B-WZB Elective Module Additional Scientific Qualifications for Biologists

• 300002 VO Digital Spatial Analysis - VO - Digital Spatial Analysis (GIS / Remote Sensing / Geo-statistics) als instrument of Conservation Biology and applied Landscape Ecology
• 300004 UE Microscopical course on freshwater algae - Microscopical course on freshwater algae in lakes aimed at EC Water Framework Directive
• 300007 SE Introduction to&guidance in ultrastruct. Research - Introduction to and guidance in ultrastructural Research
• 300016 SE Social-biological aspects of the human-animal interaction
• 300018 SE [ en ] Scientific Literature and Communication for Biologists
• 300020 VO Basic entomology - Introduction to the systematics, morphology and anatomy of insects.
• 300024 SE Introduction into scientific Reading and Writing - Scientific Textproduction
• 300033 UE Scientific Communication in the Laboratory - "Hands on - Minds on"
• 300034 UE+EX Plant Galls - Biology and Ecology of Plant Galls
• 300038 VO Microbiology at the University of Vienna
• 300043 VO Ornithology II - Introduction to the Ornithology : reprodaction biology
• 300049 VO Biology, ecology and conservation biology of bats - The course will focus on the biology (morphology, reproduction, echolocation) and ecology (ecomorphology, feeding ecology, roostin ecology) of bats. Furthermore threats to bats and conservation measures to protect bats will be discussed.
• 300053 EX Excursion to the mires of the Tamsweg area
• 300062 UE Computer-assisted presentation techniques
• 300073 SE Current topics in philosophy, theology and biology - Interdisciplinary discussions of current topics in Philosophy, Theology and Biology
• 300075 VO Basic lecture for starting graduands
• 300085 SE COSB Colloquium - Vorträge im Center for Organismal Systems Biology
• 300097 SE Animals in Scientific Films
• 300105 SE Writer's workshop for biologists - Principles of scientific publication
• 300110 VO Names of animals and plants - Etymology, medicin and mythology of names
• 300129 VO Bio- and chemodiversity of economic plants
• 300139 SE Projects: Planning, Funding, Public relations - Praxis and Methods
• 300141 VO Aspects of freshwater bioindication - Methods of assessment
• 300157 UE Eco-physiological - horticultural training course. - applied ecology
• 300163 UE Practical nature conservation
• 300172 UE Physics laboratory for students of biology - Physical measurement
• 300182 SE [ en ] Selected problems in the philosophy of biology
• 300187 VO Rarities - status and biology of extremely rare mammals and birds.
• 300194 EX Speleological excursions - Caves of Austria and neighboring countries
• 300197 UE Animal ecological special course - methods and questions in outdoor laboratories
• 300201 SE [ en ] Scientific English: Research reports, talks, style and grammar
• 300202 UE [ en ] Advanced topics in Bioacoustics
• 300206 VO Introduction to Marine Pollution
• 300220 VO Selected chapters of metabolism - metabolism under severe conditions: heat, cold, dryness.
• 300223 VO Methods of population analysis II: multivariat analysis methods - Multiple regression and correlationmodels; linear and nonlinear models; metaanalysis
• 300237 SE Botanical field research and collecting tours
• 300240 UE Computer Training to Applied Statistics for Biologists
• 300247 UE+EX Ecological-terrestrial Fieldcourse - Fieldcourse in the mediterranean region
• 300248 VO Animal Parasites II (Moruloidea - Cestoda)
• 300254 UE Computer applications in biology
• 300255 VO Energy and Environment in th 21th Century. Potentials and challenges of renewable energies.
• 300257 VO [ de en ] Primates and their societies
• 300259 VO Parasitology for Biologists - Methods of diagnosis in vivo/ in vitro/ post mortem (parasitological section)
• 300260 VO History of Parasitology. Pt. I - II - Development of parasitology as a own science. What knew the former cultures about parasites?
• 300272 UE Ecology Course - Island of Krk (Croatia) - Ecology Course - Island of Krk (Croatia)
• 300279 EX [ de en ] Palaeontological excursion
• 300285 SE+UE Light and video microscopy in practice
• 300287 UE Analogue and digital photography for scientific documentation
• 300290 VO Introduction to pollination biology
• 300297 SE [ en ] Microbes in limnic systems - literature seminar
• 300298 VO [ en ] Fractals in Ecology - Fractal theory plays an important role in all scientific dixciplines by enabling to analyse and understand even complex patterns and processes. This lecture block introduces the mathematical basis of fractal theory and discusses many applications in biology and ecology. Areas include a.o., growth forms, habitat structure, metabolic scaling theory and species-abundance relations. Practical examples will be analysed using a software programm.
• 300299 SE [ en ] Computional Life Sciences
• 300300 SE Presentation skills Science VO+SE
• 300302 UE Laboratory safety: bio-safety, bio-security, radiation safety and safe handling of chemicals
• 300303 SE [ en ] Preparatory seminar for "Fauna and Flora of marine habitats" - only together with course 300314
• 300308 VO [ en ] Human Evolutionary Genetics: genomic, genes, diseases
• 300312 SE Central Topics in Biology and Environmental Sciences: Evolution and Ethic
• 300314 UE [ en ] Fauna and flora of marine habitats - only together with course 300303
• 300324 VO Hygiene-relevant microbiology: The art of Parasitic - a synopsis of a historical Parasitology, and the system of the medicinischen Polizey. Knowledge transfer of the past and medicine-historical roots of the contemporary Parasitology
• 300334 UE Field course "Amphibian Ecology"
• 300345 UE Application of Geographical Information Systems - Application of Geographical Information Systems, Geo-statistics and Remote Sensing II (for advanced students)
• 300349 UE Project Management for Ecologists - Planning, Executing and Evaluating interdisciplinary Projects
• 300370 UE Scientific Illustration - Guide to scientific illustration and introductioning in methods of presentations
• 300408 SE+UE Ecological Floristics (field studies) - ( previously: eco floristic excursions)
• 300428 UE+EX Malacostraca identification course - advanced level
• 300430 EX Vertebrate ecological excursion: Soca/ Isonzo - valley - Habitats in a Kars-river valley from the spring to the estuary
• 300433 VO Medical parasitology - Transfer of basic knowledge
• 300450 VO Helminthozoonoses in Cental Europe - Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, therapy
• 300482 VO The world of mites - morphology, biology, ecology, phylogeny, medical and commercial relevance
• 300494 VO System ecology of the animals - Fundamentals to the system ecology of the animals
• 300517 SE+UE Theory and Application of Confocal Microscopy
• 300523 UE Reproductive biology and visual cues in Austrian amphibians - field exercise
• 300528 SE Central Topics in Biology and Environmental Sciences: environmental protection
• 300543 UE+EX Biology of the Cladoceran Branchiopods - Systematics, Biology and Ecology of the Cladoceran Branchiopods of Central Europe.
• 300545 SE Efficient Learning - Revision course to Animal Anatomy and Biology (300098)
• 300547 EX Speleological excursions to Palaeolithic site
• 300602 UE Data base in place of datachaos-Access for biologists
• 300645 VO Selected topics of cognitive biology
• 300667 VO Applied Statistics for Biologists
• 300668 UE HTML programming for the Internet
• 300672 UE Animal observations in the zoo - Basic practical course in observation of zoo kept animals
• 300682 UE Anthropological-Palaeontological field school - alpine Bear Cave
• 300716 UE Preparation and determination of Pleistocene animal remains