AGRI13007 - Agricultural Change Implementation

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit focuses on the practice and development of key critical thinking and problem solving skills required in agricultural systems management. You will develop and apply analytical reasoning, to critically analyse challenges, identify and create opportunities, and bring creative, innovative, empathetic and ethical problem solving skills to business management, learning and research opportunities. You will complete a research project that will identify a current emerging issue in agricultural production, and apply the critical thinking and problem solving knowledge and skills to analyse the issue, propose and evaluate solutions, select a solution and develop implementation and monitoring strategies. You will present your research project to an assessment panel.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 12
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.25
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisite

AGRI13004 Livestock Industry Placement

or

AGRI13005 Cropping Industry Placement

or

AGRI13003 Agricultural Service Industry Placement

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

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 3 - 2024

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 12-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Group Discussion 0%
2. Written Assessment 60%
3. Presentation 40%

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%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2021 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 75.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 26.67% 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: "Have Your Say" and Discussion Boards
Feedback
A good variety of topics
Recommendation
Students found the variety of topics/challenges discussed both engaging and interesting. Future offerings of this unit should continue to cover the wide range of agricultural production challenges.
Action Taken
The variety of topics/challenges discussed was maintained, with tutorials offering a greater range of approaches to complex agricultural challenges.
Source: "Have Your Say"
Feedback
Face-to-face learning
Recommendation
The option of a face-to-face learning activity should be explored for future offerings, perhaps delivered through a field trip. However, as students are on placement, this may be difficult to execute. If the COVID-19 pandemic prevents a face-to-face meeting, then a part-day online workshop should be arranged.
Action Taken
Instead of one part-day workshop, tutorials were offered weekly instead of fortnightly, as they had been in 2020.
Source: Have Your Say Survey
Feedback
Increase weighting of Assessment 1: Students felt that while Assessment 1 was useful and engaging, the fact that it was a pass/fail assessment based on participation meant it was de-prioritized compared to weighted assessment.
Recommendation
This unit is being terminated after 2021, however other units that use weekly discussion boards should explore the opportunity to increase assessment weighting if this type of assessment proves especially useful in achieving learning outcomes.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Interpret problem situations and the reasoning of self and others.
  2. Analyse and evaluate concepts, assumptions, explanations, arguments and solutions to business problems.
  3. Develop problem solving options using evaluative criteria.
  4. Define option implementation and monitoring strategies.
  5. Demonstrate the application of problem solving to practice in agricultural system management.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Group Discussion • •
2 - Written Assessment • • • • •
3 - Presentation • • • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Communication • • • • •
2 - Problem Solving • • • •
3 - Critical Thinking • • • • •
4 - Information Literacy • •
5 - Team Work • • •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence • • •
8 - Ethical practice • • • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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