BIOS9313 – Human Impact on the Marine Environment

After completing the course you will have the following competence:

• Understand current important marine environmental problems.
• Have insight into method challenges, and be able to critical evaluate reports, publications and environmental data.
• Have insight into environmental legislation and important international treaties.
• Have basic understanding of effects studies, environmental monitoring, and evaluation of risk and environmental state from a scientific, regulatory and industrial perspective.

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 BIOS5313 and BIOS9313 have joint admission. Applicants are ranked by the following criteria:

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

2. Other PhD candidates and visiting PhD candidates.

3. Students with admission to single courses on master’s level and exchange students.

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.

• Lectures
• Group work
• Discussion groups
• Student presentations
• Give 1 lecture

All groupwork is mandatory. The group work is a datalab on modelling of the impacts of different types of stressors on marine species. You must also give a lecture based on a given topic. Mandatory course work must be approved before you can attend the exam.

Attendance is mandatory for the first lecture. This also applies to those on the waiting list. You will lose your seat on the course if notice is not given to the student administration studieinfo@ibv.uio.no before the first lecture.

Approved mandatory course work is valid for 5 years.

Access to teaching: A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.

• Final written exam which counts 100% towards the final grade.

Mandatory activities must be approved before the student can attend the 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 the following courses:BIOS5313 – Human Impact on the Marine Environment, BIO4331 – Human Impact on the Marine Environment (continued) and BIO9331 – Human Impact on the Marine Environment (continued).

Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester.

Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass, the original examination.