Laboratory practical |
The activities will be carried out following protocols and materials provided by the teachers and under their supervision. The practical classes are structured in five sessions (days) each lasting 4 hours on average. The student will learn to conduct laboratory experiments with little supervision and at the end should be able to analyze and interpret data and discuss results in the context of the past knowledge on the topic. At the end of the practical course, they will have to write a lab report and past an specific exam. The attendance of practical course is compulsary. |
Seminars |
The teaching techniques used in these seminar sessions will be the analysis of texts, the correction and interpretation of problems previously solved by the students and the study of complex cases. For the follow-up of these activities, the student will have support material developed by the teachers. Main objectives of these activities are the development and evaluation of transversal competences such as the ability to analyze and synthesize, the search for scientific information, the resolution of problems, the writing of scientific texts and their oral presentation in public, the critical spirit, teamwork and the motivation for achieving the excellence.
Attendance to seminar activities in the conventional classroom will be assessed.
Depending on the activity, the students will work individually or in groups (2-4 people) with common goals, being evaluated in this case both as a whole, according to the productivity of the group, as well as individually |
Autonomous problem solving |
It consists on carrying out individually or in small groups of exercises and simple practical cases in order to consolidate the theoretical concepts of the subject and develop the ability to apply them to real cases. |