James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2003

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Environmental Science Honours Project

Townsville, Cairns HECS Band 2

Full year.

Available to level 4 honours students in BAppSc (Environmental Studies).

Staff: Dr A Cottrell (Townsville campus); Assoc. Professor S Turton (Cairns campus).

A research project supervised by staff of TESAG, plus specialised reading and study for honours level candidates.

Learning Objectives:

  1. increased knowledge and experience of the processes and procedures required to undertake a successful independent research project in Environmental Science;
  2. improved skills in verbal and written communication and data analysis.

Assessment by research proposal and introductory seminar (5%); literature review (15%); thesis (70%); final seminar (10%).