1) Oral contributions during lectures, up to 1 point. 

Competencies A5, A6, A19, A23, A24, A27, A28, A29, B2, B3, B4, B6, B7, B8, B9, B10, B11, B12, B13, C4, C5, C6 and C8 are assessed

2) Seven essays, up to 10 points. For each essay the teacher chooses a topic and students argue their opinions. Students must take special care to argue opinions that run contrary to what the teacher explains during lectures. Each essay is graded from 0 to 10. If a student uses a string of words previously used by another author the grade will be -20. The points obtained in all essays are added up, giving more weight to the last essays, and the sum is divided by 7. Students that submit an essay can not get a "No show" grade. More information in https://sites.google.com/site/microensayos/

Competencies A5, A6, A19, A23, A24, A27, A28, A29, B2, B3, B4, B6, B5, B7, B8, B9, B10, B11, B12, B13, C1, C4, C5, C6 and C8 are assessed

3) Written comments on essays, up to 1 point.

Competencies A5, A6, A19, A23, A24, A27, A28, A29, B2, B3, B4, B6, B5, B7, B8, B9, B10, B11, B12, B13, C1, C4, C5, C6 and C8 are assessed

Students that choose to take the test renounce the points obtained in the three previous sections. A student can make this choice at any time during the course.

Students who do not submit any essay and do not take the test will get a "No show" grade.

Non-first-time students will be graded with a test and they can get the "Honors" grade. Points obtained in previous attempts at passing the course are not taken into account.