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This module gives students an authentic experience of conducting publishable palaebiological research culminating in producing and presenting their research report.
Coordinator: Dr Sebastian Groh
- Module details
Title Advanced Biodiversity and Macroevolutionary Studies UG Code GEOL0036 Coordinator Dr Sebastian Groh Other Contributors Term 2 Credit 15 credits Written Exam Coursework Pre-Requisites Maths & Stats Content and Requirement Total Number of Hours of Student Work 188 hours Hours of Lectures/Seminars 40 ( 4 hours per week) Hours of Practicals/Problem Classes 20 hours Hours of Tutorials 0 Days of Fieldwork 0 Other None Categorizing Student Performance Levels - Content
This is a new module for the 2017/18 academic term and the full content will be published here at a later stage.
AIMS
To give students an authentic experience of conducting publishable palaebiological research. This invloves acquiring and/or developing analytical skilss and practicing written and oral presentation skills.
Outcomes
By the end of the course, students should be familiar with:
scientific literature searches, review writing and referencingcritical evaluation of comepting lines of evidencecarrying out original research, involving data collection, use of computerised analytical packages, relevant statistics writing a scientific paper and formatting it for a journalcreating and presenting a short talk
- scientific literature searches, review writing and referencing
- critical evaluation of comepting lines of evidence
- carrying out original research, involving data collection, use of computerised analytical packages, relevant statistics
- writing a scientific paper and formatting it for a journal
- creating and presenting a short talk