After successful completion of the course, students are able to design and to pursue scientific work independently. They will be able to develop their own results and to bring it into perspective with the state of science. Moreover, they will be able to critically evaluate scientific papers (their own work as well as that of others) and they will be able to identify the relevant aspects of scientific work (foreign as well as their own) .

*) Review and evaluation of scientific literature

*) Developing research questions and project design

*) Methods to evaluate and describe scientific results

*) Analyzing relevant aspects and the novelty of scientific work

Analyzing scientific texts, evaluation of key contents

Reviewing texts and scientific articles

Developing graphical displays

Writing a sceintific article, responding to feedback received

Focus on conclusions and abstract

The candidate will work on different modes of scientific presentation - from oral presentation to a scientific article ready for peer-review. He/she will be confronted with (mock or real) reviewer feedback and demonstrate to be able to handle such feedback