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Professional Skills - BEES4511
 BEES student

   
   
   
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Excluded: BEES9011
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 5 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

The course provides training in skills needed for the Honours project and any subsequent degree as well as in outside employment. Principal topics covered include occupational health and safety, presentation skills (written, oral and audiovisual, including computer-aided presentations), professional ethics and issues of scientific fraud, database and library usage, information retrieval, overview of quantitative skills, as well as more specific research or professional skills which may be tailored to particular interest groups.

Note: Available to students enrolled in an Honours program offered by the School of BEES, and other Honours students as approved by the Honours Co-ordinator.

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