Module BSX-3072:
Science Communication Skills
Science Communication Skills 2023-24
BSX-3072
2023-24
School Of Natural Sciences
Module - Semester 1 & 2
10 credits
Module Organiser:
Christian Dunn
Overview
This module will cover key aspects of communicating scientific facts, concepts and ideas across a broad range of platforms and mediums. The use of different of styles will be considered to best promote and disseminate topical subjects. This will include writing and producing content for a variety of different media formats. Personal and professional marketing skills will be investigated, as an important form of scientific-related communication. A series of research seminars will be organised to cover a wide selection of scientific areas and presentation styles, giving students access to topics and academics they may otherwise not have come across. There will be a number of formative assessments throughout the module and an engaging summative assessment allowing students to play to their own strengths in the form of a piece of written or recorded scientific communication.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse and understand the best method to express scientific findings and concepts to as wide, and as relevant, an audience as possible.
- Evaluate how different presentation, writing, information-giving and story-telling techniques are needed, depending on the audience, target and medium used, and develop an effective approach to using a variety of them.
- Synthesise information from a wide variety of sources in-order to gain an insight into topical work– and communicate it to a mixed audience.
Assessment type
Summative
Weighting
100%