Course code: BIO-8008

Communicating Science Module 3 Visualizing your science

Se how you can apply

Apply between July 20 and August 9

Campus

Semester / Year Autumn 2012

Credits 1

NOTE! This course belongs to a previous semester/year

About the course

A multy disciplinary course for PhD-studentes, researchers, open for all.

We live in a visual world; therefore science communication should be visual too. This course will teach you to reflect upon - and train to use - different methods to visualize your science. The theme in fall will be cartography. The aim is to produce a map, and to know the process behind producing a map.

Admission requirements

Maximum 20 participants. (10 PhD students, 10 researchers)

Use this application form to register on the course and send it to Ingjerd Gauslaa Nilsen at BFE Faculty, University of Tromsø:

Admission PhD Courses

Objectives of the course

On the course you will learn:

How to communicate your analysis and results through a map
To reflect about the role of the research community in science communication, and to understand the power of visual communication
To produce a map
To use of soft-ware in visualizing your research (Illustrator)
To visualize research, and to adjust the message according to the intended audience

Teaching methods

This is an intensive 2-day course (20 hours of teaching), with theoretical lectures, practical exercises and group-work in small groups of 3-4 persons.

Before the course: Find and organize a data set you would like to visualize in form of a map. Optional, but recommended.

Language of instruction and examination

English.

Assessment

Deliver a map based on your own data set along with your reflections around the project and the learning process (1 page, Deadline 14.11.12., deliver to elina.halttunen@uit.no). Alternatively, produce a pen-and-pencil map on a data set provided by the lecturer on the evening of 7.11. 17:15-19:00. Pass/Not passed

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