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Faculty of Philology
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Grao en Galego e Portugués: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
 Subjects
  Literatura Inglesa 1
   Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Mixed objective/subjective test A3 A6 A10 A11 A16 B1 B3 B6 Students will take a final exam in which they will need to demonstrate their mastery of the theoretical contents and the skills practiced in class. This exam will consist of short questions (definitions of critical terms and periods, identification of excerpts from the texts studied, analysis, etc).
 50
Directed discussion A2 A6 A7 A9 A11 A15 B4 B5 B7 B8 B10 C2 Reading the materials assigned for each day, and solving potential vocabulary difficulties, before coming to class is a must.
Any student who has not fulfilled this pre-requisite will be encouraged to use class time to do so and will not be able to take part in any of the class activities until s/he does--missing therefore the possibility to obtain points for participation for that day.
Class activities may consist of oral and written, individual and group assignments such as summarizing, analyzing, debating, interpreting, identifying, etc.
 20
Supervised projects A1 A2 A3 A4 A11 A15 B1 B5 B6 C2 These will consist of two argumentative pieces written in class in which students will demonstrate their ability to interpret literary texts independently and to write well-organized, coherent and cohesive essays--as well as their command of the English language. 30
 
Assessment comments
• The second opportunity of assesment (in July) will consist of a WRITTEN EXAM with the following sections: 
1) part I will have identical design and criteria to the final exam in the first opportunity, and it will also be worth 50% of the grade; 
2) part II will consist of a different set of short questions that will compensate for the work done in class ("Directed discussion" above) for the first, ongoing, assesment opportunity, and which will be worth 20% of the grade;
3) and an argumentative essay about the readings done during the semester for the supervised projects, which will be worth 30% of the grade.

Students will need to complete whichever part(s) they have not passed in the first opportunity.
• A grade of "Non Presentado" (Absent) will be obtained by not attending the exam and/or by completing less than 50% of the coursework.

• In the first opportunity of assessment, a minimum grade of 3.5 out of 10 must be obtained both in the section “Supervised projects” and in the “Mixed test” in order for these grades to be computed towards the course grade. In the second opportunity, this same minimum grade must be obtained in sections 1 and 3 in the exam.

• Students officially enrolled part-time who have been granted an official dispensation from attending classes will need to contact the teachers at the beginning of the semester and they will be assessed according to the criteria applied in the July opportunity.

• Students sitting the December exam (final exam brought forward) will be assessed according to the criteria specified for the July opportunity.

• Instructors may use the plagiarism-detection service "Turnitin" to check students' work. Plagiarism in any activity will translate into a grade of "0" in this activity. 

• Every assignment has to be turned in in time and in the specified format in order to avoid a penalty of 25% on the grade obtained.
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