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The Department of Biology offers the following Northern Nature and Environment Studies for exchange students as well as the degree students of the Department. Students can take courses during the autumn semester or spring semester, and/or participate in the summer courses. The language of instruction in Northern Nature and Environment Studies is English or English and Finnish. The courses are integrated to the department’s regular courses.

Please note: participating in the field courses requires suitable equipments. In the winter, you need warm clothes (proper winter jacket and trousers, warm boots, warm underwear, pullovers...). Skies are provided by the Department. In the summer field courses warm clothes are also necessary as days with temperatures as low as +3 degrees celcius may very well occur. For the field courses in the summer, you also need to bring rubber boots; hiking boots will not endure the wet conditions during the course.

 

Courses
Autumn semester 2009. Course descriptions.

• Macro Fungi 752316A, 2 ects cr (1 US cr.)
• Thursday Seminar in Biology 750618S, 2 ects cr. (1 US cr.)
• Identification of Animals, vertebrates 751373A, 3,5 ects cr. (2 US cr.)
• Identification of Plant Species 752303A, 2-3.5 ects cr. (1-2 US cr.)
• Soil Biology 756633S, 2 ects cr. (1 US cr.)
• Lectures on Special Topics in Zoology: Species Diversity and Coexistence 761690S, 2-3 ects cr. (1-1,5 US cr.)
• Methods in Ecology I 750347A, 6 ects cr. (3 US cr.)
• Research Training 750613S, 2-15 ects cr. (1-10 US cr.)
• Kaamos Symposium 750629S, 2 ects cr. (1 US. cr.)
• Wildlife Management and Game Animal Ecology 751368A, 5 ects cr. (2,5 US cr.)
• Plant Ecology752300A, 7 ects cr. (4 US cr.)
• Conservation of Biodiversity 752321A, 3.0 ects cr. (2 US cr.)
• Optional Examinations in Biology, 2-5 ects cr. (1-3 US cr.)

 

Courses
Spring semester 2010 Course descriptions.
Preliminary information, subject to change!

• Thursday seminar in biology (750618S), 2 ects cr. (1 US cr.)
• Identification of Animals, invertebrates 751373A, 3,5 ects cr. (2 US cr.)
• Identification of Plant Species 752303A, 2-3,5 ects cr. (1-2 US cr.)
• Winter Ecology and Physiology 750325A, 3 ects cr. (2 US cr.) course and seminar + 2 ects cr. (1 US cr.) book exam
• Research Training 750613S, 2-15 ects cr. (1-10 US cr.)
• Functional Animal Ecology 751378A, 6 ects cr. (3 US cr.)
• Physiology of Forest Trees 756615S, 4 ects cr. (2 US cr.)
• Plant Symbiosis 756638S, 4 ects cr. (2 US cr.)
• Molecular Ecology 755615S, 5 ects cr. (2,5 US cr.)
• Optional Examinations in Biology, 2-5 ects cr. (1-3 US cr.)

 

Courses
Summer 2010. Course Descriptions.

• 752304A Field Course in Ecological Botany, 8 ects cr. (5 US cr.), 29.06.-12.07.
  Prerequisite: Participants need to take an identification examination of Plant Species from the herbarium samples with the help of a handout before the botany field course starts. The handout is posted to students after the department has accepted them to the field course.
• 751307A Field Course in Aquatic Animals 4 ects cr. (2,5 US cr.), 01.06.-04.06 lectures (preliminary timetable) 08.06.-14.06. field course
• 751306A Field Course in Terrestrial Animals 2-4,5 ects cr. (1-2,5 US cr.), 25.05.-28.05. and 03.08-12.08.

The botany and zoology field courses take place in Oulu and two other locations:

• on the Island of Hailuoto, just outside of Oulu and
• at the Oulanka Research Station, situated in the Oulanka National Park close to the Finnish-Russian border, about 20 km south of the Arctic Circle.

On the field courses in Hailuoto and Oulanka, students are accommodated in the field stations and they can take full advantage of the opportunity to explore the surrounding countryside. During the summer courses students will experience the long summer nights of Northern Finland, when the midnight sun never sets.

Please note that field course need to bring their own bed linnen (sheets). Rubber boots are needed in the field courses (the conditions are too wet for hiking boots). Warm clothes, especially in May-June, are also necessary as the temperature may be as low as +3 degrees celcius during the day.