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Landscape Analysis - LAND2151
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Equivalent: LAND1152
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

This course focuses on the observation and interpretation of the environment with a particular emphasis on the interrelationship between geology, climate, soils, hydrology, flora, fauna and humans. Concepts of ecology, sustainability, biodiversity, habitat fragmentation, and landscape ecology are introduced. Students review the fundamental characteristics of a range of regional ecosystems, and analyse human modification of the environment. Through a range of assessment tasks, students record and analyse the landscape using inventory, survey, mapping, reporting and presentation techniques associated with the practice of landscape architecture. The course involves several excursions to local sites. Students are asked to contribute to the cost of these excursions.


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