Earth Surface Systems
UndergraduateUNE-GEPL1062025
Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 16 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 16 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025
- Price from
- $2,396
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Earth Surface Systems
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, students will be able to:
- demonstrate coherent theoretical knowledge of the key components of a landscape;
- examine the fundamental processes that shape the Earth's surface;
- demonstrate an understanding of how these processes influence a range of typical Australian landscapes with the ability to communicate this effectively to others;
- analyse the influence of processes and landscapes on human and other biological communities; and
- apply a range of specialist analytical techniques to investigate landforms and processes, modelling skills applicable in a professional career.
- Topics will be available to enrolled students in the subjects Learning Management System site approximately one week prior to the commencement of the teaching period.
Understanding our natural world and the basic systems that regulate our lives will be critical to engaging with issues like climate change and natural disasters, which affect our current living conditions and will continue to do so in the future.
The aim of this subject is to introduce you to physical landscapes and the processes that shape them. You will examine the many processes that shape landscapes, learn how to read and interpret landscapes, understand how different materials and processes influence landscapes and learn about the way landforms and processes can be incorporated into environmental understanding.
Questions posed throughout the subject are: what are the key components of a landscape and what are the processes that act and interact to shape landscapes over a range of temporal and spatial scales.
Assessment 1 Essay on selected topic: 1000 words. Relates to Learning Outcomes 1-4;
Assessment 2 Online quizzes x 3: 400 words (equivalent). Relates to Learning Outcomes 1-4;
Assessment 3 Research assignment report: 2500 words. Relates to Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 5;
Assessment 4 Study site identification: 200 words. Relates to Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 5.- Study site identification. 200 words (5%)
- Essay on selected topic (20%)
- 3 online quizzes (10% per quiz) (30%)
- Research assignment report. 2500 words (45%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Others
Candidature in Diploma in Arts
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - Headphones or speakers (required to listen to lectures and other media). Headset, including microphone (highly recommended). Webcam (may be required for participation in virtual classrooms and/or media presentations).
- Software requirements - It is essential for students to have reliable internet access in order to participate in and complete your units, regardless of whether they contain an on campus attendance or intensive school component. For additional information please visit UNE Hardware Requirements: https://www.une.edu.au/current-students/support/it-services/hardware
- Other requirements -
Textbook requirements:
Textbook information is not available until approximately 8 weeks prior to the commencement of the Teaching period.
Students are expected to purchase prescribed material.
Textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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