6 ECTS credits
175 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4023064FNR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (F) Master - specialised level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- This is a fading course. Registration for this course is only possible if you failed for this course last academic year.
- Taught in
- English
- Partnership Agreement
- Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
- Extinguishing
- Yes
- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
- Department
- Biology
- External partners
- Universiteit Antwerpen
- Educational team
- Han Asard
Gudrun De Boeck
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 45 contact hours Lecture
10 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
See link to UAntwerpen: https://opleidingsarchief.uantwerpen.be/course/en/2020/2201WETGCP
- Additional info
This course explores the challenges faced by organisms that result from living in changing and extreme conditions. It provides an overview of physiological and biochemical responses and adaptations, to deal with such circumstances. Physical factors that are considered are changing temperatures, changing O2 and CO2 levels, changing pH, and water availability. Responses and adaptations in a broad range of physiological and biochemical processes are discussed. These include, for example, metabolism and defence systems in animal systems under environmental pressure, and, for plants photosynthesis, primary metabolism, growth and defence responses.
- Learning Outcomes
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General Competences
- Students understand and are able to describe the general effects of changing and extreme climate conditions on organism functioning at the physiological level.
- Students are able to describe in detail, at the molecular, cellular and physiological level, responses and adaptations to particular, specific changing environmental factors. He/she also understands the nature of limitations to adaptation.
- Students are able to understand, in depth, top-ranked scientific literature (e.g. Nature, Science, PNAS).
- Students understand and are able to describe the general effects of changing and extreme climate conditions on organism functioning at the physiological level.
- Students are able to describe in detail, at the molecular, cellular and physiological level, responses and adaptations to particular, specific changing environmental factors. He/she also understands the nature of limitations to adaptation.
- Students are able to understand, in depth, top-ranked scientific literature (e.g. Nature, Science, PNAS).
- Grading
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The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Other exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
- Oral exam with written preparation + discussion paper
- 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 course offer isn't part of a fixed set of graduation requirements. Hence, it is a free elective.