Natural Resource Sciences: Final Seminar
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Time:听Thursdays, 10:00-11:30am
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Location:听TBA
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Instructor:听elena.bennett [at] mcgill.ca (Dr. Elena Bennett), MS2-062
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Course numbers:
MSc (NRSC 651)
PhD (NRSC 754)
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Course Description:
Graduate students in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences are required to give one Departmental Seminar towards the end of their program and will sign up to do so by registering for this 1-credit course. This will be organized as a "research symposium" at the end of each semester. This seminar is for students to present the main findings from their research, with an emphasis on the following:
- The context of the research
- Main objectives
- The research methods
- The results
- A discussion of the implications of results as related to the larger research context.
It is important to recognize that the audience for this symposium will come from many different disciplines, so the seminar must be presented in a way that balances the discipline-specific findings with the more general, and broad message.
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Fall 2015 Course Schedule:
| Date | Location | Topic |
| October 1 | Faculty Lounge MS2-022 | All NRS Welcome |
| October 28 | TBA | Instructions on how to succeed in this class |
| November 19 听 听 | TBA | Practice presentations and feedback |
| TBA | TBA | Final Seminar presentation day |
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Expectations and evaluation
- Students will attend scheduled seminars as directed by the Seminar Coordinator.
- Students will attend the 鈥淔inal NRS Symposium鈥� at the end of each semester and give a presentation about their research.
- The grade for the course will be based on the average mark given by professors evaluating the talks.听
All members of the Department, including both professors and students, regardless of their registration in the seminar course, are expected to attend the final research symposium.
Note: MSc students will receive a letter grade whereas PhD students will be graded on a pass/fail basis