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Summer semester 2024

General remarks

General lecture period summer semester 2024: 15.04.2024 to 12.07.2024 (with winter semester 2023/2024, 2nd exam period: 02.04. - 13.04.2024 (link CAU) - In accordance with the CAU's examination procedure regulations, there are no courses in bachelor's and master's degree programs during the examination periods (few exceptions for first semester students)).

More information at M. Sc. Biological Oceanography - information for students on OLAT.

Exam dates summer semester 2024: here (OLAT)

There is no general registration for courses - only for the exams at the end of the semester during registration phases (s.b.).

Notes on how to use the online tool can be found here:

If you have questions about the examination administration procedures in general (registration periods, examination periods, etc.) you may find answers in the Examination procedures section. If you are still unclear about anything you can contact the relevant Examination Office at any time.

Complete examination schedule SS 2024 (link to CAU).

Examinations:

Typical examination procedure:     

  1. Examination registration: You register for the examinations that you would like to take in the next examination period or that are assigned to the next examination period (s.b. Examination Organisation Online (CAU)). In case of registration problems contact the Examination Office Biology.

    During the registration period for the 1st examination period please register for all the written or oral examinations you would like to take in the 1st examination period (or around and assigned to the 1st examination period), but also for the examinations that you have already taken or started (e.g. seminar papers) during the lecture period (including before the registration period), as well as for examinations (e.g. assignments) that are to be taken during the lecture-free period.

    Note: For examinations taken before the registration period, examination attendance is considered as binding registration. You must also register for these examinations during the registration period, however, so that your academic achievements can be recorded in the system at a later stage.

  2. Checking admission: Two days before the start of the examination period, you check whether you have been granted admission to the examinations you have registered for.
  3. Examination attendance: You take the examinations during the examination period.
  4. Checking results: You check the results entered by the examiners.

Examination Organisation Online (CAU)

Access to the online tool in the CAU-Portal: http://www.uni-kiel.de/hisinone

The online tool has the following functions:

  • Registering for examinations / Cancelling registrations
  • Information on registered examinations (checking admissions. Information on examination dates, times and rooms)
  • Information on examination results
     

Notes on how to use the online tool can be found here:

You need your stu-ID to use the Studierenden-Online-Funktion online tool. Detailed information on the stu-ID and stu-e-mail address can be found at the Computing Centre StudiNet.

If you have questions about the examination administration procedures in general (registration periods, examination periods, etc.) you may find answers in the Examination procedures section. If you are still unclear about anything you can contact the Examination Office Biology at any time.

Registration period first exam phase summer semester: 03.06.2024 - 30.06.2024

First exam period summer semester: 15.07.2024 - 27.07.2024

Registration period second exam period summer semester: 26.08.2024 - 22.09.2024

Second exam period winter semester: 07.10.2024 - 19.10.2024 

Complete schedule see CAU website and here (link to CAU).

Keep in mind - it's your responsibility not to miss any fixed dates and/or deadlines.

Practical courses, practical exercises and some seminars have compulsory attendance (FPO).

Make sure that you sign the attendance list every course day!

Framework of courses:

  1. All of the five first semester modules are compulsory.
  2. Passed core modules of the first semester (MNF-bioc-101 and MNF-bioc-102) are important for the understanding for the advanced modules of the second semester in summer (e.g. MNF-bioc-201 and MNF-bioc-202).
  3. Passed exams of ALL compulsory modules of first and second semester are the  indispensable prerequisite for the exam of the core module of third semester in winter (MNF-bioc-301).
  4. A short presentation of your planned master's thesis ("proposal day") and a passed exam at the end of MNF-bioc-301 is the prerequisite to register your thesis (MNF-bioc-401) at the examination office.

For details concerning exams, prerequisites etc. look at the exam regulations in Biological Oceanography (p. 10-13).

Forms concerning exam withdrawal for good cause, medical certificate etc. (forms).

General regulations concerning examinations can be found here.

Considerations concerning using first or second exam phase (CAU).

Exams are generally scheduled only for the semester where the modules are taught.

  • There are no exams for winter semester modules MNF-bioc-1xx and MNF-bioc-3xx in summer semester.
  • There are no exams for summer semester modules MNF-bioc-2xx in winter semester.

Examination Schedule (lecturers and students tasks (link to CAU)

 

Timetables and course lists

General: Courses (lectures, seminars, practicals etc.) summer semester 2024

MSc. Biological Oceanography - second semester - lecture plan summer semester 2024 (click on "Stundenplan" for a complete time table).  All seven different possible practical parts in three blocks of MNF-bioc-202 are shown which looks heavily loaded - but you have to choose only two resp. three non overlapping parts.

Details: More detailed information concerning single courses and modules can be found on OLAT in general, resp. M. Sc. Biological Oceanography - information for students or via our module list, with links to the resp. module information on OLAT.

As you can take many optional modules outside of our curriculum (CAU-wide choices) these are not included in the example lists and timetables.

Block courses in summer 2024: 

  • MNF-bioc-264 (S. Garthe, Büsum): September/October 2024
  • MNF-bioc-271 (B. Schneider, Kiel): 21.05.2024 - 24.05.2024
  • MNF-bioc-280 (K. Heubel, FTZ): 26.08.2024 - 06.09.2024 at FTZ Büsum.
  • MNF-bioc-301 (F. Mittermayer, ALKOR cruise MNF-bioc-301): 18.08.2024 - 30.08.2024
  • MNF-bioc-368 (F. Weinberger, Aaland-Island (Finland) - Marine station Husö): 07.09.2024 - 22.09.2024

  • For optional modules within Biological Oceanography look at the module list.
  • Generally: for imported courses (e.g. Introduction to Physical Oceanography) and and courses outside of M. Sc. Biological Oceanography please always contact the person in charge of the module you are attending and the corresponding exam office.
  • For a selection of courses outside of our curriculum look here (optional courses outside of Biological Oceanography).

Summer semester 2024

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Semester: SS 2024 

MA Seminar in Climate and Energy Policy ST 2023- Topic: : Climate policy in times of fossil energy crisis (VWLerCEPSem-02a) - IfW (030161) (030161)

Dozentinnen/Dozenten
Prof. Dr. Sonja Peterson, Prof. Dr. Wilfried Rickels

Angaben
Seminar, 2 SWS, Schein, ECTS-Studium
Praesenzveranstaltung, Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Blockveranstaltung 14.6.2024 9:00 - 15.6.2024 16:00, Raum n.V.
Vorbesprechung: 12.2.2024, 10:00 - 11:00 Uhr, Raum Online-Veranstaltung
Bemerkung zu Zeit und Ort: at the IfW (Kiellinie 66) conference room (A-S25). Individual presentations will be scheduled such that potentially parallel courses on these days can be attended.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
Module Code: VWLerCEPSem-02a
Module Number: 3049502
Exam Number: 3049510
Exam type according to FPO: Seminar contribution (Seminarbeitrag)
Specific exam type in summer term 2024:

The number of ECTS Credits as well as the admission to the examination for this module is determined by the information regarding this module in the FPO (Examination Regulations) of your program (possibly only in the Appendix of the German version). If this module is not explicitly listed in your FPO, please check at the beginning of the semester about admission options. Typically, admission to the examination of this module is not possible in this case. An overview for all programs which can choose modules of the Institute of Economics can also be found here: Nebenfach Volkswirtschaftslehre – Handbuch für Exportmodule (Minor in Economics - Handbook of Export Modules). You can also check in advance in QIS whether you can find this module listed there in the overview for exam registration, with the exam number mentioned in univis. Registration to the exam is only possible during the registration period. If you still have questions after reviewing these documents, please contact your student advisor (Studienfachberater).

The registration for seminars of the Institute of Economics takes place in the previous semester via the Olat course "Seminar Registration MA-VWL" . Before the start of the seminar you either take part in the Seminar Preparation Course (4 hours, offered by the ZBW) or in the Module "Research and Scientific Writing" (VWLswScWr-02a). This prepares you for scientific work in economics and is therefore a prerequisite for a successful participation in the seminar.

Inhalt
Organizer: Prof. Dr. Wilfried Rickels (Kiel University, wilfried.rickels@ifw-kiel.de) and Prof. Dr. Sonja Peterson Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), sonja.peterson@ifw-kiel.de

Content: Currently, the fossil energy-crisis following the Russian attack on Ukraine is dominating the debates related to energy markets. Yet, the urgency to decarbonize somewhere around the middle of the century has not reduced and the targets of the Paris climate agreement remain as important as before. The question still is, which policy instruments should be chosen to achieve these targets effectively, if possible at minimal costs and keeping also distributional issues and the social consequences of these policies in mind. Economists typically agree that carbon pricing should play a central role but needs to be accompanied by additional supportive policies e.g. to foster technological development. With the fossil energy crisis new topics related to the design of energy markets, social justice and role of specific technologies come more relevant as well. The seminar aims at discussing different specific topics in this context. Two students are assigned to each topic, each student writes an individual term paper, both students present jointly.

Preparatory Meeting: 12.2.2024 10:00 – 11:00. Zoom

Date and location of seminar: June Friday 14 - Saturday 15, 2024, 9:00 - 16:00 at the IfW (Kiellinie 66, 24105 Kiel; the exact schedule will be determined depending on the final number of attendees)

Procedure, Deadlines, and Grading
  • Two meetings with supervisor prior to the seminar (one prior to May 13th, one after feedback on preliminary version of paper)
  • Preliminary version of the paper: May 28th, 2024
  • Final Paper that will be graded: July 9th, 2024
  • Joint presentation of topic during seminar, 25 Minutes
  • Grading: term paper 70% and presentation 30%
  • To pass the seminar, the preliminary paper needs to be a full seminar paper that has sufficient quality to path the seminar (so the pre-grade needs to be at least 4.0). Only the grade for the final paper will count for the overall grade of the seminar but it can be at most 1.7 grades better than the preliminary grade (so e.g. a 4.0 can turn at maximum into a 2.3).

Please send digital PDF Versions of the different papers by Email to sonja.peterson[at]ifw-kiel.de.

Term Paper: Each student needs to write a paper of maximum 6000 words (excluding abstract, figure and table captions, references, appendix). The style is supposed to follow a scientific paper, i.e. title page with an abstract, introduction, etc. The paper should be in Arial, 11pt, 1.5 space and a margin of 2.5 cm on each side. The paper needs to be in English. Further details will be announced later as part of more detailed topic descriptions.
Make sure that it follows code of scientific practice (Richtlinien guter wiss. Praxis) in terms of citations etc. Please base your paper as far as possible on theoretic and empirical economic analysis (preferably published in refereed articles or standard text books). Working paper can be used as well, reports from NGOs etc. should be treated with more care. Newspaper articles, Wikipedia etc. are not scientific sources! If at all they can be used e.g. to motivate a question. Make sure you correctly cite all literature that you use! Plagiating is not tolerated and there will be serious consequences. Before the seminar you should have two meetings with topic supervisor (either in person or via zoom. During these meeting you should discuss the outline of your paper. Please make an appointment for this via Email.
Before the seminar you need to submit a first version of the paper. For this you will get suggestions for your presentations and a preliminary grade. After the seminar you have about one month to improve the paper and submit a final version.

Presentations: There is one presentation per topic, given by two students. The presentation should last about 25 minutes which does not need to be split equally between students but both should provide a fair share. In case a topic is presented by only one student, the presentation time reduces to 15 minutes. The slides for the presentation are supposed to be brought to the seminar as pdf or pptx-file.
Topics:
1) The economic impact of rising temperatures: Empirical evidence (Perspective topic)
2) Directed Technical Change as a Response to Natural Resource Scarcity (Deep-Dive)
3) Recent estimates for the social cost of carbon (Deep-Dive)
4) Analytical Integrated Assessment Models (Deep-Dive)
5) Climate Clubs to deal with non-cooperative climate policies (Perspective)
6) Carbon Border Adjustments to deal with non-cooperative climate policies
7) Achieving low carbon technology Leadership via large-scale government funding (Perspective)
8) Climate policy instruments to develop low-carbon innovations (Deep-Dive)
9) Network financing and vertical equity: Incentivizing solar panel adoptions (Deep-Dive)
10) Dynamic electricity pricing to internalize pollution cost (Deep-Dive)
11) Promoting electricity in the household heating sector (Deep-Dive)
12) Public acceptance of carbon pricing (Deep-Dive)

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Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 24


Seminar in Economics of Geoengineering (VWLerEcGeoSem-02a) (030105)

Dozent/in
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Rickels

Angaben
Seminar
Praesenzveranstaltung, für ERASMUS-/Austauschstudierende geeignet, Unterrichtssprache Englisch, Die LP für dieses Seminar ergeben sich aus den Angaben der für Sie gültigen FPO. Die Zulassung zur Prüfung in diesem Seminar ergibt sich aus den Angaben der für Sie gültigen FPO. Ist dieses Seminar gem. Ihrer FPO nicht explizit wählbar, informieren Sie sich bitte zu Beginn des Semesters über Zulassungsoptionen.
Zeit und Ort: Blockveranstaltung 26.4.2024-27.4.2024, Raum n.V.
Vorbesprechung: 12.2.2024, 10:00 - 11:00 Uhr, Raum Online-Veranstaltung

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
Module Code: VWLerEcGeoSem-02a
Module Number: 3049701
Exam Number: 3049710
Exam type according to FPO: Seminar contribution (Seminarbeitrag)
Specific exam type in summer term 2024

The number of ECTS Credits as well as the admission to the examination for this module is determined by the information regarding this module in the FPO (Examination Regulations) of your program (possibly only in the Appendix of the German version). If this module is not explicitly listed in your FPO, please check at the beginning of the semester about admission options. Typically, admission to the examination of this module is not possible in this case. An overview for all programs which can choose modules of the Institute of Economics can also be found here: Nebenfach Volkswirtschaftslehre – Handbuch für Exportmodule (Minor in Economics - Handbook of Export Modules). You can also check in advance in QIS whether you can find this module listed there in the overview for exam registration, with the exam number mentioned in univis. Registration to the exam is only possible during the registration period. If you still have questions after reviewing these documents, please contact your student advisor (Studienfachberater).

The registration for seminars of the Institute of Economics takes place in the previous semester via the Olat course "Seminar Registration MA-VWL" . Before the start of the seminar you either take part in the Seminar Preparation Course (4 hours, offered by the ZBW) or in the Module "Research and Scientific Writing" (VWLswScWr-02a). This prepares you for scientific work in economics and is therefore a prerequisite for a successful participation in the seminar.

Preparatory Meeting: 12.02.2024 10:00 – 11:00 (Zoom)
Date and location of seminar: April 26- April 27, 2024, 09:00 - 16:00 at the IfW (Kiellinie 66, 24105 Kiel; the exact schedule will be determined depending on the final number of attendees)

Inhalt
Format: The seminar offers 12 topics. Two students can be assigned to each topic, each student writes an individual term paper, both students present jointly (in case the topic is covered by two students). For the topics we distinguish between perspective and deep-dive topics. The former requires to cover a broader literature on a specific topic, whereby the term paper requires to go beyond summarizing these papers but to explain how the different paper build on each other, how the different papers build on different or common assumptions, which common and differentiating results are derived. The latter, a deep-dive topic, requires dealing with a specific paper, explaining the approach and method of the paper in more detail, including also to look up derivation of main results in the supplementary material/appendix of the paper.

Procedure, Deadlines, and Grading
• Two meetings with supervisor prior to the seminar (one prior to submitting the preliminary paper and one prior to the seminar)
• Preliminary version of the paper: April 8th, 2024
• Final Paper that will be graded: May 25th, 2024
• Grading: term paper 70% and presentation 30%
• To pass the seminar, the preliminary paper needs to be a full seminar paper that has sufficient quality to path the seminar (so the pre-grade needs to be at least 4.0). Only the grade for the final paper will count for the overall grade of the seminar but it can be at most 1.7 grades better than the preliminary grade (so e.g. a 4.0 can turn at maximum into a 2.3).
Please send digital PDF Versions of the preliminary and final term papers by email to your topic-specific supervisors, including mailto:wilfried.rickels@ifw-kiel.de in cc.

Economics of Geoengineering
1) Governance of Carbon Dioxide Removal with particular focus on emissions trading systems (Perspective)
2) Integrated Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Removal (Deep-Dive)
3) Regional integrated assessment models to assess carbon dioxide removal (Perspective)
4) Integrated Assessment of Solar Geoengineering (Deep-Dive)
5) Counter Geoengineering (Deep-Dive)
6) Learning about Solar Geoengineering Effectiveness (Deep-Dive)
7) Global Climate Governance and Geoengineering (Perspective)
8) Greenhouse gas metrics to assess carbon dioxide removal (Deep-Dive)
9) Offsetting emissions abatement with temporary carbon removal (Deep-Dive)
10) Geoengineering Governance: Adaptation and Biodiversity Preservation (Perspective)
11) Justice implications of an unequal distribution of CDR potentials (Perspective)
12) Public acceptance of carbon dioxide removal (Perspective)

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Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 25
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