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PSC1041

Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

18 September 2017 27 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Coordinator(s)

Associate Professor Paul White and co-coordinator Dr Angus Johnston

Offered

Parkville

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

Students will acquire basic skills in applying and interpreting the scientific method of inquiry, and interpreting scientific data. Students will: i) evaluate scientific literature; and, ii) plan, conduct and interpret a simple scientific experiment. A knowledge of hypothesis testing, ethical principles of scientific practice, examples of poor and elite pharmaceutical science, and the skills to perform inferential statistics will be developed.

Outcomes

At the end of this unit students will be able to:

  1. Explain the principles of scientific inquiry
  2. Identify safe and ethical practices in scientific research
  3. Develop a conceptual model for scientific inquiry and evaluate two real-world examples using this model
  4. Plan and conduct a simple scientific experiment using a learner defined conceptual model of hypothesis testing
  5. Identify and employ an appropriate statistical test for the empirically obtained data
  6. Re-evaluate a tested hypothesis on the basis of the research findings.

Assessment

Final exam (2 hour): 50%; Assignments 45%; in-class assessment 5%

Workload requirements

Contact hours for on-campus students:

  • A minimum of twenty four 1-hour lectures
  • A minimum of nine hours of tutorials

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Paul White

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

hhttp://www.monash.edu/pharm/current/