Skills for Undergraduate Research Experience

Course content

This course helps undergraduate students to become more skilled undergraduate researchers by addressing their readiness to take on the role as an undergraduate researcher and equipping them with a selection of academic skills. Specifically, prospective and current undergraduate researchers may benefit from this course that is designed to cater to their career readiness skills set including research and transferable skills such as professional communication, foundations of research, writing research proposals, submitting abstracts to calls, presenting at conferences, writing research papers, handling oral and written feedback, and preparing for research position interviews. The course is also a timely response to a current higher education challenge for undergraduate students where undergraduate research is becoming a substantial part of university students` career journeys.