ANTA103-07SU2 (C) Summer Nov 2007 start

Antarctic Studies: Life in the Cold

9 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 12 November 2007
End Date: Sunday, 23 December 2007
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 25 November 2007
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 9 December 2007

Description

This introductory course focuses on biology and explores how plants, animals and humans adapt to living in the extreme environments of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic with low temperatures and periods of total darkness. The course includes psychology, human interaction with, and invention in, the polar region.

Restrictions

INCO103, ANTA101, ANTA113

Timetable Note

The course starts on Wednesday 14 November 2007.

The course is taught by lectures on video watched by students in their own time via Blackboard and by tutorials held once per week on Wednesdays 5-6pm.

Course Coordinator

For further information see Gateway Antarctica Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment is by a two-hour test at the end of the course on Friday 14 December, 5-7pm.

Textbooks / Resources

No textbook is required.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $344.00

International fee $1,523.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Gateway Antarctica .

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