UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
MINUTES- APPRO VED
Forum
Study Board for Human Biology
Meeting held:
September 9, 2014
Place:
23.1.10
9 SEPTEMBER 2014
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Minutes-taker: Karina Rømer
kariro@sund.ku.dk
Present:
Mette Marie Rosenkilde (MMR), Thorkil Ploug (TP), Morten SchakNielsen (MSN), Lotte Vogel (LV), Christina Friese (CF), Janus Houe Magnussen (JHM),
Cancellation: Claus Løland, Heidi Pihl, Melane de Almeida, Anna Lind
Hansen
Guests: Pia Baggesen, Asha Levann, Anniek Lubberding
Agenda:
1. Approval of Agenda
2. Approval of minutes from meeting May 20, 2014 (annex)
3. Follow up on latest meeting
a. Discussion of current syllabus and workload
b. The Language Strategy of UCPH, Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use
c. Study Progress Reform
d. Miscellaneous - permanent room for lectures
REF: KR
4. Approval of two new student representatives: Asha Levann and Anniek Lubberding. Melane de Almeida and Anna Lind Hansen have
left the Study Board.
5. Approval of Exam Schedule Summer 2015 (annex)
6. Approval of Teaching Syllabus F15 (annex)
7. Evaluation of courses during Spring 2014 (annex)
8. Approval of student applications for exemptions and elective courses
(annex)
a. Resume of student applications for exemptions 080514 020914
b. Application for pre-approval of Elective Course
c. Application to write Master’s Thesis in science communication
9. Miscellaneous
a. Open House Event PC Exams (Read more about dates and
times at http://pc-eksamen.ku.dk. The address for the open
house event is 36 Peter Bangs Vej, 2000 Frederiksberg)
Minutes
Mette Marie Rosenkilde (MMR) welcomed Pia Baggesen the new Student
and Career Counsellor at SUND. MMR also welcomed the two new student
representatives Asha Levann and Anniek Lubberding.
Ad 1) Approval of agenda
Thorkil Ploug (TP) added to item 9 Miscellaneous 1) Elective
course Translational Pharmacology, 2) Symposium for thesisstudents. The agenda was approved.
Ad 2) Approval of minutes
Approved
Ad 3) Follow-up on latest meeting
a) Discussion of current syllabus and workload: Lotte Vogel has
reduced the workload for the Molecular biology and Genetics
course by changing the projects to fit the time available
b) The Language Strategy of UCPH, Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use: Nothing to report
c) Study Progress Reform: MMR and TP have finished the report
requested by the Head of education Bitta Nielsen and Vice-dean
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Hans Henrik Saxild. The report covers the same items discussed at
the meeting in May.
d) Miscellaneous - permanent room for lectures: TP stated that it is
not realistic to book a room just for students from human biology
with the current construction of the tower and logistic problems.
Approval of new student representatives
Asha Levann and Anniek Lubberding both from team 25 were approved as new student representatives in the Study Board for the
remaining period October 2014- January 2015.
Approval of Exam Schedule Summer 2015
The students requested the following changes to the proposed
schedule: Exam in Human Pathophysiology moved to week 24
from week 23. Statistics and Data Analysis moved to weeks 25-26
from weeks 24-25.With these changes the exam schedule was approved.
Approval of Teaching Syllabus F15
Due to changes to exam dates some changes were made to the
teaching syllabus. These were approved.
Evaluation of courses during Spring 2014
TP presented some of the results from the evaluation of courses in
the spring term of 2014. Pharmacology and Toxicology had received a good rating.The evaluation of the course in Human Pathophysiology showed improvements since last evaluation (but the response rate was low) and TP stated that the course still needs further adjustments. Clinical Rotations had improved. Jens Benn
Sørensen is the new course manager and together with TP he will
put together a short compendium to prepare students for the clinical
rotations. Also, there has been made changes to the clinical departments which have improved the quality of the clinical rotation.
The course manager of Statistics and Data Analysis had improved
the course and created a good basic structure. The evaluation has
subsequently improved. The students have very different
knowledge in statistics from prior bachelor degrees and therefore
the perception of the level of the course is very individual. The
course manager has decided to change the current structure where
lectures are held in the morning and exercises in the afternoon. This
will be more varied during the upcoming course. Janus H. Magnussen (JHM) asked for an update on the results of the focus group
with students (team 24) regarding the course in Human Pathophysiology. TP has received a report based on the focus group and is
planning to implement some of the suggestions to improve the
structure and content of the course. The students noted that the exam in Laboratory Animal Science had copied questions from prior
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exams. TP replied that he will look further into the rules regarding
written exams and exam questions.
Approval of student applications for exemptions and elective
courses
There were no applications for exemptions for the Study Board to
process.
a) MMR presented briefly the processed student applications for
exemptions from May 8 to September 2, 2014. These had been processed by MMR and TP. The Study Board discussed that it is a
problem that most of the exemptions are concerned with problems
of finishing the thesis on time.
b) Application for pre-approval of Elective Course
The Study Board approved an application for pre-approval of elective courses:
• “Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation in Pharmaceutical Sciences” University of Copenhagen, Department of
Pharmacy, 7.5 ECTS.
c) Application to write Master’s Thesis in the field of Science
Communication
The Study Board decided that it was not opposed to a thesis in the
area of Science Communication as it will be related to Human Biology. However, the study board recommended that the student
should focus more on the methodology and contact potential supervisors as soon as possible.
Miscellaneous:
MMR informed that there will be an open house at Peter Bangs Vej
regarding the use of computers and programs for the written exams.
Elective course Translational Pharmacology: A week prior to the
meeting, the course manager Thue Schwartz informed TP that he
will not be able to conduct the elective course during the weeks 4344, fall 2014. TP is already working on finding a replacement
course. 23 students had registered for the course and in collaboration with the Administration TP will try to contact the students and
find an alternative solution to this acute problem.
Symposium for Master’s Thesis: A student had contacted TP suggesting organizing a symposium for the students working on their
thesis. Here they can present their work with poster-presentations
or/and competition for the best thesis etc.. TP suggested it could be
combined with Claus Lølands Thesis seminar. MMR pointed out,
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that it should be a student-driven project and separate from the thesis seminar. TP responded that we need to help them with building
the structure. MMR asked the students to think about this and suggested the study board could discuss it again on the next meeting.
Admission to the MSc: It is a problem that only approx. 33 out of
40 admitted students have started the programme this year. This
leaves around 7 vacant slots. TP mentioned that in total only 34
students accepted the offered slot. MMR stated that she would like
to receive a report regarding the admission procedure by AUS (department of Student Affairs). We need to evaluate on this.
Next meeting: December 2, 2014 15:00-17:00.
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