108 Subject Descriptions
Assessment
Assignments and tests set during the year comprise the assessment.
ACCOUNTANCY C5 (ACC05) 4 points
Business Finance
One 2-hour seminar a week throughout the year. Classes are not held during periods of School Experience.
Special Requirement
Seminar participation is an integral part of the subject and the submission of all assignment work is compulsory.
Prerequisite: Accountancy 811 or 822, or an approved equivalent.
Syllabus
The financial problems facing a firm in the implementation of investment, financing and dividend decisions. Risk, uncertainty and portfolio theory in investment analysis; capital investment including leasing; current asset management; and financing and dividend policies.
Text
Peirson, C G & Bird, R G Business Finance Sydney: McGraw-Hill 1976 Scorgie, M et al Interest — A Programmed Approach Melbourne: GUS 1976 Assessment
Assignments and tests set during the year comprise the assessment.
ACCOUNTANCY C6 (ACC06) 4 points
Development of Accounting Thought and Practice
Two 1-hour seminars a week throughout the year. Classes are not held during periods of School Experience.
Special Requirement
Seminar participation is an integral part of the subject and the submission of all assignment work is compulsory.
Prerequisite: Accountancy B11 and B22, or an approved equivalent.
Syllabus
Early developments in accountancy; the concepts and theories forming the basis of accounting practice; efforts to arrive at acceptable accounting principles; influences on the development of accounting thought and practice — such as legal, economic and social influences and the work of accounting bodies; contemporary issues and current thinking in accountancy; and developments in the teaching of accountancy.
Assessment
Assignments set during the year comprise the assessment.
Bachelor of Education 109
Syllabus
A study of Asian cultures and change within them. In Term 1 there is a core program surveying the main traditional institutions of East and South Asia. Students choose two electives from comparative studies of culture contact and change, one in Term 2 and one in Term 3.
Core Study: Chinese and Indian Traditions
1. China — Cosmology and religion. Language, identity, and patterns of thought. Philosopher- teachers: Confucianism and Taoism. The Confucian State: Emperor, bureaucracy, examination system and tributary states. The elite family. The family and the peasant tradition. Art and literature.
2. India — Hinduism. Buddhism. Caste. The Hindu State: Kingship, Universal Empire, The Arthasastra in political thought The village. The patriarchal family. The Sanskrit literary tradition.
Electives
Electives, which will depend on availability of staff and on student demand, may include: Modern Asian literature: tradition and response to the West. Asian peasant societies. Asian religious and philosophical thought Culture contact and change in traditional and early modern Southeast Asia. Japan: tradition and successful modernisation. Cultural revival movements in nineteenth and twentieth century Asia. Pre-modern Asian economies. Traditional Asian political thought.
Modern Asian political thought Preliminary Reading
Dufty, D et al Seeing It Their Way Sydney: Reed 1975
Reference lists are available from the Department of History and Politics.
Assessment
Students are assessed on class work, written exercises, essays, and probably on unit tests.
BIOLOGY Al (BIA00) 9 points
One lecture. one 2-hour and one 3-hour lecture/seminar and practical work class, and one 1- hour tutorial or demonstration a week throughout the year.
Credit may not be granted for this subject as well as for Science Al.
Special Requirement
All students are required to attend at least one excursion.
Students' participation in discussion groups is an important part of the subject and, by this means, students are able to make a personal contribution to the subject. Practical work is an integral part of the subject and students are expected to submit written reports on laboratory exercises.
Laboratory Work: Instructions can be obtained from the Department of Biology at the beginning of the academic year. Each student must provide him/herself with various items of equipment, a list of which is available at the beginning of the year.
Prerequisite: Nil.
Syllabus
An introduction to the diversity and classification of living organisms. Cell theory and structure;
cell activities. cell replication and mitosis. The evolution of the multicellular green plant; meiosis and plant life cycles: plant systems; plant nutrition. Animal reproduction, embryology and development Energy for life: photosynthesis; procurement and digestion of food; nutrition and cellular respiration. Comparative animal structure and function: cell specialisation; gas exchange and circulation; excretion; nerves, hormones and homeostasis. Animal behaviour. Microbiology.
Evolution: variations in populations; adaptive significance of adaptations; mechanisms of evolution. Ecological interrelationships of organisms and with the environment.
Genetics: pa tterns of inheritance; molecular genetics; genetics and evolution.
Text
Kirk, D Biology Today 2nd edn New York: CRM-Random House 1975
110 Subject Descriptions
Assessment
Based on participation in group discussion and practical work, written answers to problems and assignments. practical and excursion reports. and performance on short exercises held at the end of each unit of work. In exceptional circumstances, an additional written examination may be given to assess border-line students.
BIOLOGY A2 (BIA02) 9 points
Human Biology
Three 1-hour lecture/tutorial sessions and one 3-hour laboratory session a week throughout the year.
Prerequisite: Nil.
Syllabus
The subject is intended to provide students with an understanding of human beings as functioning and evolving organisms. Lectures, seminars and laboratory work are integrated to develop knowledge and skills within the areas of: human anatomy and physiology; growth and development throughout the life cycle; human genetics including human pedigree studies, aspects of population genetics and genetics in medicine; human evolution; a study of patterns of behaviour; personal and public health issues, including vaccination and immunisation programs, drugs, smoking and venereal diseases; man in the environment — human demography and studies of the impact of man on the environment.
Preliminary Reading
Clarke, C A Human Genetics and Medicine (Inst of Biol. Series in Biol, No 20) London: Edward Arnold 1970
de Kriut, P Microbe Hunters Harmondsworth: Penguin 1972 Sinclair, D Human Growth after Birth 2nd edn London: OUP 1972 Text
Volpe, E P Man, Nature and Society 2nd edn Iowa: Wm C Brown 1975 Assessment
Continuous and based on participation in course work including discussion sessions, seminar programs and written assignments.
BIOLOGY B01 (BIB01) 4 points
Biology of Terrestrial Plants
Three 1-hour sessions and one 3-hour session a week for one term.
Special Requirement
Students may be required to attend a field excursion and to carry out individual assignments.
Prerequisite: Biology Al or an approved equivalent.
Syllabus
The bryophytes, ferns, conifers and flowering plants are investigated from an evolutionary and structural viewpoint. Emphasis is given to the biological importance of the adaptations of native plants for coping with the stresses of the Australian environment. Other topics of study may include the biology of crop plants, medicinal and narcotic plants, pollination and dispersal mechanisms, and plant symbioses. Laboratory studies focus on plant structure and the identifica- tion of common Victorian plants.
Text
The Families and Genera of Victorian Plants 7th edn Parkville: School of Botany, Univ of Melb 1977
A reading list of other material is available from the Department of Biology at the beginning of the year.
Assessment
Continuous and based on participation in course work, including group discussion and laboratory sessions, written reports and assignments, and one 2-hour examination.
Bachelor of Education 111
BIOLOGY B02 (BIB02) 4 points
Comparative Zoology
Three 1-hour sessions and one 3-hour session a week for one term.
Prerequisite: Biology Al or an approved equivalent.
Syllabus
This subject begins with an overview of the lower animals and then examines the evolution of the reptiles, birds and mammals. The student is introduced to the local vertebrate fauna.
Books
A reading list is available from the Department of Biology at the beginning of the year.
Assessment
Based on performance in laboratory work, experiments and/or a two-hour examination.
BIOLOGY B03 (BIB03) 4 points
Ecology
Three 1-hour sessions a week for one term, and one 3-hour session for five weeks of the term.
Field excursions may replace some of these sessions.
Special Requirement
Attendance at field excursions, including one of four days' duration is compulsory.
Prerequisite: Biology Al or an approved equivalent.
Syllabus
An introduction to the ecology of natural populations, including the nature and characteristics of natural populations, the measurement and sampling of natural populations, population dynamics.
The ecology of natural communities and ecosystems, including the community concept, community classification, the ecosystem concept, terrestrial ecosystems and their functioning.
Text
Krebs, C J Ecology. The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance 2nd edn New York:
Harper & Row 1978 Assessment
Based on one 3-hour examination at the end of term, and on assignments and practical reports.
BIOLOGY B04 (BIB04) 4 points
Biology of Aquatic Organisms
Three 1-hour sessions and one 3-hour session a week for one term, plus two 1-day excursions.
Prerequisite: Biology Al or an approved equivalent.
Syllabus
The diversity of organisms in marine, freshwater and estuarine environments Is investigated.
Emphasis is placed on the algal and invertebrate components, and their ecophysiology. Other topics include productivity, trophic structure, community structure, temporal and spatial distribution, and factors affecting community composition.
Text
Williams, W D Australian Freshwater Life: the invertebrates of Australian inland waters Melbourne:
Sun Books 1968 Assessment
Based on one 2-hour examination at the end of term, and on assignments and practical work.
11 2 Subject Descriptions BIOLOGY B05 (BIB05)
Physiology
Three 1-hour sessions and one 3-hour session a week for one term.
Prerequisite: Biology Al or A2 or an approved equivalent.