Lessons combine theoretical lectures with reading and comments about particularly significant texts. The lecturer will follow the manual \"Introduction to medieval philosophy\" (UAB Manuals, 57), UAB, Publications Service, 2012, written by himself expressly for this subject. The student must go to class having prepared the daily topic. The lecturer's explanation of the subject presupposes this preparation. It is necessary that the student give reason for this preparation in his interventions in class.

Constant attendance in class and active participation are essential for good course follow-up. The students will actively collaborate and present the continguts and lectures of the course.

In addition, the student will have to make personal readings.

We will use the Virtual Campus to share the materials. On the other hand, if the student wishes to contact the lecturer, he or she must send a personal email (not by a Virtual Campus message).

The tutorials will be basically dedicated to prepare the essay and the compulsory readings, and to solve any doubt.

In order that students may program the course correctly, on the first day of class the lecturer will provide a calendar with all the important dates (examinations, work assignments, etc.) in the Virtual Campus.

The teaching methodology and the evaluation proposed in the guide may undergo some modification subject to the onsite teaching restrictions imposed by health authorities.

SINGLE ASSESSMENT

The single assessment will be a written exam consisting of three parts:

a) Questions of a theoretical nature about the contents (35%);

b) Commentary on texts (35%);

c) Questions (contents) and activities, comments and arguments about the compulsory readings (30%).

To pass the exam it is necessary that the overall mark of the exam is at least 50% of the possible mark and the mark of each part is at least 40% of the possible mark.

Recovery exam

The recovery excam can only be taken if the student has obtained at least a 3.5 in the single assessment exam.

The characteristics of the recovery exam will be the same as those of the single assessment exam. Even if the student has passed one or two parts of the single assessment exam, he/she must take the entire exam.

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT

It is possible that the Department of Philosophy will establish (as will be done during the first semester) a period dedicated to evaluative tests. The teaching staff will indicate whether such a period exists or what the test dates are at the beginning of each course.

Continuous assessment presupposes class attendance and constant work. To pass the course is required: a) to achieve a mark of 4, at least, in each exam; b) to achieve a mark of 5 in average, at least, in the set of all the activities. If a student does not fulfil these two conditions, he or she must be submitted to a reevaluation exam. The presentation will not have a reevaluation. The reevaluation is not possible without having done previously the ordinary exam.

The reassessment exam format will be similar to the ordinary exams format and will have two parts: one for the topics of each partial exam. The student will only have to do the failed part(s).

The student whose evaluation activities have not reached the 30% of the activities will be assessed as “Non-evaluable”.

After the reevaluations, there is not a second round.

The lecturer will assign a day, hour and place to review the exams after having evaluated the activities of the course. Students who have to do the reassessment will have a specific day of review when they will have done the aforementioned reevaluation exam.

Comments on the evaluation activities

Exams. The student has to do two partial exams. Each exam may consist of two parts: theoretical and commentary questions of a passage. In addition to the theoretical contents of the subject, the student has to show his or her knowledge of the compulsory readings. In the theoretical questions, it will be necessary to demonstrate some knowledge of the basic bibliography. It is important to supplement the lecturer's presentations with, at least, a companion book. If the student has not been able to take one of the exams, he has failed it with a grade below 4 or the average of the assessment activities of the course does not reach 5, he will have to be submitted for a reassessment.

Compulsory readings: Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, X-XIII;and Thomas Aquinas, De ente et essentia. Both will be object to the exam.

Presentation. The students, in groups of two or three people, will make a 30' presentation on a program point (*) or on a section of the compulsory readings. They will prepare a document to share on the Virtual Campus.

Participation in class. The lecturer will especially take into account the students participation in class.

Recovery exam

The recovery exam will consist of a test that will combine theory questions and a text commentary. The same reassessment system as that used for continuous assessment will be applied.

NOTES

Erasmus students requesting to bring an exam forward must submit a written document from their home university justifying their request.

In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.

In the assessable activities of this subject is entirely prohibits the use of AI technologies in all of its activities. Any submitted work that contains content generated using AI will be considered academic dishonesty; the corresponding grade will be awarded a zero, without the possibility of reassessment. In cases of greater infringement, more serious action may be taken.