Students must pay special attention to the planning section of
this teaching guide. It is essential that students understand that to be
succesful in the course they should work around 150 hours, from which 51 hours
are onsite, either face to face or telematic. Non presential activities include
(but are not limited to) preparation of case studies and reports, preparation
of seminars and studying for the final exam.

Students who attend the voluntary field trips may also voluntarily
submit a report (in pdf format) of the activities carried out for assessment.
In this way, the maximum percentage of this activity with respect to the final
grade of the subject will increase from 1% for attendance and participation in
the field trips to a maximum of 10%.

Attendance to the seminars is not compulsory, but the work carried
out by the student in each of the seminars, as well as his/her attitude and participation
in them, will be assessed with up to 1% of the final grade.

All students will have two opportunities to pass the course. In
order to pass the course in the first opportunity it will be necessary to have
a participation of at least 70% of the programmed evaluable activities.
Likewise, the student must obtain at least 4.5 out of 10 points in the
objective written test (and no less than 4 in the different parts of this test)
and 4 out of 10 in the rest of the compulsory evaluations. The final (overall)
grade of the course must be above 5 points (out of 10). In order to obtain the
grade of "not presented", the student must not have participated in
30% or more of the programmed evaluable activities.

To pass the course at the second opportunity (July), the student,
depending on the result of his/her first evaluation, must take an objective
written test similar to the first opportunity and/or a laboratory test in which
he/she must complete a similar questionnaire used in the practicum. The need to
take one or both of these make-up tests will be indicated in the grades of the
first opportunity. The obtained qualifications will be kept only during the
academic term (first and second opportunities).Students who fail on both
occasions will have to repeat all the activities and evaluations of the subject
the following year. On a case by case basis, those students that, for justified
reasons, are not able to participate in all the programmed activities will be
given alternative options to pass the course.

Students with officially recognised academic exemption or who
participate in equality and diversity support programs are welcome to
participate in this subject. The teachers will adapt the different compulsory
activities in order to enable these students to fulfill the aims of the course.

The fraudulent performance of the assessment tests or activities,
once verified, will directly imply the grade of failure (numerical mark
"0") in the subject in the corresponding call of the academic year,
whether the fault is committed at the first opportunity or at the second
opportunity. For this, the grade will be modified in the first opportunity
report, if necessary.

This course has the following key dates:

Lab course: between September and November, 2023 (specific dates
are still pending to be confirmed, they will be communicated in advance)

Field trips (voluntary): September 26 and September 30, 2023

Submission (voluntary) of the field trips report - in pdf format -
(deadline): Friday 14 October 2023.

Open Lab sessions: between October and November, 2023 (specific
dates are still pending to be confirmed, they will be communicated in advance)

Case study (pdf) report submission and herbarium exam: December 18,
2023

Supervised projects (pdf) report submission: December 18,
2023.

EARLY
CALL FOR DECEMBER

The
teaching guidethat will be applied to students who apply for the early December
call will bethat of the previous academic year.