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BIO-2015 Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology 1 - 10 stp


The course is administrated by

Institutt for arktisk og marin biologi

Type of course

This course replaces BIO-2012 Fundamentals of Ecotoxicolgy I and BIO-2013 Fundamentals of Ecotoxicolgy II and contains both theoretical and practical parts.

The course is obligatory for undergraduate students taking the BSc programme Miljøledelse og Forurensingsbiologi.

The course is only available for the students from the BSc programme Miljøledelse og Forurensingsbiologi.


Course overlap

BIO-3020 Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology 10 stp

Course contents

The course will cover general principles of ecotoxicology through lectures, seminars, and a practical component.

More specifically, the course will give an overview of environmental contaminants and their fate in the environment, including emissions and transport of contaminants and effects in biota from cellular to community/ecosystem levels. The course will also include principles and methodologies in toxicity testing and environmental risk assessment.

The practical component of the course will allow to acquire practical skills within the field of ecotoxicology and apply the theoretical knowledge by performing an ecotoxicological experiment, learning to analyse, discuss and present produced data.


Obligatory prerequisites

BIO-2002 Physiology II (Animal Physiology), KJE-1001 Introduction to chemistry and the chemistry of biology, MBI-1001 Cell and molecular biology, MBI-1002 Cell- and molecular biology

Objective of the course

Students who have completed the course shall:

Knowledge

Skills

General competence


Language of instruction

English

Teaching methods

Lectures (10 x 45 min), seminars (10 x 45 min), experimental work (5 days), laboratory work (4 days), 1 x pc-lab (6h) and home assignment (report).

Assessment

4 hour written exam. A graded scale of five marks from A to E for pass and F for fail.

Compulsary work requirements:
In order to take the exam students have to have the following work requirements approved:

Re-sit exam:
There will be a re-sit examination for students that did not pass the previous ordinary examination.