Seminar II

Recommended Prerequisites

Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Modelling; Population Ecology; Valuing Biological Resources and Ecosystem Services; Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 

Teaching Methods

Project elaboration (tutorial supervision) and defense in the presence of a jury.

Learning Outcomes

To carry out a closer follow-up of the evolution of the research process by a scientific committee, which will be part of the dissertation defense jury, in particular in relation to the development of scientific writing skills, synthesis capacity and communication. This new curricular unit complements the curricular unit of Seminar I, where the students only make an oral presentation of their project. In this curricular unit students will have to present a detailed written document about their thesis project, including the state of the art, objectives, working hypotheses and detailed experimental design and results and their analysis obtained so far.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

In this course students will have to submit a detailed written report on the thesis project (variable depending on the topic of the project), including state of the art, goals, working hypotheses, experimental design and data obtained to date. They will have also to defend the project before a specialized scientific committee.

Head Lecturer(s)

João Carlos Mano Castro Loureiro

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 100.0%

Bibliography

Variável, dependendo do tema da investigação / Variable, depending on the research topic.