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

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