Seminar IV (MAT304) | GSÜ - ECTS Information Guide

Content

Objective

Find some interesting subject, opened to possibly further inquiries. Get a minimal autonomy to do researches, ask and answer simple questions, and present results in front of other people.

Course Content

Students must study a subject on their own, write a small mémoire at the end of semester and present it in a departmental conference with other students.

Teaching and Learning Methods

Personnal research on the web, in the library.

Weekly Contents

Theory Topics
Week	Weekly Contents
1	Presentation of some 15 possible subjects
2	Search for a subject
3	Validation of the subject
4	Personnal research, towards writing a mémoire
5	Personnal research, towards writing a mémoire
6	Personnal research, towards writing a mémoire
7	Personnal research, towards writing a mémoire
8	Personnal research, towards writing a mémoire
9	Personnal research, towards writing a mémoire
10	Personnal research, towards writing a mémoire
11	The Memoire is given to the professor
12	Preparation of the oral presentation
13	Preparation of the oral presentation
14	Conference : oral presentation

Assessment System

Contribution to Overall Grade
Activities	Number	Contribution
Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade	3	50
Contribution of final exam to overall grade	1	50
Total	4	100

In-Term Studies
Activities	Number	Contribution
Assignments	1	33
Presentation	1	34
Midterm Examinations (including preparation)	1	33
Project	0	0
Laboratory	0	0
Other Applications	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Term Paper/ Project	0	0
Portfolio Study	0	0
Reports	0	0
Learning Diary	0	0
Thesis/ Project	0	0
Seminar	0	0
Other	0	0
Total	3	100

Relation of Proficiency

No	Program Learning Outcomes	Contribution
No	Program Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	understands principles of deductive reasoning; has experience to verify well-foundedness and exactness of mathematical statements in systematic ways;
2	can properly state and use concepts and results of major mathematical interest;
3	masters current computational techniques and algorithms; has a good ability in their use; can identify relevant tools, among those one has learned, suitable to solve a problem and is able to judge whether or not one is in possession of these tools;
4	is able to express one’s mathematical ideas in an organised way both in written and oral forms;
5	understands relations connecting substantial concepts and results; can switch from one viewpoint to another on mathematical objects (pictures, formulae, precise statements, heuristic trials, list of examples,...);
6	has followed individually a guided learning strategy; has pursued steps toward the resolution of unfamiliar problems;
7	has a theoretical and practical knowledge in computer science well adapted for learning a programming language;
8	has investigated the relevance of modeling and using mathematical tools in natural sciences and in the professional life; is conscious about historical development of mathematical notions;
9	has followed introduction to some mathematical or non-mathematical disciplines after one’s proper choice; had experience to learn selected subjects according to one’s proper arrangement;
10	masters French language as well as other foreign languages, to a level sufficient to study or work abroad.

ECTS

Activities	Number	Period	Total Workload
Class Hours	14	2	28
Working Hours out of Class	14	3	42
Presentation	1	2	2
Final Examinations (including preparation)	1	3	3
Total Workload			75
Total Workload / 25			3.00
Credits ECTS			3