Continuous assessment:

Regular class attendance is required. Participation in the course will be subject to continuous evaluation. Students
with an official exemption of class attendance must inform the teacher within the
first two sessions of the course.

Students will have to complete a series of practical tasks, which may include a combination of any of the following: carrying out text analyses, delivering presentations, writing essays, and conducting and presenting a small research project. The following factors will be considered in the assessment of these tasks: ability to summarise and combine information from different sources, clarity in the presentation of ideas, accuracy in the use of specialised concepts and terminology, involvement in seminars and group activities, rigor and originality in the formulation of research proposals, comprehensiveness and punctuality in the realisation of the tasks and, finally, the use of an appropriate academic style. 

The final tests will consist of a series of (objective and essay) questions related to the course contents.

Students with an official exemption of class attendance:

Continuous assessment will be based on their eventual completion of the assignments set through the virtual component of the course. These students must also sit the final written tests or, alternatively, complete an equivalent task (or set of tasks) specified by the lecturer(s).

Second opportunity and students retaking the course:

The same assessment system described above will apply.

For the continuous assessment part, students may be asked to repeat a selection of the activities done throughout the course or to complete some extra tasks. 

In the July opportunity,
students will submit on time the additional activities requested by the lecturer(s),
before sitting the written exams.

FRAUDULENT PERFORMANCE ON EVALUATION ACTIVITIES:

In accordance with Articles 40-42 of the Regulation on the evaluation, grading and quality of teaching and the student learning process, approved by the university senate on April 18, 2023,

Plagiarism is understood as the total or partial copying of texts or other elements (software, images, graphics, etc.) as if they were self-made without citing their origin, including the use of digital media. On the other hand, academic fraud is understood as any premeditated behavior aimed at falsifying the results of an exam or work, whether one's own or someone else's, taken as a requirement to pass a subject or to accredit academic performance.

The tests or evaluation activities will be considered fraudulent when the following circumstances, among others, concur:

• a. Copying other students in exams.
• b. Use of notes, books, materials or telematic media not explicitly authorised in the tests.
• c. Failure to comply with the rules established by the lecturer(s) before the test.
• d. Communication, by any means, with other people, except the faculty member responsible for the supervision, during the tests.
• e. Impersonating or attempting to impersonate a student in their own work or giving consent to be impersonated, in connection with university activities.
• f. Misappropriating the content of tests or exams, as well as any other document used in the teaching-learning process. 
• g. Improperly using contents or means of reproduction and recording of university activities subject to intellectual property rights.
• h. Attribution of the performance of individual, group or internship work of others.
• i. Use of any fragment extracted directly from bibliographic sources or other sources of information without clearly indicating the reference of authorship and original work.
• j. Altering, falsifying, subtracting or destroying academic documents, or using false documents.

Fraudulent action in any evaluation activity will result in a zero (fail) final grade in the corresponding assessment opportunity, regardless of the grade of the activity in question in the overall grade of the subject and without prejudice to the possible consequences of disciplinary nature that may occur. 

Alleging ignorance of what plagiarism or academic fraud implies will not exempt students from their responsibility in this regard.