production
Skip to Content

Log In

  1. University Home
  2. Catalogue of Courses
  3. Undergraduate
  4. 2015-2016
  5. Biology
  6. BI2018: BIOLOGICAL ENHANCED SKILLS TRAINING (BEST)

BI2018: BIOLOGICAL ENHANCED SKILLS TRAINING (BEST) (2015-2016)

Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:33


Course Overview

The course will help you consolidate and develop your skills in experimental design, sampling, analysis, presentation, and interpretation of data. Throughout the course you will be encouraged to seek to improve your academic writing and develop other transferable skills.

In two 2-hour sessions every week you will work through a series of computer-based data or writing tasks, all using relevant and realistic biological and environmental themes.

Teaching is informal and friendly. During sessions, staff and demonstrators will chat to you about your progress and provide help.

Assessments are two online multiple-choice tests (each 33%) and an individual project (33%).

The course will help you to go as far and as fast as you can in developing important experimental skills.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 2
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus None. Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators

Sorry, we don't have a record of any course coordinators.

Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • One of BSc Biology (Studied) or BSc Conservation Biology (Studied) or BSc Biology-Environmental Humanities (Studied) or BSc Plant Biology (Studied) or BSc Zoology (Studied) or BSc Animal Ecology (Studied) or BSc Marine Biology (Studied) or BSc Parasitology (Studied) or BSc Animal Behaviour (Studied) or BSc Behavioural Biology (Studied) or MSci Biological Sciences (Studied) or BSc Biological Sciences (Honours) (Studied) or BSc Plant and Soil Sciences (Studied) or BSc Biology - Education (Primary) (Studied) or BSc Ecology (Studied) or BSc Wildlife Management (Studied) or BSc Forestry (Studied) or BSc Forest Sciences (Studied) or BSc Environmental Science (Studied) or BSc Environmental Science (Physical Sci) (Studied) or BSc Biology - Education (Secondary) (Studied)
  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Programme Level 2

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

The course will focus on a series of essential skills, associated with becoming an effective and successful biologist or environmental scientist. These enhanced skills include hypothesis formulation, experimental design, data distributions and probability, data handling descriptive and inferential statistics, and interpreting data in terms of biological or environmental science. The emphasis throughout will be on: Consolidating existing skills; developing new skills and preparing the way for Level 3 courses in SBS.





Further Information & Notes

The course is only open to students with a degree intention in a programme coordinated by SBS. Not available to other students - except visiting exchange students with a relevant degree intention from home university.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

1st Attempt: Continuous assessment, consisting of two online tests (each 33% of the overall course mark) and an individual project (33%).

Resit: Submission of any outstanding or failed pieces of coursework and/or re-take of online test(s).

Formative Assessment

Formative on-line tests will help students assess how well they are learning. Student participation in these tests will be monitored. Participation and performance with tasks will alert the course coordinators to any difficulties with individual students in attainment and/or attendance.

Feedback

Formative assessments students will be given automated feedback on tests in MyAberdeen.
Classwork students will be given individual verbal feedback during classes.
Summative assessments (coursework). Each student will an instantaneous grade for each task. Generic feedback will be given to the class.  Individual students may require more information about their performance.  Written feedback will be provided on individual projects.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

Compatibility Mode

We have detected that you are have compatibility mode enabled or are using an old version of Internet Explorer. You either need to switch off compatibility mode for this site or upgrade your browser.