Examination arrangement

Course content

A project description describing the scope and focus area of the thesis project, should be prepared in collaboration with the supervisor.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

• Demonstrate thorough knowledge of the scholarly theories and methods of relevant methods and hypothesis testing, including experimental analysis (toxicological), statistical techniques and other tools used to analyse and solve environmental toxicological issues in research manufacturing, management and teaching.
• Demonstrate knowledge to history and traditions in the field, and can analyse academic problems on the basis of knowledge of international research in her/his speciality, knowledge of international research groups in the field, and the breadth of research being performed in the fields of "Environmental Toxicology" and Environmental Chemistry".
• Be able to apply knowledge to new areas within Environmental Toxicology and related topics in toxicology.

Skills:

• Independently work on practical and theoretical problems, analyse and deal critically with various sources of information, existing theories, methods and interpretations and use them to structure and formulate scholarly arguments within the area of environmental toxicology or related topics in toxicology.
• Use of a variety of advanced quantitative methods, methodology in the field and the application of these to independently analyse and solve (modelling) problems within environmental toxicology or related topic within toxicology-based science.
• Collect and analyse environmental samples or data, perform statistical analysis of data, interpret and present research results using adequate language and terminology.
• Combine methods and results from several scientific disciplines, especially environmental toxicology, environmental chemistry, statistics and modelling.
• Carry out an independent, research or development project under supervision and in accordance with applicable norms for research ethics.
• Make critical and independent assessments of methods and results.
• Handle chemical substances and biological material in accordance with Environment Health and Safety (EHS) and evaluate environmental consequences of their use.

General Competence:

• Apply knowledge and skills to analyse relevant academic and professional problems in Environmental Toxicology and related topics in toxicology.
• Describe, explain and evaluate role of environmental toxicology in society and be able to assess ethical issues within these fields.
• Continuously monitor new empirics in environmental toxicology or related topics in toxicology, evaluate reliability and assess if additional information needs to be retrieved, assessed and taken into use.
• Carry out and solve advanced tasks and projects, both independently and in teams, and to assess her/his own contribution to projects and how to continuously develop her/his professional competence.
• Follow global developments relevant to her/his own scientific field, not only with the discipline, but including societal changes and needs.
• Communicate subject matter and scientific results both to specialists and to a wider audience and be able to formulate scientific reasoning/argumentation.
• Contribute to new thinking and innovation processes in the field of environmental toxicology or related topics in toxicology.

Learning methods and activities

All students doing their master's thesis at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, should conclude an agreement regarding counselling. The master agreement, with attached project description and risk assessment, should be handed in by the 20th of January the first year of your Masters, unless otherwise agreed with the Department.

The standard contact period with the supervisor(s) is 50 hours, which is the standard for a masters thesis of 60 credits. Any contact between supervisor/s and student beyond this, depends on the supervisor(s) choice of supervision methodology. It is expected that the student works independently beyond the standard contact period.

Compulsory assignments

• Risk assessment

Further on evaluation

Before beginning with the master project work, the student must take part in the compulsory HSE training at the faculty (HMS0003).

It is mandatory for all to have conducted a risk assessment of the master thesis project prior to starting your thesis. The risk assessment is conducted with help from your supervisor and submitted in Blackboard

The student writes a comprehensive scientific report on her/his research activity and results thereof in English or in a Scandinavian language, delivered before the deadline given in the masters' degree agreement. Submission deadline is 15th of May 4th semester. After submission the thesis is presented orally and publicly, before an oral examination of the thesis. There is one aggregate grade for the masters' thesis, examination and presentation.

The student must participate actively in the RFEL3070 throughout the studies, including two presentations of the master project.

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

Passed HSE course: HMS0003

Admittance to the master program and an approved master agreement.