NBIB13007U Science Research Colloquium for Bachelor Students (science@science)

Volume 2013/2014
Content
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.
Learning Outcome
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
Literature
Lecture presentations, web-based literature and original research articles.
Open to students enrolled in any curriculum offered by the Faculty of Science, who, by the start of the course, have passed all first and half of the second year courses (corresponding to a total of 90 ECTS-points) of their curriculum. Foreign students with similar records may apply.
Lectures, laboratory and computer practicals, group discussions and student seminars of newer articles in high impact journals. More informatin is available on the course home page.
  • 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 assessment
Three 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.