Universität Wien

300084 SE Bachelorseminar for students of the teacher program Biology (2024W)

7.00 ECTS (3.00 SWS), SPL 30 - Biologie
Continuous assessment of course work
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Bei der Platzvergabe werden prinzipiell nur Studierende berücksichtigt, die die Voraussetzungen erfüllen und sich vom UF Biologie und Umweltkunde 402 aus für das Modul UFBU 12 anmelden!
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 45 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Attendance compulsory at the kick-off meeting (Wednesday, Oct 2, 3 p.m.): Those who do not attend without prior notice (sonja.windhager@univie.ac.at) will be deregistered so that students from the waiting list succeed.
Zoom links will be available on Moodle.
Interested students with missing ECTS credits are kindly requested to register via sonja.windhager@univie.ac.at before the preliminary meeting, at the latest by Sep. 27. Any requests from previous terms will not be transferred automatically. You are then invited to join the kick-off meeting to see if a place is available. If more than 10 ECTS are missing, late registration is not possible in any case. Missing ECTS need to be completed by the end of April.
The meeting on January 23 at 1.15 pm is only relevant to students working with Karolyi and Windhager (oral presentations).
The oral presentations for students working with Fieder and Windhager (second part) will take place on January 23, 9 to 12 am (Meeting Room 5.121).

  • Wednesday 02.10. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal 2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.033, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 09.10. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal 2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.033, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 16.10. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal 2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.033, Ebene 0
  • Wednesday 23.10. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal 2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.033, Ebene 0
  • Thursday 23.01. 13:15 - 18:15 Seminarraum 1.4, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.013, Ebene 1

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Aims: Students acquire knowledge on scientific work in the natural sciences, on how to search for and further process scientific literature, conduct and write up a scientific paper, and present it. This should enable the prospective teachers to keep up with up-to-date scientific literature and supervising and grading pre-scientific papers (Vorwissenschaftliche Arbeiten).

Contents: The seminar intends to convey strategies and a toolkit for a literature search and a comprehensive literature review on a specific topic. The acquired expertise shall be summarized in an integrative way, i.e., not just summarizing the literature but also critically discussing it.
Each student chooses one of the listed foci for their work. Individual topics will be outlined in the preparatory meeting. Students will be distributed equally among the foci.
Non-binding list of topics below; supervisors will be assigned during the kick-off meeting.

** Focus behavioral physiology, behavioral biology in animals [Matthias Nemeth, 3 theses; Carina Siutz, 3 theses]

**Focus Evolutionary Anthropology: literature review [Martin Fieder, 5 theses], small original research study [Sonja Kuderer, 5 theses] or original research study or literature review focusing on human behavioral biology [Sonja Windhager, 7 theses]

** Focus small original research studies using questionnaires [evolution, creationism, paranormal belief], didactics of biology [Erich Eder, 3 theses]

**Focus Evolution Vertebrata [Doris Nagel, 3 theses]

**Focus Hygienics – Medical Biology [Kerstin Steindl-Kuscher, 6 theses]

** Focus Palynology [Christa Hofmann, 5 theses]

**Focus Zoology: literature review (insects) [Florian Karolyi, 4 theses]

More details on the specific topics on the German version of this page. Please send an email to S. Windhager if you need further translations.

Method of the course: Introductory lectures including demonstrations in databases and relevant software to teach the necessary skills to conduct a scientific literature review and present it orally to an audience of specialists; guided empirical work and writing up of a thesis on a specific topic.

Assessment and permitted materials

Written prospectus, presentation, term paper: scientific paper following the rules of the natural sciences.
To safeguard good academic practice, the lecturer may ask students to reflect on their written assignements in a conversation. Students must successfully pass this reflection.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

A minimum of 51 points is required for the successful completion of the course. The single components are weighted as follows: written prospectus (10 points), presentation (20 points), term paper (70 points). Grade 1: 87 – 100 points, Grade 2: 75 – 86,99 points, Grade 3: 63 – 74,99 points, Grade 4: 51 – 62,99 points, Grade 5: < 51 points.
If good scientific practice is violated in any assessment, you will fail to pass the course.

Examination topics

Continuous assessment of course work (prüfungsimmanent)!

Reading list

Balzert H, Schröder M, Schäfer C (2011) Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, 2. Auflage, W3L AG, Dortmund.

Knisely K (2013). A Student Handbook for Writing in Biology, 4th edition, Sinauer Associates, MA.

Kremer B P (2014) Vom Referat bis zur Examensarbeit: Naturwissenschaftliche Texte perfekt verfassen und gestalten, 4. Auflage, Springer Spektrum, Berlin.

Lamprecht J (1999) Biologische Forschung: Von der Planung bis zur Publikation. Filander Verlag, Fürth.

Leonhart R. (2010) Datenanalyse mit SPSS. Hogrefe, Wien.

Weber D (2014) Die erfolgreiche Abschlussarbeit. 2. Auflage, Wiley, Weinheim.

Association in the course directory

UF BU 12

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