Overview
Overview
Advanced Science is an academically elite, honours degree course in which you can tailor your study to your interests in science, technology and mathematics.
During your course, you will have access to world-class research groups, work-integrated learning, industry engagement, student-led projects and accelerated learning pathways.
You’ll gain core knowledge in your discipline and have a choice of elective units that align with your passions. You’ll also benefit from interdisciplinary units that are unique to the course and involve engaging with like-minded, high-achieving peers.
These are the choice of majors available to you:
- Agricultural Science
- Chemistry
- Coastal and Marine Science
- Computing
- Data Science
- Earth Sciences
- Environmental Science
- Financial Mathematics
- Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Molecular Genetics
- Physics.
From your second year you’ll build your expertise through career-relevant learning opportunities – gaining the practical, transferable skills that employers look for in graduates.
You’ll also undertake full-year applied projects embedded in leading research groups or connected with external organisations. And, in your final year, you’ll conduct a self-directed honours project that contributes new knowledge to your field.
This course is unique in Western Australia in its multidisciplinary, project-based learning and scientific professional practice involving entrepreneurship, communication and leadership skills. These professional skills are essential in enabling agile and innovative responses to changing industry and employment circumstances.
What you'll learn
- Demonstrate an advanced knowledge of the nature of science, its methods and processes, and an advanced knowledge in one or more disciplinary areas enabling the ability to contribute new knowledge to a field of study.
- Critically analyse challenging and multi-faceted problems, address them by applying practical and theoretical tools and critically evaluate findings within the current body of disciplinary knowledge.
- Access and make judgements on the value of available knowledge using a variety of tools, and incorporate them into the planning, conduct and communication of their own work.
- Communicate approaches and solutions, ideas and findings to informed professional scientific and industry audiences.
- Use established and emerging technologies in their chosen discipline and apply them within the context of their profession.
- Engage in self-driven continuous discipline and professional education and training within their chosen discipline.
- Participate in the generation and application of science in addressing global problems while recognising that scientific endeavours are required to comply with international ethical and professional standards.
- Work collaboratively and respectfully with scientists from a range of cultural backgrounds and understand the cultural issues that impact their discipline or profession.
- Be able to work as an independent scientist and collaboratively within teams either as a professional leader or collaborator using effective problem solving and decision making skills within the professional context of their area of study.
