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SLE151 - Biodiversity: a Global Perspective

Year	2025 unit information
Enrolment modes:	Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne)
Credit point(s):	1
EFTSL value:	0.125
Previously coded as:	SQB143, SQB151
Unit Chair:	Trimester 1: Nicholas Porch
Prerequisite:	Nil
Corequisite:	SLE010
Incompatible with:	Nil
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:	1 x 2-hour lecture per week (weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11), 2 x 3 hour practical experience (laboratory), 2 x 3 hour practical experience (workshop), 1 x 3 hour practical experience (fieldtrip) per trimester (weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10).
Typical study commitment:	Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Content

This unit is about the nature and significance of biodiversity. It includes study of extinction; speciation; threatened species; conservation strategies; plant and animal diversity; threatening processes; human cultural attitudes to wildlife exploitation and conservation; genetic diversity and molecular techniques in biodiversity conservation.

Learning Outcomes

ULO	These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can:	Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
ULO1	Recognize the variety and extent of biodiversity and show how such diversity is important to the functioning of ecosystems and the survival of humans.	GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking GLO6: Self-management
ULO2	Recognize and demonstrate how ecological knowledge can be used to make decisions about the conservation and management of biodiversity.	GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking GLO6: Self-management
ULO3	Demonstrate a knowledge of how and under what circumstances to apply different tools to survey and manage biodiversity.	GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking
ULO4	Compare differing attitudes to biodiversity and examine the impacts these have on conservation strategies.	GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking

Assessment

Assessment Description	Student output	Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit)	Indicative due week
Assessment 1 Plant diversity report	1,000 word written report	10%	Week 4
Assessment 2 Scientific report	1,000 word written report	15%	Week 7
Assessment 3 Oral presentation	6-minute in-class oral presentation	10%	Week 8
Assessment 4 Conversation article on a biodiversity issue: communicating scientific research	1,000 word written essay	25%	Week 11
End-of-Unit Assessment	Timed online test	40%	End-of-Unit Assessment Period

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning resource

The texts and reading list for SLE151 can be found via the University Library.

Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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