| Grao en Bioloxía |
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| Paleobioloxía |
| Methodologies |
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| Identifying Data | 2014/15 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Paleobioloxía | Code | 610G02043 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Fourth | Optativa | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Methodologies | Description |
| Document analysis | There will be reading assignments based on textbook chapters and scientific papers. Because some of the materials to be tested are not covered in the readings, the lecturers will expand on them during the class. Both readings and explanations by the lecturers during classtime make up the theory classes. All readings need to be done prior to the classtime they are listed |
| Workshop | Readings and contents delivered by the lecturers will be discussed during classtime (remember that all readings need to be done in advance). Quizzes covering readings and extra content will be delivered on a regular basis. Both quizzes and class participation will be used in the calculation of the grade. All slides used during classtime will be available through the Moodle platform |
| Case study | The lecturers will choose a hot debate topic in Paleontology and students will make a database review of several case studies illustrating this debate. Each student will pick up one of these case studies and provide a short written summary and critique of this reading. An oral presentation with discussion and comments will also take place in due time. Personal tutorials will be carried out on a regular basis before oral presentation. Attendance to the case study sessions is compulsory |
| Laboratory practice | Lab exercises will focus on the recognition of basic morphological features of fossils and identification of important taxa from the Iberian Peninsula. Students will be required to take their own notes and answer the lab quizzes. Attendance to the lab sessions is compulsory |
| Field trip | There will be an approximately 5 hours field trip (plus about 4 hours for transportation) to the sorroundings of La Barosa and Salas de la Ribera (province of León) to explore outcrops with Silurian and Devonian fossils |
| Objective test | Grading is primarily based on the idea of continuous assessment and so, the final exam IS NOT REQUIRED for those students being successful during this continuous assessment. Students failing specific parts or the whole subject are required to make the final exam for the parts they failed |
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