SCIE1002
10 units
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
- SCIE1002 - Semester 1, 2024 (All) (PDF, 185.6 KB)
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