309712 (v.1) Advanced Horticultural Technologies 402

Area:

Muresk Institute

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

7.0

** 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 3 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

2 x 2 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

    11402 (v.4) Introduction to Wine Marketing and Business 201 or any previous version
    OR
    303324 (v.2) Food and Agribusiness Marketing 201 or any previous version

Syllabus:

This unit will provide students with a working background of new technologies associated with horticulture. The course will emphasize new production technologies for intensive horticultural production including protected cropping systems, environmental control, soilless growing systems, integrated pest and disease control systems, mulches, organics and biodynamic crop production systems, sustainable production systems and life-cycles, genomics and precision horticulture. Includes the application of technology in Australia and internationally, ethics of the technology and supply chain, business and policy considerations. Case studies will be used extensively.

** 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:

059999 Agriculture, Environmental and Related Studies not elsewhere classified

Funding Cluster:

10 - Agriculture

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
2007	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