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Graduate Diploma in Science (Advanced)Informal specialisationYear: 2020
Overview
The Graduate Diploma in Science (Advanced) in Biosciences is a one-year program designed to extend students' knowledge and skills through a supervised research project together with advanced coursework in biosciences disciplines.
This program provides students with the opportunity to design and conduct, under supervision, independent research. Specific research projects will depend upon the availability of appropriate expertise, but may address a broad spectrum of BioSciences issues within the School of BioSciences research domains of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and/or Ecology and Evolution. Students will take responsibility for a research project, including the design and execution of laboratory and/or field experiments; collection, statistical analysis, and interpretation of data; and providing oral and written presentations of the results. Students will assimilate and critically evaluate new knowledge within a scientific paradigm, and communicate that knowledge to others. Students should also develop skills in managing a scientific research project, writing scientific reports, and making an oral presentation. Students also complete four advanced coursework subjects, which will further their specialist knowledge in areas of biosciences research and provide specific training in experimental design, statistical analysis, critical review of research papers and presentation of oral and written reports.
Intended learning outcomes
At the completion of this program, students will have skills in:
- developing advanced knowledge in areas of bioscience research
- conducting research in biosciences disciplines;
- designing rigorous experimental and sampling programs;
- preparing and giving an oral and written presentation of experimental results;
- expressing persuasive intellectual, scientific arguments;
- assimilating and critically evaluating existing knowledge within a scientific paradigm.
Last updated: 11 January 2021
Structure
100 credit points
Subject Options
Subject prerequisites: details of stream specific prerequisites can be found at the Graduate Diploma in Science (Advanced) (GDA-SCI) entry and participation requirements page.
Student will take 12.5 points from:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
BIOL90002 | Biometry | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MAST90044 | Thinking and Reasoning with Data | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
and 37.5 points from:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
BIOL90001 | Microscopy for Biological Sciences | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BIOL90002 | Biometry | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BOTA90005 | Flora of Victoria | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BTCH90005 | Advanced Molecular Biology Techniques | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BTCH90009 | Genomics and Bioinformatics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BTCH90010 | Genetically Modified Organisms | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EDUC90839 | Science in Schools | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
EVSC90009 | Problem Solving in Environmental Science | No longer available | |
EVSC90014 | Environmental Risk Assessment | Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EVSC90017 | Global Environmental Change | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EVSC90019 | Graduate Seminar: Environmental Science | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EVSC90020 | Environmental Modelling | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EVSC90026 | Modelling Species Distributions & Niches | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
GENE90018 | Advanced Topics in Genetics | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
GENE90019 | Genes Molecules and Cells | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
GENE90020 | Current Topics In Developmental Genetics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MAST90045 | Systems Modelling and Simulation | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MAST90128 | Advanced Environmental Computation | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
NRMT90002 | Biosecurity: Managing Invasive Species | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
PHYS90008 | Advanced Seminars in Physiology | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SCIE90002 | Metabolomics and Proteomics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SCIE90005 | Ethics and Responsibility in Science | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SCIE90006 | Scientists,Communication & the Workplace | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SCIE90011 | From Lab to Life | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SCIE90012 | Science Communication | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ZOOL90007 | Graduate Seminar in Ecology & Evolution | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
or other level 9 subjects as approved by the Research Project supervisor
And:
A two-part BioSciences Minor Research Project, which can be undertaken as either:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
BIOL90028 | BioSciences Minor Research Project Part1 |
Semester 1 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
BIOL90030 | BioSciences Minor Research Project Part2 |
Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville)
|
37.5 |
or
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
BIOL90029 | BioSciences Minor Research Project Part1 |
Semester 1 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
BIOL90031 | BioSciences Minor Research Project Part2 |
Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
Last updated: 11 January 2021