Aims & Objectives

Course Aims

  • Appreciate scientific study and creativity within a global context through stimulating and challenging opportunities

  • Acquire a body of knowledge, methods and techniques that characterize science and technology

  • Apply and use a body of knowledge, methods and techniques that characterize science and technology

  • Develop an ability to analyse, evaluate and synthesise scientific information

  • Develop a critical awareness of the need for, and the value of, effective collaboration and communication during scientific activities

  • Develop experimental and investigative scientific skills including the use of current technologies

  • Develop and apply 21st century communication skills in the study of science

  • Become critically aware, as global citizens, of the ethical implications of using science and technology

  • Develop an appreciation of the possibilities and limitations of science and technology

  • Develop an understanding of the relationships between scientific disciplines and their influence on other areas of knowledge

Assessment Objectives

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of

  • facts, concepts and terminology

  • methodologies and techniques

  • communicating scientific information

Apply

  • facts, concepts and terminology

  • methodologies and techniques

  • methods of communicating scientific information

Formulate, analyse and evaluate

  • hypotheses, research questions and predictions

  • methodologies and techniques

  • primary and secondary data

  • scientific explanations

Demonstrate the appropriate research, experimental, and personal skills necessary to carry out insightful and ethical investigations

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