Information session: Postgrad courses in Integrated Human Studies and Science Communication

Connect your career to the world, enhance your degree and improve employment prospects with postgraduate courses in Integrated Human Studies and Science Communication. Investigate postgraduate educational possibilities with course coordinators Prof Neville Bruce and Assoc Prof Nancy Longnecker.

Integrated Human Studies certificate, diploma and master courses give global context to your degree. The courses focus on 21st century global challenges and use transdisciplinary methodologies, collaborative research and Web 2.0 technologies to give students broad understandings, communication skills and cultural competencies identified as essential by employers. Graduates from any faculty are eligible to enrol in Integrated Human Studies courses.

Science Communication studies at UWA offer you the chance to share your passion for science with people from all walks of life. The Science Communication program is both flexible and practical. Links with organisations in the Western Australian science community and expert practitioners will allow you to involve yourself in real world projects and directly put your skills into practice. The science community has become increasingly aware of the need to connect with people and career prospects are excellent. On offer are Honours, Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma (Science Communication), Master of Science Communication, Master of Science Communication and Education and PhD. These courses of study provide opportunities to develop important skills in science communication, IT literacy, electronic publishing and related areas as well as communication research. Graduates of the MSc Comm/Ed are accredited to teach science in Western Australian high schools. For more information contact Prof Neville Bruce, 61 8 6488 3292 <www.ihs.uwa.edu.au> or Assoc Prof Nancy Longnecker, 61 8 6488 3926 <www.science.uwa.edu.au/scicomm>.