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Last updated: 4 March 2022
Must have passed 4 credit points
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Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
Online independent and collaborative learning including 1 x 1 hour seminar per fortnight, or 1 x 1 hour campus seminar per fortnight.
Students often see science as a set of facts and not as a process for making sense of the natural and physical world. Today’s science is built on ways of thinking that were developed centuries ago. The purpose of this unit is for students to develop knowledge of the history and philosophy of science and the relationship between science and the society. Students will review controversies in science, examine science as a human endeavour, explore different values and attitudes to science and explain how science influences our world. Learning assessment activities in this unit will allow students to recognise the evolution of science and its role in the advancement of our society. Students will research, collect and analyse information around how people enact science from discovery through to practice, through to application, through to understanding. They will learn the importance of the scientific process, and methods in the development ideas and theories.
Explain the nature and processes of scientific knowledge construction using historical and contemporary theories.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
ULO2
Articulate ways in which science has impacted on society at different times in history.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO2: CommunicationGLO4: Critical thinking
ULO3
Express a considered view about how society values scientific and non-scientific knowledge including developing and demonstrating understandings of the way that scientific knowledge relates to other forms of knowledge.
GLO2: Communication
ULO4
Construct explanations, form opinions and use judgments based on evidence to develop critical arguments on issues in science and society.
GLO2: CommunicationGLO6: Self-management
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SLE209 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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