Duration
20h Th, 15h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in geography : climatology (120 ECTS) | 3 crédits | |||
| Master in geography, global change (120 ECTS) | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Recommended or required readings
Assessment methods and criteria
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
The subject matter of the exam is the complete content of the course (as taught in the first quadrimestre) + the takehome exercise.
Assessment methods
As before, the evaluation will be based on your submitted take-home exercise (see further), a practical (open-book) coding exercise during which you will be asked to write a small functioning program and an oral exam. The practical coding exercise will be organized in the morning during a Lifesize session before a webcam (making sure your hands and face are visible during the exam). All forms of phone or online communication will be prohibited during the exam. You will also be asked to submit via email a declaration on your honour that you did not cheat during this exercise.
An oral examination of 20-25 minutes will be organized in the afternoon. This part will be closed book and without preparation. Like the exam of January, students will be asked questions on the submitted takehome exercise. However, they will also be asked a number of specific questions that directly relate to the theory of the course and/or the practical exercise you made in the morning. The questions will be short and simple and are mainly intended to detect potential discrepancies and inconsistencies between the practical exam you made and your actual 'ready knowledge' of the course material and programming concepts. As such, someone who suceeded in independently making the take home and exam coding exercise should not worry too much about this. Nonetheless, students are strongly adviced to go through the slides in preparation of your exam.
For the takehome exercise, students are asked to submit the same exercise as in January (on calculating the total C02-production of airplane traffic). However, the exercise now includes an additional challenge that they are expected to make as well. This challenge is explained in slides 17-20 of the updated presentation.