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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.

303368 (v.5) Sustainable Agricultural Systems 301

Area: Department of Environment and Agriculture
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
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.
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork: 1 x 4 Hours Fortnightly
Prerequisite(s):     303340 (v.6) Animal Production 201 or any previous version
    OR
    313570 (v.1) Animal Science 503 or any previous version
AND
    303365 (v.8) Broadacre Crop and Pasture Science 202 or any previous version
    OR
    313569 (v.1) Broadacre Crop and Pasture Science 500 or any previous version
AND
313545 (v.1) Soil Science 200 or any previous version
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.
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: 050100 Agriculture (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 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