NBIB13007U Science Research Colloquium for Bachelor Students (science@science)
The course introduces our Faculty's best science research (Science@Science). It is multidisciplinary: each course module is taught by a new, renowned researcher. Modules cover fields we excel in, from cosmology to quantum chemistry and climate change to social evolution. Modules include an introduction to the field and the work of the researcher. The methodologies and technologies used are explained, and students explore the field in colloquia presentations of research papers and short reports on issues in the field. In addition to multidisciplinarity, the course focuses on interdisciplinarity: how different fields inform each other as technologies and concepts emerging in each enable research in others. Take this course if you want to broaden your scientific horizon and don't need to specialize for another 7.5 ECTS.
By the end of the course, students are expected to have the
following knowledge, skills and competencies:
Knowledge of the research fields included in the
curriculum covered by assigned reading, lectures, seminar
presentations and written reports.
Skills to
- explain developments in the fields presented by the renowned
researchers
- explain major current issues in the fields
- explain the methodologies used in the fields
- explain the technologies used in the fields
Competencies to
- discuss and criticize research articles orally and in writing
- interpret different types of experimental data introduced in the
course
- discuss interdisciplinary aspects of the research fields covered
in the course
- propose experiments to test models and questions raised in the
fields
Lecture presentations, web-based literature and original research articles.
- Category
- Hours
- Colloquia
- 21
- Exam
- 9
- Lectures
- 28
- Preparation
- 85
- Project work
- 42
- Theory exercises
- 21
- Total
- 206
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Continuous assessmentThree written, 'open book' exams during the course, as well as 5-7 short written reports.
The final grade is an average of the three written exams and the reports. - Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
One internal examiner
- Re-exam
- Ikke beståede rapporter skal genafleveres.
Criteria for exam assesment
The maximum grad of 12 may be given to students who master all course objectives and whose average exam score is between the 90th and 99th percentiles.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NBIB13007U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Bachelor
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 3
- Schedule
- A (Tues 8-12 + Thurs 8-17)
- Course capacity
- 40 students
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Biology and Animal Science
Contracting departments
- Department of Biology
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
- The Niels Bohr Institute
- The Natural History Museum of Denmark
Course responsibles
- John Mundy (5-6f7770667b4275656b67706567306d7730666d)
Lecturers
Charles Markus (NBI), Barbara Halkier (PLEN), Jens Hjorth (NBI), Eske Willerslev (SNM), Minik Rosing (SNM), Koos Boomsma (BIO) og Karsten Kristiansen (BIO).