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Field Course in Behavioural Methods

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Course ID:	WB-BI-ANG-06cw
Erasmus code / ISCED:	13.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (unknown)
Course title:	Field Course in Behavioural Methods
Name in Polish:	Field Course in Behavioural Methods (practice)
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Biology and Environmental Sciences
Course groups:	Courses at UKSW
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	4.00 (differs over time) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Subject level:	elementary
Learning outcome code/codes:	enter learning outcome code/codes
Short description:	(in Polish) The main aim of the course is to provide students with a hands-on experience in several field research techniques used in the study of animal behaviour. The students will not only perform assigned tasks, but also take part in planning the work and analyzing results, so they can get used to assessing the suitability of different methods to answering particular research questions, identifying their advantages and drawbacks and possible sources of bias. The experimental methods will provide an opportunity to focus on control goups, on what makes (and what does not make) a good control in a particular experiment. The course should also show students how important it is to carefully note every detail of the work and its outcome, label all recordings and samples immediately etc.
Full description:	(in Polish) The main aim of the course is to provide students with a hands-on experience in several field research techniques used in the study of animal behaviour. The students will not only perform assigned tasks, but also take part in planning the work and analyzing results, so they can get used to assessing the suitability of different methods to answering particular research questions, identifying their advantages and drawbacks and possible sources of bias. The experimental methods will provide an opportunity to focus on control goups, on what makes (and what does not make) a good control in a particular experiment. The course should also show students how important it is to carefully note every detail of the work and its outcome, label all recordings and samples immediately etc. We plan to be using the following methods: - playback experiment: eliciting a respons of male tawny owls to recorded calls of conspecifics - ultrasound detector study: analysis of the pattern of evening emergence of serotine or noctule bats from a day roost and/or recording of echolocation activity along a transect - cafeteria test with video recording: testing the ability to tell empty from full wallnuts and peanuts in crows - predator/novelty response study: audio and video recording of the response of blue and/or great tits to a dummy snake and a non-animal object of similar size and moement

Classes in period "Summer semester 2021/22" (past)

Time span:	2022-02-01 - 2022-06-30	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable
Type of class:	Classes, 30 hours more information
Coordinators:	Maciej Fuszara
Group instructors:	(unknown)
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	graded credit
Type of subject:	obligatory
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych:	(in Polish) nie dotyczy

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