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<p> </p><p>The Bachelor of Science (Science Communication) will train you in science-related communication skills and social awareness of science issues, enhancing your employability in any science-related field.</p><p> </p><p>Graduates from this program who find work as science researchers have an enhanced ability to communicate aspects of their work to funding bodies, governments, members of the community, the media, and their fellow researchers. </p><p> </p><p>Graduates from the degree program can also find work in varied specialist science communication fields:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Science policy</strong></p><p>Advising governments on issues such as science teaching, biotechnology, healthy living and environmental sustainability.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Science journalism</strong></p><p>Reporting on science news.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Consultancy work</strong></p><p>Providing tactical and strategic communication advice and services to science-focused organisations.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Popular science writing or presenting</strong></p><p>Making science fun for audiences, through documentaries, public presentations, science magazines, science websites or popular science books.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Science exhibit design and management</strong></p><p>Creating science exhibitions and interactive media in science centres, science museums and online.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Science lobbying and campaigning</strong></p><p>Working for non-government organisations or businesses to campaign for social change on science-related issues such as climate change, nuclear power and animal ethics.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Institutional science communication</strong></p><p>Managing communication and publicity for scientific research organisations like CSIRO or Biotechnology Australia.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Science communication research</strong></p><p>Analysing social trends and influences on public perceptions of science.</p>
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<p><strong>The 6 compulsory core science communication courses will all be offered in 2010:</strong></p><p><em>First Semester</em></p><p><u><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SCOM1001;details.html">SCOM1001</a></u> Science and Public Awareness</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SCOM2001;details.html">SCOM2001</a> Practical Skills for Communicating Science</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SCOM3002;details.html">SCOM3002</a> Science in the Media</p><p><em>Second Semester</em></p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS1003;details.html">ENVS1003</a> Environment and Society Research Methods</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SCOM2003;details.html">SCOM2003</a> Science in Popular Fiction</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SCOM3001;details.html">SCOM3001</a> Science, Risk and Ethics</p><p> </p><p><strong>Thematic clusters of non-core courses</strong></p><p>Students who need assistance in selecting the 4 non-core courses can use the following clusters as thematic guides to choices. Choosing according to clusters is <strong><u>not compulsory</u></strong>: these are only a guide based on categories of interest. Note that in making selections, prerequisites and program requirements must still be taken into consideration, and fulfillment of these is not indicated here.</p><p> </p><p><em>Practical communication skills cluster</em></p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP1710;details.html">COMP1710</a> Tools for New Media and the Web</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/DRAM1005;details.html">DRAM1005</a> Page to Stage 1: Acting</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/DRAM2005;details.html">DRAM2005</a> Page to Stage 2: Directing</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS3007;details.html">ENVS3007</a> Participatory Resource Management: Addressing Environmental Conflict</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SCNC3200;details.html">SCNC3200</a> Science & Mathematics Teaching in Secondary Schools</p><p> </p><p><em>Environment cluster</em></p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS1001;details.html">ENVS1001</a> Resources, Environment & Society</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS1008;details.html">ENVS1008</a> Contemporary Issues in Asia and Australia</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS2012;details.html">ENVS2012</a> Cities & their Hinterlands</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS2013;details.html">ENVS2013</a> Environment & Development</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS3007;details.html">ENVS3007</a> Participatory Resource Management: Addressing Environmental Conflict</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS3020;details.html">ENVS3020</a> Climate Change Science & Policy</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS3021;details.html">ENVS3021</a> Human Futures</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS3028;details.html">ENVS3028</a> Environmental Policy & Planning</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS3033;details.html">ENVS3033</a> International Environmental Policy</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/LAWS3103;details.html">LAWS3103</a> Law & the Environment</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SOCY2022;details.html">SOCY2022</a> Environment & Society</p><p> </p><p><em>Bioscience cluster</em></p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ANTH1002;details.html">ANTH1002</a> Culture and Human Diversity</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ANTH2127;details.html">ANTH2127</a> Genes, Memes & Cultural Difference</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/BIOL2152;details.html">BIOL2152</a> Advances in Human Genetics</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/BIOL2191;details.html">BIOL2191</a> Ecology of Health and Disease</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/BIOL3191;details.html">BIOL3191</a> Biotechnology in Context</p><p> </p><p><em>Philosophy cluster</em></p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ASIA3009;details.html">ASIA3009</a> Knowledge & Society</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/MATH1042;details.html">MATH1042</a> Philosophy of the Cosmos</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/PHIL2057;details.html">PHIL2057</a> Philosophy of Science</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/PHIL2061;details.html">PHIL2061</a> Philosophy of Psychology</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/PHIL2082;details.html">PHIL2082</a> Philosophy of Biology</p><p> </p><p><em>Science in society cluster</em></p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ANTH1002;details.html">ANTH1002</a> Culture and Human Diversity</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ANTH2026;details.html">ANTH2026</a> Medical Anthropology</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ANTH2127;details.html">ANTH2127</a> Genes, Memes & Cultural Difference</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ASIA3009;details.html">ASIA3009</a> Knowledge & Society</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/BIOL2191;details.html">BIOL2191</a> Ecology of Health and Disease</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/BIOL3191;details.html">BIOL3191</a> Biotechnology in Context</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/GEND2025;details.html">GEND2025</a> Gender, Health and Embodiment</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/GEND2026;details.html">GEND2026</a> Technoculture & the Body</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/HIST2117;details.html">HIST2117</a>† Technology & Society 1800-2000</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/PSYC1003;details.html">PSYC1003</a> Psychology 1: Understanding Mind, Brain & Behaviour</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/PSYC1004;details.html">PSYC1004</a> Psychology 2: Understanding People in Context</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/PSYC2001;details.html">PSYC2001</a> Social Psychology</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SOCY2022;details.html">SOCY2022</a> Environment & Society</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SOCY2053;details.html">SOCY2053</a> Imagining the Future: The Social Origins of Utopias and Science Fiction</p>
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<p>Students who attain a sufficient standard in the pass degree may be admitted to the Honours year to become candidates for the degree with Honours.</p><p>See the Honours Degree listed in the <a href="/programs/3600XBSCI;honours.html">Bachelor of Science</a>.</p>
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<p>Effective, meaningful communication calls on a multitude of skills and techniques. Effective science communication requires not only such skills and techniques, but a sound appreciation of the context in which science is practiced. This makes the study of science communication relevant to every science and every scientist. Studying science communication at ANU will offer you exposure to skills and experiences not usually encountered in standard science courses. In this degree, not only will your science writing and presentation abilities be honed, you will also study how people think about risk and ethics, consider what types of communication techniques are most persuasive, and discuss the underlying social and cultural influences on science as it exists today. </p><p>Whether you want to be a practising scientist, or simply have a passing interest in how science fits into the everyday world, science communication offers wide-ranging, interdisciplinary insight. </p><p>Specific science communication courses work in conjunction with electives to allow you to learn more about human nature and the philosophy of science, placing science in the context of people's everyday lives. </p><p>Eligible graduates from this program will be able to continue in Honours in mainstream science areas or in science communication. </p><p>Suitable students in this program will also have the opportunity to participate in the Australian National Internships Program. For more information about this program see <a href="http://www.anu.edu.au/anip">www.anu.edu.au/anip</a>.</p>
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Bachelor of Science (Science Communication)
<p>There are no formal program prerequisites.</p>
<p>The degree requires completion of at least 144 units including at least 96 units of Group A, B and C courses,</p><p>The total of 144 units must include the 6 core science communication courses (36 units): </p><p> </p><p><em>Group A (First Year)</em></p><p><u><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SCOM1001;details.html">SCOM1001</a></u> Science and Public Awareness</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS1003;details.html">ENVS1003</a> Environment and Society Research Methods</p><p> </p><p><em>Group B (Second Year)</em></p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SCOM2001;details.html">SCOM2001</a> Practical Skills for Communicating Science</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SCOM2003;details.html">SCOM2003</a> Science in Popular Fiction</p><p> </p><p><em>Group C (Third Year)</em></p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SCOM3001;details.html">SCOM3001</a> Science, Risk and Ethics</p><p><a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SCOM3002;details.html">SCOM3002</a> Science in the Media.</p><p> </p><p>It must also include 4 other courses (24 units):</p><ul><li>6 units from List 1</li><li>18 units from List 2, including at least 6 units from List 2(a).</li></ul><p>The core science communication courses and the courses in Lists 1(a) and 2(a) can count towards the 96 units of Group A, B and C courses.</p><p>The degree program may <strong>not</strong> include:</p><ul><li>more than 48 units of courses not defined as Group A, B or C</li><li>no more than 24 units of these 48 may be at first-year level</li><li>more than 48 units at first-year level</li><li>fewer than 36 units Group C</li></ul><p>The maximum period for completion of the degree is 10 years from the date of first enrolment in the degree program; the 10 years includes periods of leave.</p><p><strong>List 1 (First Year)</strong></p><p>(a) <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS1001;details.html">ENVS1001</a> Resources, Environment & Society</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS1008;details.html">ENVS1008</a> Contemporary Issues in Asia and Australia</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/MATH1042;details.html">MATH1042</a> Philosophy of the Cosmos</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/PSYC1003;details.html">PSYC1003</a> Psychology 1: Understanding Mind, Brain & Behaviour</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/PSYC1004;details.html">PSYC1004</a> Psychology 2: Understanding People in Context</p><p>(b) <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ANTH1002;details.html">ANTH1002</a> Culture and Human Diversity</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP1710;details.html">COMP1710</a> Tools for New Media and the Web</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/DRAM1005;details.html">DRAM1005</a> Page to Stage 1: Acting</p><p> </p><p><strong>List 2 (Later Years)</strong></p><p>(a) <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ANTH2026;details.html">ANTH2026</a> Medical Anthropology</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ANTH2127;details.html">ANTH2127</a> Genes, Memes & Cultural Difference</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/BIOL2152;details.html">BIOL2152</a>* Advances in Human Genetics</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/BIOL2191;details.html">BIOL2191</a>* Ecology of Health and Disease</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/BIOL3191;details.html">BIOL3191</a> Biotechnology in Context</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS2012;details.html">ENVS2012</a>* Cities & their Hinterlands</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS2013;details.html">ENVS2013</a> Environment & Development</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS3007;details.html">ENVS3007</a> Participatory Resource Management: Addressing Environmental Conflict</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS3020;details.html">ENVS3020</a> Climate Change Science & Policy</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS3021;details.html">ENVS3021</a>* Human Futures</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS3028;details.html">ENVS3028</a> Environmental Policy & Planning</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ENVS3033;details.html">ENVS3033</a> International Environmental Policy</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/PHIL2057;details.html">PHIL2057</a> Philosophy of Science</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/PHIL2061;details.html">PHIL2061</a>† Philosophy of Psychology</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/PHIL2082;details.html">PHIL2082</a>† Philosophy of Biology</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/PSYC2001;details.html">PSYC2001</a>* Social Psychology</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SCNC3200;details.html">SCNC3200</a> Science & Mathematics Teaching in Secondary Schools</p><p>(b) <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/ASIA3009;details.html">ASIA3009</a> Knowledge & Society</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/DRAM2005;details.html">DRAM2005</a>† Page to Stage 2: Directing</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/GEND2025;details.html">GEND2025</a>† Gender, Health and Embodiment</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/GEND2026;details.html">GEND2026</a>† Technoculture & the Body</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/HIST2117;details.html">HIST2117</a>† Technology & Society 1800-2000</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/LAWS3103;details.html">LAWS3103</a> Law & the Environment</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SOCY2022;details.html">SOCY2022</a> Environment & Society</p><p> <a href="http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/SOCY2053;details.html">SOCY2053</a>* Imagining the Future: The Social Origins of Utopias and Science Fiction</p><p> </p><p>* Courses marked * require one or more prerequisite courses. The prerequisite courses may or may not be on these lists, and so may or may not count towards meeting the core requirements of this program.</p><p>† Courses marked † require either one or more prerequisite courses OR the permission of the course coordinator to enrol.</p><p>It is students' responsibility to ensure that prerequisite courses are taken into account when planning course choices, and/or to contact course coordinators for permission to enrol.</p><p> </p>
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