3 ECTS credits
84 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1023839ANR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
- Department
- Computer Science
- Educational team
- Johan Loeckx
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 12 contact hours Lecture
12 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
This module gives an introduction to the how and why of science at the introductory bachelor level. There will be special attention to acquiring skills in scientific communication: writing professional reports and giving professional presentations, and additionally there will be attention to scientific integrity in this.
- Additional info
NA
- Learning Outcomes
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General compentencies
- Students learn what science is (and what not).
- Students learn why the scientific method is successful and important.
- Students learn why university education is scientific.
- Students learn about scientific communication:
- Scientific literature
- Presentation of results
- Students learn how to apply this in practice on the basis of a project.
- Students learn and understand the importance of scientific communication.
- Students learn and understand the basic principles of scientific communication.
- Students learn how to select the most appropriate means of scientific communication in a given setting.
- Starting from the basic knowledge taught in this course, students learn how they can independently improve themselves.
- Grading
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The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Other exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Students are required to do small literature study and report about this. The reporting has to be in both oral and in written form. The project will be evaluated on the quality of the reporting.v Students will work in groups and the evaluation will be both on the written and the oral reports. In order to get an idea of each student’s contribution, peer evaluation will be used.
- 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:
Bachelor of Computer Science: Default track (only offered in Dutch)