3 ECTS credits
90 u studietijd
Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 4020619FNR voor alle studenten in het 1e en 2e semester van een oneven academiejaar (bvb. 2013-2014) met een gespecialiseerd master niveau.
This ‘umbrella’ course is intended to bridge the gap between academia and academic research on the one hand and the professional field on the other hand, and to prepare students to apply the expertise they have developed over 2 years. In this context this is specifically oriented towards Biodiversity Management in the widest sense.
The course will make use of opportunities offered every year in Brussels and Belgium regarding attendance of workshops, meetings, presentations, or alternatively seminars will specifically be organized by inviting professionals in the field of biodiversity management, either viva voce or through Skype. Particularly alumni (active in the professional field) of the MSc Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management (‘Oceans & Lakes’) or its root programmes FAME, MareLac, ECOMAMA, will be in focus.
Attendance of meetings or seminars will be accompanied by a discourse analysis by students in order to understand the priorities and the way these are expressed in non-academic professional sectors. At the same time the making of an executive summary, or a layman’s summary or any product directed to extension work (awareness raising, advocacy, lobbying…) by student teams will be organized and peer-assessed. Methods to survey and retrieve information from respondents of various sectors and professions will be practiced or discussed. The choice of topics or case studies can be at any level of biodiversity management, whether field-based or policy-oriented or as a secondary priority to other sectoral activities (such as zoological parks, fisheries, retail, recreation and tourism, .).
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This course explicitly contributes to the following competences of the Biology curriculum:
General –
Evaluate the societal relevance (I) –
Evaluate the scientific relevance (II) - Report in various ways (III)
Field specific –
Problem solving as a thinking process (IV) - Extrapolation between different scientific fields (VI) - Recognize and work out bio-ethical implications (VII)
The course is intended to facilitate transition from science and academia to professional approaches in biodiversity management by exposure to professional fields and actors.
De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Andere bepaalt 100% van het eindcijfer
Binnen de categorie Examen Andere dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:
Evaluation is a combination of semi quantitative peer assessment (4 point scale, 70% of final mark) and evaluation by the lecturers (calibrating the peer assessment and giving 30% of marks) of a presentation, an executive summary, an annotated thematic glossary of biodiversity concepts, a layman’s summary or an extension project or any assignment bridging the gap between academia and society
Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Master of Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management: Standaard traject (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Master of Biology: Ecology and Biodiversity (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)