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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
| Grao en Bioloxía |
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| Plant Systematics: Cryptogamia |
| Methodologies |
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| Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Plant Systematics: Cryptogamia | Code | 610G02024 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Second | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Methodologies | Description |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | The lecturer will introduce all the basic concepts and ideas to the students using presentations, documents, videos, etc that will be provided in platforms offered by University of A Coruña. |
| Seminar | During the seminars, the student will autonomously analyse some of the contents of the course, using what they learnt during the lectures, as well as using the bibliography suggested by the lecturer. The work of the different students will be assessed and discussed by the group. |
| Laboratory practice | The student will conduct macro- and microscopic descriptions of the Cryprogams available to him in the lab. They will have to complete a questionnaire that will be assessed by the lecturer. The students will also improve their identifications skills through the use of taxonomic keys, guides and floras. |
| Case study | The student will write a report (in pdf) on the Cryptogam flora growing in two areas of their interest, one in or near the sea-shore (focused in marine algae) and another in a forest (focused in mosses, fungi and ferns). The student will have to collect specimens belonging to the different groups studied in the course, and they will have to prepare a Herbarium that will be assessed (together with the report) by the lecturer. The students will choose between the learning-service (supervised projects) program or these more traditional case studies. The number of hours of personal work is identical in both activities (31 hours) |
| Supervised projects | This activity has been designed within a learning-service framework. Here we combine students' academic activities with collaboration with environmentalist NGOs involved in plant conservation in Galicia. The students will choose between this learning-service program or the more traditional Case studies explained above. The number of hours of personal work is identical in both activities (31 hours). |
| Field trip | There will be two field trips (6 hours each) guided by the teaching staff with the aim of familiarising the students with the natural environments in which examples of cryptogams from different groups will be shown. During the field trip the teachers will give practical teaching based on the specimens found. Attendance to the field trips is voluntary, as well as the delivery of a report (in pdf) of the activities carried out for evaluation. |
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