Grading

General grading breakdown

Grades in this course a based on a pass/fail system.

• By attending each day of the course and participating in the exercises you will pass the course and receive 3 ECTS credits.
• It is possible to receive an additional 2 ECTS credits by completing a project-based assignment following completion of the course lectures. The course project will be described in more detail later in the course, but the general idea is to design a geodynamic model, run 1-3 numerical experiments with your model, and write a short paper describing the model and your results in the format of a scientic journal article.