2491 (v.5) Geography 211 - Rural and Regional Australia

Area:	Department of Social Sciences
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	5.0
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Lecture:	2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):	3418 (v.4) Geography 311 Rural and Regional Australia - Land Use Trends, Technological Change, Environmental Degradation, Demography, Inequality and Planning AND 11283 (v.3) Australian Studies 351 AND 12655 (v.2) Australian Studies 251
Prerequisite(s):	1436 (v.5) Geography 111 - Natural Hazards or any previous version AND 1437 (v.5) Geography 112 - Global Change or any previous version
Syllabus:	The geography of rural Australia. The nature of Australian rural land use - agriculture, mining and tourism. The impact of technological and structural change in relation to international developments. Land degradation and conservation. The role of government. Australian rural society, rural institutions and settlement patterns. Social issues of rural Australia - the adoption and consequences of technological and structural change. Data collection and analysis.
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Field of Education:	090309 Human Geography
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
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 2				Y
2008	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