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ATS3558
Faculty of Arts
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Level | Undergraduate |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Organisational Unit | Physical Geography |
Offered | Not offered in 2013 |
Coordinator(s) | Dr Ailie Gallant |
Notes
Previously coded GES3890
This unit will deal with human global change and the impacts,interactions and feedbacks within the Earth's different subsystems - the atmosphere, soils, water, and biota.The unit will examine the dynamics of the earth by identifying the major driving processes and responses of the biosphere to energy, water, carbon, nitrogen and other biogeochemical cycles. We will view the earth system across local to global spatial scales. Processes and cycles will be viewed across geological and historical time scales. Humans as agents of change will be addressed.
The unit aims to provide specific knowledge and understanding of climate, biology and geology and their role in current global process and the feedbacks and interactions that exist between them. This will engage students by providing them with relevant information that can be applied to global environmental problems. The unit aims to provide contemporary and innovative ideas and research in the context of global change. The unit aims to develop synthetic capabilities in students through enquiry and integrative research as well as engaging teaching methods. The unit also aims to promote oral and other communications skills. Finally, students should develop teamwork skills through group based research projects.
Oral seminar or debate presentation: 25%
Examination (2 hours): 40%
Research study report (2500 words): 35%
Three hours per week (2 one-hour lectures per week (weeks 1-10), 3 hours seminars per week (weeks 11-12), 5 fortnightly research based activities (2 hours each)).
Sustainability, environment and society
Geography and environmental science (ARTS)
Climate change and society
Land and water management
Second year physical geography, earth science, atmospheric science, biology or by permission
APG4558, ATM3261