BIOS9113 – Conservation and Management Biology

PhD candidates from the University of Oslo should apply for classes and register for examinations through Studentweb.

If a course has limited intake capacity, priority will be given to PhD candidates who follow an individual education plan where this particular course is included. Some national researchers’ schools may have specific rules for ranking applicants for courses with limited intake capacity.

PhD candidates who have been admitted to another higher education institution must apply for a position as a visiting student within a given deadline.

The courses BIO5113 and BIOS9113 have joint admission. Applicants are ranked by the following criteria:

1. PhD students and master students at the MN faculty who have the course as part of the approved curriculum.

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

The course will be given as lectures and two seminars

• 100 pages with extra-litterature on conservation challenges on the organism or hypothesis that you work on in you Ph.D.
• Each student have to present a scientific paper. This will be graded approved/not approved.
• The students are expected to have an active participation.

First lecture is mandatory. If you can not attend the first lecture, please send a note to studieinfo@ibv.uio.no, before the first lecture.

The course is lectured when there are more than 3 students registered.

The presentation of a scientific paper, and the commenting on another students work, must be approved for the student to enter the final exam. There will be two home exams where the students has to write a theoretical essay and a practical essay (case study). At least one of these has to include references from the extra-litterature. In addition there will be a final oral examination. The home exam and the oral examination are weighted 40/60.

Withdrawal from an examination

It is possible to take the exam up to 3 times. If you withdraw from the exam after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.

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: BIO9150 – Conservation and management biology (continued), BIO4150 – Conservation and management biology (continued) and BIOS5113 – Conservation and management biology (discontinued).

This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:

• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Withdrawal during an examination / Resitting an examination