1997 QUT Handbook

trations in written presentation. Clarity and the selection of
data.
Courses: BN30 Prerequisites: PSB096, PSB098
Credit Points: 2 Contact Hours: 1 per week
■ PSB051 HUMAN STUDIES
The role of the self-concept and locus of control in transactions
with the world in general: basic research principles, perception,
learning processes, motivation, problem-solving;
communication, characteristics, and dynamics of interacting
with others; needs hierarchy.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ PSB052 ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
The social and cultural development of Australian urban environments
with particular reference to the local built environment.
Theory of human functioning in urban environments:
privacy, personal space, territoriality, environmental meaning
and cognition, cognitive ways and wayfinding, intercultural
and intra cultural differences. Application of theory by way
of analysis of an urban environment with respect to its sociocultural
function.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 2
■ PSB053 THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT 4
Directing society; the roles of government and private enterprise;
theories of power in society. The Australian example;
three tiers of government; Australian constitution; parliamentary
democracy. Queensland state administration; role of local
government, quangos and statutory authorities; pressure
groups and lobby groups and their influence in the built environment
arena.
Courses: BN30 Prerequisites: PSB052
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ PSB054 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Basic Ecology: Introduction: roles of biology/ecology, concept
of systems. Global Cycles: atmosphere, wind and circulation,
water budget and hydrology. Nutrient cycles: carbon,
nitrogen phosphorous. Ecosystems: concepts, terrestrial,
aquatic, estuarine, coastal complexity. Human populations:
world distributions, cultural considerations, demographic transition,
population trees. Resources: history of use, distribution
of uses, reasons for differences, approaches (environmental
determinism, possibilism). Sustainability: concepts, reasons
it has not been attained, long range global aims, appropriate
technology. Applied Land Science (earth science for
environmental design): land forms and their origins; introduction
to the physical and horticultural properties and behaviours
of soils and rocks.
Courses: BN30, IF54, PS47, PS48
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ PSB057 LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY 1
Concepts of plant science and ecology which form the basic
understanding necessary for design in dynamic biophysical
environments; the biological world, at whatever scale of analysis
we use – individual, species, population or community –
is responsive in its form and function to the influences of the
environment in which it lives. Through understanding the processes
which regulate the impact of environment, it is possible
to interpret patterns in the landscape, and predict change and
design form and function.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ PSB058 LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY 2
The broad division of the earth in relation to climate and soils;
the ecosystem concept and its development and application at
various geographic scales; concept of community
ecophysiology and growth equations; ecological biogeography
of Australian vegetation; classification of landscape: concepts
of biogeographic regions; landscape structure: patches
and corridors and the ideas of matrix and network; analysis of
landscape structure and function.
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Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB059 POPULATION & URBAN STUDIES
Topics include: aspects of urban structure including size/function
relationships, concentric zone theory, Hoyt’s settlement
patterns and problems of rural settlements. The dynamics of
urban areas: the relationships and requirements of urban activities
(especially residential, work and leisure activities);
theories of city form and change; the problems of the CBD;
the CBD fringe and the urban/rural fringe. Case studies of
Australian settlements.
Courses: BN30, PS47, PS48
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ PSB060 INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS
Introduction to the basic economic problem of scarcity. Production
possibilities are outlined together with various types
of economic regimes. A simple macroeconomic circular flow
model is introduced. The second part of the unit deals with
microeconomic concepts. The market system and associated
concepts of demand, supply and price equilibrium.
Courses: BN30, CN32
Credit Points: 2 Contact Hours: 1 per week
■ PSB061 IMPACTS & ASSESSMENT
Forms of impact assessment and analysis considering ecological,
social and economic issues; various statutory systems.
An analysis of the ecological processes as a background to
assessing impact of human activities: urbanisation, resource
exploitation, mining and other forms of landscape change.
Courses: BN30, PS47, PS48
Prerequisites: PSB058, PSB059
Credit Points: 5 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ PSB062 ECONOMICS OF TOWN PLANNING
This unit is essentially microeconomic; introduces urban economics
and the economic aspects of town planning issues;
provides techniques for economic analysis suited to planning
needs; illustrates interactions with employment, industry,
population and urban studies at the economic interface.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 5 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ PSB063 HOUSING & COMMUNITY SERVICES
Population change and households formation. Housing conditions
and preference surveys; housing issues and policies.
The economics of the building and land development industries.
The physical place of educational institutions in communities.
Shared use of facilities. Location and space standards.
Social and welfare services and their role in the community.
Courses: BN30, PS47, PS48
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ PSB071 SITE MEASUREMENT
Introduction to basic equipment for site measurement: levels,
staffs, chains and tapes, the prismatic compass, optical prism,
clinometer, range poles and their use in horizontal and vertical
measurement. Introduction to recording of field data and
the preparation of measured site drawings from recorded data.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 1 per week
■ PSB072 DESIGN SCIENCE
The quantity and quality of light and daylight in buildings;
macro and micro climatic conditions; students are given the
opportunity to conduct experiments and test models.
Courses: BN30
Prerequisites: ARB140, CHB204, PHB144, PSB011,
PSB056
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ PSB073 COMPUTER TECHNIQUES
Development of understanding, awareness, and appreciation of
computers as aids in data analysis and presentation, and of basic
skills to input, manipulate and analyse output; for statistical
analysis of data in decision making; the range of information