Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Conduct extensive research and development projects related to biological sciences, in the biology of organisms and ecology.
• Apply, mobilise, articulate and promote the knowledge and skills acquired in order to help lead and complete a project.
• Manage and lead research, development and innovation projects.
• Understand unprecedented problems in biological sciences, and more specifically in the biology of organisms, ecology and its applications.
• Master communication techniques.
• Communicate, both orally and in writing, their findings, original proposals, knowledge and underlying principles, in a clear, structured and justified manner.
• Apply scientific methodology.
• Demonstrate thoroughness, independence, creativity, intellectual honesty, and ethical values.

Learning Outcomes of UE

Be capable of carrying out a research project over several months, writing a manuscript on the results obtained and discussing them in the context of the scientific literature on the subject, and presenting and defending this work orally in front a jury.
Be able to carry out all these tasks independently, under the supervision of a Master thesis supervisor.
 

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

The student must carry out a research project over several months in one of the host laboratory's research topics. This work will include a prior bibliographical research and a series of laboratory or field experiments. The student will be supervised by a senior member of the host laboratory. At the end of this work, he/she will have to write a fifty-page manuscript including an introduction presenting the subject, a description of the methods used, a presentation of the results obtained, and a discussion placing the results in the context of current scientific knowledge. The work as a whole will be the subject of an oral presentation and defence in front of a jury.
 

Prior Experience

Not applicable