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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
| Grao en Bioloxía |
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| Plant Systematics: Phanerogamia |
| Methodologies |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Plant Systematics: Phanerogamia | Code | 610G02025 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Methodologies | Description |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | All basic concepts and ideas will be explained during the 50 minutes-long lectures. Lessons have been planned so students can acquire the required knowledge gradually. The teachers will use power point presentations that will be available in the moodle platform. Attendance is not compulsory, but it is strongly recommended. |
| Seminar | Seminars are intended to reinforce the knowledge acquired during lectures. All basic concepts will be revised during seminars using different exercises, mostly tests and “mute-diagrams” representing the life cycles of the different plant groups under study. Attendance and participation in seminars are compulsory. |
| Laboratory practice | The students will analyse and manipulate different representatives of some of the families studied during lectures. In the laboratory sessions, the students will use identification keys and floras to identify the plants brought by the teachers. They will also analyse the different characters that highlight the adaptation of the specimens to the environments –and ecosystems- where they grow. |
| Field trip | A one day-long field trip guided by the teachers will take place towards the end of the semester. During the field trip, representatives of some of the families studied in lectures will be observed, together with the environments where they grow. Additionally, we will visit some of the areas of Galicia where the level of endemicity is higher, and we will analyse the mechanisms that have led to such endemicity. Attendance to the excursion is voluntary. |
| Supervised projects | This acivity 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 learnig-service program or the more traditional Case studies explained below. The number of hours of personal work is identical in both activities (34 hours). |
| Case study | The students will apply the knowledge acquired during lectures and laboratory sessions in two different projects (phylogenetic and floristic). Detailed instructions on how to carry out the projects will be given during seminars, and further guidance will be given through tutorial sessions with the lecturers. The students will choose between the learnig-service (supervised projects) program or these more traditional case studies. The number of hours of personal work is identical in both activities (34 hours). |
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