Biology: Aquatic Ecology

This course focuses on the transferable skills in science, things you do if you work as a scientist regardless of whether you pursue a career in academia or elsewhere. You will get hands-on experience with key tasks such as how to read and analyze scientific literature, how to design and execute experiments, how to organize, analyze, and visualise experimental data using R, and how to write a scientific review. Finally, you will also gain experience with the most common dissemination forms in science, oral presentations and poster presentations, but also with communication formats more suitable for outreach and social media such as videos, tweets, and fact sheets. The course is problem-oriented, which means you get to apply the techniques yourself, always with the goal that you should not only know how things are done but be able to do them independently. All modules are centered around key research topics in aquatic ecology: you will gain a lot of insight into the fundamental principles of aquatic ecology and the latest state of knowledge.

The pedagogics is problem-based: you receive assignments, challenges, and exercises and get to solve them on your own but with plenty of opportunities to get help. The course is divided into modules where you first attend primer workshops and lectures on specific skills and topics in science before applying your newly-gained skills yourself. We cover the central themes of science - reading and analyzing scientific texts, designing and executing experiments, handling, analyzing and visualising large data sets using excel and R, and finally disseminating the results in various ways. These include different forms of written and oral science communication. The course does not have a traditional exam. Instead, we assess your output on the different course modules and your grade on the course will be the weighted average of your achievements during the course.

Prerequisites

Knowledge corresponding to BIOC02 Ecology, 15 credits and BIOR17 Limnology or BIOR65 Marine Ecology, 15 cr. A Bachelor´s Degree (180 credits). English 6/English course B.

Selection criteria

Seats are allocated according to: ECTS (HPAV): 100 %.

Tuition fees for non-EU/EEA citizens

Citizens of countries outside:

• The European Union (EU)
• The European Economic Area (EEA) and
• Switzerland

are required to pay tuition fees. You pay an instalment of the tuition fee in advance of each
semester.

Tuition fees, payments and exemptions

Full programme/course tuition fee: SEK 42,500
First payment: SEK 42,500

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Note that you may also need to pay an application fee, or provide proof of exemption.

Application fee

No tuition fees for citizens of the EU, EEA and Switzerland

There are no tuition fees for citizens of the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland.