In Kiel we offer the
following elective disciplines in the Master’s degree programme:
- Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecology
- Biodiversity & Evolution
- Molecular Physiology & Developmental Biology
- Genetics & Microbiology
- Cell Biology
We suggest you choose the elective honours degree
if you wish to develop your individual priorities in a current area
of biology. At the outset of your studies, you gain a general insight into biology
by partaking in two core modules dealing with research contents and research
methods, then you choose all further biology modules from your favoured
elective discipline.
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In order to enhance your
job prospects, you also broaden your knowledge within an elective minor subject
according to your personal interests and affinities. In the Teaching and
Learning module you acquire the skills that will allow you to interpret and
assess scientific facts and to convey extensive contents.
For the elective honours
degree you require a total of 60 credit points. In all cases, you can choose
two of the five elective disciplines: A major elective discipline and a minor
elective one. In the modules from your major subject you have to achieve at
least 45 credit points, whereas for your minor elective you require 15 credit
points. Other combinations, such as 50 to 10 credit points in major and minor
electives or even 55 to 5 credit points, are also permitted.
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…and an interdisciplinary
Master’s Programmen two elective disciplines if you prefer a broader
education that opens your way for different areas of study. In this case, you can
focus on two of the above-named elective disciplines and select courses in
equal parts from the modules of your favoured elective disciplines.
In addition to your core
specialization in biology, you can choose a variety of optional modules from
subjects close to Biology, such as Medicine or Biochemistry. In order to
enhance your job prospects, you also broaden your knowledge within an elective
minor subject according to your personal interests and affinities. In the
Teaching and Learning module you acquire skills that will allow you to present
scientific facts and to illustrate complex ideas.
Just as is the case in the
elective Master’s, you also have to acquire a total of 60 credit points in the
interdisciplinary Master’s. Here, however, they are distributed in equal parts
according to your elective disciplines, this means that you are only allowed to
achieve a maximum of 40 credit points in one of your major subjects. However, a
distribution of 40 to 20 credit points is still possible, or even a 35 to 25,
30 to 30 credit points from both electives.
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