BIOB1070 Technology and Society Course description

Work and teaching methods include lectures, seminars, peer assessment and bachelor's thesis in groups.

Projects are normally carried out in groups of 3-4 students. The groups will have an academic supervisor when working on the thesis. In addition, the groups will be offered writing supervision at the university of up to eight hours. The writing supervision is to help students to structure their thesis. The students will also assess each other’s texts in the work with the bachelor’s thesis.

Students meet for seminars during the period they are working on the bachelor's thesis. There will be a start-up seminar and differently themed seminars relevant for the completion of the bachelor’s thesis. At the end of the period, the students will meet to present their theses to each other.

Detailed guidelines for the bachelor’s thesis will be published in the learning platform.

In order to be permitted to take the exam, the following must have been approved:

• oral presentation of a bachelor’s project in groups, up to 25 minutes per group

Written bachelor’s thesis in groups normally comprising 3-4 students, up to 9,000 words.

Resit exam: If the bachelor’s thesis is awarded a fail grade, the students have the right to submit a reworked version of the thesis once.

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Grade scale A-F

The course consists of the following subject areas, specified below as the number of credits:

• Theory of science, research methodology and ethics, 3 credits
• Biomedical laboratory sciences subjects, 17 credits

15 credits overlap with the course BIO3900 Bachelor’s Thesis.

Pass/fail.

All answers are assessed by one examiner. An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

The course has 5 ECTS of overlapping content towards STKD6610 Technology and Society, STKD6600 Technology and Society I, PSYK1070 Technology and Society, BIOB1070 Technology and Society, ERGOB1070 Technology and Society, FYB1070 Technology and Society, RAB1070 Technology and Society, SYKK1070 Technology and Society, SYKP1070 Technology and Society, TAB1070 Technology and Society, ORI1070 Technology and Society, PMED1070 Technology and Society, FARB1070 Technology and Society and VERB1070 Technology and Society