Undergraduate information

The following page summarizes information on courses co-ordinated by staff in the Soils and Land Resources area. Click on the course code/title for each course to obtain a detailed description of each course.

Agrc3007  Research Methodology
#2; (3L2T1P); Sem 2, Gatton Internal & St.Lucia Internal Inc: AG336 C: AG232
Coordinator:  Dr. D. Edwards.
Assessment:  Progressive, based on assignments, seminar & project preschedule.
History & philosophy of science. Agricultural Science in Australia: its history, policy, organisation & funding. Nature of agricultural research. Concepts & practice of modelling biological systems. Planning of small individual research project.

LAND2003 The Soil Environment
#2 (3L3P)Sem 1,Gatton,Internal;St Lucia, Internal Inc:LF225 or 226
Coordinators: Dr U.Pillai-McGarry & Dr Neal Menzies
Assessment: Practical reports &final examination
Soil fertility & management. Elementary physics & chemistry of soils. Plant nutrients & their cycling. Land capability assessment, soil physical factors & plant growth. Soils as environmental buffers.

 LAND3001 Contaminant Management in Soils
#2 (3L3P)Sem 2,St Lucia, Internal Inc:AG320 or 321 P:LF226 +348
Coordinator: Assoc.Prof.H.Bing So
Assessment: Laboratory reports & final examination
Considerations of soil, water & solute interactions. Water & solute movement through soils, soil solution chemistry, water & solute movement in landscapes & catchments.

 LAND3002 Integrated Catchment Management
#2 (3L3P)Sem 2,St Lucia, Internal P:LF226 +348
Coordinator: Assoc.Prof.H.Bing So
Assessment: Laboratory reports, assignments & final examination
Consideration of soil resources & processes operating at the catchment level. Water balance of the root zone & whole catchments. Drainage & groundwater hydrology. Run-off & soil erosion. Water harvesting & irrigation. Sustainable management of catchments.

 LAND3003 Land Utilisation
#2 (2L1T3P)Sem 1,St Lucia, Internal Inc:AF200 or 201 or 202 P:BL116 +GN100 +NR102
Assessment: Field tour report, assignment & final examination
Integration of physical, biological, social & economic factors that determine land use capability & affect land use decisions. Environmental & social consequences of the use of land for agriculture & other purposes. Five-days field tour. Practical experience reports.

 LAND3005 Soil Plant Relationships
#2 (3L3P)Sem 1,St Lucia, Internal Inc:AG320 or 321 P:LF226
Coordinator: Dr N.Menzies
Assessment: Laboratory & glasshouse reports, final examination
Consideration of soils as a medium for plant growth. Processes affecting the levels of nutrients &toxins in soil solution. Soil physical effects on plant growth. Water movement & uptake by plant roots.

 LAND3006 Australian Soils & Landscape
#2 (2L1T3P)Sem 2,St Lucia,Internal Inc:AG329 P:LF226
Coordinator: Dr Gunnar Kirchhof
Assessment: Progressive assessment (assignment, tutorial work & field report) & final examination.
Science of Pedology & the application of field pedology. Investigation & interpretation of soil & soil material in the field. Developing the skills of identifying, surveying, interpreting & classifying soils in the landscape. Soil formation &development processes including weathering & erosion & their relationship to land management.

PLNT3007 Plant Nutrition
#2 (2L5P)Sem 1,St Lucia, Internal Inc:G213 or 330 P:LF226 C:LF348
Coordinator: Assoc.Prof.D.G.Edwards
Assessment: Practical reports, mid-semester test & final examination
Nutrient uptake. Nutrient requirements. Functions & agricultural importance of essential elements. Beneficial elements, toxic elements &environmental pollutants. Assessment of plant nutrient status by qualitative & quantitative methods.

 LAND7001 Advanced Pedology
#2 (<1T)Sem 1,St Lucia, Internal;Sem 2, St Lucia,Internal Pre:LAND3006 +LF339
Assessment: Prograssive
Integrative course dealing with land resource assessment & land evaluation for variety of land management systems. Emphasis on techniques for resource inventory & evaluation on regional & national scale for strategic or specific planning purposes. Data management methods.

 LAND7003 Advanced Soil Chemistry
#2 (2L)Sem 1,St Lucia,Internal;Sem 2,St Lucia,Internal Pre:AG321 +LAND3005 +LF348
Coordinator:Dr Neal Menzies
Assessment: Progressive
Chemistry of selected plant nutrients in soil including nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium & micronutrients.

 LAND7004 Advanced Soil Physics
#2 Sem 1,St Lucia,Internal;Sem 2,St Lucia, Internal Pre:AG443 +LAND3005 +AG320
Coordinator: Assoc.Prof.H.Bing So
Assessment: Progressive
Advanced course of soil physics devoted particularly to interest of student whose primary interest is not soil physics.

 LAND7006 Soil Biology
#2 (3C)Sem 1,St Lucia,Internal;Sem 2,St Lucia, Internal
Coordinator:Dr Peter Dart
Assessment:Progressive
Soil organisms & their interactions; processes mediated; food webs; organic matter &biomass; effects on soil fertility; plant health & growth in cropping pasture, forestry, soil remediation systems; prospects for manipulation; techniques for studying soil biology.

 LAND7009 Soil &Growth Media Management
#2 Sem 2,Remote
Assessment: Concept tests, project work, collaborative problem solving, self assessment
Properties of soils & other mine media (spoil, waste rock, tailings) & the impacts of those properties on plant growth & vegetation community development & sustainability; soil sampling strategies; soil toxicities & amendments; development of a favourable root zone.

 PLNT7002 Advanced Soil-Plant Relationships
#2 (1L5P)Sem 1,St Lucia, Internal P:AG331 or (AG418 +419 +420)
Coordinator: Assoc.Prof.D.G.Edwards
Assessment: Assignments, prac reports, final examination
Use of radio-isotopes, methods of salt purification & methods for control of plant nutrient status. Practical work includes whole plant & excised root studies.

GEOS1100
Number of Units: 2 ;Contact Hours: 3 Lecture,
Semesters Offered: 1;2 St Lucia; 1st Gatton (External)
Incompatible AG106 or 108 or GN100 or 101 or 102 or 105 or 111or VG104
Coordinators: Dr Hamish McGowan (h.mcgowan@uq.edu.au) (St Lucia); Dr Clive McAlpine (c.mcalpine@uq.edu.au) (Gatton).
Assessment: Assignment & final examination.
Description: Sustainability & systems concepts; global & Australian climates & land systems; human population & natural resource implications; characteristics of & human impacts on forest, rangeland, farmland, river, coast & city systems.
Course Offerings: 2003