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Elective Units of study

Students in both the Graduate Diploma in Applied Science (Molecular Biotechnology) and the Master of Applied Science (Molecular Biotechnology) undertake 12 credit points of elective units of study during their degrees. According to the handbook, students may select from ANY of the other Graduate Diploma and Masters courses offered by the Faculty of Science, subject to timetable constraints. Following is a list of possible elective units of study. You can obtain Unit of Study descriptions, the number of credit points each is worth and the semester in which each is offered, in the Science Faculty Handbook.

Selected Relevant Science Elective units of study in 2010

(See the current handbook for a full listing of units available)

Unit code Unit name
AFNR5107 Analytical Chemistry A
 
BETH5000 Core Concepts in Bioethics
BETH5101 Introduction to Ethical Reasoning
BETH5102 Philosophy of Medicine
BETH5103 Biomedicine and Society
BETH5104 Bioethics, Law and Society
BETH5201 Ethics and Biotech: Genes and Stem Cells
BETH5202 Human and Animal Research Ethics
BETH5203 Ethics and Public Health
BETH5204 Clinical Ethics
BETH5205 Ethics and Mental Health
 
BIOL5001 Molecular Genetics and Inheritance
BIOL5002 Bioinformatics: Sequences and Genomes
 
COMP5318 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
COMP5347 e-Commerce Technology
 
ENVI5708 Introduction to Environmental Chemistry
 
MCAN5005 Introductory Microscopy & Microanalysis
MCAN5006 Electron Microscopy
MCAN5101 Confocal and Fluorescence Microscopy
MCAN5103 Materials Preparation and Microscopy
MCAN5104 Image Analysis
MCAN5110 Nanostructural Analysis of Materials
MCAN5210 Research Methodology
 
STAT5001 Applied Statistics for Bioinformatics
 
VETS8005 Advanced Animal Biotechnology

Please note that the information above is current for 2010. Units of study on offer, including the semester in which they are available may change.

NB: Students will not normally be permitted to enroll in elective units where this causes a student to be enrolled in more than 24 credit points in any one semester.