SCI1005 · Scientific research and communication

Overview

SCI1005 will provide you with the foundational skills needed to be a practising scientist and effectively communicate your science to diverse audiences. You will learn professional science-based skills, including: • The ability to acquire and assess the validity of scientific information; • The ability to conceptualise, propose and refine a current research topic; • Managing an ongoing research project; • Effective teamwork; • Communicating effectively to diverse audiences in various formats. You will also investigate scientific inquiry, science regulation, and the progression of science, and learn how to critically evaluate the global impact of science through advances in technology, knowledge, education, and the health of our planet and its species. The skills you will develop in this unit will allow you to make a greater impact throughout your scientific career to influence positive societal change.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Access, critically analyse, and synthesise scientific literature;
2. Conceptualise and refine a research topic using the process of scientific inquiry;
3. Communicate science effectively to diverse audiences, across multiple modes;
4. Critique your performance and that of your peers throughout the semester;
5. Critically interpret how the history, development, practice, and regulation of science have shaped society.

Workload

• 2-hours of workshop activities; • 4-hours of online interactive content (videos, readings and instruction and reflection) and • 6 hours of completing assessments.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.