The Faculty of Science conducts undergraduate and postgraduate courses on
the Clayton, Gippsland and Malaysia campuses.
The faculty has restructured from departments to schools, each of which is
responsible for carrying out teaching and research activities within the areas
of expertise of their academic staff. A number of schools from other faculties,
primarily from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, also
contribute significantly to the teaching and research programs of the
faculty.
The schools within the faculty at the Clayton campus include Biological
Sciences, Chemistry, Geosciences, Mathematical Sciences and the School of
Physics and Materials Engineering. Science studies are also offered by the
departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Chemical Engineering, Microbiology, Pathology and Immunology, Pharmacology and
Toxicology, Physiology, Psychology and the schools of Computer Science and
Software Engineering, and Geography and Environmental Science.
The School of Applied Sciences operates on the Gippsland campus and offers
studies in applied biology, applied chemistry, mathematics and modelling
(including applied statistics), and resource and environmental management.
Computing studies are offered by the Gippsland School of Computing and
Information Technology towards the BSc, and studies in psychology are also
available at the Gippsland campus for science students.
The academic operations of the faculty are governed by the faculty board. The
dean of the faculty, whose role is to exercise a general superintendence over
the academic and administrative affairs of the faculty, chairs the board. The
dean is assisted by three associate deans. The heads of schools are ex-officio
members of the board and there are elected members representing various groups
of staff within the schools of the faculty, as well as representatives of
undergraduate, graduate and off-campus distributed learning (OCDL) students.
Student representatives may be contacted through the appropriate campus student
organisation. Representatives from other faculties and of extra-faculty
departments/ schools teaching science students also make up the membership of
the board. The board seeks advice from a number of standing committees, such as
the faculty's Education Committee, Research Committee and the Committee on
Graduate Matters.
The faculty executive officer, with the assistance of administrative officers,
is responsible for the activities of the faculty office and works closely with
the dean in the provision of administrative support to the faculty. The faculty
office, located on the ground floor of the central science building (building
19) at Clayton and in building 3W at Gippsland, is the first point of call for
students seeking assistance or advice. Assistance may also be obtained at the
school offices.
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