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300449 SE Literature seminar on biodiversity and ecosystems (2024W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Th 12.09.2024 14:00 to Th 26.09.2024 18:00
- Deregistration possible until Tu 15.10.2024 18:00
Details
max. 24 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
- Carina Zittra
- Maria Filipa Baltazar de Lima de Sousa
- Monika Bright
- Silvia Bulgheresi
- Stefan Dullinger
- Konrad Fiedler
- Christian Griebler
- Karl Hülber
- Hubert Keckeis
- Ingeborg Lang
- Andreas Richter
- Steffen Waldherr
- Wolfgang Wanek
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Preparatory meeting: 02.10.2024 13:15 - 14:45 seminar room 1.8, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.007, Ebene 1 1.007
The seminar will take place on 3 days during the semester (09:00-15:00):
Fr, November 22, 2024
Fr, January 24, 2025Alle 3 Tage finden in Seminarraum 3.1, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 3.124, Ebene 3 3.124 statt!
- Wednesday 02.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.8, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.007, Ebene 1 (Kickoff Class)
- Tuesday 19.11. 09:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 3.1, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 3.124, Ebene 3
- Friday 22.11. 09:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 3.1, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 3.124, Ebene 3
- N Friday 24.01. 09:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 3.1, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 3.124, Ebene 3
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
1. Students chose their topic and topic lecturer during the preparatory meeting and get in contact with them after the preparatory meeting
2. Students are guided by their chosen topic lecturer. They can ask for help and advice.
3. Each student gets one topic-related review paper from their topic lecturer and must search for at least two more original articles. Information from the 3 papers in total is presented in the seminar
4. Presentations shall be 20-25min. In addition, a hand-out page is sent to all participants one day before the seminar.
5. The presentation is then discussed with the audience in terms of its scientific content (like with conference talks). All students participate in the discussion. Quiet and passive students will be actively asked by the lecturer to comment.
6. There will be also anonymous feedback to each speaker related to the presentation style. There will be a form (provided by the lecturer) with about 10 questions (clarity of argumentation, rhetoric quality, quality of slides, presentation speed, ...). The audience will fill them during/right after each presentation. At the end forms are collected and provided to the speakers.
7. As a home work, students prepare a summary page containing of (1) a mini summary (5 sentences), and in addition (2) the answers to questions that were not sufficiently addressed in the discussion, plus (3) some future research avenues.
8. The final grade combines ratings in 5 aspects: (1) Literature search, (2) Hand-out, (3) Presentation, (4) Discussion, (5) Summary page
Finally, the 5 ratings are summed up and divided by 5 to result in the final mark.
2. Students are guided by their chosen topic lecturer. They can ask for help and advice.
3. Each student gets one topic-related review paper from their topic lecturer and must search for at least two more original articles. Information from the 3 papers in total is presented in the seminar
4. Presentations shall be 20-25min. In addition, a hand-out page is sent to all participants one day before the seminar.
5. The presentation is then discussed with the audience in terms of its scientific content (like with conference talks). All students participate in the discussion. Quiet and passive students will be actively asked by the lecturer to comment.
6. There will be also anonymous feedback to each speaker related to the presentation style. There will be a form (provided by the lecturer) with about 10 questions (clarity of argumentation, rhetoric quality, quality of slides, presentation speed, ...). The audience will fill them during/right after each presentation. At the end forms are collected and provided to the speakers.
7. As a home work, students prepare a summary page containing of (1) a mini summary (5 sentences), and in addition (2) the answers to questions that were not sufficiently addressed in the discussion, plus (3) some future research avenues.
8. The final grade combines ratings in 5 aspects: (1) Literature search, (2) Hand-out, (3) Presentation, (4) Discussion, (5) Summary page
Finally, the 5 ratings are summed up and divided by 5 to result in the final mark.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Following the ductus of the chosen manuscripts, students deal with the methodological aspects of the paper, explain field and laboratory techniques and interprete the data and hypothesis testing. Furthermore, the participants practice the handling of "scientific English" and train presentation and discussion skills.
Examination topics
(1) Literature search,
(2) Hand-out,
(3) Presentation,
(4) Discussion,
(5) Summary page
(2) Hand-out,
(3) Presentation,
(4) Discussion,
(5) Summary page
Reading list
Will be provided at the start of the seminar.
Association in the course directory
MEC-3
Last modified: Fr 08.11.2024 10:06
The course topics will be visible on moodle from beginning of October 2023 on.
After choosing a topic in the preparatory meeting ( 2nd of Oct), you get in contact with the respective lecturer who will guide you in the next steps. In fact, based on the topic and the one review paper provided, students are asked to search at least 2 more original papers and prepare a hand-out and a well structured presentation (20-25 minutes) followed by a discussion. All presentations will be given in minisymposia, the first mid-term and the second at the end of the term (exact dates to be set).