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The first year is, by far, the year with the most modules within this study. The years packs a nice number of eight modules! This is ofcourse very important since it lays the foundation for the next few years and will explain the basic concepts and elements of the coastal zone field of employment. The first semester (first half) of the year packs the following modules: Period 1 PMK11 - Your study, Your future
Key words:
Future work orientation, company orientation, digital information use, reporting skills, presentation skills, English lessons, oceanography.
Content:
Getting an overview in the field of activity and possible professions in ICZM. Collecting information about the function-requirements of a chosen profession within the coastal zone- field. PKZ01 - The sea as a source of life
Keywords:
Morphology of coasts, seas and oceans, ecological systems, chemical and physical of seawater, depth and en topography of sea floor, tides, waves and en currencies, climate effects, sea level rising, biology ,taxonomy en evolution, ecology, habitat, biotope, ecosystem, chemical cycles, tropic levels, food chain en food web, production, ecological values, succession, dynamics, ecological modelling, sustainability, soft shores. Practical training biology.
Content:
This module is an introduction to the 3rd year’s module stress effects on coast and sea. Furthermore, a week sailing on the Wadden sea is part of this module where they are working on their own ICZM related project, and have to give an oral presentation about their conclusions.
Period 2
PMK12 - Understanding your target group
Key words:
“Customer is king” customer- enquiry. methods en techniques statistics organisation science, change management, SPSS.
Content:
Setting up a quantitative users-analysis with a unambiguous thesis. Marketing is a very important part in this module, understanding that there are different sorts of clients and what specific demands those clients can have, marketing-chains, and what the position is of the students role in the chain, etc. Analysis techniques to set up a customer-contentment inspection and collect data is the second part of the module. The students then use SPSS to process the collected data and draw conclusions. Collaboration is an important part of the project, since all group-members should report their results in one paper.
PKZ02 - Man and the sea
Keywords:
Effects of human activity, factor- and actor analyses, stakeholders, fossil energy, greenhouse effects, sustainable energy, wind energy, wave energy, tide energy, gas extraction, salt mining, sand winning- and suppletion, symposium organisation, proceedings, stakeholder analysis, writing an article.
Content:
Students organize within this module a symposium that focuses on subjects such as the human impact on the coastal zone. Topics as windmill parks at sea, influence of tourism on the Dutch delta’s, ocean pollution or the effect of oil and gas extraction operations in the Wadden. The organisation of the symposium is done by the students themselves, who play the role of an employee of a non profit organisation.
This means that the content of, and not the commercial side of the symposium, plays the principal part. Furthermore, students write an essay about an ICZM subject: they play the role of a journalist for a newspaper or magazine. By doing so students get a better view on the different relations that play an important role in the work field of an coastal zone manager.
Period 3
PMK13 - Advising your target group
Keywords:
Advising, Intake conversation, Follow-up conversation, Advise conversation, Conversation techniques, Ethics, population dynamics, research techniques, Ethology, Welfare, Test animals, feedback.
Content:
This module concerns the art of advising. The students learn how to anticipate on the wishes and needs of the customer. A customer can vary from an individual or organisation, a company or a governments organisation. Group-dynamics-lessons are taken to learn the actual advise, and to learn how to give feedback.
PHG01 - Process management
Information will follow!
Period 4
PHG24 - Spatial planning and GIS
Keywords:
Spatial planning, spatial analysis, spatial development, GIS, Adrisi Andes, Lauwersmeer, area planning, land use, flooding scenarios, flooding frequency, Hydrology, development sketch, communication, data collection, data processing, management, methodical and reflective thinking, layered approach, Remote sensing.
Contents:
The present Lauwersmeer area is a former river delta into which the rivers Lauwers, Hunze and Ee discharged. The Wadden Sea tides dominated the area. In 1969 the Lauwer Sea was closed off in order to protect the surrounding land against flooding. Since then the Lauwersmeer area has developed into an important nature area with rare (wet) dune vegetations and enormous bird diversity. In 2003 the area received the status of National Park.
The characteristic nature values of National Park Lauwersmeer are slowly deteriorating. This is due on the one hand to slow desalination of the former salt marshes, but due also on the other hand to the human dominated water level management. Grazing by horses and cattle can slow down the slow increase in woodlands, but cannot stop it in the end. The Lauwersmeer area may change from an open water-rich area to a wooded lake area.
The students task is to write a development plan that takes the new water management strategy into account (recovery of tidal influence) without compromising safety and paying attention to present functions (nature, recreational co-use, agriculture, military range) and the expected/desired developments in those functions. A GIS is often used to provide insight into the consequences of changes in the use of space. Therefore, you should become familiar with it and gaining basic GIS-skills is important.
The professional products are a map which shows the frequency of flooding and a sketch of general development of the area accompanied by an explanatory report. The flooding frequency map should be made with the use of a Geographical Information System (GIS). Your clients could be the provinces of Groningen and Fryslân and the water boards Noorderzijlvest and Wetterskip Fryslân.
Competences :
Students of Coastal Zone Management will work explicitly on the following competences:
• Communication
• Making an area plan
Making a sketch for the development, use and management PKZ03 - Economy of coast and sea
Keywords:
Macro- en company economical analysis, stakeholder-analysis, Environmental Effects Report, feasability study, invest selection: theory en –techniques, rentability analysis, macro-economical effects, logistics, compensation measures, Social Expenses-Assets Analysis, ratings systems.
Contents:
In the module “Economy of coast and sea”, the economical appraisal of human activities in the coastal zone is the main topic, and especially the ecological value of a certain area. The students learn how to evaluate different activities, and to look at the activities in different points of view. Eventually the students gain insight in how decision-making occurs in a large-scale.
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