BSc Honours & AMS Projects
Information Sessions
- Wednesday 16th September 2009 - Applying for Honours and MSc (Research Training) in MDHS
5.15pm to 6.15pm, Sunderland Lecture Theatre, Ground floor, Medical Building.
Dr Tony Hughes, Honours Coordinator in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, will present an Information session on applying for Honours and the MSc (Research Training) in MDHS. This will be held in the week following the Honours Expo.
Pharmacology BSc Honours Project Booklet 2010 (updated 17/9/09)
Additional Project dated 18/9/09
****CHECK OUT THE NEW PROJECTS ADDED 17/9/09***
Please check regularly for new projects.
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1. How to Apply
2. Projects offered in 2009
3. The 2008 Honours Assessment details and Course Work
4. Honours Prescribed 4th Year Text Books
5. Contact Information
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1. How to Apply.
If you wish to be considered for Honours in 2010, and you would like to undertake your project and coursework in an MDHS Department like Pharmacology, you will need to carry out a THREE STEP PROCESS.
Step 1: You will need to decide which Department or Institute(s), Supervisor(s) and Project(s) that you wish to apply for. To do this, you must speak to potential supervisors (see Project Booklet). Department and Institute Honours project booklets and websites, the MDHS Honours expo, and individual information sessions held by Departments and Institutes are all ways of helping you make contact with potential honours supervisors.
Step 2: You must lodge an online application for Honours to the Faculty of Science through the SIS (for current local students: https://sis.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-bin/course-application.pl; for local students who have not studied at University of Melbourne: https://sis.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-bin/course-application.pl/register/), and then take a hard copy of the application to the Science student Centre for confirmation as instructed. You need to do this whether you are a BSc, BBiomedSci or external local student. International students however will need to apply through the International Office. After submitting your application, you will be sent an Application ID number by email. You will need this Application ID for Step 3. It is therefore essential that you carry out Step 2 BEFORE you carry out Step 3. Note that the closing date for the Step 2 Application is 20 Nov 2009.
Step 3: After having decided on a project(s) and submitting your application through SIS, you will need to lodge your project preferences with MDHS through the Honours Application and Tracking System (HATS; http://hats.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au). It is essential that you have already identified which projects you wish to apply for by speaking to potential supervisors (i.e. Step 1) and have applied for Honours through SIS (i.e. Step 2) BEFORE you carry out Step 3.
To carry out Step 3 in HATS you will need to:
- Enter your Application ID into HATS.
- Click on Preferences then Search Projects. Use this search to make sure that the project(s) you wish to apply for are present in HATS. If you cannot find the project you are interested in, you should contact the supervisor of these projects, who will be able to take steps to have the project details entered into HATS.
- Click on Preferences then Lodge/Update Preferences to lodge your project preferences with HATS. You can update/change your preferences as many times as you wish. However, you must ensure that your final preference list (in order of 1-10; you must enter one preference, and you can enter up to ten) is lodged by 11:00pm on Sun, 29 Nov 2009. This list will be supplied to Departments to allow them to carry out their selection process in early December 2009.
You will receive a round one offer letter for the highest preference project you have been offered by mail before Christmas. You can choose to accept the offer or not. If you choose not to accept, you will be considered for selection by Departments for the second round of selection in mid January.
The key dates are:
- Aug-Nov 2009: Contact potential supervisors to discuss honours projects (Step 1)
- 20 Nov 2009: Closing date for Honours application through SIS (Step 2)
- 11:00pm 29 Nov 2009: Closing date for project preference submission through HATS(Step 3)
- 3rd week Dec 2009: First round of offer letters sent by mail to students
- 6 Jan 2010: Closing date for acceptance/rejection by students of First Round offers
- 11 Jan 2010: Second round of selection and mailing of offer letters begins
- Mid-late Feb 2010: Honours 2010 begins (check with individual Departments/Institutes for specific starting date and other detail)
2. Projects Offered
Click here to download the Pharamcology BSc Honours Projects booklet for 2010.
Additional Project (updated 18/9/09). Please check this link regularly for updates.
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3. The 2009 Honours Assessment details and Course Work
The 2008 Honours Assessment details and Course Work are included here as a guide for the likely 2008 mid-year course content
534-497 ADVANCED COURSE WORK
| News & Views Writing Exercise (500 words) | 7.5% |
| Manuscript Evaluation Examination | 10% |
| Theory Project | 20% |
| Total | 37.5% |
534-496 RESEARCH PROJECT
| Literature Review | 0% |
| Oral Research Presentation I | 0% |
| Oral Research Presentation II | 12.5% |
| Research Thesis | 50% |
| Total | 62.5% |
Note: After each assessment, you will be given a grade against your student number posted on the Honours Notice Board :
* H1 80% +
* H2A 75-79%
* H2B 70-74%
* H3 65-69%
* F Below 65%
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4. Honours Recommended Textbooks
1. Kenakin: Molecular Pharmacology: a short course, 1Ed, 1998 (supplied by Dept)
2. Goodman & Gilman: Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 10th Ed., 2002
3. Katzung: Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, 7th ed., 1998
4. Glantz: Primer of Biostatistics, 3rd ed., 1992
5. Rang, Dale, Ritter & Moor: Pharmacology, 6th Ed, 2007
6. Golan, Tashjian, Armstrong & Armstrong: Principles of Pharmacology: The pathophysiologic basis of drug theory, 2008
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5. Contact Information
For further information contact:
Professor Peter McIntyre - Honours Coordinator
Email: pmci@unimelb.edu.au
Tel: 8344 7843 Fax: 8344 0241
Department of Pharmacology
University of Melbourne Victora 3010
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