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Group Project

Course
2022-2023

Admission Requirements

This course is available only for students in the minor Sustainable Chemistry and Biotechnology

Description

The students will address a sustainability problem of choice in small groups. They will define the topic themselves, find literature to give a qualitative and quantitative description of the problem and critically discuss one or more possible solutions. The group project runs over the full length of the minor and also trains the students on transferable skills such as teamwork, leadership, critical thinking and oral and written communication. The assessment is based on presentations, reports and discussions with the other student groups

Course Objectives

At the end of the course students:

  • can evaluate a potential sustainable solution to a chemistry and/or biotechnology problem

  • demonstrate a capacity to collaborate in interdisciplinary and contribute to a shared goal

  • demonstrate a capacity to lead and manage change through collaboration with others

  • can report and reflect on research findings in written and verbal forms

  • understand the process of designing a research project from its inception to the final product

Timetable

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 sucessfully 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 the 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

Group work with instructions and soft skills with the instruction from E-learning skills platformN.A

Assessment Method

The final grade for the course is established by determining the weighted average. There is no opportunity to re-take the exam.

1) Group presentation (individual grade 30%)
2) Report (30%) (including the minutes of the group meetings (handed in per period), from which it should be clear how the group dealt with feedback, (missing) milestones, setbacks, etc)
3) Peer feedback (20%)
4) Self-assessment (20%) (Questionnaires/assessment forms filled in by individual student related to his/her function in the progress of the group handed in per period

Reading List

N.A.

Registration

From the academic year 2022-2023 on every student has to register for courses with the new enrollment tool MyStudyMap. There are two registration periods per year: registration for the fall semester opens in July and registration for the spring semester opens in December. Please see this page for more information. Exemptions are minor students and fall semester for 1st year bachelor students: the student administration will enroll these groups for courses.

Please note that it is compulsory to both preregister and confirm your participation for every exam and retake. Not being registered for a course means that you are not allowed to participate in the final exam of the course. Confirming your exam participation is possible until ten days before the exam.

Extensive FAQ's on MyStudymap can be found here.

Contact

Dennis Hetterscheid Yuemei Lin

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