GEOL0036 Advanced Biodiversity and Macroevolutionary Studies

This module gives students an authentic experience of conducting publishable palaebiological research culminating in producing and presenting their research report.

Coordinator: Dr Philip Mannion

Module details

Title	Advanced Biodiversity and Macroevolutionary Studies
UG Code	GEOL0036
Coordinator	Dr Philip Mannion
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	GEOL0036 GEOL0036

Content

• To give students insight into how a true collaborative research project works inside the departmental environment and enable them to organise and carry out their own research.
• To introduce students to the process of writing in a scientific paper format, complete with review and revision.
• To give students experience of researching a palaeontological topic, critically appraising recent work, and producing a synthesis of this as an oral presentation.

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