From b_duke ^at^ lacebark.ntu.edu.au Thu Sep 12 20:11:18 1996 Received: from lacebark.ntu.edu.au for b_duke(+ at +)lacebark.ntu.edu.au by www.ccl.net (8.7.5/950822.1) id UAA19450; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:02:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Received: by lacebark.ntu.edu.au (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA11448; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 09:03:36 +1100 Message-Id: <9609132203.AA11448 ":at:" lacebark.ntu.edu.au> Subject: Masters degree in Comp Chem over the internet. To: CHEMISTRY -A_T- www.ccl.net (Comp Chem List) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 09:03:32 +1100 (EETDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To all CCLers. Greetings. I am posting this to several lists that have an interest in Computational Chemists. Apologies to those who receive it several times. Four Australian Computational Chemists have come together to offer a taught Masters degree in Computational Chemistry which will be taught in part entirely in distance education mode using the World Wide Web. We believe this proposal to be highly innovative and possibly unique. The four chemists are Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke in the literature) from the Northern Territory University, Margaret Wong from the Swinburne University of Technology, Ted LLoyd from the Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University and Brian Yates from the University of Tasmania. The course will take a very full 12 months to complete. The first 8 months will consist of six core units:- The Scope of Computational Chemistry Molecular Modelling Approximate Quantum Chemistry Basic QSAR Ab initio Quantum Chemistry Molecular Mechanics and Dynamics and one out of three electives:- Advanced Molecular Modelling Advanced ab initio Quantum Chemistry Advanced QSAR This part of the course will be taught entirely over the web. It can be completed part-time over a period up to 20 months. The second part of the course is a four month project carried out as a full time student in one of the four universities. The course starts in Febuary 1997. Fees have not yet been finally determined, but they are likely to be around AUS$12,000 (about US$9,500) for the whole course. Accreditation for the course as a Master of Science in Computational Chemistry has already been obtained at the Northern Territory University. Accreditation is close to being obtained for a Master of Applied Science in Computational Chemistry at Swinburne University of Technology. The accreditation process is still being followed at Monash University. Students will be able to take out any of the degrees offered. The university where the project is carried out will be the normal degree to be obtained. The project can be done in any of the four universities but for various reasons the degree will only be offered by some of the four universities in 1997. Students from all over the world are welcome. You will need good internet access and a graphics browser. Materials have been designed to suit a range of browsers. Other software will be made available over the internet from our home sites. For more information go to the Home page of the project that resulted in this development:- http://www.chem.swin.edu.au/CAUT.html or direct to a page that describes the degree:- http://lacebark.ntu.edu.au/msc/ We welcome expressions of interest and comments on this proposal. -- Associate Professor Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Northern Territory University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia. Phone 08-89466702. Fax 08-89410460 e-mail: b_duke*- at -*lacebark.ntu.edu.au WWW http://lacebark.ntu.edu.au/chemistry