Key facts
UNE unit code: BOTY390
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- Trimester 3 - Online
- Yes
- Yes
- No
- 6
Unit information
Add value to your career by enhancing your botanical field skills with a broad range of world’s best practice methods and techniques.
This unit combines online study with a mandatory six-day intensive school, integrating planning, executing and write-up of field-based ecological-botanical-taxonomic studies.
This unit extends your botanical field skills across assessment, monitoring, experimentation and sampling, set within a science-based conceptual framework.
During the intensive school, you will complete a day of pre-trip planning at UNE, four days in the field and one day debriefing at UNE, ensuring you have an authentic, engaging learning experience.
Throughout the unit, you will have opportunities to hone your critical thinking, communication and problem-solving skills, equipping you with the ability respond to the challenges you may encounter in diverse field settings.
Offerings
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Teaching period | Mode/location |
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Trimester 3 | Online |
*Offering is subject to availability
Intensive schools
Start | Finish | Duration | Attendance | Offerings | Notes |
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TBA | TBA | 6 days | Mandatory Intensive School | All offerings | Dates to be advised. |
Enrolment rules
Notes
There will be a 6-day mandatory intensive school with the first and last day at UNE and 4 days spent in the field.
Please refer to the student handbook for current details on this unit.
Unit coordinator(s)
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- plan and undertake field-based botanical studies thereby demonstrating an ability to work autonomously and use well-developed judgment within the subject;
- analyse, assess, identify and report on plant communities which will also demonstrate the ability to transmit knowledge/ideas to others;
- demonstrate the ability to use well-developed cognitive skills by being able to identify, database and voucher plants;
- assess status of plants species at a particular location thereby also demonstrating the ability to apply advanced theoretical and/or technical knowledge of the subject; and
- demonstrate the ability to analyse, generate and transmit solutions to complex problems by conducting experiments that assess plant trait function; communicate this knowledge through oral presentations and written reports.
Assessment information
Assessments are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
Title | Must Complete | Weight | Offerings | Assessment Notes |
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Assessment | Yes | 20% | All offerings | Plant identification test
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Initial Report | Yes | 25% | All offerings | No. Words: 1500 |
Oral Presentation | Yes | 15% | All offerings | Involves PowerPoint presentation |
Unit Engagement | Yes | 10% | All offerings | Participation in Discussion Groups No. Words: 1000 |
Written Assignment | Yes | 30% | All offerings | No. Words: 800 |
Learning resources
Textbooks are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
Textbook information will be displayed approximately 8 weeks prior to the commencement of the teaching period. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
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