Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2010-11

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Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2010-11

General Competences (CG)

  • CG2 : Acquire ICT skills (Information and Communication Technologies) applied to studying the biological diversity and biology of conservation, managing the information obtained correctly.
  • CG3 : Develop the capacity for analysis, synthesis and critical reasoning applied to experimental observations and data.
  • CG5 : Introduce conservation as an aim of research projects concerning biological diversity.
  • CG6 : Acquire a permanent concern for quality, the environment and the conservation of the environment.

 

Specific Competences:>>Theoretical

  • CEc2 : Understand the different levels of study of biodiversity, from a comprehensive view covering from the functional level of organisms to their organisation in systems.
  • CEc3 : Understand and interpret the diversity of living beings in the environment, as well as their origin, evolution and behaviour.
  • CEc4 : Acquire and advanced understanding of the phylogenetic and biogeographical principles that govern the classification of living beings.
  • CEc5 : Understand and apply methods for analysing biodiversity, acquiring the knowledge needed to validate models on the basis of experimental data.

 

Specific Competences:>>Ability

  • CEh1 : Apply concepts, principles and theories associated with the areas of conservation biology and studies of biological diversity.
  • CEh5 : Acquire the skills needed to prepare scientific texts on the basis of experimental and bibliographic data.
  • CEh6 : Know how to identify, analyse and catalogue biological diversity.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2010-11

Se pretende que los alumnos adquieran una visión general de los cambios experimentados por la taxonomía y sistemática biológicas desde sus orígenes, con Aristóteles y Linneo, hasta la situación actual derivada de las aportaciones de la biología molecular y el desarrollo de la informática. Así mismo, se abordará la aplicación práctica de los principales métodos y herramientas para la resolución de problemas de índole taxonómica y para la reconstrucción e interpretación de filogenias en distintos niveles taxonómicos.

Finalmente, se discutirán las aplicaciones de los análisis filogenéticos en estudios evolutivos, biogeográficos y de conservación biológica.

 

 

General

Code: 35402
Lecturer responsible:
MICO BALAGUER, ESTEFANIA
Credits ECTS: 4,00
Theoretical credits: 0,80
Practical credits: 0,80
Distance-base hours: 2,40

Departments involved

  • Dept: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES
    Area: BOTANICA
    Theoretical credits: 0,4
    Practical credits: 0,4
  • Dept: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES
    Area: ZOOLOGY
    Theoretical credits: 0,4
    Practical credits: 0,4
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

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