1. COURSE DECRIPTION – GENERAL INFORMATION
Tatjana Bakran-Petricioli,
1.1. Course teacher
Assistant Professor
1.2. Name of the course
Marine Biology (47312)
For seminars: Maja Novosel, Ph.
1.3. Associate teachers
D.
1.4. Study programme
integrated
(undergraduate, graduate,
integrated)
elective
1.5. Status of the course
1.6. Year and semester of study
1.7. Credit value (ECTS)
1.8. Type of instruction (number of
hours L+S+E+e-learning)
1.9. Expected enrolment in the
course
4 or 5
4
Weekly: 2 L + 2 S;
Total in semester: 30 L + 0 E + 30 S + 0 e-learning
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1.10. Level of use of e-learning
(1, 2, 3 level), percentage of
instruction in the course on
line (20% maximum)
2. COURSE DESCRIPTION
2.1. Course objectives
2.2. Enrolment requirements
and required entry
competences for the
course
2.3. Learning outcomes at the
level of the study
programme to which the
course contributes
2.4. Expected learning
outcomes at the level of
the course (4-10 learning
outcomes)
2.5. Course content broken
down in detail by weekly
class schedule (syllabus)
Introducing main characteristics of life and processes in the sea to the students, as well as their global importance, threats and need for
its protection. After successfully passing the exam students will be able to use the acquired knowledge to understand biological processes
which take place in the sea.
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- Recognition of the global importance of the life in the sea
- Explanation of the connection between processes which take place in marine organisms and the marine environment
- Valuation the need and usefulness of intra- and interdisciplinary collaboration in modern biology
- Development of active learning and critical thinking
After successfully passing the exam students will be able to:
- List main groups of marine organism and habitats
- Recognise main characteristics of life in the sea
- Recognise connection between processes which take place in marine organisms and between them and the particularities of
marine environment
- Define endangerment of the life in the sea and justify need for its protection
- Explain the need for intra- and interdisciplinary collaboration in sea research
Lectures:
1. Properties of the sea water. Geomorphology of the ocean
2. Movements of water masses. Global distribution of marine species and habitats. Methods of marine research
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3. Peculiarities of marine life and processes in the sea
4. Ecological and evolutionary principles
5. Adaptation of organisms to life in the sea
6. Reproduction, distribution and migration
7. Plankton communities
8. Benthic communities
9. Productivity and food webs, matter cycling and energy flow
10. Life in the deep sea
11. Comparison between terrestrial and marine ecosystems
12. Biodiversity in the sea and its importance
13. Human impact on the sea and exploitation of marine bio-resources. Possibility for sustainable development of human activities
connected to the sea
14. Peculiarities of the living world of the Adriatic Sea
15. Protection and preservation of the Adriatic Sea
Seminars are thematically connected to the lectures within the same week. Literature for the seminars is consisted of recent review and
expert papers.
2.6. Type of instruction
2.8. Student responsibilities
2.9. Screening of student’s
work (specify the
proportion of ECTS credits
for each activity so that
the total number of CTS
credits is equal to the
credit value of the
course)):
2.1. Grading and evaluation of
student work over the
x lectures
2.7. Comments:
independent study
x seminars and workshops
x multimedia and the internet
exercises
laboratory
online in entirety
work with the mentor
mixed e-learning
(other)
field work
Regular attendance of lectures and seminars, active participation in lectures and seminars, writing homework and seminar papers, oral
presentation of seminar work in front of the colleagues
Class attendance
1
Research
Practical training
Experimental work
Report
(Other--describe)
Essay
Seminar essay
1
Tests
1
Oral exam
1
(Other—describe)
Written exam
Project
(Other—describe)
Activity during course of instruction and writing homework (20 %), seminar papers and their oral presentation (30 %), short written tests
during course (20 %), final oral exam (30 %)
2
course of instruction and
at a final exam
Title
2.2. Required literature
(available at the library
and via other media)
Number of
copies at
the library
Availability via other media
10
In digital form
In digital form
http://www.dzzp.hr/publikacije/prirucnici/bioloskaraznolikost-hrvatske-prirucnici-za-inventarizacijui-pracenje-stanja-536.html
Internal script
Lecture presentations
Bakran-Petricioli, T. (2007): Marine habitats – Manual for inventorying
and monitoring (series Biological diversity of Croatia; ISBN 978-9537169-31-2). State Institute for Nature Protection, Zagreb, 56 pp. +
Appendix 102 pp. (in Croatian)
Bakran-Petricioli, T. (2011): Manual for marine habitats determination
in Croatia according to Habitat Directive of EU (ISBN 978-953-716984-8). State Institute for Nature Protection, Zagreb, 184 pp. (in
Croatian)
Selected review and expert papers (especially for seminars)
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In digital form
Selected parts of following textbooks:
2.12. Optional literature (at
the time of the
submission of the study
programme proposal)
2.13. Methods of monitoring
quality that ensure
acquisition of exit
competences
Castro, P & Huber, ME (2005) Marine Biology, McGraw Hill, New York, SAD
Levinton, JS (2001) Marine Biology (Function, Diversity, Ecology), Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Nybakken, JW & Bertness, MD (2005) Marine Biology: An Ecological Approach, Pearson-Benjamin Cummings Press, San Francisco, USA
Through internal anonymous evaluation of the course and the lecturer in framework of the course, as well as the official anonymous
evaluation performed by the University/Faculty/Department
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