Addendum to the 2012 Course Information Guide

Prerequisites: Five relevant 200 and/or 300 level courses
Semester: 1 or 2  Nominal Timetable Block: Unblocked
Prescription:
A critical examination of information based on a literature review on a selected topic within the area of agricultural management and agribusiness.

Notes:
(i)The criterion for admission to a research essay is normally a B average or higher in prerequisite courses;
(ii) The research essay may extend but not duplicate material covered in other courses and may not form the basis of any work submitted for credit in another course.  Students must obtain the agreement of a Lincoln University staff member to supervise the essay and the topic must be approved by the student’s Academic Coordinator.
(iii) The prerequisites must reflect background appropriate to the discipline of the research essay.

Prerequisites: Five relevant 200 and/or 300 level courses
Semester: 1 or 2  Nominal Timetable Block: Unblocked
Prescription:
Participation in a research project in collaboration with either an external organisation (in the public or private sector), or a researcher at Lincoln University, and the submission of a research report reviewing literature and documenting the research undertaken and any conclusion reached.  Topics may be chosen within the area of agricultural management and agribusiness.

Notes:
(i)The criterion for admission to a research placement  is normally a B average or higher in prerequisite courses;
(ii) The research placement may extend but not duplicate material covered in other courses and may not form the basis of any work submitted for credit in another course.  Students must obtain the agreement of a Lincoln University staff member to supervise the placement, and if appropriate, the agreement of an external organisation or individual to supervise the work, and the topic must be approved by the student’s Academic Coordinator.
(iii) The prerequisites must reflect background appropriate to the discipline of the research placement.

ERST 614 Special Topic in Risk and Resilience
(2011 November Summer School)

Prescription:
An introduction to, and evaluation of, the concepts of risk and resilience as they are interpreted and applied in particular contexts by different disciplines.

ACCT 604 Advanced Financial Information Management
ACCT 609 Advanced Taxation
ACCT 611 Information Systems Auditing
ANSC 622 Animal Health B
BICH 605 Animal Biochemistry
BICH 620 General Immunology
BICH 621 Options in Immunology
BMGT 606 Organisational Behaviour
BMGT 671 Leadership in Organisations
BMGT 672 Organisational Research Methods
BMGT 673 Strategic Management
BMGT 681 Action Research and Management Learning
BMGT 682 Contemporary Issues in Management and Leadership
BMGT 683 Managing Strategy
BMGT 684 Management Project
BMGT 685 Governing Organisations
BMGT 686 Managing Programmes Of Change
COMN 671 Professional Practice and Contemporary Issues
COMP 671 Information Systems
ECON 605 Microeconomic Analysis
ECON 606  Natural Resource and Energy Economics
ECON 621 Macroeconomic Analysis
ERST 622 Comparative Environmental Policy
ERST 634 Applied Policy Analysis
ERST 671 Environmental Impact Assessment
ERST 672 Environmental Management Systems
FINC 671  Financial Management
FINC 681 Managing Organisational Finances
FORS 671 Forest Valuation
FORS 672 Wood Products, Markets and Marketing
LWST 603 Advanced Valuation Law
MGMT 616 Managing International Development Programmes – Implementation
MGMT 626 Tourism Management Strategies
MGMT 671 Services Management for Tourism
MGMT 672 Service Profit Chain for Tourism
MGMT 673 Agribusiness Environment and Structures
MGMT 674 Agribusiness Management
MGMT 675 Project Management
MAST 604 Kaupapa Matua (Advanced Maori Policy & Planning)
MAST 605 Te Puawaitaka (Advanced Maori Development)
MAST 606 Indigenous Planning & Development
MAST 610 – 615 Special Topics
MKTG 681 Marketing Management
TRAN 672 Transport and Environment B
VAPM 671 Property Investment and Portfolio Analysis
VAPM 672 Property Investment and Portfolio Analysis
VAPM 673 Property Asset Management
VAPM 674 Property Development

The courses for the Postgraduate Diploma in Water Resource Studies are the courses listed in the Schedule to the Regulations for the degree of Master of Water Resource Management

Note: if MAST 319 is included in the courses for BEMP degree, or if students wish to include a minor in Professional Planning with their BEMP degree, then MAST 104 is also required prior to enrolling in MAST 319.

Please note that in order to attain NZPI accreditation, students will need to complete the BEMP plus the prescribed year of postgraduate study by 2015.  After 2015, students will need to complete the Master of Environmental Planning in order to qualify for NZPI membership.

Amendments to the regulations 1, 3, 5 and All Students (2, 3, 4 and 5) as follows:

[1] No fewer that 39 weeks of “full-time” Practical Work must be completed in approved businesses associated with primary production.

[3] A maximum of 18 weeks may be undertaken for any one employer.

[5]  Deleted.

All Students Regulation (2, 3, 4, and 5) is replaced as below:

[2] Any student, with the approval of the Academic Board, may have Practical Work completed in a country other than New Zealand credited to their Practical Work record.

[3] Where appropriate, a student who has completed Practical Work for one Lincoln University programme and who then changes to another Lincoln University programme, may have completed work credited to their Practical Work record for the second programme.

[4] Details of the format of the reports required after each period of Practical Work are set out in the Practical Work Handbooks, which will be provided to students after registration. 

Completed Practical Work Reports must be submitted to the Practical Work Coordinator not later than 31 March following each period of Practical Work.  Any report considered by the Academic Board to have not met the required standard will be required to be revised and resubmitted.

[5] Any student wishing to graduate at the annual Graduation Ceremony must complete their Practical Work, and submit any Practical Work Reports and Practical Work Record Sheets required under those regulations by the preceding 20 February.

Amendments to regulations 3, 5 and 6 as follows:

[3] Details of the format of the Practical Work Reports required are set out in the Practical Work Handbooks, which will be provided to students after registration. Completed Practical Work Reports must be submitted to the Practical Work Coordinator not later than 31 March following the period of Practical Work.  Any reports considered by the Academic Board not to have met the required standard will be required to be revised and resubmitted.  Any student wishing to graduate at the annual Graduation Ceremony must completed their Practical Work, and submit any Practical Work Report and Practical Work Record Sheets required under these regulations by the preceding 20 February.

[5] Diploma in Agriculture, Diploma in Horticulture and Diploma in Organic Husbandry.

Candidates for these diplomas shall complete 12 weeks of ‘full-time’ Practical Work, or an approved ‘part-time’ equivalent.  The Practical Work must be spent on at least 2 different enterprise types, with a minimum of 4 weeks (“full-time” equivalent) on one enterprise type. Students must complete at least half of this Practical Work in New Zealand.

[6] Diploma in Farm Management, Diploma in Horticultural Management

Candidates for these diplomas shall completed 44 weeks of “full-time” Practical Work, or approved “part-time” equivalent, in addition to the requirements for the Diplomas in Agriculture or Horticulture.  This Practical Work must be completed on at least 2 different enterprise types, with a minimum of 22 consecutive weeks of “full-time” work completed on one enterprise. Normally this Practical Work will be completed before the start of the diploma. Student must complete at least half of this Practical Work in New Zealand.

Subsection (2) of this regulation is deleted.

200-level requirements now read:
ANSC 206, BICH 207, plus one of ANSC 213, ANSC 209 or ANSC 210

300-level requirements now read:
ANSC 346, ANSC 323, plus two of ANSC 325, 339, 340, 311, 312, 313

Paragraph 7 amended to read:

The class of honours awarded shall be determined on the performance of the candidate in the following courses: LASC 318, SOCI 314, LASC 406 (30 credits), LASC 409 (30 credits) and two other courses at the 300 level or above. The grade for any of the courses used in the calculation of honours is the grade achieved in the student's first attempt at that course. The courses specified above will normally be completed within two academic years.