6 ECTS credits
168 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1023835ANR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
- Department
- Computer Science
- Educational team
- Bart De Boer
Johan Loeckx
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 24 contact hours Lecture
24 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
This module gives an introduction to the how and why of science at the introductory bachelor level. It will cover how science works and why the scientific method is successful, and why scientific education is given at the university. It will pay special attention to the how and why of computer science and artificial intelligence. There will also be special attention to acquiring skills in scientific communication: writing professional reports and giving professional presentation, and additionally there will be attention to scientific integrity in this.
- Course material
- Handbook (Recommended) : Bryman's Social Research Methods, Clark, Tom; Foster, Liam; Sloan, Luke; Bryman, Alan, Oxford University Press
- Additional info
NA
- Learning Outcomes
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Working Scientifically
- Students learn what science is (and what not)
- Students learn why the scientific method is successful and important
- Students learn why university education is scientific
- Students lean which methods scientists use:
- Scientific literature
- Structured experiments
- Analysis of data
- Presentation of results
- Students learn examples of how these methods can be used in computer science and AI
- Students learn how to apply these methods in practice on the basis of a project
- Starting from the basic knowledge taught in this course, students learn how they can independently improve themselves.
Reporting
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- Students learn how to report in practice on the basis of a project
- Students learn and understand the importance of scientific communication
- Students learn and understand the basic principles of scientific communication
- Students learn how to select the most appropriate means of scientific communication in a given setting
- Starting from the basic knowledge taught in this course, students learn how they can independently improve themselves.
- Grading
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The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 25% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 75% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Final exam
with a relative weight of 25
which comprises 25% of the final mark.
Note: Final exam to test retention of practical and theoretical materials for the "working" part of the course; only for students who follow the 6ECTS variant
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Practical assignements
with a relative weight of 75
which comprises 75% of the final mark.
Note: Practical assignments for the reporting and working parts of the courses
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Students are required to design, do and report about a small experiment (either with human participants or a simple computer model). The reporting has to be both oral and in written form.The project will be evaluated at three points: quality of the design, quality of the analysis and quality of the reporting. Students will work in groups and the evaluation will be both on the written and the oral reports. In order to get an idea of each student’s contribution, peer evaluation will be used.
- 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 Artificial Intelligence: Default track (only offered in Dutch)