Continuous assessment is the evaluation system recommended for this course.The students must participate in the course activities regularly and hand in the papers and homework by the deadlines established at the beginning of the classes.The final exam on basic concepts taught during the course will be held in one of the sessions of the last week of classes.

The students who fail the course in the first edition in June will have to repeat to repeat those parts they didn't pass in the second edition in July. They won't have to repeat the parts they had already passed and the original marking percentual evaluation system will be kept the same.

1. The recuperation of failed parts is the following:1.- Final Exam. There will be a new final exam of basic concepts with the same characteristics as the first one.
2. Exercises and activities in the classroom.They will be evaluated by means of a written text with questions which comprise the same objectives.
3. Course paper/presentations. The failed paper will be defended again once its deficiencies and inaccuracies have been corrected.
4. Practices online. They will be recuperated by means of a questionnaire with questions of the same kind as the ones published on Tema Faitic during the course.

Those registered students who cannot do the coursework regullarly  must communicate it to the course lecturer at the beginning of the course and explain the reasons that justify their impossibility to follow the continuous evaluation system. However, these people who justify they cannot follow the continuous evaluation system will do only one global comprehensive exam with three parts.

1. Proof of their theoretical and practical  knowledge of the fundamental contents of the course my means of essay questions (40% of the final mark).
2. Exercises of application, synthesis and creation of the same kind as those done in the contact sessions and online using Faitic Tema during the continuous evaluation (50% of the final mark).
3. A practical case: The elaboration of a reasoned outline (a summary) of a paper project on one point of the syllabus which includes a first description of the problem to study, some illustrative examples, the different steps of the project and its final objective (10% of the final mark).

This final exam will take place during the first two weeks after the end of the contact sessions.

Those students who fail this unique exam system in the first edition of the transcripts in May will have to repeat and pass those parts they failed in the second edition of the transcripts in July. They won't have to repeat the parts they had already passed and the
original marking percentual evaluation system will be kept the same.

Those students who do not follow the system of unique evaluation (one exam) in June will have to do the July exam in full and the resulting final mark will appear in the second edition of the transcripts. The official date of this second edit will be the date officially aproved by the Faculty of Philology and Translation. 

The exchange students from foreign universities who are interested in registering for this course should keep into account that this course requires a high competence and an advanced level of English.

Plagiarism in any exercise or exam means a zero in this part. To pledge ignorance about what is considered a case of plagiarism does not excuse the students from their responsibility at this respect.

The evaluation will take into account not only the relevance and quality of the content of the answers but also its linguistic correction.

Students are responsible for accessing the course marterials and news on Faitic and also for checking the exact exam dates in each case.