Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
English Studies |
Assessment |
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Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
Subject | English Studies | Code | 613G03039 | |||||||||||
Study programme |
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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Methodologies | Competencies / Results | Description | Qualification |
Oral presentation | A6 A9 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 | The students will have to present their supervised projects orally, as a complement of the written work. Their communicative competences and their presentation skills and meaningful use of technological tools will be evaluated. | 10 |
Supervised projects | A1 A9 A11 A14 A15 A18 A19 A20 B1 B2 B3 B5 B6 B7 B8 C6 | Originality in the approach chosen, appropriate style and register as well as grammatical correctness will be awarded. | 30 |
Workshop | A2 A6 A9 A10 A11 A15 B4 C2 | Different types of activities and tasks will be collected and assessed during the course. They will be done in the classroom (with or without prior notice) or at home and will be related to the contents explained in the lectures or the recommended readings. | 20 |
Mixed objective/subjective test | A1 A2 A3 A6 A9 A10 A11 A15 A18 B6 C2 | Students can pass this part of the course by sitting for the partial tests which will be done throughout the course OR by means of a final exam which will be held in May. This official exam will be mandatory if the students have not passed/sit for the continuous assessment partial tests. | 40 |
Assessment comments | |||
IMPORTANT In order to pass this course, a minimum of 5 out of 10 in the final mark is required. A score of 4 out of 10 is the minimum required in each of the following parts of the course: a) workshop activities, b) weighted average of supervised project and oral presentation, c) final mixed test. Deadlines for assignments are strict. Late arrivals will be penalised, unless they are duly justified. Pieces of work including plagiarized material will be marked with 0.To detect plagiarism, the application Turnitin could be used. This application recognises papers previously turned in by other people (or the student him/herself) at this university or other universities. Extra-credit material carried out by the students during the course could be awarded up to an extra 5% of the final mark. This can include voluntary work, alternative readings, voluntary participation in forums or any other activity proposed and accepted by students and teachers. The students who do not attend the official exam will be given a grade of NP The dates for the supervised projects, oral presentation and mixed objective tests will be announced well ahead of time. July opportunity: Those students with less than a 4 in each of the parts specified above (even if the average is superior to 5) will have to sit for the "second opportunity exam session" in July, where students can retake those parts they have failed, according to the following distribution of percentages: Supervised written project (30%) defended with an oral presentation (10%), written tasks similar to those evaluated during the course (20%), mixed test about the contents of the course (40%). Students sitting the December exam (final exam brought forward) will be assessed according to the criteria specified for the July opportunity. Students who are officially registered as part time, and have been granted ADI is a university office specialised in attending to members of the
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