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BOTN13002 Plants and the Environment
Plants and the Environment
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General Information

Overview

In this unit, you will study plant ecophysiology, describing in vivo responses of plants to the environment in both an agricultural and environmental context. You will gain an understanding of plant structure and function, including water relations, transport pathways, gas exchange, photosynthesis, respiration, secondary metabolism, nutrition and growth regulation.

Details

Career Level: Undergraduate
Unit Level: Level 3
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 8
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisite: minimum of 72 credit points

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 1 - 2026

Mixed Mode
Rockhampton

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

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Class and Assessment Overview

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Previous Student Feedback

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from SUTE comments and unsolicited end of term emails

Feedback

Residential school is essential

Recommendation

Agreed - the face-to-face interaction and the equipment use assist in understanding the material of this unit.

Feedback from SUTE comments

Feedback

Quiz assessment opening and closing dates should match that in the unit profile.

Recommendation

The quiz on a given weeks material is generally due on the Monday of the second week post class, but this is adjusted in the last weeks of term in order to finish within term. This will be clarified in unit profile.

Feedback from SUTE comments

Feedback

Cover all of the topic in the one recording.

Recommendation

This suggestion reflects disparity between students attending class physically and those watching recordings. I have been recording a weekly presentation made face-to-face to a small cohort, with the benefit that all material is fresh every offering. I need to look at how to break material while maintaining flow for the physical attendees. Separate recordings could be made for a series of concepts/topics, for use over multiple years, with the physical class evolved to a discussion.

Feedback from SUTE comments

Feedback

Do not require students to use the internet for Assessment 4

Recommendation

Assignment 4 is an open-book exercise that is undertaken in a 3 h period within a 24 h period, on-line. As an open-book, on-line exercise, internet use is assumed. Therefore, questions need to be designed that recognize internet resources, including AIs, are available during the assessment exercise. While recognizing bandwidth limitations, more internet/AI use will be explored.

Feedback from SUTE comments

Feedback

Include more pasture and grazing examples.

Recommendation

BOTN13002 services Science, Environmental and Agricultural students, with a balance in content/examples required to maintain relevance to all groups. Agricultural examples have tended to cropping rather than pasture, which can be addressed by inclusion of more pasture case studies.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes

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Textbooks and Resources

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