207-336 Project Planning

202-202 Experimental Design and Statistics, and completion of second-year core subjects.

Upon completion of this subject, students should be able to:

• understand the importance of ethics in research;

• identify sources of knowledge;

• identify the important components of a horticultural problem;

• work as part of a group to investigate a problem;

• collect information relevant to the problem and write a literature review related to the problem;

• plan an investigation to test hypotheses related to the problem; and

• initiate a program of investigation into the problem.

Groups of students will select a problem to be studied during the course of this subject. Appropriate literature and other resources will be consulted to provide a background to the problem and a plan of action will be formulated to begin investigating the problem.

Literature review of 2000 words (50%); seminar (15%); assessed input to project management (35%).