Course Objectives

The course will provide students with a basic knowledge of game management in Norway, with special emphasis on game ecology and game care, and the most important game management laws.

Course Description

Important topics:

• Overview of game resources and game production
• Game biology and ecology with habitat requirements, population dynamics, stock regulation and predator-prey relationships. The most important wildlife species will be specially discussed with an emphasis on the conditions that are important for management. This concerns both game and other wildlife species
• Predatory animal management. Overview of the public and private management of these animals
• Laws and regulations, game committees, hunter licences, organisation of landowners and hunter associations etc

Learning Methods

50 hours of lectures. An individual term paper must be submitted for assessment as part of the assessment.
Obligatory: 5-day field course.
The term paper will contain a multiple-choice exercise, and be written individually but presented for the discussion of various themes in groups.

Assessment Methods

Two grades will be given for two part exams: The term paper counts for 30% and the final examination (4 hours) counts for 70% of the final grade.
The term paper and field reports must be approved before students can take the final examination. Both part-exams must achieve pass marks.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean