We offer supervison of Master's theses to students enrolled in the Master's programmes of Biosciences and Geosciences at the University of Oslo.
Master's Thesis Collaboration
Are you a student in the Master's programmes in Biosciences and Geosciences and want to pursue your Master's thesis at the Natural History Museum?
We offer pre-designed projects, but we also encourage students in biosciences and geosciences to directly contact our research groups to design a project that aligns with their interests.
Available Master's Thesis Projects
Explore topics chosen by current and former students
Reading rooms
We offer dedicated study spaces for our Master's students in biosciences at the Botanical Museum and the Zoological Museum, while our Master's students in geosciences have assigned study spaces at our Økern premises.
Courses we teach
The museum collaborates with the Department of Biosciences and the Department of Geosciences and teaches the following Master's courses.
Courses in Biosciences
- BIOS4120 – Norwegian nature - typification, description and mapping of natural variation based on "Natur i Norge" (NiN)
- BIOS4215 – Evolution and Systematics of Organismal Groups: The Animal Kingdom
- BIOS4216 – Evolution and Systematics of Organismal Groups: The Plant Kingdom
- BIOS5210 – Methods of Gradient Analysis
- BIOS5211 – Distribution Modelling
- BIOS5213 – Phylogeny and Classification
- BIOS5214 – Biogeography and Biodiversity
- BIOS5219 – Plant conservation
- BIOS5226 – Natural History Collections – Diversity in time and space