Module: Crop Production Affecting the Hydrological Cycle (4907-430)

Persons:

• Prof. Dr. Folkard Asch (verantwortlich)
• Dr. Sabine Stürz (begleitend)

Degree Program:

• Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics (until WS 2018/19) (Master, since 01.10.2014)
  2. Semester, elective
• Landscape Ecology (Master, since 01.10.2014)
  2. Semester, elective
• Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics (from WS 2019/20 on) (Master, since 01.10.2019)
  2. Semester, elective
• Crop Sciences - Plant Nutrition and Protection (Master, since 01.10.2014)
  2. Semester, elective
• Environmental Science - Soil, Water, and Biodiversity (Regulations 2014) (Master, since 01.10.2014)
  2. Semester, elective
• Environmental Science - Soil, Water, and Biodiversity (Regulations 2019) (Master, since 01.04.2019)
  2. Semester, elective
• Environmental Science - Soil, Water, and Biodiversity (Regulations 2014) (Master, since 01.10.2014)
  2. Semester, elective
• Environmental Science - Soil, Water, and Biodiversity (Regulations 2019) (Master, since 01.04.2019)
  2. Semester, elective

Prerequisites for Attendance:

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Sprache:

English

ECTS:

7,5 credits

Frequency:

every summer semester

Length of the Module:

4 weeks (block 3)

Compulsory assignment:

Written paper in the form of an exercise (20%)

Final examination:

Oral exam (80%)

Workload:

80 h presence + 140 h preparation at home + exam = 220 h workload

Professional competences:

After completing the course, students can explain the different aspects of plant water use and its importance in the global water cycle. They can illustrate that the cycle of water is globally closed and how plants and plant production influence the global distribution of water and contribute to the water cycle.
Students are able to apply modelling of systems for cropping, watersheds, land use change effects and regional water balances.

Key competences:

During preparation for exams, while preparing and following up on lectures and during the exercises, students learn and practice critical and analytical reading of original scientific literature. Through the exercises and during the extended oral exam (explained below), students practice and improve their capability of exploring a scientific issue and of presenting a scientific subject. Students learn how to moderate scientific discussions, while moderating and presenting enhances their communication skills.

Comments:

Maximum number of participants = 16

The extended oral exam (80%) refers to a week of different discussion sessions which together yield the final mark in the following way: suitability of papers selected (15%), application of knowledge acquired in the Module (20%), active participation in the discussions also through questions and clarifications (20%), consistency of quality interventions (20%), handout and intro to the discussion (10%), discussion moderation (15%).

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