AGRO100 Agriculture in Practice

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Offering

Responsible Campus	Teaching Period	Mode of Study
Armidale	Trimester 2	Off Campus
Armidale	Trimester 2	On Campus

Intensive School(s)

Start	Finish	Attendance	Notes
26 June 2013	29 June 2013	Mandatory	On- and off-campus students must attend the intensive school held in June. Ability to enrol in this unit will be removed approx two days prior to the commencement of this mandatory intensive school.

Supervised Exam

There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Restrictions

None

Notes

None

Combined Units

None

Coordinator(s)

Paul Kristiansen (paul.kristiansen@une.edu.au)

Unit Description

This unit examines the effects of climate, temperature, biotic, soil factors, markets and human resources on plant and animal production systems including introductory animal nutrition. The unit is designed to develop an appreciation of the environmental and biological factors that influence agricultural production systems. The unit encompasses practical considerations of the management of Australia's major agricultural and horticultural crops and pastures. This is achieved through practical problem solving exercises in chosen enterprises augmented by field visits to examine various enterprises within the New England area.

Materials

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Assessment

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Learning Outcomes (LO)

Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:

identify the main environmental factors influencing a variety of plant and animal production systems in Australia;
identify the main social factors influencing a variety of plant and animal production systems in Australia;
identify the main biological factors influencing a variety of plant and animal production systems in Australia;
use problem-solving skills to identify the major limiting factors to specific agricultural enterprises;and
communicate the findings of problem solving exercises on specific enterprises in oral and written form

Graduate Attributes (GA)

	Attribute	Taught	Assessed	Practised
1	Knowledge of a Discipline Students will gain knowledge of the key terminology, definitions, concepts and issues of the discipline through all activities in the unit.
2	Communication Skills Written communication skills will be practised and assessed through class activities and assignments.
3	Global Perspectives Unit material will describe the global nature and extent of agriculture, and the importance for Australia. Students will discuss those issues in the classes and assignments.
4	Information Literacy Intelligent processing and effective conversion of diverse information into higher-level knowledge. All assessment tasks will evaluate this attributes.
5	Life-Long Learning Students will be able to integrate learning exercises with current and future workplace activities and gain skills in information acquisition and evaluation. The written problem reports will demonstrate this.
6	Problem Solving The problem-based learning approach will require students to identify constraints on specific farms and develop possible solutions.
7	Social Responsibility The unit will cover social issues in agriculture through lecture material and class discussions.
8	Team Work The problem-based learning assignments will require students to work in groups and to share the compilation of their major written report and seminar or poster. Regular class discussions will reinforce the value of team work.

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