BIOS5111 – Electron Microscopy
Course description
Course content
Learning outcome
Admission to the course
Students admitted at UiO must apply for courses in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.
Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may apply to take this course as a single course student.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.
The courses BIOS5111 and BIOS9111 have common admission. Applicants are ranked by the following criteria:
1.Master students and PhDstudents at the MN faculty who have the course as part of the approved curriculum. PhD candidates and master students at the Department of Biosciences are given priority.
2. Other PhD students and visiting PhD students.
3. Students with admission to single courses on master’s level and exchange students 4. Applicants are ranked by credits in each group; all applicants within 1st rank before applicants in 2nd etc.
If admission is limited to a fixed number of participants, admission will be decided by drawing lots for students who are ranked equally
Formal prerequisite knowledge
Recommended previous knowledge
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with BIOS9111 – Electron Microscopy.
- 10 credits overlap with MBV4110 – Electron microscopy (continued).
- 10 credits overlap with MBV9110 – Electron microscopy (continued).
Teaching
- Lectures
- seminars
- practical exercises written group laboratory reports must be approved before the exam.
As the teaching involves laboratory and/or field work, you should consider taking out a separate travel and personal risk insurance. Read about your insurance cover as a student.
Examination
Final oral exam appr. one week after the end of the course.
The laboratory reports from the group work must be approved in order for the students to be eligible for the final exam.
It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses:BIOS5111 – Electron Microscopy, MBV4110 – Electron microscopy (continued), MBV9110 – Electron microscopy (continued).
Grading scale
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