THEORETICAL CLASSES

Within this type of activity the theoretical concepts of the course will be provided. Those slides used during the course will be uploaded to the virtual campus.

Students will be encouraged to participate and to ask questions related to doubts that may rise by using the subjects forum at the virtual campus. In addition, professors will ask questions to them in order to evaluate their comprehension of the knowledge taught.

PRACTICAL CLASSES

These classes will be used to put into practice the concepts described at the theory classes, with the aim of identifying the type of problem to be solved, and the more suitable methodology to be applied to resolve it. The problems statements will be uploaded at the Campus Virtual well in advance, in order to students can try to solve them before the resolution is described at class, and thus, they can ask their doubts in the corresponding problem session.

PHOTOGRAPHS DELIVERY 

This activity is performed with the aim of enhancing the observation capacity of students and to foster their capability to relate phenomena present in the nature with the concepts taught in the Òptica subject.  

The assessment of the subject will be conducted as following:

• Writing tests (80%)
• First partial test or remedial first test (40%)
• Second partial test or remedial second test (40%)
• Photographs of optical phenomena + problem related to an optical image (20%)

WRITING TESTS

These tests are aimed to evaluate the knowledge acquired by students, as well as their capability of analysis, synthesis and reasoning.

WRITING PARTIAL TESTS

Two partial tests will be conducted. The contents evaluated in each partial will be those present in the topics covered during the corresponding periods of the course. The partial dates will be announced well in advance.

Students who have passed the partials are not required to take the final remedial exam. Each one of these two tests accounts for the 40% of the final subject mark.

To opt for the evaluation (the average between the two partial marks), it is required a minimum mark of 4 up to 10 in each partial.

FINAL WRITING TEST

It comprises two parts, each one corresponding to the above-stated partial tests.

Students that have not pass, or not conducted, any of the two partials, have to conduct the corresponding remedial part of the final writing test.

If a student has already passed one of the partials, she/he has also the option to conduct the corresponding remedial part in the final writing test.

Under this scenario, the final mark will be that achieved in the final part test, independently of the mark she/he had taken in the previous partial.

ACTIVITIES RELATED TO OPTICAL PHENOMENA

In this section, the observation capacity of the student will be evaluated and the concepts studied will be related to natural phenomena.

Each student must present 6 original photographs (made by themselves) of natural phenomena related to the concepts studied in the subject. No photos obtained in the laboratory, nor downloads from the internet (in this case the note corresponding to the photos will be 0). In addition, you must give a brief explanation (about a sheet) of the phenomenon analyzed.

Each of the 6 photographs must be dedicated to a different phenomenon. 3 pictures will be presented online at the end of each semester (before the corresponding partial exam) in pdf or word format.

The name of the files will be: Name_Surname_n ...

n will be equal to 1 or 2 depending on the delivery of the first semester or the second semester.

This assignment will be complemented by an individual in-class problem-solving activity, carried out once per semester. The task will involve the analysis and description of an optical phenomenon based on a series of images selected by the teaching staff.

SINGLE ASSESSMENT (EVALUATION)

Students who are evaluated through the single assessment modality must take a final test that will consist of a theory exam in which they must answer a series of questions related to the course syllabus. Next, they will have to do a problem based test in which they will have to solve a series of exercises similar to those previously studied in the Classroom Practice sessions. Finally, they will submit a report with six photographs of optical phenomena taken by themselves (and their corresponding description), with a maximum length of 6 pages, and must make a brief oral presentation to comment the described phenomena. These tests will be carried out on the same day, time and place as the tests of the second part of the continuous assessment modality.

The student's grade will be the weighted average of the three previous activities, where the theory exam will account for 30% of the grade, the problems exam for 40% and the presentation/defense of optical phenomena for 10%.

If the final score does not reach the minimum value of 5,the student will have anotheropportunity to pass the course by taking the remedial exam that will be held on the date stated by the Degree Coordination. In this situation, the final mark of the subject will be that obtained at the remedial exam.

USE OF IA

For this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted exclusively as a support tool for bibliographic and information searches, learning concepts, resolving specific questions, and correcting (but not writing) texts. AI may also be used to improve the clarity and presentation of a text that has been previously written by the student. Under no circumstances may AI be used to generate, either wholly or partially, answers, explanations, analyses, or any other content that forms part of an assessed activity. Furthermore, the use of generative AI tools to create, modify, or complete images is not permitted in the optical pheomena related activity based on photographs.

Students must clearly identify any use of these technologies, specifying the tools employed and briefly describing how they contributed to the work process.

The use of any AI tool or technology is strictly prohibited during in-class assessment activities, including examinations, written tests, supervised classroom activities, and any other assessed task conducted under the supervision of the teaching staff, unless explicitly authorized otherwise.

Unauthorized use of AI tools, as well as a lack of transparency regarding their use, will be considered an academic misconduct offence. Any irregularity in an assessment activity (including academic fraud, plagiarism, or improper use of AI) that may lead to a significant alteration of the assessment outcome will result in a grade of 0 for that activity. In the cases established by academic regulations, including those in which obtaining a minimum grade in a specific assessment activity is a mandatory requirement to pass the course, or where multiple irregularities occur within the same course, the final course grade will be 0. Furthermore, the University may initiate disciplinary proceedings against any student involved in such misconduct.