The content of the subject "Animal Physiology" aims to provide students with a general introduction to the physiology of organ systems. As a whole, the scheduled activities are aimed at integrating knowledge in order to provide students with tools to address practical problems with professional implications from a physiological context. The planned training activities include directed learning time and self-learning time.

Lectures: This part of the course content will be delivered as master lectures, complemented with teaching materials prepared for this purpose and accessible to students in the Moodle Classroom of the subject (UAB Virtual Campus). Students should prepare for these sessions in advance as part of their independent work, using the provided material. This activity is complemented by the student's personal work outside of class hours and personalized tutorials according to the requirements considered appropriate by the student and the teacher.

Seminars: They are combined exercises of directed teaching (individual or group) and supervised work in which topics not covered in the theoretical classes are addressed or expanded. They are practical exercises that the student will perform and submit during the class. The seminars will be feedback activities from the teacher, including discussions (correction) of the work done and/or specific continuous assessment exercises.

Tutorials: Time for discussion and resolution of doubts/problems arising during self-learning, as well as guidance from the teacher in the learning process. They will be carried out individually or in small groups depending on the requirements and the scope of the issues to be discussed.

Self-learning: Autonomous training activities (individual or group) in which the student works and delves into the material presented in the theoretical classes, or seeks, analyses, and integrates complementary information.

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.

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.

Partial exams:

This part individually evaluates the knowledge acquired by students in the course, as well as their ability to analyze, synthesize and think critically. Two partial exams are administered. The minimum grade required to pass each partial exam is 4.5 out of 10. Each partial exam is eliminatory for the material covered.

Make-up exam:

Students who have not passed any of the partial exams must take the make-up exam.

Final considerations:

A grade of 4.5 on the theoretical part allows averaging with the seminars. The course is passed with a final grade equal to or higher than 5.0 out of 10. To participate in the make-up exam, students must have previously been evaluated on a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to at least two-thirds of the total grade for the course or module. Therefore, a student will receive a grade of "Not Assessable" when the assessment activities carried out have a weighting of less than 67% of the final grade.

This course does not allow for grade improvement.

Repeating students: The grades of the passed parts (theory or seminars) will be maintained for one academic year.

Other considerations

In this course, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted as an integral part of the development of the assignment, provided that the final result reflects a significant contribution from the student in terms of analysis and personal reflection. The student must clearly identify which parts have been generated using this technology, specify the tools used, and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final outcome of the activity. Lack of transparency in the use of AI will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may result in a penalty on the activity's grade, or more severe sanctions in serious cases.

The commission of any irregularity in an assessment event (academic fraud, plagiarism, or improper use of AI, unless such use is expressly authorized in the teaching guide) that may lead to a significant variation in the grade will result in that assessment event being graded as 0. If the teaching guide provides that passing the course requires obtaining a minimum grade in this assessment event, or if several irregularities occur in the assessment events of the same course, the final grade for this course will be 0. Additionally, a disciplinary process may be initiated against the student who commits any of these irregularities.