Programme of Communities and Ecosystems
The Master’s specialisation in Communities and Ecosystems consists of:
- 15 EC mandatory courses:
- 12 EC Thesis (2x 6 EC)
One thesis of 6 EC can be replaced by Field Course Alpine Ecology (NWI-BM040B) or Field Course Ireland (NWI-BM048B)
- 72 EC Research internships(2x 36 EC)
- 18 EC free space for optional courses or extension of internships (6 EC max.)
Choose at least 3 EC from the list below. Of the remaining 15 EC, 6 EC is free, the remaining 9 EC should be within the field of natural sciences.- NWI-BM010C Advanced Adaptation Physiology (3 EC)
- NWI-BM032C Advanced Endocrinology (3 EC)
- NWI-BM004C Apoptosis (3 EC)
- NWI-FNWI001 Beroepsorientatie (3 EC)
- NWI-BM040A Biodiversity and ecological assessment (3 EC)
- NWI-BM038A Ecological and environmental concepts (3 EC)
- NWI-BM002C Ecology and management of large rivers (3 EC)
- NWI-MM002A Environmental and ecological modelling (3 EC)
- NWI-MM020A Environmental life cycle assessment (3 EC)
- NWI-BM068 Environmental microbiology and biotechnology (3 EC)
- NWI-BM040B Field course Alpine ecology (wordt in 2017-2018 niet aangeboden) (6 EC)
- NWI-BM048B Field course Ireland (6 EC)
- NWI-BM067 Host-microbe interactions (3 EC)
- NWI-BM024D Laboratory Animal Science (3 EC)
- NWI-BM039A Management of ecosystems (3 EC)
- NWI-BM065 Microbial cell structure and function (3 EC)
- NWI-BM063 Microbial physiology and metabolism (3 EC)
- NWI-BM014D Microbiology of wetland ecosystems (3 EC)
- NWI-BM035B Molecular physiology of plant stress adaptation (3 EC)
- NWI-BM074 NIOZ Marine masters’s summer course (3,75 EC)
- NWI-BM041B Principles of Systems Biology (3 EC)
- NWI-FMT015B Projectmanagement (3 EC)
- NWI-BM060B Quantitative conservation biology (3 EC)
- NWI-MM013 Research skills (3 EC)
- NWI-MM014 Risk Management of Chemicals (3 EC)
- 3 EC Philosophy course