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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

314162 (v.1) Food Chain Systems 200

Area: School of Management
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Introduction to agribusiness systems to understand how agricultural products are produced and how they get to consumers. Exploration of the concepts of systems and systems analysis. Application of concepts to an analysis and evaluation of agribusiness systems (supply or demand chains). Topics include: Consumer markets (food service and retail); Chain intermediaries (import/export, wholesale, transport, processing); Agricultural production systems and Input supply industries. Agricultural production systems include intensive (aquaculture, horticulture, viticulture, pigs, horses, poultry), broadacre and pastoral (grain, beef, sheep, wool) and equine industries. There is a field trip component of this unit.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 080399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley 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