Overview
This Professional Workplace Practice minor is designed to complement any major, and provides an opportunity for students to expand and deepen essential skills required for a career in a professional science-oriented workplace.
The courses in the minor encompass key areas such as professional conduct, ethics, data analytics, communication, and commercialization. … For more content click the Read More button below.
Developed through collaborations with science graduates, industry employers, and recruitment experts, this minor serves as a distinguishing factor in the competitive graduate job market in Australia and beyond.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Engage in an authentic workplace and demonstrate professional practice including nuanced communication, working effectively in teams, and other factors relevant to post-university employment.
2.
Communicate professional and disciplinary information and ideas effectively and persuasively to a variety of audiences using a range of methods.
3.
Integrate principles of health and safety, compliance and legislation, workplace behaviours, and ethics to evaluate and provide solutions to problems typical of a professional science related industry.
4.
Apply appropriate methods for data analysis and visualisation in a professional context.
Available in Program(s) Single degree program(s) in which this specialisation is available:
Bachelor of Advanced Science (Honours) - BAdvSci(Hons)3962 - Advanced Science (Honours)
Bachelor of Science - BSc3970 - Science
Specialisation Structure
Students must complete 24 UOC.
Core Courses12 Units of Credit:
Data Analysis and Communication 6 Units of Credit:
Science in Context 6 Units of Credit:
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