5 ECTS credits
125 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4003888ENR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (E) Master - advanced level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Partnership Agreement
- Under agreement for exchange of courses
- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
- Department
- Biology
- Educational team
- Marc Kochzius
(course titular)
Decaan WE
- Activities and contact hours
- 18 contact hours Lecture
20 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
This course provides an overview on marine biology:
- Oceanography, geology, history, and technology (M. Kochzius)
- Pelagic biological processes (A. Van de Putte)
- Case study: the Southern Ocean (A. Van de Putte)
- Benthic biological processes (A. Van de Putte)
- Coral reef ecology (M. Kochzius)
- Connectivity of populations (M. Kochzius)
- Global change in the ocean (A. Van de Putte)
- Excursion with a research vessel (M. Kochzius + A. Van de Putte)
- Laboratory practical (M. Kochzius + A. Van de Putte)
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Lecture slides
Handbook (Recommended) : Marine biology, Castro P, Huber ME, 11de, MacGraw-Hill, New York, 9781260085105, 2018
Handbook (Recommended) : Introductory oceanography, Thurman HV, Trujillo AP, 10de, BIB, 9780131438880, 2004
Handbook (Recommended) : Marine ecology, Processes, systems, and impacts, Kaiser et al., 3de, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 9780198717850, 2020
- Additional info
- Learning Outcomes
-
General competencies
After this course you will have:
- a general overview on oceanography and the most important marine ecosystems
and you will know how to
- search for data sources to supplement the learning material
- make an analysis and synthesis of the course material
- present and transfer the acquired knowledge
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
Written Exam determines 30% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Oral examination
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 70% of the final mark.
Note: The student needs to pass both parts.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Report
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 30% of the final mark.
Note: The student needs to pass both parts.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
If the marks for the oral exam and practicals are both higer or equal to 8/20, then the final mark will be calculated as 70% for the oral exam and 30% for the practicals. If the mark of either the oral exam or the practicals is lower than 8/20, then the final mark will be the lower of these.
- 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:
Master of Biology: Ecology and Biodiversity (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Biology: Education (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Biology: Ecology and Biodiversity
Master of Biology: AR Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems, start at Brussels
Master of Biology: AR Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems, start at Paris
Master of Biology: AR Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems, start at Cayenne
Master of Teaching in Science and Technology: biologie (120 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)