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Module

NES3002 : Applied Crop Protection

  • Offered for Year: 2024/25
  • Module Leader(s): Dr Paul Bilsborrow
  • Other Staff: Professor Neil Boonham
  • Owning School: Natural and Environmental Sciences
  • Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Semester 1 Credit Value: 10
ECTS Credits: 5.0
European Credit Transfer System

Aims

To provide students with detailed knowledge and encourage understanding of the principles of applied crop protection for temperate crops. To develop skills in researching, organising and presenting scientific information, in verbal and written forms, both individual and small groups.

Outline Of Syllabus

Weed, pest and disease control strategies for cereals, oilseed rape, potatoes and sugar beet.
A major focus of this module will be on chemical control options for arable crop production and the consequences of increasing levels of resistance to these chemicals.

Current developments in Cereal disease control

Current developments in Virology

Current developments in Entomology

Current developments in black-grass control

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Comment
Guided Independent StudyAssessment preparation and completion124:0024:00Revision for end of semester exam
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesLecture82:0016:00N/A
Guided Independent StudyIndependent study160:0060:00N/A
Total100:00
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Lectures deliver the underlying knowledge needed by students to understand the relationships between crop protection and performance.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Exams
Description Length Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Written Examination1201A100End of semester exam
Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The exam assesses a student's understanding of the key content of the delivered module and information from a range of other sources. It enables them to demonstrate and synthesise knowledge and understanding of the effects of chemical control options within an Integrated Management approach to crop protection.

Study abroad students may request a take-away exam paper to be returned via NESS.

Reading Lists

Timetable