Education

What can you find on this webpage?

Our (future) students can find the official study programme and other useful info here.

You can find information about admission requirements, further studies and more practical info such as ECTS sheets, or a weekly timetable of the current academic year.

Are you a future student?

Be sure to first take a look at the page about the Master of Geology.

There you can find more info on:

- What’s the programme about?

- Starting profile

- Admission and application

- Future possibilities

- Why KU Leuven

- Contact

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Objectives

THE PROGRAMME MASTER OF GEOLOGY HAS THE FOLLOWING LEARNING OUTCOMES:

KNOWLEDGE AND INSIGHT
1.  Having thorough knowledge of and insight in the field of geology.
2.  Having advanced knowledge of at least one subdiscipline in the field of geology and insight in contemporary research within this subdiscipline.

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND INSIGHT
3.  Having the competences and the insight to take the following steps in one’s own scientific research within a research team:
a.  define a research topic, formulate a research question and adjust it during the research,
b.  constitute a suitable solution process and plan it,
c.  perform and implement a risk analysis about the planned experiments,
d.  perform a scientific study independently and accurately,
e.  process the acquired data
f.  …while taking into account the relevant deontological rules of conduct.

DEVELOPING AN OPINION
4.  Being able to, starting from a research question, consult the relevant discipline-related literature and assess its validity.
5.  Being able to, starting from a research question, process, interpret and comment independently the results of the own research as well as bibliographical study in a critical way.
6.  Being able to critically judge complex scientific, societal and ethical issues concerning the discipline and formulate scientifically motivated and ethically sound answers.

COMMUNICATION
7.  Possessing the necessary attitudes and skills to participate in team in a multidisciplinary and international professional environment.
8.  Being able to take a motivated position and defend it orally towards peers and experts as well as communicate in writing for a general audience.
9.  Being able to report, communicate and present written as well as orally, taking into account the relevant deontological rules of conduct.

LEARNING SKILLS AND EDUCATIONAL AIMS
10.  Being capable of acquiring knowledge, carrying out research and tackling scientific problems in an autonomous way, with attention to originality and creativity
11.  Possessing the skills to keep up-to-date with the recent international developments within the discipline and in science in general.
12.  Possessing advanced/broad knowledge and skills that are applicable in disciplinary research and the professional environment.

Educational quality of the study programme

Here you can find an overview of the results of the COBRA internal quality assurance method.

Educational quality at study programme level

Blueprint
Blauwdruk_MA_Geology.pdf

COBRA 2019-2023
COBRA-fiche_MA_Geology.pdf

COBRA 2015-2019
COBRA-report_MA_geology.pdf

Educational quality at university level

• Consult the documents on educational quality available at university level.

More information?

• More information on the educational quality at KU Leuven
• More information on the available documents