Master classes with computer support

Through the attending of classes the students will acquired their own knowledge on the subject. At all times, work will be done in the computer to consolidate the use of the GIS software and analysis techniques.

Laboratory practices

Practical exercises are distributed to learn two GIS programs (ArcGIS Pro 3.7 and QGIS 3.44), use geological data, and solve practical problems.

The group of students enrolled will be divide in two groups on the basis of the university program and name.

Autonomous work:

The student will have assigned an universiy ArcGIS Pro user account and the instructions to install the program in a outside of campus computer to which he/she has acces and do the tasks assigned out of classroom.

Study/Practice of topics should carry out through exercises using the specific SIG programs.

Estudent evaluation of the class:

The teacher will assign approximately 15 minutes of the class to allow that his students to answer the surveys of evaluation on contents and professor's performance.

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.

Continued avaluation

• Mandatory attendance of classroom lectures. There will be attendance control.

• Two theoretical-practical partial exams: 1st part exam 30% + 2nd part exam 40%.

• Two analysis projects. Delivery by 2-persons team: one over the first part of the course with ArcGIS Pro (15%) and the second on the second part of the course with QGIS (15%)

• Optional activities(extra maps or quests): +0.5 points over the corresponding partial exam or the proportional part in case not all the tasks were delivered. Personal delivery.

Re-evaluation

• Re-evaluation only applies to exams, neither for the class exercises nor for the analysis projects.

• Students who did not pass the course will be able to choose the part they want to be re-graded for (first part, second part or both parts of content) to improve their grades on exams.

• Students who passed the course but they want to improve their grades, may present again the corresponding exams for the part of the course that they want to improve their gradess. The best grade ( either the original or the obtained during recovery exam) will be kept for the final assessment of their grades.

Unique Evaluation

• If a student choose unique evaluation, the student must notify the professor during the first two weeks after the begining the semester. Academic Management of the Faculty of Sciences will make available to the student a form to formalize the request to take part in a unique grading assessment.

• The unique grading assessment will take place on the date and hour of the second partial exam. It will consist of two parts:

1. A theoric-practic exam (70%) of the content of the entire course.
2. The delivery of the two analysis projects (30%).

•The student who has opted for this single grading assessment may present re-evaluation of exams only if he/she has previously submitted the two issues mentioned above. The same criteria on the exams grades will be applied.

Criteria for Not Evaluable

The student that end the course have less than 50% of evaluable activities or with less than 50% of assistance will receive a Not Evaluable grade at the end of the course.

Use of AI

For this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence technologies is allowed exclusively in support tasks such as searching for bibliography or information about processing procedures with the GIS software, proofreading texts or translations. The student will have to specify and clarify which parts have been generated with this technology, also specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and result of the activity. Failure to specify these aspects will be considered academic dishonesty and may have a total or partial penalty in the activity grade or higher penalties in critical/extreme cases of fraud.