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Nov 08, 2024
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Undergraduate Calendar 2023-2024 [-ARCHIVED CALENDAR-]
Concurrent Certificate in Science Communication
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School of Interdisciplinary Science
The Concurrent Certificate in Science Communication is administered by the School of Interdisciplinary Science (Faculty of Science).
Arthur Bourns Building, Room C501, ext. 21181
sis@mcmaster.ca
This certificate fulfills a critical need for undergraduate students in science and health disciplines to be skilled at communicating science in various formats for diverse audiences and purposes. Students who complete the certificate will have a strong grounding in the theory of science communication and many work samples that connect theory to practice.
Students who complete this certificate will be able to:
- Engage critically with primary research in the sciences, science communication, and sociology of science
- Critically analyze science within its societal context, in particular its communication via mass media and social media
- Blend theory and practice to create communications that reach different audiences and achieve different goals
- Centre equity, diversity and inclusion in discussions about how scientific and other forms of knowledge are created, vetted and shared
- Apply principles of inclusive science communication to engage audiences with the process, potential and pitfalls of science
- Merge creative and analytical skills to communicate complex ideas
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Science Communication Course List:
- BIOLOGY 3HD3 - Human Disasters
- CMST 2DD3 - Media Organizations
- CMST 2LW3 - Communication Policy and Law
- CMST 3D03 - Political Communication
- CMTYENGA 2MC3 - Design and Creation of Engaged Learning for Community Youth
- CMTYENGA 2MD3 - Community-Based Learning with MCYU
- COMMERCE 2MA3 - Marketing
- COMMERCE 3MB3 - Consumer Behaviour
- HISTORY 2EE3 - Science and Technology in World History
- HISTORY 4FF3 - History of Health and Medicine
- HTHSCI 3HH3 - Deceptions in Decision Making
- HTHSCI 3HL3 - Health Law: Current and Emerging Issues
- HTHSCI 3L03 - Introduction to Bioethics
- HTHSCI 3DM3 - Demystifying Medicine
- HTHSCI 4LD3 - Global Health Governance, Law and Politics
- HTHSCI 4Y03 - Science, Culture and Identity
- HUMBEHV 4SC6 A/B - Science Communication in the Behavioural Sciences
- INDIGST 4HH3 - Indigenous Health and Interdisciplinary Approaches
- INNOVATE 3X03 - Persuasion, Pitching Skills and Marketing
- LIFESCI 3P03 - Communicating Science for Public Audiences
- LIFESCI 3PP3 - Communicating Science for Professional Audiences
- LIFESCI 3Q03 - Global Human Health and Disease
- MATH 3Z03 - History of Mathematics
- MMEDIA 3Q03 - Emerging Media
- PEACEST 4L03 - Peace, Environment and Health
- PHILOS 2D03 - Bioethics
- PHILOS 3C03 - Advanced Bioethics
- PHILOS 4V03 - Multidisciplinary Workshop in Applied Ethics and Policy
- SCICOMM levels III, IV
- SCIENCE 2P03 - Impactful Initiatives in Health
- SOCIOL 2L03 - Media Institutions
Certificate Requirements
Any student in an undergraduate degree program at McMaster may declare the Science Communication certificate at the time of graduation providing they satisfy the following requirements.
REQUIREMENTS
18 units total
9 units
- Science Communication Course List
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