BENJ1001 Post Graduate Seminar (1 cr)

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Study level:

Postgraduate studies

Grading scale:

Pass - fail

Language:

English

Responsible organisation:

Department of Biological and Environmental Science

Curriculum periods:

2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023

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Presenting your own research

Description

Doctoral students should give a talk on their own PhD project no later than within 2 weeks after the dissertation has been sent to preliminary examiners. A doctoral student first contacts a seminar organiser in her/his division and set the date with the professor of her/his major. No later than one week before the presentation date, a doctoral student should submit the title and the abstract to a seminar organiser.

The length of the talk is 30–40 minutes with 15 min for discussion. The talk should include a broad theoretical background, description of the methods, a summary of results and conclusions. The talk should not consist of separate presentations of the articles in the dissertation but instead the experiments should be synthesized, forming a coherent entity. Due to the limited time allocated for the talk, it is not necessary to include all results in the presentation.

It is highly recommended that the doctoral student rehearses her/his talk under a guidance of her/his supervisor(s) prior to the seminar date.

Learning outcomes

Doctoral students will have experience in delivering a full length scientific seminar talk. They will learn to discuss their own scientific results with other scientists and response to questions. By attending other seminars, students will learn to ask questions and discuss others research.

Additional information

Undergraduate students should enrol in the course “BENS9111 Tutkijaseminaari, Research Seminar”. Participation in 15 seminars entitles to 1 ECTS. Undergraduate students get an additional participation point for a written summary of the seminar presentation. Summaries must be written concisely in either Finnish or English (font size: 12, line spacing: max. 1.5) and should be at least one page long (min. 400 words). Summaries should be returned within a week via email to one of the seminar organizers.
https://www.jyu.fi/science/en/bioenv/current/seminars

Description of prerequisites

No prerequisites

Completion methods

Method 1

Description:

The doctoral student gives a full-length seminar of her/her dissertation research. Doctoral students should give a talk on their own PhD project no later than within 2 weeks after the dissertation has been sent to preliminary examiners. A doctoral student first contacts a seminar organiser in her/his division and set the date with the professor of her/his major. No later than one week before the presentation date, a doctoral student should submit the title and the abstract to a seminar organiser. The length of the talk is 30–40 minutes with 15 min for discussion. The talk should include a broad theoretical background, description of the methods, a summary of results and conclusions. The talk should not consist of separate presentations of the articles in the dissertation but instead the experiments should be synthesized, forming a coherent entity. Due to the limited time allocated for the talk, it is not necessary to include all results in the presentation.

Evaluation criteria:

The oral presentation will be evaluated by a professor or a person appointed by her/him: Aquatic Sciences: Jouni Taskinen Cell and Molecular Biology: Jari Ylänne Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: Leena Lindström Environmental Science: Tuula Tuhkanen

Time of teaching:

Period 2, Period 1, Period 3, Period 4, Period 5

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Parts of the completion methods

Independent study (1 cr)

Type:

Independent study