BIOS5100 – Advanced evolution
Course content
The course offers advanced training in evolutionary theory, with emphasis on reading articles and discussing central concepts, methods, and topics.
Learning outcome
After completing the course, you will have:
- Familiarity with fundamental concepts in evolutionary theory such as phylogeny, natural selection, fitness, adaptation, speciation, plasticity, constraints, genetic drift, inheritance, and genetic variation.
- An understanding of the main principles of quantitative genetics, enabling you to perform calculations for the evolution of phenotypic traits.
- Knowledge of how different life-history strategies can be explained through natural selection, adaptation, and constraints.
- Knowledge of the processes that give rise to new species and determine the geographical distribution of organisms.
- Insight into how evolution occurs over different timescales and how micro- and macroevolution are interconnected.
- Experience in finding, assessing, and disseminating research literature.
Admission to the course
Students admitted at UiO must?apply for courses?in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.
Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may?apply to take this course as a single course student.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about?admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.
The courses BIOS5100 and BIOS9100 have joint admission with a capasity?limited to 40 students. Applicants are ranked by the following criteria:
1. PhD candidates?and master students at the MN faculty who have the course as part of the approved curriculum.?PhD candidates and master students at the Department of Biosciences are given priority.
2. Other PhD candidates?and visiting PhD candidates.
3. Students with admission to single courses on master’s level and exchange students
Applicants are ranked by credits in each group; all applicants within 1st rank before applicants in 2nd etc. If admission is limited to a fixed number of participants, admission will be decided by drawing lots for students who are ranked equally.
Recommended previous knowledge
Teaching
Lectures
Colloquia
Mandatory assignments including essay?
Attendance to the first lecture is mandatory, also for those on the waiting list. If you are unable to attend the first lecture you will lose your seat on the course if you do not inform the student administration?studieinfo@ibv.uio.no?prior to the first lecture.
Mandatory course work must be approved before the student can attend the exam.
Attendance to the first lecture is mandatory.?If you are unable to attend the first lecture you will lose your seat on the course if you do not inform the student administration?studieinfo@ibv.uio.no?prior to the first lecture.
Approved mandatory course work is valid for 3 years.
Access to teaching
A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.
Examination
Mandatory essay counts 30% towards the final mark. You submit your essay in the exam system Inspera.?Read more about how to submit assignments in Inspera.??When writing your essay?make sure to familiarize yourself with the?rules for use of sources and citations.?Breach of these rules may lead to suspicion of?attempted cheating.
Final written exam?which counts 70% towards?the final mark.
It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following: emneBIOS3100, BIOS4100 – Evolution and BIOS9100 – Advanced evolution?
Mandatory course work must be approved before the student can attend the exam.
Approved mandatory course work are valid for 3 years.?New essay must be submitted each semester.
Examination support material
Calculator will be available in Inspera during the exam
Language of examination
The examination text is given in English.You may submit your response in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are?offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester.
Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass the original examination.
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.