Course detail

Seminars in Logistics

FSI-SLO-A Acad. year: 2024/2025 Winter semester

A series of one-week seminars on a huge variety of different topics. 

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

25

Supervisor

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Most seminars are evaluated by the same letter grade (A – F) as the regular courses. A few exceptions with pass/fail grading exist. Exact format of the exams varies a great deal. Some have a final written or oral exam. Others have several partial exams to be delivered during the seminar week, while others again are evaluated by an essay or final task to be delivered at the end of the seminar week.


All lectures are mandatory.

Aims

The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge on different approaches to logistics problems and to differntiate skill of students. 


Learning outcomes substantially depend on the composition of the seminars chosen by a student. In general, the course is meant to extend and improve students' knowledge on the partiucular problematics within logistics. 

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-LAN-A: Logistics Analytics, Master's, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

156 hours, optionally

Syllabus

The one-week seminars are intensive courses with a mix of lectures, homework, discussions and student presentations. The most common format is lectures before noon and exercises/group work after noon. Seminar holders are mostly internationally recognized professors from universities abroad, but to some extent the staff at Molde University College also gives seminars on topics within their expertise. The course leader is Arild Hoff, who is a program coordinator for Master of Science in Logistics proram.


 Some seminars  cover themes that are important to logistics, but that for some reason have not been covered in other courses. Other seminars are very specialized, covering theoretical or practical aspects of themes already well covered in other courses. This way the seminar series brings both depth and width to the student's knowledge. Typical seminars are:


Exercise

130 hours, compulsory

Syllabus