Students will be supplied with required & suggested readings, available from the Barr Smith Library or from online sources.

Access to MyUni and University email is absolutely required; communication with students will primarily be via these mechanisms, and students are encouraged to regularly (i.e. every 1-2 days) check these sources for any new information.

MyUni: Teaching materials and course documentation will be posted on the MyUni website (http://myuni.adelaide.edu.au/).

The tutorials provide a mechanism for students to review and build on their understanding of the lecture material. Workshop sessions and related assessments will use examples from the lectures to develop skills in assessing the relative value of published work and the process by which biomedical experimentation is undertaken, along with an introduction to computational biology.

Students are expected to attend all planned teaching activities to maximise their chances of success. In addition students are expected to spend 2 hours per lecture and 1 hour per tutorial in revision and preparation respectively. Finally, students will need to spend a total of 45 hours in preparation for the various course assessments.

A student enrolled in a 3 unit course such as this should expect to spend on average 12 hours per week on the studies required. This includes both the formal contact time required to the course (e.g., lectures and practicals), as well as non-contact time (e.g., reading, preparing assessments etc).

• Tutorials begin in week 2 and are held approximately fortnightly (with some variation to account for other course activities).  Some teaching activities will be held in week 13.
• Lecture topics are subject to change based on staff availability.
• The workshops and continuing assessment tasks will build on the experimental design elements of the lecture content

Attendance at all teaching activities is required to obtain instruction for assessments.

Please note some assessements will be held during either workshops and/or tutorials, hence attendance at all of these activities is mandatory.

Non-attendance at these sessions without adequate reason (in association with appropriate documentation) will result in a zero mark for the relevant assessment.

All assessment tasks will be supported by extensive guidelines and detailed assessment rubrics.
Specific criteria along with a template document will be provided to assist the students in completing each assessment task.

Experimental design assessments:
These assessments will build student understanding of the concepts of experimental design, and by incorporating examples and ideas derived from the lecture content, they will design a series of experiments that could feasibly answer a set of supplied hypotheses.

Data Analysis Exercise:
Students will be supplied with biological data (e.g. DNA sequences) which they will need to analyse in order to draw appropriate conclusions about the nature of the data. This exercise is computationally based and will require the use of various programs and online tools to complete the analysis.

Tutorial Assessments:
Students will prepare short answers to questions based on the lecture content and tutorial discussions.

All work (except the tutorial tests) will be submitted online via the relevant assessment link on MyUni. Coversheets & Templates will be supplied as required. Any work submitted without the relevant coversheet will NOT be assessed. Tests papers will be collected at the end of each test period, with feedback provided in a following teaching session.

Late submission of assessments
If an extension is not applied for, or not granted then a penalty for late submission will apply. A penalty of 10% of the value of the assignment for each calendar day that the assignment is late (i.e. weekends count as 2 days), up to a maximum of 50% of the available marks will be applied. This means that an assignment that is 5 days late or more without an approved extension can only receive a maximum of 50% of the marks available for that assignment.