GE1400:03
Physical Geography and the Environment
Townsville
HECS Band 1
39 hours lectures, 36 hours practicals, 8 hours fieldwork. Semester 1.
Staff: Dr M Mabin, Professor D Gillieson.
Basic geographical concepts of the nature of the physical environment. The unifying theme is global environmental change in the atmosphere, biosphere, oceans and on the Earth’s surface.
Learning Objectives:
- to gain an understanding of the interdependence and changing character of the different elements of the natural environment;
- to gain an understanding of how human affairs interact with the natural environment;
- to develop basic geographic skills of map interpretation, data analysis and presentation, aerial photograph analysis and field techniques.
Assessment by examination (45%); on-course assessment (essay, practicals, fieldwork) (55%).