Project

E2025

Chemical Biology

Project

Elective

English

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Frederik Diness (diness@ruc.dk)

Frederik Diness (diness@ruc.dk)

INM Registration & Exams (inm-exams@ruc.dk)

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The goal of the project is to let 2-7 students work together on a project at the master level. This type of project can preferably be used by students with a bachelor from another university who want to familiarise with the PPL project model used at RUC, or by students who want to balance a master project on their own, with a group project.

The purpose of the project is that the student via a problem-oriented and exemplary example gain competences to work within chemical biology.

The work can be mainly experimental, or theoretical.

Projects 15 ECTS / 405 hours

• Semester start and group formation: 8-10 hours

• Collective project progression: 0-2 hours

• Exam: 2 hours

• Supervision (incl. practical lab supervision): 31 hours

• Report writing: 100 hours

• Literature search: 120 hours

• Practical project work (laboratory, model design, analysis, field work): 120 hours

• Exam preparation: 20 hours

All projects’ processes will include ongoing dialogue-based (oral) evaluation between the students and the supervisor. Both students and supervisors are expected to provide constructive feedback and viewpoints during the process.

Feedback concerning the academic content and progression, process and collaboration. Every other year when the projects are handed in, there will also be an evaluation through a questionnaire in SurveyXact. The Study Board will handle all evaluations along with any comments from the head of study.

Furthermore, students can, in accordance with RUCs ‘feel free to state your views’ strategy through their representatives at the study board, send evaluations, comments or insights from their project process to the study board during or after the project process.

At the beginning of the semester the students will form groups defined by a theme or research question of their choosing.

The study activity is based around PPL, where the group work independently and critically with the topic. This includes finding, reading, and understanding relevant literature, having regular productive group meetings, propose relevant scientific methods, models, experiments, or/and analysis that can lead to an answer to the research question, composing text for the final project project, and more.

The project students agree with the supervisor on a regular meeting schedule; in order for the meetings to be fruitful the students must have an agenda and be well prepared for each meeting.

• Knowledge of those parts of chemistry and biology that are relevant to the chosen research question

• Knowledge and understanding of the experimental/theoretical/analytical methods used in the project

• Skills in planning and performing an experimental/theoretical/analytical work

• Skills in analysing and presenting results achieved

• Skills in relating critically to the strengths and weaknesses of the methods used

• Skills in communicating the results achieved to a select target group

• Competences in formulating a non-trivial representative research question that can be illuminated with available methods and techniques

• Competences in familiarising themselves with a subject area via the study of textbooks and scientific literature

• Competences in being able to critically discuss the significance of the results obtained and to relate the results to selected scientific literature in the field

• Competences in reflecting on the function of the subject of chemistry and biology as a social, cultural, scientific, educational or teaching activity.

Oral project exam in groups with individual assessment


Permitted group size: 2-7 students.

The character limits of the project report are:
For 2 students: 24,000-240000 characters, including spaces.
For 3 students: 24,000-240000 characters, including spaces.
For 4 students: 24,000-240000 characters, including spaces.
For 5 students: 24,000-240000 characters, including spaces.
For 6 students: 24,000-240000 characters, including spaces.
For 7 students: 24,000-240000 characters, including spaces.
The character limits include the cover, table of contents, abstract, bibliography, figures and other illustrations, but exclude appendices.

The project report must include an abstract in English, that is part of the assessment.

Time allowed for the exam including time used for assessment is for:
2 students: 60 minutes.
3 students: 75 minutes.
4 students: 90 minutes.
5 students: 105 minutes.
6 students: 120 minutes.
7 students: 135 minutes.



Permitted support and preparation materials at the oral exam: All

Assessment: 7-point grading scale
Moderation: Internal co-assessor.

Samme som ordinær eksamen / same form as ordinary exam

Assesment criteria:

The project is evaluated on the basis of the students ability

• to discuss and analyze the selected subject areas

• to understand and reflect on the project.

• to use and master scientific theories and methods while working with a specific, academic and relevant task

• to analyze, categorize, discuss, argue, reflect and evaluate complex data on a scientific basis

• to critically view and select scientific sources, literature, theories and methods

• to write in accordance with academic text norms and for an academic target group

• to use experimental methods in a research process

The assessment of the oral exam is based on the student’s ability to meet the criteria mentioned above and their ability to

• clearly present and communicate the scientific content of the project

• engage in a scientific dialogue and discussion with the supervisor and assessor

Furthermore, whether the performance meets all formal requirements in regard to both for the written og oral exam.

Regarding the use of generative AI at the exam

For project reports, bachelor's projects and master's theses, generative AI aids (GAI) are permitted in the work with the exam if the use is declared. You must clearly declare how you have used generative artificial intelligence (GAI). This can be included as part of the methodology section or as a short statement at the end of your report. This means that you must describe how you have used GAI, e.g. for the preparatory work on the project, to ask questions and search for information, to receive feedback and criticism on your text, to carry out proofreading or to improve language and readability. It is important that you actively relate to your choice of tools in this way, as it is part of the entire process of creating the project, and thus part of your scientific method and professional communication.

The use of any specific text that is GAI-generated requires citation, just as when using all other sources from which direct quotations are used.

In the library's guide, you can see more about how to cite AI and how you can account for your use of GAI - read them here.

However, ordinary spell checking and other language suggestions, such as Word or other word processing programs, as well as programs for writing minutes and transcription, are permitted in all written exams and do not need to be declared.