Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Science (Volume 4 page 222)
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531-497 Course-Work (20 Points)

Note: Must be taken concurrently with 531-496 Research Project (80 points).

Credit points: 100 in total

Coordinator: Dr. Margaret Ayers, Dr. John Underwood

Prerequisite: Any student who has obtained a Faculty Honours in biological science may apply.

Aims: The Science Honours course in the Department of Pathology aims to provide an environment where students can learn to practice high standard science :

1. By offering experimental projects which:

• have clearly formulated hypotheses
• have sufficient structure to indicate direction
• enable use of several technical approaches to try to answer questions arising from the hypothesis
• are achievable in 8 months.

2. By providing course work which presents information about important investigative technologies in day-to-day use in research laboratories.

3. By teaching students:

• to critically analyse scientific literature
• to design experiments to test hypotheses
• to critically analyse and interpret data from experiments.

4. By teaching students oral and written communication skills.

Objectives:

By the end of the course students should:

• have developed an understanding of processes involved in scientific investigation;
• understand the principles of hypothesis formulation;
• be able to design experiments to test hypotheses;
• have experience with and understanding of several different experimental laboratory techniques;
• have sufficient understanding of different laboratory techniques that they can successfully analyse unseen data generated from these techniques;
• be familiar with statistical analysis such that they can choose appropriate tests for their experimental data;
• be able to access and use scientific literature from a wide data-base;
• be able to communicate their experimental findings logically and coherently in both oral and written forms.

Content:

• a series of lectures covering currently available and developing research techniques and statistical data analysis;
• Data assessment exercises using data generated from techniques discussed in the lecture series;
• Presentation of a high quality scientific paper in an area different from the research project, in the form of a seminar

Assessment:

• Data assessment exercises (15%)
• Paper presentation seminar (5%)

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Science (Volume 4 page 222)

Status:          Official 1996
Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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