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GE1400:03

Physical Geography and the Environment

Townsville

HECS Band 1

39 hours lectures, 36 hours practicals, 8 hours fieldwork. Semester 1.

Staff:

Assoc. Professor K Parnell.

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%).