RSNR120 Sustaining Our Rural Environment II

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Credit Points

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
29 August 2013	01 September 2013	Mandatory

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

AGSY110

Notes

None

Combined Units

None

Coordinator(s)

Geoff Hinch (ghinch@une.edu.au)

Unit Description

This unit aims to expose students to the key principles of economic and environmental sustainability of natural and agricultural systems in Australia. The unit addresses economic issues such as scarce resource allocation, ways of allocating resources: cost benefit analysis, gross margin analysis; growing world-wide emphasis on market-based solutions and consumerism. Then the unit moves to examining key concepts of sustainable plant and animal agriculture and methods for describing these production systems at a landscape level. The final section of the unit will include a choice of one of two modules (specific to the degree of enrolment) that will focus on the science behind the monitoring, description and manipulation of these systems: ie agricultural physics and engineering (including ethical practice and surveying).

Important Information

Where calculators are permitted in examinations, it must be selected from an approved list, which can be accessed from the Further Information link below.

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Materials

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Assessment

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Learning Outcomes (LO)

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

understand the key principles of sustainability as they relate to the management of Australian agricultural and natural resources;
appreciate the economic principles that are involved in decision making about sustainable resource management in agricultural and natural ecosystems;
understand and explain how managed and natural systems provide resources to meet human needs and aspirations;
appreciate and describe the scientific principles that underpin the technologies related to the student's degree, associated with monitoring, description and manipulation of systems (applied physics or engineering); and
demonstrate a range of manipulative, observational, interpretive, written and graphical communication skills.

Graduate Attributes (GA)

	Attribute	Taught	Assessed	Practised
1	Knowledge of a Discipline Knowledge of a discipline is fundamental to the unit and is taught and assessed in both lectures and practical components
2	Communication Skills Skills are taught and practiced both in oral and written format in the test and exam assessment requirements.
3	Global Perspectives Global Perspectives are taught in lectures relating to world resource use and assessed in the examination.
4	Information Literacy Fundamental skills are assessed by the test and Lab work tasks, and principles are taught and practiced as part of practicals.
5	Life-Long Learning This unit focuses on skills training associated with ongoing learning and is a major component of practicals.
6	Problem Solving An approach to systems analysis is taught as a basis for problem solving and utilised throughout the practical sessions.
8	Team Work Practical sessions are largely run in a team environment and awareness of team functionality is taught in 2 practicals.

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