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Joint courses are offered twice a year to bring National Forestry Masters students enrolled at different partner institutions together. In 2012, the Australian joint course will be offered at the University of Melbourne’s Creswick campus from February 6–17, and will include a field course. The Asia-Pacific joint course, which comprises 2 days of classroom introduction from regional experts and organizations and 12 days of field-based learning, is planned for 18 November - 1 December in SE Asia.
The following courses are offered in intensive mode in 2012.
Each university also offers other relevant courses; see university websites for details
- Fire and the Environment (31 January – 11 February, ANU)
- Forest Ecosystems (7 February - 18 February, UM)
- International Environmental Policy (14-18 February & 18-21 April, ANU).
- Forest Assessment and Monitoring (28 February - 11 March, UM)
- Forest Planning & Business Management (1 week) (21 March - 25 March, UM)
- Bushfire Planning & Management (4 April - 15 April, UM)
- Measuring Trees & Forests (Session 1, with April intensive week, SCU)
- Trees in a Changing Climate (2 May - 13 May, UM)
- Bushfire & Biodiversity (16 May- 27 May, UM)
- Farm Trees and Agroforestry (30 May - 10 June, UM)
- Measuring Forest Carbon (13-17 June, ANU)
- Forests, Carbon and Climate Change (20 June - 1 July, UM)
- Forest Operations ( 4 July - 8 July, UM)
- Australia’s Forests (10 – 22 July, ANU)
- Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation (11 – 22 July, ANU)
- Participatory Resource Management (13 – 22 July, ANU)
- Bushfire and Climate (11 July - 22 July, UM)
- Plantation Silviculture (Session 2, online, SCU)
- Sustainable Forest Management (25 July - 5 August, UM)
- Silviculture & Forest Dynamics (15 August - 26 August, UM)
- Forests & Water (29 August - 9 September, UM)
- Ecological Restoration (19 September - 30 September, UM)
- Sustainable & Renewable Forest Products (1 week) (10 Oct - 14 Oct, UM)
- Forests in the Asia Pacific* (21 November - 2 December, ANU & UM)
* signifies Joint course
For course descriptions, contacts, and further information, click on the links above, or review each university’s programs and courses by following the links below. Each host institution has a different set of core courses for students enrolled with them, as well as elective options, based on local expertise. An indicative comparison of available courses can be viewed here, and more program-specific detail found at the following sites:
- Australian National University program details and courses
- Southern Cross University program details and courses
- University of Melbourne program details and courses
- University of Queensland program details and courses
- University of Tasmania program details and courses