Methodology:

Students must develop various types of activities throughout this subject:

a) Directed activities: Lectures will be delivered in the classroom covering the contents of the course. Some of these lectures will focus on discussing current topics in industrial organic chemistry and may be given by recognized professionals from the industrial sector. In addition, problem-solving sessions will be held once sufficient course material has been covered to allow students to benefit fully from them. Students will consolidate the knowledge acquired in the lectures and problem-solving sessions by completing a specific project, which they will be required to present publicly in the form of a seminar.

b) Supervised activities: Tutorials will be conducted to monitor the performance of the work that the student must present in public and also to solve any doubt that arises through the development of the course.

c) Autonomous activities: Students must study the contents of the subject, prepare the topics for the discussions, solve the problems, and prepare the report and seminar to be presented in public.

Note: Fifteen minutes of a class session, within the schedule established by the school/degree program, will be reserved for students to complete the surveys evaluating both the teaching performance of the instructor(s) and the course itself.

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.

Evaluation

Continuous assessment of competencies will be carried out, including two written examinations and one oral presentation.

The assessment system is organized into two modules, each contributing a specific weight to the final grade:

Written Examination Module: this module consists of two midterm examinations, each accounting for 40% of the final grade.

Seminar Module: students will complete a project (individually or in pairs) involving an oral presentation of a detailed study on either a type of industrial organic product or a specific sector of the organic chemical industry. This project will be carried out toward the end of the course. Each student or group of students will record a video of their oral presentation. The recorded presentations will be uploaded to a folder on the virtual campus and made available for viewing by the students enrolled in the course. Each student or group will be required to watch presentations from other groups and prepare a brief evaluation report.

Both the oral presentation and the evaluation reports will be assessed. This module will contribute 20% of the overall final grade.

The course will be considered successfully completed when the average grade across all modules is 5.0/10 or higher, provided that students obtain at least 3.5/10 in each of the two written examinations and complete the oral presentation required for the seminar module. Students who do not achieve the minimum score in the first and/or second written examination, as well as those whose overall average is below 5.0/10, will be entitled to take a supplementary examination covering the entire course after the second written examination. The grade obtained in this supplementary examination will contribute 75% of the final examination grade, while the remaining 25% will correspond to the average grade of the two midterm examinations. To be eligible for averaging with the rest of the course grades and to pass the course, students must obtain a minimum grade of 4.0/10 in the supplementary examination.

The UAB regulations establish: Any irregularity committed in an assessment activity (academic fraud, 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 assessment being graded with a 0. If the course syllabus stipulates that obtaining a minimum grade in that assessment activity is an essential requirement for passing the course, or if multiple irregularities occur in the assessment activities of the same course, the final grade for the course will be 0. In addition, disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against any student who commits any of these irregularities.

Students who have opted for the single-assessment system must complete a final examination covering the entire course syllabus, which will take place on the same day that students following the continuous assessment system sit the second midterm examination. This examination will account for 80% of the final grade. In addition, on the same day, students must submit a recorded oral presentation of a detailed study on either a type of industrial organic product or a specific sector of the organic chemical industry. This component will account for the remaining 20% of the final grade. To pass the course, students must obtain a minimum grade of 5.0 out of 10 in the examination in order for it to be combined with the grade from the oral presentation. If the examination grade is below 5.0, students will have a second opportunity to pass the course by taking a supplementary examination, which will be held on the same date as the supplementary examination scheduled for students under the continuous assessment system.

The oral presentation is mandatory and cannot be retaken or reassessed.

For this subject, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is allowed exclusively in support tasks, such as bibliographic or information searches. The lack of transparency in the use of AI in assessable activities will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity. The student must clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on its influence on the process and the final result of the activity.