3590 - BSc Dissertation - Biology
Course information
- Title
- BSc Dissertation - Biology
- Course number
- 3590.23
- Academic year
- 2024-2025
- ECTS
- 22.50
- Level
- Bachelor
- Faculties
- Science and Tecnology
- Educations
- BSc in Biology
- Prerequisites
- Passed all courses
- Language of instruction
- The course is taught in Faroese and English.
- Registration
- Students on the 6th semester of B.Sc. in Biology are automatically enrolled.
- Beginning date
- Monday, January 13, 2025
- End date
- Friday, May 30, 2025
Academic content
- Purpose
- An independent scientific investigation, comprising collection and working up of material and presentation as a written report with tables and figures.
- Learning outcomes
- On completion of a bachelor dissertation, the successful student should be able to: 1. Use acquired scientific knowledge and experience in a scientific setting. 2. Work on a research project under supervision. 3. Organize one´s own work and time in collaboration with a supervisor. 4. Analyse a biological problem, and suggest how to divide it into smaller intermediate manageable objects that can be solved separately by theoretical or practical approaches. The student shall be able to formulate a hypothesis and design theoretical and experimental approaches in order to investigate the hypothesis. 5. Independently search for and interpret information relevant to the scientific problem. 6. Evaluate and analyse information in a critical manner and put this information into an appropriate context. 7. Formulate comments, arguments and constructive criticism related to one´s own research work and others. 8. Write a scientific dissertation using appropriate scientific language. 9. Use scientific references in an appropriate way. 10. Distinguish between facts, interpretations, beliefs and fiction. 11. Present scientific results in an appropriate way. 12. Perform statistical analysis on data and draw conclusions based on the results of the analysis.
- Content
- Language and summary: The supervisor, external examiner and student agree upon the language, in which the report is to be written. A summary of the results shall be included at the beginning of the report. The summary must be written in Faroese and English, in such a way that it can be read by non-specialists. The summary shall not exceed half an A-4 page.
- Learning and teaching approaches
- Work on the dissertation can begin the first day of each half-semester and the submission deadline is the last day of the given semester.
Assessment
- Assessment method
- Delivery of dissertation and oral presentation of it. Evaluation according to the existing grade scale.
- Examination (internal/external)
- External
- Grading scale
- 7-scale
- Exam date/dates
- The Bachelor hand-in is on the 30th of May, 2025. The oral examination is set for week 23 or 24, 2025.
- Deadline for withdrawal from exam
- Monday, January 13, 2025
Academic responsibility and teachers
- Academic responsibility
- Jónrit Halling
- Teachers