Postgraduate Diploma in Integrated Water Resource Management

The purpose of the qualification is to provide learners with inter-disciplinary knowledge, specific skills and applied competence in the field of integrated water resource management that provide opportunities for continued personal intellectual growth, gainful economic activity and sustainable management of water resources.

Rationale

The qualification provides South Africa with significant numbers of Postgraduates in the field of integrated water resource management in order to ensure that the local leadership base of innovative and knowledge-based economic and scholarly activity is widened.

Recognition of Prior Learning

Access to the qualification can also be provided in terms of the institution's Recognition of Prior Learning policy and its admission criteria stipulated by Senate. In the Recognition of Prior Learning process learners have to undergo a Portfolio Development Course to support the learner's admission. The PDC will focus on written submission explaining the reasons for the learner' interest in Bioinformatics as an adjunct to their existing professional competencies and indicating the nature of a possible research project.

Entry Requirements

The minimum entry requirement for this qualification is

• Appropriate Bachelor, NQF Level 7.

Postgraduate Diploma (PGD), NQF Level 8, 120 Credits.

Learning components

Core Modules

• Introduction to Water Resources.
• Water Law.
• Basic Economic Analysis.
• Integrated Water Management.
• Managing Complex Organisations.
• Hydro Information.

Select 1 of the following

• Water Resources.

Or

• Water and Society.

Or

• Economics of Water.

1. Identify and solve problems in which responses display that responsible decisions, using critical thinking, have been made.
2. Work effectively with others as a member of a team, group, or organisation.
3. Organise and manage oneself and one's activities responsibly and effectively.
4. Collect, analyse, organise and critically evaluate information.
5. Communicate effectively using visual, mathematical, and/or language skills in the modes of written and/or oral presentation.

The following associated assessment criteria apply across all Exit Level Outcomes

• Display basic research skills in integrated water resource management and to perform a full range of standard and non-standard procedures often in non-standard combinations across the constituent components of integrated water resource management in complex and variable routine and non-routine contexts.
• Communicate effectively, in both oral and written modes, with peers and the broader community using the appropriate structure, style and graphic support.
• Assume responsibility for planning, resourcing and managing processes within broad parameters for largely defined activities and assume complete accountability for determining, achieving and evaluating personal and group output.

Integrated Assessment

Assessment takes place according to strict assessment criteria as outlined in the prescribed module descriptor. Lecturers set assignments, class tests and the final assessment papers in terms of module outcomes viz. Adequate level of relevant text comprehension to be demonstrated, adequate range of relevant sources to have been accessed and relevant problems to have been grasped, and appropriate theoretical and practical assignments and case studies as well as solutions to problems to have been presented This ensures that assessments maintain a certain standard in accordance with the standards as set out in the syllabus. An external moderator moderates assessment papers set. The same principle applies to the final marking of the assessments. This ensures that skills and concepts are mastered, thereby maintaining a standard of assessment relevant to this offering.

The institution has adopted a Continuous Assessment System. Assessment consists of a number of assessment events administered throughout the year and a variety of assessment instruments are used (for example, tests, essays, and practical reports, project reports, oral presentations).