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Unit Synopsis
This unit covers the fundamentals of crop production systems and is underpinned by the VET unit 'Manage agricultural crop production'. You will be introduced to a range of crop production systems including dry-land, irrigated, horticultural and orchard crops. The unit will use specific crop examples to demonstrate the fundamental factors that lead to growing a successful crop. You will be provided with an overview of crop physiology, crop nutrition and crop protection. The content of this unit will provide you with the necessary foundation for future units in the course.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 1 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 1 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
There are no pre-requisites for the unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
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Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 40% |
| 2. Portfolio | 40% |
| 3. Practical and Written Assessment | 20% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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No previous feedback available
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Self reflection.
Feedback on assessments needs to engage the student so it is useful for future improvement.
Students will be requested to provide information on how they would like to receive feedback. Where possible these requests will be met to improve student learning.
Students were questioned on how they would like to receive feedback. A small number of students identified they would like to receive interactive discussion style question and answer style feedback in class, both during the preparation of assessments and following grading of assessments. This was provided for all assessment pieces.
Source: In class.
Face to face and online tutorial sessions were extremely helpful.
Face to face sessions will continue including a range of practical demonstrations and activities.
Face to face sessions were delivered in 2024 including some new workshop activities and practical demonstrations.
Source: Student Unit Evaluation Scores
Assessment feedback was not useful.
The unit coordinator will engage students to request favoured feedback mechanisms and will endeavour to implement these requests.
In Progress
Source: Student Unit Evaluation Comments
Additional activities were requested for the residential school.
Additional activities will be developed for the residential school.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Determine management options and production targets for a cropping enterprise.
- Select, test and implement appropriate crop innovations into farm activities.
- Develop a whole of farm cropping management and risk mitigation plan.
- Critique the environmental and legal requirements of crop management systems.
This unit will contribute to a Diploma of Agriculture upon successful completion of year 1.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | |
| 2 - Portfolio | • | • | ||
| 3 - Practical and Written Assessment | • | • | ||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | |
| 5 - Team Work | • | • | ||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | • | |
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | |
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