Admission Requirements
Approval from the study advisor to be admitted to a BSc project.
Description
This course will prepare you and support you in carrying out your Bachelor Research Project, which is the final part of your degree. A series of crash-courses and short sessions (run by local experts) will touch upon the core skills that are necessary for you to finish your research project successfully.
Additionally, this course offers the opportunity to share your research experiences with your fellow students. This can help you to tackle problems encountered during your project and it provides a broad overview of the research performed within the institute.
The RSSI courses are mainly scheduled in the spring semester, when also the BRP starts. It starts with two weeks of crash courses preceding your bachelor project and regular meetings for the duration of your project. The sessions will cover:
Labskills & Safety
Project Management
Research Skills
Communication Skills
Personal & Professional Development
Scientific Integrity
Ethics
In the Scientific Integrity & Ethics part of the RSSI course we address two aspects of your participation in the scientific community, which are the code of scientific conduct, and that of your responsibility towards society in general.
In order to pass you need to complete the Safety Drill attend all compulsory sessions, turn in assignments, and give the required presentations. There is a consiberable choice of modules to create your own path and serving your needs.
The regulations for double students are largely similar and there where differences exists, these will be communicated during the BRP kick-off meetings in the fall semester.
Course objectives
The goals of this course are threefold. The first goal is to let you acquire the soft skills as listed below. The second goal is to help you with difficulties that can occur during your bachelor project. The third goal is to give you an overview of the research being done in the institute.
Transferable Skills
After this course you will be able to:
Work safely and independently in a scientific research environment
Identify and relate with the key support departments of a lab
Manage a ~20 week research project
Perform a structured search for scientific literature
Efficiently obtain from scientific literature what you need for your research
Manage research data and write a data management plan
Analyze experimental errors
Write in proper academic English
Present your research to a specialized audience
Identify when you or your colleagues do not handle research according the code of scientific conduct
Identify when you or your colleagues do not handle responsible towards society in general
Timetable
For detailed information go to Timetable in Brightspace
You will find the timetables for all courses and degree programmes of Leiden University in the tool MyTimetable (login). Any teaching activities that you have successfully registered for in MyStudyMap will automatically be displayed in MyTimeTable. Any timetables that you add manually, will be saved and automatically displayed the next time you sign in.
MyTimetable allows you to integrate your timetable with your calendar apps such as Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and other calendar apps on your smartphone. Any timetable changes will be automatically synced with your calendar. If you wish, you can also receive an email notification of the change. You can turn notifications on in ‘Settings’ (after login).
For more information, watch the video or go to the 'help-page' in MyTimetable. Please note: Joint Degree students Leiden/Delft have to merge their two different timetables into one. This video explains how to do this.
Mode of instruction
See Brightspace
Assessment method
The course is Pass/Fail.
To pass, you need to:
Attend all sessions in the first week of February (full week)
Attend all subsequent sessions
Turn in all assignments
Within the semester you need to acquire 24 SP (skills points) for the Physics program (3EC), and 18 SP for the Astronomy program (2EC).
Reading list
None
Registration
As a student, you are responsible for registering on time, i.e. 14 days before the start of the course. This can be done via Mystudymap. You do this twice a year: once for the courses you want to take in semester 1 and once for the courses you want to take in semester 2. Please note: late registration is not possible.
Registration for courses in the first semester is possible from July; registration for courses in the second semester is possible from December. For more information, see this page
In addition, it is mandatory for all students to register for exams. This can be done up to and including 10 calendar days prior to the exam or up to five calendar days in case of a retake exam. You cannot participate in the exam or retake without a valid registration in My Studymap.
Contact
Dr.ir. P.S.W.M. Logman Dr. M.P. van Daalen Prof.dr.Thomas Schmidt
Remarks
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