In the theoretical lectures the teacher will develop the fundamental ideas and concepts of the subject of the course showing several illustrative examples.

Different lists of exercises will be proposed so that the student can practice and learn the contents of each topic. In the problem lectures the teacher will work on the lists of exercises, will solve the doubts of the students and will discuss and solve the exercises.

All the course material will be posted on the Virtual Campus.

The course will be evaluated continuously through the following activities:

• one first midterm exam, whose score is denoted by MT1
• two assignment submission, whose score is denoted by AS
• one second midterm exam, whose score is denoted by MT2

The score by continuous assessment, S, will be obtained from:

S = 0.40 MT1 + 0.50 MT2 + 0.10 AS

If S is greater than or equal to 5, the final score is S. Otherwise the student may attend a recovery exam if the following requirements are satisfied. To participate in the recovery, the students must have previously been evaluated in a set of activities whose weight equals to a minimum of two thirds of the total grade of the subject or module. Therefore, students will obtain the «Non evaluable» qualification when the assessment activities carried out have a weighting of less than 67% in the final grade. If R denotes the score of the recovery exam, then the final grade is

S2= 0.90 R + 0.10 AS

We remark that the score of the assignment submission, AS, can not be recovered. The repeating students will have to do the same assessment activities as new entry students. Those students who desire to increase their grades will have to take the recovery exam.

This subject foresees the single assessment system. The single assessment will consist of a single test in which the contents of the entire subject program will be assessed.The grade obtained in this synthesis test will account for 100% of the final grade of the subject. The single assessment test will take place on the same day, time and place as the last continuous assessment test of the subject. The single assessment can be recovered on the day set for the recovery of the subject.

Any irregularity committed during an assessment activity (academic misconduct, plagiarism, or improper use of AI, unless such use is expressly authorized in the course syllabus) that may lead to a significant alteration of the grade will result in that activity being graded as 0. If the course syllabus stipulates that obtaining a minimum mark in this assessment is an essential requirement to pass the course, or if multiple irregularities occur in the assessment activities of the same course, the final grade for the course will be 0. Furthermore, disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against any student who incurs any of these irregularities.