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2025 unit information
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SLE010
1 x 1 hour online lectures per week, 5 x 3 hour practical experience (laboratory) per trimester, 5 x 2 hour seminars per trimester.
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.
SLE132 introduces students to animal and plant biology. Students will explore the relationships between structure and function and how these attributes enable living organisms to adjust to their environment. Students will begin by exploring the evolution of plants, before moving onto morphology, growth, reproduction, biotechnology, and use of plants as food and medicine. Examples of non-plant eukaryotes including algae and fungi will also be introduced and their relationship with plants explored. Focus then moves to animal form and function to explore the physiological processes that enable animals to adjust and survive in their environment. Students will also be introduced to First Nations knowledges of plants and animals.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO2: CommunicationGLO3: Digital literacyGLO4: Critical thinkingGLO7: TeamworkGLO8: Global citizenship
Assessment 1Online mid-trimester test
Assessment 2Practical exercises
Assessment 3Response to Case Studies
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.
Prescribed text(s): Openstax Biology 2e (freely available at Openstax link).
The texts and reading list for SLE132 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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