Ecological and Evolutionary Biology
Bachelor's degree in full-time form. The language of instruction is Czech.
The programme can be studied only as a single subject.
Submission deadline until midnight 28 February 2025.
What will you learn?
The study programme Evolutionary and ecological biology provides theoretical knowledge and basic practical skills in the wider field of biology, with focus on botany, zoology and ecology. The primary objective is to prepare the student for his or her further studies in the subsequent Master's programmes of study and to enable him/her to make a qualified choice about further specialization, in particular in the subsequent Master's study programmes Botany, Zoology (former courses of study within the current Master's study programme Evolutionary and ecological biology) and Nature Conservation (a new Master's study programme under preparation). For this choice the student is already getting prepared within this Bachelor's study programme by selecting specialized courses or entire comprehensive blocks of those (since work on the Bachelor's thesis, including those seeking to provide outputs of use in the nature conservation context, usually requires the student to acquire more in-depth knowledge either in botany or zoology, the choice is primarily between these two fields). Work on the Bachelor's thesis, in particular, shall allow the student to adopt scientific methods including those of literature review, basic statistical analysis of obtained data and their interpretation. Stress is also put on the student's skill to present results in writing and giving a talk (techical but comprehensible language, visualization of results). The obtained knowledge, skills and experience should help those students, who do not continue with their studies after graduation, to find a qualified job.
“There is Strength in Diversity”
Practical training
This course of study does not include obligatory practical training. Students acquire practical skills during regular training, particulary within lab and field courses and during work on their Bachelor's theses.
Further information
http://www.sci.muni.cz/cz/BcMgrStudium/
http://botzool.sci.muni.cz/
Career opportunities
The graduates have basic theoretical knowledge and practical skills covering the field of biology in general and botany, zoology and ecology in particular. They know how to work with technical literature, have adopted the basic methodology of research, are able to conduct basic data analysis, and know how to report on research results and how to discuss them. Most graduates are expected to continue their studies within the directly connected Master's programmes of study. They can also find a job directly on the labour market, particularly, in the areas of nature conservation and environmental protection (local and national authorities and private bodies), research and development or education, provided they receive further training on the job (or get required knowledge and skills, exceeding those obtained during their study, by a more formalized process). However, it has to be considered that these will be less qualified jobs or that they will compete for these positions with graduates of the Master's study programmes.
Admission requirements
The Learning Potential Test (Czech only)
Criteria for evaluation
The Learning Potential Test results
Recommended literature
The knowledge required to pass the Learning Potential Test is not obtained by studying specific information sources. Examples of previous years' tests can be found on http://www.muni.cz/study/admission/tsp
Minimum score and numbers of accepted applicants in past years
Study options
Single-subject studies
Students have a pre-defined list of required courses, which are supplemented with selective and elective courses. The student pays full attention to the single field of study chosen.
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Full-time studies in czech
What will you learn?
Courses – curriculum examples
An example of your study plan:
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1. semester
- Basic genetics
- Basic genetics - practice
- Basics of ecology
- Cell Biology
- Cell Biology - practical course
- Handling chemical substances
- Introduction to study of ecological and evolutionary biology
- Invertebrate phylogeny and diversity
- Invertebrate phylogeny and diversity - practical course
- Phylogeny and diversity of algae and fungi
- Phylogeny and diversity of algae and fungi - practical course
- Floristic summer school of the Czech Botanical Society
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2. semester
- Basics of statistics for biologists I
- Field course of systematic botany
- Field practice in zoology
- Higher plant phylogeny and diversity
- Higher plant phylogeny and diversity - practical course
- Vertebrate phylogeny and diversity
- Vertebrate phylogeny and diversity - practical course
- Basic methods of field botany
- Field course of Czech flora
- Field course of geobotany
- Introduction to Field Invertebrate Zoology
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3. semester
- Nature Conservation
- Advanced data processing in Excel
- Animal physiology
- Animal physiology - practical course
- Arachnology
- Biochemistry
- Biochemistry - laboratory course
- Botanical excursion abroad
- Forest ecology
- Histology and organology
- Histology and organology - practical course
- Identification of terrestrial invertebrates - practice
- Laboratory and bioinformatic methods of plant biosystematics
- Mammalogy
- Mathematics for biologists
- Methods of mycological research
- Microscopic Methods for the Study of Plant Structure
- Mire ecology
- Mire ecology - practice
- Phycological excursion
- Plant cytology and anatomy
- Plant cytology and anatomy - practical course
- Plant morphology
- Practise in identification of Czech vertebrates
- Zoological microtechnique .
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4. semester
- Essential molecular biology
- Essential molecular biology - seminar
- Introduction to R
- Basic microbiology
- Basic microbiology - practice
- Entomology
- Ethology
- Field course in entomology
- General parasitology
- Hydrobiology (Limnobiology)
- Identification of aquatic invertebrates - practice
- Information sources in botany
- Information sources in zoology
- Limnological methods
- Methods of field phycology
- Pedobiology
- Plant physiology
- Plant physiology - practical course
- Plant population ecology
- Processing basic botanical data
- Special histology of animals
- System of angiosperms
- Wetland ecology
- Wetland ecology - practice
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5. semester
- Bachelor thesis of ecological and evolutionary biology I
- Basics of statistics for biologists II
- Evolutionary biology
- Scientific work in botany and zoology
- Advances in vertebrate research (seminar)
- Applied entomology
- Biogeography for Zoologists
- Biosystematic seminary I
- Botany seminar I
- Chiropterology
- Comparative morphology of vertebrates
- Evolutionary morphology of plants
- Geobotany seminar I
- Hydrobiological seminary
- Invertebrate seminary
- Methodology of molecular taxonomy and phylogeny of insects
- Mycological excursion
- Parasitological seminar
- Zoological seminar I
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6. semester
- Bachelor thesis of ecological and evolutionary biology II
- Bachelor’s state examination of systematic biology and ecology
- Advances in vertebrate research (seminar) II
- Biology of aquatic invertebrates
- Biosystematic seminary II
- Botany seminar II
- Bryological practice
- Electron microscopy
- Geobotany seminar II
- Geographical information systems in botany and zoology
- Human parasitology
- Hydrobiological seminary II
- Insect systematics and phylogeny
- Invertebrate seminary II
- Malacozoology
- Parasitological seminar II
- Plant taxonomy
- Zoological seminar II
Detailed information about study plan courses
Follow-up studies
Graduates of the Bachelor's study programme Ecological and Evolutionary Biology can continue (after satisfying the admission requirements) in one of the three directly connected Master's programmes of study: Botany, Zoology (hitherto fields of study within the current Master study programme) and Nature Conservation (in preparation). They can also continue in their studies of zoology, botany or ecology in similar Master's study programmes at another university either in Czechia or abroad.
Study information
Provided by | Faculty of Science | |
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Type of studies | Bachelor's | |
Mode | full-time | Yes |
combined | No | |
distance | No | |
Study options | single-subject studies | Yes |
single-subject studies with specialization | No | |
major/minor studies | No | |
Standard length of studies | 3 years | |
Language of instruction | Czech |
Do you have any questions?
Send us an e-mail
to
Mgr. Iveta Hodová, Ph.D.
Consultant
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