James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2010

EV5404 - Field Studies in Tropical Geography

Credit points: 03
Year: 2010
Student Contribution Band: Band 2
Administered by: Sch of Earth & Environmental Sciences

Field Studies in Tropical Geography is an intensive mode subject that teaches and develops the field skills needed by students of geography and cognate disciplines. The subject is taught in intensive mode in remote areas chosen to take advantage of current staff research activities and interests. Accordingly, destinations change from time to time. Field Studies in Tropical Geography provides a regional perspective on the geography of northern Australia with emphasis on interaction between natural and cultural environments. It addresses: landuse, landuse change and resource management in northern Australia; geomorphology of northern Australia and adjoining land and sea; conservation and biogeography of northern Australia and adjoining land; environmental history in northern Australia and adjoining land and sea; and environmental aspects of indigenous cultures of northern Australia.

There are additional charges for this subject; please contact the School for details.

Learning Outcomes

Graduate Qualities

Inadmissible
Subject
Combinations:
GE3403 EV3404

Availabilities

Townsville, Block, Study Period 7
Census Date 08-Jul-2010
Face to face teaching 05-Jul-2010 to 12-Jul-2010
Coord/Lect: Dr Jonathan Luly.
Contact hours:
    • 7 days fieldwork
    Assessment:presentations (40%); field exercises emphaising ability to read landscapes, generating hypotheses from the observation and measuramenet of environmental attributes (20%); field notebook and reflective jounral (40%).

    Cairns, Block, Study Period 7
    Census Date 08-Jul-2010
    Face to face teaching 05-Jul-2010 to 12-Jul-2010
    Coord/Lect: Professor Jonathan Nott.
    Contact hours:
      • 7 days fieldwork
      Assessment:presentations (40%); field exercises emphaising ability to read landscapes, generating hypotheses from the observation and measuramenet of environmental attributes (20%); field notebook and reflective jounral (40%).

      Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.