AGRI11002 - Plant Science and Crop Production

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit, you will be introduced to the foundations of plant science including introductory plant physiology (structure and function), and taxonomy related to agricultural cropping. You will investigate a range of crop production systems including dry-land, irrigated, intensive vegetable cropping, broad acre grain and fibre cropping, horticulture and orchard cropping. You will develop knowledge of crop nutrition, crop protection, agri-tech, environment impacts and legislation relevant to cropping, which will provide you with the foundations from which you will extend your learning in future units in this course.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 1
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

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).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

Term 2 - 2025 Profile
Bundaberg
Emerald
Mixed Mode
Rockhampton
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
Bundaberg
Emerald
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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

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This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 77.78% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 21.95% response rate.

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.

Source: Self reflection.
Feedback
Feedback on assessments needs to engage the student so it is useful for future improvement.
Recommendation
Students will be requested to provide information on how they would like to receive feedback. Where possible these requests will be met to improve student learning.
Action Taken
Students were questioned on how they would like to receive feedback. A small number of students identified they would like to receive interactive discussion style question and answer style feedback in class, both during the preparation of assessments and following grading of assessments. This was provided for all assessment pieces.
Source: In class.
Feedback
Face to face and online tutorial sessions were extremely helpful.
Recommendation
Face to face sessions will continue including a range of practical demonstrations and activities.
Action Taken
Face to face sessions were delivered in 2024 including some new workshop activities and practical demonstrations.
Source: Student Unit Evaluation Scores
Feedback
Assessment feedback was not useful.
Recommendation
The unit coordinator will engage students to request favoured feedback mechanisms and will endeavour to implement these requests.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Unit Evaluation Comments
Feedback
Additional activities were requested for the residential school.
Recommendation
Additional activities will be developed for the residential school.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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