CH5103 - Minor Project and Seminar - Environmental Chemistry

Credit points:	09
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
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Available to postgraduate students undertaking the postgraduate diploma or Master of Science degree in environmental chemistry.

Candidates may spend approximately six weeks collecting data as part of a pilot study for their masters thesis, or the dissertation of their postgraduate diploma. Approved subject areas include: marine chemistry, environmental chemistry, marine pollution, chemical oceanography, environmental analytical chemistry and environmental geochemistry. The research topic will be selected only after consultation with the course coordinator and the appropriate supervisor. Candidates will be required to write up the results of their research in the form of a report (maximum 40 pages) and to give a 20 minute seminar to other students and staff.

Learning Outcomes

• to train students in the basic principles of research in environmental chemistry.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams;
• The ability to calculate, produce, interpret and communicate numerical information;
• The ability to access and employ online technologies effectively;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to learn independently and in a self-directed manner.

Prerequisites:

Consult HoS

Availabilities
, , Study Period 1
Census Date 31-Mar-2005
Coord/Lect:	jc114477.
, , Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2005
Coord/Lect:	jc114477.

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