Practical Skills for Scientists

Course Description

This course is designed to introduce first-year graduate students to the standards and practices of conducting original scientific research in a professional and responsible manner. This course will guide students as they develop practical skills in communicating in both oral and written formats, and as they practice some of the formal and informal interactions (including questions and discussions after presentations, critical reading, and peer review) characteristic of working as a scientist. Students will learn to construct hypotheses and approaches to test them, write a scientific proposal, evaluate proposals as a peer reviewer, critically read papers from the primary scientific literature, give interesting, informative, and concise oral scientific presentations, explain and justify the standards of responsible conduct of research, identify irresponsible conduct of scientific research and respond appropriately. 3 credits Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

Code

MAR 568

Credits

3

Subject

MAR

Programs That Include This Course

• Master's Master of Science Communication