Unit Code: FOR406 Unit Title: Surveying and Forest Roads The first part of the unit provides students with the basic skills of using and handling survey instruments within the forest industry. The instructional areas cover the following: using of a Read More …
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FOR405
Unit Code: FOR405 Unit Title: Silviculture This unit provides a framework to learn the basic concept of silviculture and its importance in forestry. The instructional areas cover the following; the foundation of silviculture, the tropical rainforest distribution, the plantation and Read More …
FOR404
Unit Code: FOR404 Unit Title: Forest Inventory The first part of the unit covers the basic concepts of Botanical nomenclature; the morphological features of a plant specimen; standardized terminology used in plant classification and naming, the Latin, local or trade Read More …
FOR403
Unit Code: FOR403 Unit Title: Forest Ecology This unit concentrates on the development and functions of roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit and seed of plants with emphasis on plantation forest species. Part of it emphasizes the physiological processes of photosynthesis, Read More …
FOR402
Unit Code: FOR402 Unit Title: Soils This unit focuses on the understanding of earthโs internal structures; rock formation, principal rock types and compositions, earthquakes, faults and tectonic plate movements.ย The unit covers different soil classes, the Land Systems of the Read More …
FOR401
Unit Code: FOR401 Unit Title: Forest Utilization & Occupational Health and Safety This First part of this unit covers; the environmental problems caused by uncontrolled logging, ways of minimizing or controlling such problems, procedures for tree felling, de-limbing using axes Read More …
MAT400
Unit Code: MAT400 Unit Title: Applied Mathematics This unit provides forestry students with the opportunity to improve on their mathematical knowledge so that they can perform the tasks expected of them in the forestry sector, in particular interpreting of given Read More …
COM400
Unit Code: COM400 Unit Title: Communication Skills and Report Writing Communication Skills is designed on the premise that improving communication involves raising studentsโ awareness about their own communication ability and building on these to help them cope with their University Read More …
FIS706
Unit Code: FIS706 Unit Title: Aquaculture Economics & Management The Unit primarily covers the theory of fisheries bioeconomics and its two components (biology and economics), basic fisheries bio-economics models and their application in fisheries management. This Unit sets out the Read More …
FIS705
Unit Code: FIS705 Unit Title: Mechanical Engineering for Fishing & Lab This Unit introduces students to the environment of technology innovation and its use in modern fishing industries. The Unit enables students to use the principles of motion, energy, force, Read More …