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CHEM400 Honours in Chemistry

Credit Points 48
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Year Long Honours - Period 1 Off Campus
Armidale Year Long Honours - Period 1 On Campus
Armidale Year Long Honours - Period 2 Off Campus
Armidale Year Long Honours - Period 2 On Campus
Armidale Year Long Honours - Period 3 Off Campus
Armidale Year Long Honours - Period 3 On Campus
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites permission of head of school and candidature in BSc(Hons)
Co-requisites None
Restrictions
Notes

Honours candidates only. After consultation, approval must be granted by the Course Coordinator, for enrolment in this unit as some projects cannot be undertaken off campus.
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Chris Fellows (cfellows@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

Admission to Chemistry honours is determined by the undergraduate record of the student; a Credit average over all Chemistry 300-level units completed is desirable. The honours year will include the completion of four approved honours lecture or coursework units, an essay covering the background and introduction to the thesis topic, two seminars to be presented during the course (the first is based on an approved topic not necessarily associated with the research project and the second seminar is a review of the year's research and is assessed with the written thesis) and a research project. The research project, and the thesis describing the work carried out and the results obtained, form the major part of the honours assessment. In addition, specialist discussion groups may be organised and students are expected to attend; all students are expected to be present at seminars.
Materials No text required
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Seminar 7%
Assessment Notes
initial seminar
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 6 GA: 1, 2, 4
Thesis 68%
Assessment Notes
Thesis (including final seminar and supervisor's assessment)
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 6 GA: 1, 2, 4, 6
Unit Test 25%
Assessment Notes
Coursework
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 GA: 1, 2, 4, 6

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. carry out, under direction, experimental and/or computational research in an area of chemistry at a standard suitable for publication in international journals;
  2. report and discuss this research in the context of the field in writing at a standard suitable for publication, in writing;
  3. report and discuss this research in the context of the field in writing at a standard suitable for disucssion at a scientific conference, in speech;
  4. critique intelligently the work of others working in their research area
  5. assess to a professional standard the risks inherent in chemical procedures;
  6. use the electronic and hardcopy resources available for accessing chemical information;

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
This unit is the critical flagship unit of the Chemistry discipline in which students truly learn what science is all about and how it is practiced. Students are expected to investigate an area of chemistry and structure their understanding of it into an organised body of knowledge that for the first time in their degree program is at a level of full proficiency. 		True True True
2 Communication Skills
In order for them to tell us what they know, they need to be able to communicate to us in writing and speech. We teach them the language of the discipline, they use it, and understanding what they say or write is a formative part of their assessment. 		True True True
4 Information Literacy
They need to look things up to find out more about the subject material of this unit. We teach them how to do this with respect to the resources specific for this unit, they use this knowledge, and finding out valid information is a formative part of their assessment. 		True True True
6 Problem Solving
The focus of CHEM400 is not only to master existing knowledge, but to extend humanity's knowledge, and for this reason they are required to solve problems not posed by us as artificial exercises, but posed by nature. 		True True True
   

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