Available in 2024
Course code

SCIE1002

Units

10 units

Level

1000 level

Course handbook

Description

Scientific research is typically informed by more than one discipline. As such, it is important for professional scientists to have the capacity to engage and understand the perspectives of multiple disciplines while addressing scientific challenges. In this course, you will learn essential laboratory and fieldwork skills required in both your future field and across a range of other diverse science disciplines. As part of a research team of peers from diverse disciplines, and using the university as a living laboratory, you will investigate practical research questions using multiple disciplinary approaches. You will then communicate your research findings for scientific and lay audiences.


Availability2024 Course Timetables

Callaghan

  • Semester 1 - 2024

Ourimbah

  • Semester 1 - 2024

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. As part of a group, gather, compare and summarise information from a range of sources and disciplines.

2. Collect, accurately record, interpret and draw conclusions from scientific experiments.

3. Communicate scientific results, information or arguments to a range of audiences, for a range of purposes.

4. Work safely and competently in a variety of laboratory and field contexts.


Content

  • Working safely and competently in the laboratory and in the field
  • Collecting and analysing diverse data
  • Conducting experiments
  • Working as part of a team
  • The role of science disciplines in solving complex problems
  • Using multiple disciplinary perspectives to investigate scientific problems
  • Writing scientific reports, including laboratory and fieldwork reports
  • Communicating scientific information to lay audiences

Assessment items

Report: Written Group Report

Report: Laboratory Report 1: Water

Report: Laboratory Report 2: Energy

Written Assignment: Laboratory Preparation Notes


Contact hours

Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan

Laboratory-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
  • Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 80% of sessions.
Lectorial-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Online Activity-1
  • Online 3 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
  • This includes directed course content

Semester 1 - 2024 - Ourimbah

Laboratory-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
  • Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 80% of sessions.
Lectorial-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Online Activity-1
  • Online 3 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
  • This includes directed course content

Course outline