School: Science

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Geography and Environment: People, Pattern, Process
  • Unit Code

    GEO1150
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr David John BLAKE

Description

This introductory unit explores the interplay of past and present physical and ecological processes in shaping the human environment. Emphasis is given to the complex and dynamic relationships between people and places. Students investigate interactions between people and environmental systems and processes in such themes as the environment as an integrated system, and the changing form and function of the built environment. These themes are expressed locally and have broader global significance. The unit draws on interdisciplinary perspectives and students develop geographical skills and knowledge through practical activities and field projects

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to use conceptual frameworks such as the ecosystem approach and cultural landscapes.
  2. Describe some of the complex interrelationships that exist between the natural and cultural environment.
  3. Develop and interpret data from geographical sources, such as maps, photographs and satellite imagery.
  4. Identify and analyse social and environmental problems in a geographical context, including fieldwork.

Unit Content

  1. Processes operating in the physical and biological environment.
  2. Processes operating in the social and urban environment, e.g. the city as a reflection of its society.
  3. The nature of geographical enquiry.
  4. The development of modern urban planning, emphasising sustainable cities.
  5. Cultural and cross-cultural relationships to the environment e.g. Aboriginal, colonial, post colonial and multicultural perspectives on landscape and environment.
  6. Time, change and periodicity in the understanding of geographical phenomena and environmental processes.
  7. Frameworks for understanding the natural and social environment.
  8. Ecosystems as an expression of the integrated environment, e.g. the role of water in the natural and cultural landscape.
  9. Cultural landscape theory, sustainable cities, communities and ecosystems.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportGeographical Investigation60%
ProjectStoryboard of Geographical Investigation40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Science

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Geography and Environment: People, Pattern, Process
  • Unit Code

    GEO1150
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr David John BLAKE

Description

This introductory unit explores the interplay of past and present physical and ecological processes in shaping the human environment. Emphasis is given to the complex and dynamic relationships between people and places. Students investigate interactions between people and environmental systems and processes in such themes as the environment as an integrated system, and the changing form and function of the built environment. These themes are expressed locally and have broader global significance. The unit draws on interdisciplinary perspectives and students develop geographical skills and knowledge through practical activities and field projects

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to use conceptual frameworks such as the ecosystem approach and cultural landscapes.
  2. Describe some of the complex interrelationships that exist between the natural and cultural environment.
  3. Develop and interpret data from geographical sources, such as maps, photographs and satellite imagery.
  4. Identify and analyse social and environmental problems in a geographical context, including fieldwork.

Unit Content

  1. Processes operating in the physical and biological environment.
  2. Processes operating in the social and urban environment, e.g. the city as a reflection of its society.
  3. The nature of geographical enquiry.
  4. The development of modern urban planning, emphasising sustainable cities.
  5. Cultural and cross-cultural relationships to the environment e.g. Aboriginal, colonial, post colonial and multicultural perspectives on landscape and environment.
  6. Time, change and periodicity in the understanding of geographical phenomena and environmental processes.
  7. Frameworks for understanding the natural and social environment.
  8. Ecosystems as an expression of the integrated environment, e.g. the role of water in the natural and cultural landscape.
  9. Cultural landscape theory, sustainable cities, communities and ecosystems.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportGeographical Investigation60%
ProjectStoryboard of Geographical Investigation40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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