6 ECTS credits
150 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4016595ENR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (E) Master - advanced level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Partnership Agreement
- Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science and Bio-engineering Sciences
- Department
- Geography
- External partners
- KU Leuven
- Educational team
- Philippe Huybrechts
Gert Verstraeten
(course titular)
- External teachers
- Gert Verstraeten
- Activities and contact hours
- 26 contact hours Lecture
32 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
This course is organised jointly by KULeuven and VUB. For more details, see:
http://onderwijsaanbod.kuleuven.be/syllabi/e/G9X30AE.htm
- Course material
- Handbook (Required) : Late Quaternary Environmental Change. Physical and Human Perspectives., Physical and Human Perspectives, Bell, M., Walker, M.J.C., 2de, Pearson education, 9780130333445, 2005
Digital course material (Required) : scientific journal papers and reports
Digital course material (Required) : slides projected during the lectures
- Additional info
This course is organised jointly by KULeuven and VUB. For more details, see:
http://onderwijsaanbod.kuleuven.be/syllabi/e/G9X30AE.htm
- Learning Outcomes
-
Algemene competenties
This course is organised jointly by KULeuven and VUB. For more details, see:
http://onderwijsaanbod.kuleuven.be/syllabi/e/G9X30AE.htm
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- exam environmental change
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 50% of the final mark.
Note: The first part deals with past environmental change and is an open book examination. This part takes 70% of the final evaluation. It also includes an evaluation of the field trips and the interactive sessions which is evaluated permanently. Examinator is Gert Verstraeten.
- exam climate change
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 50% of the final mark.
Note: The second part deals with subrecent en future climate change, is a closed book examination and takes 30% of the final evaluation. Examinator is Philippe Huybrechts.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
This course is organised jointly by KULeuven and VUB. For more details, see:
http://onderwijsaanbod.kuleuven.be/syllabi/e/G9X30AE.htm
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Geography: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Geography: Standard track