OPTION A

Full-time students: the required attendance/participation in class activities must be equal to or greater than 80%:

The assessment requirements are the same for all the assessment opportunities, including the early assessment.

1. Calculation of the final grade

The final grade will be obtained adding the score obtained in the practical part (minimum to obtain 2 points out of a maximum of 4 points) + the score obtained in the Mixed objective/subjective test (minimum to obtain 3 points out of a maximum of 6 points).

PRACTICAL PART(40%: maximum 4 points, minimum to pass this part 2 points).

• It will consist of carrying out as many supervised projects and case studies as the teacher considers, with an oral presentation of the ones indicated by the teacher.
• The final grade in the practical part will not be less  han 2 points out of 4 so that the student can be assessed in the Mixed objective/subjective test.
• Students who do not achieve the minimum grade of 2 points in this part will not pass the subject in the first opportunity. Students cand attend the Mixed objective/subjective test but it will not be valid for assessment purposes as they have failed the practical part of the subject. In addition to this, the grade obtained in this case would not be kept for the 2nd opportunity).

MIXED OBJECTIVE/SUBJECTIVE TEST (60%: maximum 6 points,minimum to pass this part 3 points).

• In-person written exam (Mixed objective/subjective test) about the contents of the subject.
• The student must achieve at least 3 points in the mixed objective/subjective test (maximum score for this part 6 points) to add the grade obtained in the mixed objective/subjective test and calculate the final grade of the subject.
• When the minimum grade of 2 out 4 is not achieved in the practical part, the grade obtained will not be considered for evaluation purposes even if the student has taken the mixed objective/subjective test.

2. Scoring criteria and due dates for supervised projects and case studies

• The scoring criteria for both supervised projects and case studies with the corresponding oral presentation of the ones indicated by the teacher will be announced at the time the instructions are posted on Moodle.
• Supervised projects and case studies will be submitted via Moodle (unless otherwise provided by the teacher).
• Students must meet the deadline established by the teacher.
• Supervised projects and case studies submitted after the deadline, through a channel other than Moodle or not submitted will be graded as "not submitted".
• Students who do not attend an oral presentation of a supervised project or a case study will be also graded as "absent" in that exercise.
• The calculation of the final mark of the practical part corresponding to supervised projects and case studies will be a grade of “0” when any of the assignments are not submitted.

3. Mixed objective/subjective test scoring criteria:

• The scoring criteria for the mixed objective/subjective test will be announced at the time of the exam and will be provided together with the exam questions.

4. Final grade in the first opportunity

• Students who want to pass the subject in the 1^st opportunity will have to obtain at least 2 points in the practical part (supervised projects and case studies) and at least 3 points in the mixed objective/subjective test.
• The final grade of the subject in the first opportunity consists of adding the grade obtained in the practical assignments (minimum 2 points) + the grade obtained in the final exam (minimum 3 points).
• If the grade obtained in the practical assignments part in the first opportunity is less than 2 points, the student must attend the 2^nd opportunity. It is necessary that the student repeat the failed practical assignments, keeping only the grade obtained in the assignments which obtained a passing grade in the first opportunity (instructions will be posted in Moodle) and must achieve at least the 2 points required in that part.
• In case the grade obtained in the mixed objective/subjective test in the 1^st opportunity is less than 3 points, the student must attend the 2^nd opportunity, and will have to repeat (if necessary) those failed practical assignments as only the qualifications of those assignments which were individually graded as “passed” in the 1^st opportunity will be kept for the 2^nd opportunity (instructions will be posted on Moodle).

5. 2^nd  opportunity

• All the students who in the 1^st opportunity have obtained as a final grade of the subject "not presented" or "failed" must attend the 2^nd opportunity.
• Any student who attends the 2^nd opportunity, no matter whether the student has obtained a final average grade of practical assignments greater than 2 points (that is, final average grade of work "pass") in the 1^st opportunity must repeat any assignment tha tin the 1^st opportunity has been classified as "failed" or "absent",since only those assignments individually qualified with a minimum of a "pass" grade will be kept for the 2^nd opportunity (instructions will be posted in Moodle for the new assignments).

6. Class attendance

• Since the subject follows continuous assessment criteria, class attendance is mandatory. Any student who does not attend to class over 20% without a justified absence will lose the right to take the final exam and will have to retake the exam.

7. Basic instructions for taking exams:

• The only allowed stationary to access the test is basic writing material: pencil, pen, eraser.
• Access to the exam site is absolutely prohibited with a) mobile phones and any other electronic devices that allows remote communication and/or storage of information is expressly forbidden; b) lecture notes, annotations, books or similar material that was not expressly authorized in the exam or on the web page (Moodle) of the subject. Failure to comply with this rule will result in disqualification and considered as a fraud even if such devices or the indicated material on the test site have been either used or not during the test.
• Students must identify themselves according to current regulations.
• As stipulated in regulations "Normas de avaliación, revisión e reclamación das cualificacións dos estudos de grao e mestrado universitario” (approved on 12/19/2013 and modified on 04/30/2014) in Art. 21.2 students who are unable to comply with the different assessment activities of the academic year will be awarded "No presentado"(NP)(ABS)(ABSENT). The student will be classified as "Absent"(=No presentado) when the student does not complete all continuous assessment tasks in the teaching guide or when they do not take the exam in the official evaluation period.

OPTION B

Part-time students exempt from class attendance as stipulated in regulations "Norma que regula o réxime de dedicación ao estudo dos estudantes de grao na UDC”(Arts. 2.3; 3.b; e 4.5) (29 May 2012).

Students with attendance/participation in classactivities less than 80%

Except for the dates approved by the Faculty Board in relation to the objective test, for the remaining tests, a specific calendar of dates compatible with their dedication will be agreed upon at the beginning of the semester. Students must contact the professor of the subject in the 1^st ten days of the semester when the subject is taught to set the calendar.

The evaluation criteria will be identical to the ones described for full-time students (Option A), except for part-time students and students exempt from class attendance. According to regulations, attendance/participation inclass activities is less than 80%.

The subject may be adapted for students that require the adoption of measures aimed at supporting diversity (physical, visual, hearing, cognitive, learning or related to mental health). In such cases, students should contact the services available at the University
of A Coruña / their centre/faculty: within the official periods stipulated to
this effect prior to the start of each semester, with the University Unit of Attention to the Diversity (ADI) (https://www.udc.es/cufie/ADI/apoioalumnado/) or alternatively with the Tutor for Attention to Diversity at the Faculty of Humanities and Documentation.

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Exams dates, time and location of the different calls will be those indicated in the exams calendar approved by the Faculty Board for the 2022-2023 academic year and concordant documentation. The grades will be published in the internal platform or official virtual classroom of the Universidade de Vigo with limited access to the teaching staff of the subject and the enrolled students. If necessary, due to exceptional  circumstances,  any modification or clarification of the assessment methodologies indicated in the teaching guide; will be published in the same telematic  platform.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ACADEMIC MALPRACTICE IN EXAMINATIONS AND /OR ASSESSMENTACTIVITIES

Academic malpractice in tests and/or assessment activities,once verified, will directly imply a failing grade of "0" in the subject in the corresponding opportunity, thus invalidating any grade obtainedin all the assessment activities.

Malpractice is committed when a student acts to defraud or attempts to defraud the verification systems to assess academic performance, as well as when any student do not fulfil the requirements established to complete the assignments scheduled by the professor.

Illicit practices are considered, with a merely enunciative character, acts such as the following:

• Cheating or using any unauthorised material including the work of other people.
• Collusion: when a piece of work done by or with others is submitted as the work of one person and when one student's piece of work is submitted on behalf of another. In case this situation happens with the knowledge of the original author of the work, both students will incur in an illicit practice.
• The use of other people's work to be assessed as one's own work.
• Stating the elaboration of interviews, studies or anyother research methodologies when they have not been really undertaken (fabrication or falsification of results).

Plagiarism, which consists of using the words, work or ideas of other people presenting them as your own, in any assessment activity is also considered illegal practice. Several examples of plagiarism are described below:

• Translating from one language to another and presenting the text as their own.
• Using quotes from other people's published or unpublished work, whether taken from textbooks, articles, web pages, or anyother format, unless such quotes are clearly referenced and with quotation marks.
• Introducing texts by other authors as if they were of their own (cutting and pasting from websites, paragraphs of articles, books,etc.)
• Using someone else's words or ideas slightly modified or paraphrased to make them seem different from the original.
• Summarizing other people's ideas, judgments, diagrams, graphs, figures, or computer programs without referring to the author in the text and the source in the bibliography.
• Contract cheating: the commissioning of a piece of work by a third party.
• The use of material downloaded from the Internet without referencing resources (without proper attribution).
• The use of own materials in different works or modules as if they had been used for the first time, unless authorized by the department or professor of the module.