Undergraduate Course: Plant Evolution (PLSC10020)

Course Outline
School	School of Biological Sciences	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	The origin, diversification, speciation and domestication of flowering plants.
Course description	This course considers the evolution of flowering plants, including their origin, diversification, speciation and domestication as crops. It integrates evidence from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from paleontology, through ecology and biogeography to genetics. Teaching is through a combination of short lectures, class discussions and seminars. There is extensive reading of both reviews and primary literature.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 33, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 63 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 25 %, Coursework 75 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Seminar presentation of paper (25%) Six written summaries of papers Ģ500 words (40%) Questions on other student's written summaries (10%) Exam - long answer question based on case study (25%)
Feedback	Written feedback will be supplied for ICA and exam.
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)			2:00

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Appreciation of the diversity of flowering plants and the drivers behind this Understanding of the effects of domesticaton on plants and the history of major crops Understanding how breeding systems affect evolution Ability to dissect, criticise and present primary literature Construction and defence of hypothesis based on primary literature