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Cursus: SK-MACCO
SK-MACCO
Academic Context
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeSK-MACCO
Studiepunten (EC)6,5
Cursusdoelen
After completion of the course, the student has:
  • improved his/her writing skills by writing a literature essay chosen in collaboration with and under the supervision of a Debye research group member
  • presented his/her essay or graduate work during a poster symposium to an audience of peers
  • learned to reflect on ethical dilemma’s related to the profession of a researcher and to act accordingly
  • gained insight into the work and attitudes of academic researchers by actively participating at the Debye lunches, Debye colloquia, the Debye Professor Lectures
  • gained insight into the demands of the labour market outside the Academia
Inhoud
The Academic Context course is a two-year course and contains the following parts:.
 
A. Introduction to the nanomaterials science programme (A. Van Keer)
B. Module Integrity in Chemistry (A.P. Philipse): 1.5 EC
C. Writing a review or an essay paper (E. Vogt): 5 EC
D. Participation (a minimum of one event) at the annual programme Career Event: 0 EC
E. Participation at the Debye lunches, Colloquia, Debye Professor Lectures:0 EC

This Academic Context course elaborates further on the Bachelor’s academic context course to improve academic skills and attitudes at master’s level.  The course also serves to strengthen the community of students starting together either in September or in February.
 
A: The course starts with an introduction to this programme. What is the programme like,  how could you design your own study programme, what kind of requirements do exist upon choosing your research project? And will you be doing an internship or replacing this option by either a 30 EC profile in education, in complex systems or in big data science offered by the Graduate School or will you be taken an honours programme within this programme or university broad, or combine this programme with a degree programme in physics leading to two diplomas? Several options are available and will be discussed during this introduction. Students coming from abroad will get a guided tour along the Debye research labs and course rooms. 

B: Performing research is more than just doing experiments. The art of research is also to handle ethically with own obtained results and to act when specific dilemmas are at stake. Albert Philipse will provide you with specific examples in the field of chemistry. This module will be concluded with a written assignment in block 4. 
 
C: Writing a scientific essay or writing a review and knowing how to look for the appropriate literature papers is another important academic skill. In this module the students will be trained in writing one of the above mentioned products. The student will receive a training with instructions and is free to choose a topic of his/her own interest. The student will be supervised by a member of a research group. This module will be concluded with a poster presentation of the review or of the graduate research and assessed by a panel of Debye researchers at the end of their first year.
 
D: Chemistry students will also get a specific career event with invited speakers who work with chemistry graduates.  This event will be concluded with drinks to stimulate students to talk further with the speakers.
 
E: Attending Debye research activities are meant to enlarge a student’s view on hot topics in the field of nanoscience. Staff and PhD’s will present their work followed by interactive discussion sessions.  Every year, the Debye Institute invites a well-known researcher, for a couple of months to teach and perform research. Students will be actively stimulated to follow a lecture series by the Debye professor and to active participate at the Debye lunches and symposia. 
 
Contact hours: 40 hours spread over a whole year

Registration: This two-year course is mandatory for all Nanomaterials Science master students. Registration starts in the first year of your study automatically via your application for the Master’s programme Nanomaterials Science. In case you are a student from another programme and wish to register for this course, please contact the course coordinator by email before the registration deadline. He will instruct all students by direct email during the first year of the course and keep track of your preliminary grades. You will, however, not be able to see the SK-MACCO course information in Blackboard or MyTimetable or MyUU app.
In the second year of the course SK-MACCO you need to register in time in the standard way. You will then be able to use the standard tools Blackboard, MyTimetable and MyUU app as is applicable to all other (one-year) courses.

The two-year course SK-MACCO per year
 
Part EC Lecturer Description Year Date, location (Applicable in 2018/2019 only)
A 0 A. van Keer Introduction to the nanomaterials science programme 1 Introduction to the master Nanomaterials Science, only for students from cohort 18/19 at (place and time yet to be defined) and for the February intake: (place and time yet to be defined)
B 1.5 A.P. Philipse Module Integrity in Chemistry 2 Students from cohort 17/18 only Location and timing to be decided
C 5 E. Vogt Writing a review or an essay paper 1 Students from cohort 18/19 only at (place and time yet to be defined)
Poster presentation 1 and 2 Students from cohort 17/18 mandatory as poster presenters. Staff members will grade the posters.
Students from cohort 18/19 optional. Peers may select the “Publieksprijs” for the best poster.
Location: To be decided, December 2018 afternoon session. Drinks afterwards
D 0, participation compulsory n/a Participation (a minimum of one event) at the annual programme Career Event 1 and 2 Proton Career day: February 2019, afternoon lectures/workshops, followed by drinks (netwerkborrel)
E 0, participation compulsory n/a Participation at the Debye lunches, Colloquia, Debye Professor Lectures 1 and 2 Students from cohort 18/19: (place and time yet to be defined) Presentation of the research topics by the individual research groups.
Further: Announced internally in the Debye Newsletters and separate e-mail reminders
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