Kurssin kuvaus

Objectives

Student knows how to write a research plan, conduct hands-on research at laboratory, analyse results obtained, and interpret results and write a scientific report. Student is able to do independent research work and reporting the area of drug discovery and development. Student can analyse and interpret relevant scientific literature and publications. Student masters their field of science, understands the research methodology and applies relevant methods to the project. Student can compare own results to the scientific literature and expand the current knowledge in the field.
Student masters scientific thinking and presenting new research data to the scientific community. Student understands their role in the research community and can justify and explain own results to peer scientists. Furthermore, students learn to communicate to other members of the research group and to different audience, like peer students, scientific and lay audience, orally, graphically and with written text. Student understands and learns to recognise plagiarism and scientific fraud.
This course has a strong focus on working life skills, professional life relevance and creative problem solving. Students learn to work in a research group and give feedback to peers as well as receive feedback from peers and experts in the area. Student recognises the time and resource limits of a scientific a research project and can adjust the actions accordingly.