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303364 (v.2) Grazing Animal Production Systems 302


Area: Muresk Institute
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: 3 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork: 4 x 1 Days Quarterly
Prerequisite(s): 303294 (v.2) Food and Fibre Production 101
AND
303297 (v.2) Animal Science 102
 
Syllabus: Animal production systems that utilise grazing strategies. Factors influencing productivity in grazing animal systems of production. Grazing management options available and the advantages and disadvantages of those options. The individual characteristics that influence production from pastoral, agricultural and rangeland regions. The application of the principles of applied reproduction, population genetics to the development of breeding programs for grazing animals. Development of animal production plans for grazing animals.
 
** 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: 50100 Agriculture (Narrow Grouping)
Funding Cluster: 10 - Agriculture
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*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
2005 Northam Campus Semester 2 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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