303220 (v.4) Food Chain Systems 101

Area:	Department of Agribusiness and Wine Science
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.
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Seminar:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork:	1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Anti Requisite(s):	303294 (v.3) Food and Fibre Production 101 or any previous version AND 308051 (v.2) Equine Industries 101 or any previous version
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 & 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 & pastoral (grain, beef, sheep, wool) and equine industries. There is a field trip component of 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*:	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
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