Seminar on Current Topics in Geoscience

After completing the course, you are able to

• understand and explain the most recent methodological developments and results of recent publications by others
• place your own research in a broader disciplinary and interdisciplinary context
• analyze how geoscience intersects with other disciplines
• communicate and discuss research methods and results
• reflect critically upon research results

• GEO4515 / GEG2240
• GEO4520
• and an ongoing remote sensing project

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 teaching will take place as seminars that cover one special topic each and include teaching and discussion of the topics taught, project presentations and discussion on papers.

It is obligatory to attend 10 seminar dates, and you must prepare and lead one of them. This may require seminar attendance over two semesters. You must hand in the presentation files connected to the seminar presentation you have led, which will count towards the final grade.

Attendance at the first lecture is compulsory. Students who fail to meet are considered to have withdrawn from the course unless they have previously given notice to the course responsible.

We reserve the right to change the teaching form and examination of the course in semesters where 5 or fewer students have been admitted.

• Attendance to 10 seminar dates must be approved in order for you to receive the final grade in the course.
• You will be assessed based on the seminar presentation you have led (50%) and the handed-in presentation files (50%), and these will together count 100% towards the final grade. Both parts must be passed separately in order to pass the course.

Mandatory attendance is valid for 5 semesters starting from the semester they were approved the first time.

It is possible to take the exam up to 3 times. If you withdraw from the exam after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.

It will also be counted as 1 of the 3 attempts to sit the exam for this course if you sit the exam for the following course:

• GEO9550

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.

• 5 credits overlap with GEO9550