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Course code: BBS20116o11Semester: 2011/2012 winter
Name: Master’s seminar I
Major: Biology
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 3
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 0 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Barbara Kosowska
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: The student during the course purchases theoretical knowledge in the range of the acquaintance and practical skills in the field of investigative process in support about current methodology in natural sciences in the aim of writing the masters thesis. The participant prepares itself to scientific and creative solving the scientific problems, formulating investigative hypotheses, the skill of the selection of the material and methods, logical presenting the review of literature and the leading of discussion on the subject of the own presentation.
Competences: Passing I part of the seminars signifies getting skills in - applying the appropriate tools to accumulating data, the qualification of the character of (quantitative or qualitative, empirical or obserwacyjno-descriptive)investigations, - characterizing content filling the basic sections of the scientific work, including bibliography, - acknowledgment of the techniques of the data analysis, - presenting data gathered so far to masters paper as the Power Point presentation.
Prerequisites: Methodology of the biological sciences, biostatistics, bioethics, protection of intellectual properties
Course content: aims and the methods of the seminar lessons, structure and the aim of the scientific work, the review of the literature, work in the library and with the literature, the preparation of presentations from the range of the subject matter of the masters paper, the introduction of reports in the oral and written form, improvement of the skill of the effective scientific discussion.
Recommended literature: 1. Grobler A.: Metodologia nauk. Wyd. Znak. Warszawa. 2006. 2. Weiner J.: Życie i ewolucja biosfery. Wyd. Naukowe PWN. Warszawa 2006. 3. Hajduk Z.: Metodologia nauk przyrodniczych. Wyd. KUL Lublin. 2002. 4. Popper K.R.: Logika odkrycia naukowego. Wyd. Naukowe PWN. Warszawa 2002. 5. Chalmers A.F.: Czym jest to co nazywamy nauką? Wyd. Siedmioróg. Wrocław 1993. 6. Czachorowski S.: Jak napisać pracę magisterską – poradnik. Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski. 2005: http://www.uwm.edu.pl/czachor/dyda/poradnik.pdf
Assessment methods: grade based on Power Point presentation submitted by the student and its paper work Language of instruction: Polish
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