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AZA3550

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 20 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

South Africa School of Social Sciences

Coordinator(s)

Mr Marshall Mdoka

Offered

South Africa

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

The unit is linked to the subject of climatology which is the science that seeks to describe and explain the nature of climate, why it differs from place to place, and how it relates to other elements of the natural environment and to human activities.

Outcomes

In order to successfully complete the unit the student will need to:

  1. Understand basic atmospheric processes and how they lead to weather and climate over Southern Africa;
  2. Appreciate the land surface-ocean-atmosphere interactions and how they affect the weather and climate of southern Africa;
  3. Be able to apply climate knowledge to a range of practical and social problems;
  4. Understand the concept of climate change and how this varies from climate variability;
  5. Show an awareness of the social and political context to climate change and the impacts, adaptation and mitigation of such change;
  6. Develop knowledge and skill of weather and climate interpretation and forecasting.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 50%
Exam: 50%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

Mr Marshall Mdoka

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Geography and environmental science - South Africa

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

AZA2550, ATS2550, ATS3550