3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1017561CNR for all students in the 2nd semester of even academic years (e.g. 2012-2013)
at
a (C) Bachelor - specialised level.
- Semester
- biennial: 2nd semester of an even academic year (e.g. 2012-2013)
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- Students must have followed ‘Physical Geograph’, before they can enroll for ‘Paleoclimatology’.
Enrolling in ‘Paleoclimatology’ means also that you simultaneously follow 'Climatology and Meteorology' or have successfully passed ‘Climatology and Meteorology’.
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
- Department
- Geography
- Educational team
- Philippe Huybrechts
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 13 contact hours Lecture
13 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
15 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
- 1. History of climate, pre-Quaternary
2. The Quaternary ice ages from glacial-geological observations
3. Palaeoclimatological archives
4. Milankovitch theory
5. Climatology of the ice ages
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Powerpointpresentaties, lesnota’s, verwijzingen naar handboeken en achtergrondartikelen, Leerplatform
- Additional info
Powerpoint presentations, lecture notes, references to handbooks and articles available on the learning platform.
- Learning Outcomes
-
General competencies
Understand palaeoclimates and their main causes.
Understand the main methods to reconstruct past climates
Understand the main mechanisms put forward to explain the ice ages.
Understand the role of orbital variations to produce spatio-temporal insolation changes.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
PRAC Practical Assignment determines 30% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- examen mondel
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 70% of the final mark.
Note: Mondeling examen met schriftelijke voorbereiding
Within the PRAC Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- beoordeling oefeningen
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 30% of the final mark.
Note: Beoordeling van oefeningen
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Oral examination with written preparation (70%); evaluation of the exercises (30%).
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Geography: Default track (only offered in Dutch)