Courses Handbook 2010

303368 (v.4) Sustainable Agricultural Systems 301


Area: Department of Agribusiness and Wine Science
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
** 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. **
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork: 1 x 4 Hours Fortnightly
Prerequisite(s): 303340 (v.5) Animal Production 201 or any previous version
AND
303364 (v.6) Agricultural Production Systems 202 or any previous version
AND
303365 (v.7) Broadacre Crop and Pasture Science 202 or any previous version
AND
312144 (v.1) Agricultural Production Systems 201
Syllbus: Exploration of agricultural systems in terms of social, economic, environmental and cultural sustainability - the quadruple bottom line. Sustainable agricultural systems appropriate for land management units including intensive, rangeland and broad-acre examples. Impacts on Western Australian agriculture caused by national and global changes. Sustainable practice adoption and social capacity for change. Students will undertake field trips in this unit.
** 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: 050100 Agriculture (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*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
2010 Northam 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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