SEB304 Science Capstone
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| Unit code: | SEB304 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,164 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,968 |
| International unit fee | $6,216 |
Unit Outline: Summer 2025, Gardens Point
| Unit code: | SEB304 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 192cp of study and ((BVB306 and (BVB305 or BVB313)) or (EVB312 and (EVB310 or BVB311)) or (CLB331 and (CLB332 or CLB333)) or (CVB302 and (CVB301 or CVB303)) or (ERB330 and (ERB331 or ERB333)) or (PVB306 and PVB307 and (PVB303 or PVB305)) or admission to SV02) |
Overview
This capstone unit provides you with an opportunity to deepen your discipline understanding by applying your skills and knowledge to a semester-long work integrated learning project. Within your project, you will engage in research, draw on your data analysis skills, and develop innovative approaches to address complex problems. The unit is structured to allow you to develop communication and collaborative skills, and to understand the professional requirements of scientists in the workplace.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Integrate advanced knowledge and skills and apply critical reasoning to develop insight into a discipline-specific problem
- Adapt relevant practical, computational and/or data analytical skills to address a discipline-specific problem
- Communicate complex scientific information in written, visual and oral formats to a specialist audience
- Work autonomously and collaboratively with others in an inclusive and professional manner
- Integrate appropriate protocols to ensure ethical and safe conduct that addresses environmental considerations and adherence to relevant regulations with specific attention to such aspects as they relate to First Nations Australian matters in research.
- Critically reflect on project experiences to enable personal and professional growth
Content
Throughout the semester you will undertake an extended project under the supervision of an academic or industry expert. You will work independently or in a small team on the project, and will document your work through a discipline-specific portfolio. You will have regular project meetings with your project team and/or supervisor to plan and track progress. Alongside your project, you will undertake learning through on-demand modules that will allow you to grow your transferrable skills such as career navigation, communication and project management, as well as consolidating your discipline-specific skills. The capstone project is designed to allow you to draw on and deepen your discipline understanding as you to translate your knowledge to new, complex situations.
Learning Approaches
This unit will draw on a combination of experiential and collaborative learning. In an experiential learning approach, you will apply your academic knowledge and skills to real-world situations, emphasising hands-on learning, and empowering you to become active participants in the learning process. Collaborative learning allows you work within teams to solve problems and develop solutions. You will learn to communicate effectively, share ideas, and work together to achieve common goals.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will be given multiple opportunities for feedback throughout the semester, including formative written and oral feedback during the development of the portfolio and through ongoing interactions with the project teams and leaders, including internal and external industry partners, and summative feedback associated with the poster presentation.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit is designed to allow students to reflect on their practice and their discipline-specific skills, to document their progress, and to demonstrate their outcomes using a combined written and oral presentation format, the poster presentation.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
The portfolio will comprise a discipline-specific set of project planning and execution details, reflections, demonstrations of skills application and career planning, and documentation regarding ethical and health, safety and environment considerations, and relevant Indigenous perspectives and contexts.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Poster Presentation
The poster presentation will allow students to communicate their key findings in written, visual and oral formats. The poster should document the context, approach and outcomes of the project, and will be augmented by an accompanying spoken presentation and fielding of questions from peers and academic staff. Posters will be presented in a group setting, in which the oral presentation will be delivered on-demand to peers, academic staff and industry representatives.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Costs
There are no out of the ordinary costs associated with the study of this unit.
Resources
Resources will be provided through the unit Canvas site and QUT Libraries, and directly through project supervisors.
Risk Assessment Statement
Project risk assessments will be made in collaboration with the project supervisor, and will reflect all risks and their mitigation strategies. On-campus projects will use the HSE Hub risk assessment system. Projects in industry will use industry-specific risk assessments.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.ST01 Bachelor of Science
- Develop a broad, multidisciplinary understanding of science and a specialised, in-depth knowledge of at least one discipline.
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio - Use higher order thinking skills to design, plan, and conduct investigations and evaluate data to address scientific questions and challenges.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Portfolio - Develop and demonstrate key competencies in scientific practices and relevant technologies.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Portfolio - Practice science in a safe, culturally appropriate, ethical, sustainable, and socially conscious way with a knowledge of relevant concepts, regulatory frameworks and protocols.
Relates to: ULO5, Portfolio - Communicate scientific findings, concepts and evidence-based reasoning to diverse audiences using a variety of methods.
Relates to: ULO3, Poster Presentation - Work autonomously and collaboratively with others in an inclusive and professional manner and use critical reflection for personal and professional growth.
Relates to: ULO4, ULO6, Portfolio, Poster Presentation
SV02 Bachelor of Science
- Develop a broad, multidisciplinary understanding of science and a specialised, in-depth knowledge of at least one discipline.
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio - Use higher order thinking skills to design, plan, and conduct investigations and evaluate data to address scientific questions and challenges.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Portfolio - Develop and demonstrate key competencies in scientific practices and relevant technologies.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Portfolio - Practice science in a safe, culturally appropriate, ethical, sustainable, and socially conscious way with a knowledge of relevant concepts, regulatory frameworks and protocols.
Relates to: ULO5, Portfolio - Communicate scientific findings, concepts and evidence-based reasoning to diverse audiences using a variety of methods.
Relates to: ULO3, Poster Presentation - Work autonomously and collaboratively with others in an inclusive and professional manner and use critical reflection for personal and professional growth.
Relates to: ULO4, ULO6, Portfolio, Poster Presentation