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Forests in the Asia Pacific Region (FRST90030) // Dates and times

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Dates & times

  • November
    Principal coordinatorRodney Keenan
    Mode of deliveryOn Campus (Parkville)
    Contact hours10 hours lectures and 70 hours of tutorials and field exercises, during two-week intensive international field tour. Additional reading and study before and after the field tour.
    Total time commitment170 hours
    Pre teaching start date 5 November 2018
    Pre teaching requirementsPlease note that this subject has a pre-teaching period and during this time students will be required to read 'essential readings' provided and complete first assignment of 1500 words.
    Teaching period19 November 2018 to 30 November 2018
    Last self-enrol date30 September 2018
    Census date23 November 2018
    Last date to withdraw without fail 4 January 2019
    Assessment period ends 1 February 2019

    November contact information

    rkeenan@unimelb.edu.au

Time commitment details

170 hours.

Additional delivery details

An enrolment quota of 28 students applies to this subject. For detailed information on the quota subject application process, enrolment deadlines and selection preferences, refer to the Faculty of Science website: http://science.unimelb.edu.au/students/course-planning-and-advice

This subject is taught intensively (internationally) in November. International field tour subject. Students will be required to organise and pay for their own air travel to Vientiane, Laos and back to Australia from Da Nang Vietnam. A deposit payment will be required once enrolment is confirmed.

Subject involves field experiences that will require students to be physically capable of hiking in remote locations in Laos and Vietnam

Please note that this subject has a pre-teaching period and during this time students will be required to read 'essential readings' provided and complete first assignment of 1500 words.

There is also a post-intensive/travel period from beginning of December - last week of January to complete the main assignment of 3000 words.

Last updated: 11 October 2023