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Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology

General data

Course ID: WB-BI-ANG-12
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: Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology
Name in Polish: Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology (lecture)
Organizational unit: Faculty of Biology and Environmental Sciences
Course groups: Courses at UKSW
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 4.00 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.

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Language: English
Subject level:

elementary

Learning outcome code/codes:

Lectures: BI2_W01, BI2_W02, BI2_W03, BI2_W04, BI2_W06

Classes: BI2_U02, BI2_U05, BI2_U07, BI2_K01, BI2_K05


Short description:

Aims of the lectures: to familiarize students with research at the interface of ecology and evolutionary biology

Bibliography:

Basic:

Dugatkin LA. 2009. Principles of animal behavior. WW Norton & Co., New York

Supplementary:

Davies NB, Krebs JR, West SA. 2012. An introduction to behavioural ecology. Wiley-Blackwell

Westneat DF, Fox CW. 2010. Evolutionary bevavioral ecology. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford

Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:

Knowledge:

1 - the graduate has a thorough understanding of advanced biological phenomena and processes and the key issues in advanced biological knowledge

2 - the graduate builds on empirical foundations in the interpretation of biological phenomena and processes, fully understands the importance of mathematical and statistical methods and IT tools

3 - the graduate knows and understands the most important problems in various disciplines of biological sciences and knows the connections of biological sciences with other natural science and science disciplines

4 – the graduate knows and understands the scope of current scientific topics of biology and the main research trends in biological sciences

5 – the graduate knows and understands the principles of research planning using biological techniques and research tools and the basic principles of safety and hygiene at work

Skills:

6 – the graduate is able to select and critically analyze of information, especially from electronic sources

7 – the graduate is able to prepare and present oral presentations on research work using multimedia

8 – the graduate can use the biological literature in English

Social competences:

9 - the graduate is ready to critically evaluate his/her knowledge and the content he/she receives, recognizes the importance of knowledge in solving problems, systematically updates the knowledge of biology and knows its practical applications

10 – the graduate is ready to appropriately identify priorities in order to accomplish a task defined by him/herself or by others

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

Time span: 2021-10-01 - 2022-01-31
Selected timetable range:
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Type of class:
Lectures, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Piotr Matyjasiak
Group instructors: Piotr Matyjasiak
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: examination
(in Polish) Opis nakładu pracy studenta w ECTS:

ECTS calculation:

Student activity Student workload in hrs

Participation in the lecture 30

Consultations 5

Preparation to the exam 45

Total hrs 80

Total ECTS 80 hrs /30 (25) hrs ≈ 3


Type of subject:

obligatory

(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych:

(in Polish) nie dotyczy

Short description:

Aims of the lectures: to familiarize students with research at the interface of ecology and evolutionary biology

Bibliography:

Basic:

Dugatkin LA. 2020. Principles of animal behavior. 4th edition. Chicago University Press, Chicago (or earlier editions)

Supplementary:

Davies NB, Krebs JR, West SA. 2012. An introduction to behavioural ecology. Wiley-Blackwell

Westneat DF, Fox CW. 2010. Evolutionary bevavioral ecology. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford

Classes in period "Winter semester 2022/23" (past)

Time span: 2022-10-01 - 2023-01-31
Selected timetable range:
Navigate to timetable
Type of class:
Lectures, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Piotr Matyjasiak
Group instructors: Piotr Matyjasiak
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: examination
(in Polish) Opis nakładu pracy studenta w ECTS:

ECTS calculation:

Student activity Student workload in hrs

Participation in the lecture 30

Consultations 5

Preparation to the exam 45

Total hrs 80

Total ECTS 80 hrs /30 (25) hrs ≈ 3


Type of subject:

obligatory

(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych:

(in Polish) nie dotyczy

Classes in period "Summer semester 2022/23" (past)

Time span: 2023-02-01 - 2023-06-30
Selected timetable range:
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Type of class:
Lectures, 15 hours more information
Coordinators: Piotr Matyjasiak
Group instructors: (unknown)
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: examination
Type of subject:

obligatory

(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych:

(in Polish) nie dotyczy

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