Lectures

Master classes given by the Lecturer about the basic skills and knowledge on a particular physiological subject to be acquired by the students, with the support of audiovisual teaching material, previously accessible at the Campus Virtual. It is highly recommended to attend the Lectures, and must necessarily be accompanied by the personal study.

Problems / Seminars

In these classes, students will normally work in small groups and sometimes individually, in: 1. solving questions, cases and physiological problems, 2. reading and critical analysis of news, scientific dissemination texts and / or scientific literature, 3. resolution of doubts that arise as the course progresses, 4. workshop on scientific communication, 5. preparation and public presentation of topics that the teachers will indicate.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies

Restricted use. For this course, the use of AI technologies is permitted exclusively for support tasks. The student must clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used, and include a critical reflection on how these tools have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. Lack of transparency regarding the use of AI in this assessable activity will be considered a breach of academic honesty and may result in a partial or total penalty in the grade for the activity, or more serious sanctions in severe cases.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

This course follows a continuous assessment process throughout the academic year and does not include a single final assessment option.

Assessment consists of more than three evaluable activities of different types, distributed throughout the course, and none of these activities accounts for more than 50% of the final grade.

Theory. This will be assessed individually through two midterm exams, each consisting of 30–50 multiple-choice questions. Each midterm will contribute 50% to the theory grade. The two midterms can be averaged only if each exam has a minimum score of 4.5. The theory component accounts for 80% of the final course grade, and a minimum score of 5.0 is required to be averaged with the grade for seminars/problems. Students are not allowed to improve the grade of the partial theory exams if they obtain a grade equal to or higher than 5.0.

Seminars/Problems. Each student will receive an individual grade based on both individual and group evaluations, which may include solving problems in animal physiology, written commentary on news/scientific articles, preparation and presentation of assignments, etc. Each of these activities will be graded, and the final grade will be the weighted average of all activities. This part accounts for 20% of the final course grade, and there is no minimum grade required to average it with the theory grade. Once this component has been assessed, it cannot be retaken.

The course will be passed with a final weighted average grade of 5.0 or higher.

Final Considerations:

To participate in the resit/recovery assessment, students must have been previously assessed in a set of activities that together account for at least two-thirds (67%) of the total course or module grade. Therefore, students will receive a \"Not Assessable\" (No Avaluable) grade if the weight of the assessment activities they have completed is less than 67% of the final grade.

The commission of any irregularity in an assessment activity, including academic fraud, plagiarism, or improper use of AI, unless such use is expressly authorized in the course guide, that may lead to a significant change in the grade, means that this assessment activity will be graded with a 0. If the course guide establishes that, in order to pass the course, it is an essential requirement to have obtained a minimum grade in this assessment activity, or if several irregularities occur in the assessment activities of the same course, the final grade for that course will be 0. Apart from this, disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against the student who commits any of these irregularities.