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Unit of Study SCIN3004 - Integrated Project (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Pre-requisites

    completed 196cp of your bachelors degree

  • Enrolment information

    Students must have agreed on a project with an academic supervisor from SCU prior to enrolling. Please contact the Unit Assessor (ip-science@scu.edu.au)

Unit description

Students identify a suitable environmental management/education/IT issue or research topic. They use the skills they have gained throughout their degree to design a methodology suited to the issue and gather relevant information. Students prepare a project proposal, and a final report. The Integrated Project prepares students for the transition into professional life. 

Unit content

The Integrated Project requires students to work on a topic with a supervisor. On-campus students will work on campus with a supervisor and online students will work online with their supervisor. Shared unit instructions will be delivered by the unit assessor via Blackboard. Therefore, there is no syllabus.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Lismore
Term4
Term4
National Marine Science Centre Coffs Harbour
Term4
Term4
Online
Term4
N/A

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

write a project proposal (to a professional standard) in the discipline specific field

demonstrate creative skills in project design and information acquisition, interpretation and analysis

meet project and reporting deadlines

produce a professional report that critically analyses existing literature, documents (ethical) methodology, reflects confidence to work with environmental data and synthesised existing knowledge with results

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Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.