation Management (Hons) Scotland's Rural College (SRUC)

Overview

Wildlife and Conservation Management (Hons) from Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) offers flexibility, allowing you to choose modules to suit your particular aspirations, and you’ll put the knowledge you gain to good use though real-life scenarios and case studies. This course attracts students of many different ages, backgrounds, and future aspirations. What they all have in common is an interest in studying this unique mix of biodiversity, conservation ecology and people management topics.

Students at Wildlife and Conservation Management (Hons) from Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) will:

• Engage critically with ecological knowledge and methodology required in the practical application of conservation and land management

• Engage critically with the techniques and methods to manage human impact on natural assets.

• Explain debate and demonstrate the need for action in conservation, outdoor access or land management projects and have the pragmatic knowledge and skills to address them.

• Interrogate range of data sources (species, habitat, climatic, etc.) to produce models for improved management and ecological status.

• Manage themselves, team and projects in preparation for careers in diverse range of conservation organisations.

Course guide

• Are you interested in nature and the outdoors?
• Do you wish to conserve our planet and the flora and fauna within it?
• Do you want to learn the skills you need to manage a variety of habitats?
• Maybe you already have an already understanding but want to take it to the next level?
• Perhaps you would like to become a countryside ranger, an ecologist or work with community groups in the environment?