Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

8974 (v.8) Australian Flora 201


Area: Department of Environmental Biology
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 302441 (v.3) Australian Flora 501 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 1756 (v.7) Plant Biology 101 or any previous version
Syllabus: A combination of lectures, laboratory sessions and field trips detailing the general biology, adaptations, ecology and taxonomy of the Australian flora, with particular emphasis on the south-west region of Australia. The course provides and overview of fire responses and fire-related life history traits, parasitic and carnivorous plants, reproductive biology, floral characteristics and taxonomy of selected dicot and monocot plant families, and an understanding of Western Australia's vegetation types.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 010900 Biological Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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