[an error occurred while processing this directive]
Home Monash Info News and Events Campuses and Faculties Monash University
Monash University Handbooks

SCI1020

The design of science

(SCI)

Coordinator: Dr Kais Hamza

6 points + First and Second semester, Clayton + Second Semester, Gippsland, OCDL + Two 1-hour lectures and one 2-hour workshop per week

Synopsis: SCI1020 provides students with a framework for how we acquire knowledge, how people learn and think and basic problem solving strategies. Principles of experimental design, data acquisition and appraisal issues and some basic statistics. Presentation of data, storage or repositories of scientific information, ways of communicating scientific information and examples of use and misuse of scientific information.

Assessment: Written examination: 50% + Assignments: 50%


Help | Contacts | Site Map | Staff Directory | Search