3 ECTS credits
75 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4020095DNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (D) Master - 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
Enrollment Requirements
Students who want to enroll for this course, must be enrolled in the programme Master Biology: Tropimundo.
Taught in
English
Partnership Agreement
Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
Faculty
Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
Department
Biology
Educational team
Decaan WE (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
30 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
Course Content

Table of contents:
Depending on the exact topic.

Additional info

Course material, text books and further reading:
Knisely, K. (2009). A Student Handbook for Writing in Biology. Third Edition. W.H. Freeman and Sinauer
Associates. 224 pp.

Learning Outcomes

General Competencies

Course objectives:
This course is merely a preparation to the Master thesis and aims at clearly formulating what the student
intends to investigate and place it into a literature‐based context.

Learning outcomes :
Upon finalising this course the student should know what his MSc thesis will cover and how to execute it.

Grading

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

breakdown
100% Scientific presentation exercise (oral presentation and/or defence of a written document)

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: 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