Admission requirements
This course is only open for students enrolled in the Minor Biodiversity and the Anthropocene
Description
During this course you will utilize the acquired knowledge on biodiversity, it’s origin, importance, threats and what we can do about them from the previous Minor courses, to conduct an analysis and write a report about societal solutions for a biodiversity issue. Additionally, you will create a short influential video report on the same topic. The course will start with introductory workshop about societal issues, such as biodiversity valuation, identifying stakeholders, and conducting interviews. Subsequently, the students will break down into smaller groups which will focus on a specific biodiversity issue. The case study will be explored during the following weeks with studying literature, analysis workshops, group meetings with the supervisor and stakeholder interviews in order to prepare a written and a video report. This course and the minor will be concluded with a video symposium.
Course objectives
At the end of the course students can:
Analyse the biological and societal context of a topical Dutch biodiversity case.
Identify relevant stakeholders and their specific interests and evaluate possible solutions for the identified stakeholders.
Evaluate relevance of existing information and scientific knowledge for a case and identify knowledge gaps.
Apply biodiversity information, concepts and analysis tools to a case study.
Contribute to an interdisciplinary groupwork and leverage their own and other group members’ expertise
Take accountability for a shared project, managing roles and tasks, and meeting deadlines together.
Create a written problem-oriented report from a policy perspective in which different actions are formulated and evaluated to solve the biodiversity issue at stake.
Schedule
The timetables are available through My Timetable (see the button in the upper right corner). A detailed schedule will be provided on Brightspace before the start of the course.
Teaching method
Lectures; workgroup discussions.
Assesment method
The quality of the written report, the quality of the video presentation, self assessment, and group assessment will each account for 25% of the final grading.
The final mark for the course is established by (i) determination of the weighted average of the partial grades combined with (ii) a minimum assessment of 5.5 for each partial grade.
Resit, review & feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest.
Reading list
n/a
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap (button in upper right corner) is mandatory. General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the course coordinator: Dr. T.J.E. Aivelo
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc., contact the Education Office
Remarks
Brightspace will be used for communication and exchange of documents
Software
Starting from the 2024/2025 academic year; the Faculty of Science will use the software distribution platform Academic Software. Through this platform; you can access the software needed for specific courses in your studies. For some software; your laptop must meet certain system requirements; which will be specified with the software. It is important to install the software before the start of the course. More information about the laptop requirements can be found on the student website.