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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
| Grao en Bioloxía |
 Subjects |
| Ethology |
| Methodologies |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Ethology | Code | 610G02038 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Fourth | Optional | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Methodologies | Description |
| Introductory activities | PRESENTATION: The course will be briefly presented during the first class. Contents, activities, schedules and grading will be explained in this session. |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | LECTURES (20) will consist mainly in oral sessions, where experiments, graphs and videos will be analysed. The slides used by the professor will be available through the Moodle platform. |
| Supervised projects | ASSIGNMENTS: Students will be asked to prepare and defend a short presentation in groups. Drafts of the presentation will be discussed and improved together with the professor, in person or via email. Those students participating in Service-Learning activities are exempt from this task. |
| Seminar | SEMINARS: An important part of the seminars will involve reading and discussion of primary scientific literature related to class contents. We will work also on subjects and methods related to class assignments. Students will be graded depending on their active participation and/or through short exams. |
| Research (Research project) | PRACTICAL WORK: Practical work will involve the analysis of videos and material for introducing students to the methods for the observation and quantification of behaviour. Whenever possible, we will perform part of the practical work in outdoor facilities (ex. the Aquarium Finisterrae). Students will produce a final research report. Those students involved in Service-Learning activities may be exempt from doing some activities of the practical work. |
| Short answer questions | SHORT ANSWER EXAM: One final exam will be given. It will consist of 10 objective, short answer questions that will require detailed and precise responses. |
| Aprendizaxe servizo | SERVICE-LEARNING (SL): Students may have the option to voluntarily participate in a Service-Learning activity. There are two options with different aims: 1) to reduce pet abandonment due to behavioural problems of the animals, and 2) to inform on problems associated to the invasion of the yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina). Participation in this activity will exempt students form the elaboration of the class short presentation. Depending on the time required for the SL activity, students may be exempt also from doing some activities of the practical work. |
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