The anticipated knowledge, skills and attitudes to be developed by the students are:

1. Demonstrate awareness of a wide variety of cutting edge biomedical and molecular biology research.
2. Understand standard molecular biology techniques and their application to investigating biomedical problems.
3. Critically evaluate scientific literature.
4. Demonstrate effective written and oral scientific communication skills.

Students will be supplied with required & suggested readings, available from the Barr Smith Library or from online sources.

Access to MyUni and University email is absolutely required; communication with students will primarily be via these mechanisms, and students are encouraged to regularly (i.e. every 1-2 days) check these sources for any new information.

MyUni: Teaching materials and course documentation will be posted on the MyUni website (http://myuni.adelaide.edu.au/).

The tutorials provide a mechanism for students to review and build on their understanding of the lecture material. Workshop sessions and related assessments will use examples from the lectures to develop skills in preparing and presenting widely used forms of scientific communication including abstracts, posters and oral presentations.

Students are expected to attend all planned teaching activities to maximise their chances of success. In addition students are expected to spend 2 hours per lecture and 1 hour per tutorial in revision and preparation respectively. Finally, students will need to spend 50 hours in preparation of various assessments associated with the workshop.

A student enrolled in a 3 unit course such as this should expect to spend on average 12 hours per week on the studies required. This includes both the formal contact time required to the course (e.g., lectures and practicals), as well as non-contact time (e.g., reading, preparing assessments etc).

Please Note:

• Tutorials begin in week 2 and are held approximately fortnightly (with some variation to account for other course activities)
• Lecture topics are subject to change based on staff availability

Assessment task	Type of assessment	Percentage of total assessment for grading purposes	Hurdle (Yes/No)	Outcomes being assessed
Scientific Communication - Poster Abstract & Plan	Summative	15%	No	2,3,4
Scientific Communication - Oral Presentation	Summative	25% (Includes 5% peer assessment)	No	2,3,4
Scientific Communication - Group Poster	Summative	35% (Includes 5% peer assessment)	No	2,3,4
Tutorial Tests	Summative	5 x 5%	No	1,2

Attendance at all teaching activities is required to obtain instruction for assessments.

Please note periodic assessements will be held during either workshops and/or tutorials, hence attendance at all of these activities is mandatory.

Non-attendance at these sessions without adequate reason (in association with appropriate documentation) will result in a zero mark for the relevant assessment.

Oral Presentations will be offered face-to-face where possible, and via Zoom for students unable to attend on campus.

All assessment tasks will be supported by extensive guidelines and detailed assessment rubrics.
Specific criteria along with a template document will be provided to assist the students in completing each assessment task.
For each communication assessment, students will have opportunity to choose a topic of interest from within a given topic area.

Scientific communication - Poster Abstract & Plan:
Students are required to review and summarise literature relevant to their assigned topic. In addition, the students will also need to present a plan for the poster they will submit later in the semester.

Scientific communication - Oral Presentation:
Students will present key experimental outcomes relating to research on their choice of a specific human disease. The marks allocated for this assessment will be based on staff assessment of their presentations along with a peer assessment component.

Scientific communication – Group Poster:
Student groups will submit a conference style poster based on their abstracts and including published data that illustrates a key experimental advance in their chosen topic area. The marks allocated for this assessment will be based on staff assessment of their posters (common group mark), and a peer assessment component.

Tutorial Assessments:
Students will prepare short answers to questions based on the lecture content and tutorial discussions.

Written work will be submitted via the relevant assessment link on MyUni as appropriate. Coversheets & Templates will be supplied as required. Any work submitted without the relevant coversheet will NOT be assessed. Tests papers will be collected at the end of each test period, with feedback provided in a following teaching session.

Late submission of assessments
If an extension is not applied for, or not granted then a penalty for late submission will apply. A penalty of 10% of the value of the assignment for each calendar day that the assignment is late (i.e. weekends count as 2 days), up to a maximum of 50% of the available marks will be applied. This means that an assignment that is 5 days late or more without an approved extension can only receive a maximum of 50% of the marks available for that assignment.