Although the professor will use lectures to convey knowledge of the core aspects of each topic, students must take an active part in the learning process (interactive lecture). In this regard, initiatives will be promoted concerning inquiry, motivation and the process of understanding things, and students will have to create them and adapt them to their own learning process. The professor will carry out tasks of orientation, guidance and reinforcement of those aspects that present greater difficulty. Abundant bibliographic material will be made available to students, including theoretical content as well as exercises. In order to foster critical reasoning, discussion and reflection on the part of the student, working groups will be set up in problem-solving classes and seminars with the aim of completing the learning process through group discussion.

Prohibited use: "In this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is not permitted at any stage. Any work that includes AI-generated fragments will be considered a breach of academic honesty and may entail a partial or total penalty on the grade for the activity, or greater sanctions in serious cases."

Classes will be taught in Catalan.

Continuous evaluation system

Individual written tests: at the end of the second chapter, an individual written test will be carried out on chapters 1 and 2; this test will have a weight of 30% in the final grade. Also, at the end of the fourth chapter, an individual written test will be carried out on chapters 3 and 4; Likewise, this test will have a weight of 30% in the final grade.

Delivery of exercise blocks: Throughout the course, the student must submit a series of proposed exercise blocks on homogeneous parts of the subject. The blocks of exercises will be carried out by groups of between 3 and 4 students. The weight of these blocks of exercises is 20% of the final grade.

Participation: the student's participation will be assessed through a series of controls in class and the completion of the corresponding seminars. Class attendance and tutorials will also be taken into account. The weight of participation is 20% of the final grade.

Individual written tests, the delivery of exercises and participation make up the continuous assessment system. For the calculation of the final grade of continuous assessment, a minimum grade of 3 will be required for individual tests.

In the event that a student, through this continuous assessment system, obtains a grade equal to or higher than 5, but without reaching the minimum grade of 3 in any of the midterms, and does not present himself for the recovery, the final grade will be 4.5.

Recovery

Those students who have not passed the subject through continuous assessment will have a final test consisting of a retake exam for the entire subject and in some specific cases for one of the two parts (those who have a grade equal to or greater than 5 in one of the tests).

In these cases, the continuous assessment system will no longer be taken into account (the marks of the exercise blocks and the participation mark will not be taken into account). When the exam is for the entire subject, the student will have to get a 5 to pass. When the exam is for one part, the final grade will be the average mark between the mark obtained in the retake exam and the mark of the individual test already passed.

In order to participate in the recovery, the student must have previously evaluated activities that account for a minimum of 2/3 of the final grade of the subject.

To obtain honors, in addition to obtaining a minimum grade of 9, the student must have satisfactorily participated in the continuous assessment system.

A student will be considered as non-assessable if they do not appear for any of the individual tests.

Each student must go to the evaluation test scheduled by their group. In the event of not being able to attend, for whatever reason, any of the partial tests, their recovery will only be made on the day of the recovery test. No extraordinary tests will be scheduled.

Once the final grades have been presented on the Virtual Campus, a period of grade review will be opened.

Second-enrollment students must go through the same evaluation process as first-enrollment students.

Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures that are deemed appropriate, and in accordance with current academic regulations, irregularities committed by a student that may lead to a variation in the grade will be graded with a zero (0). For example, plagiarizing, copying, allowing copying, ..., an evaluation activity, will imply suspending this evaluation activity with a zero (0). Assessment activities graded in this way and by this procedure will not be recoverable.  If it is necessary to pass any of these assessment activities to pass the subject, this subject will be directly suspended, with no opportunity to make it up in the same year.

The dates of continuous evaluation and submission of works will be published on the virtual campus and may be subject to changes in programming for reasons of adaptation to possible incidents. The virtual campus will always be informed about these changes as it is understood that this is the usual platform for the exchange of information between professors and students.

Unique Evaluation System

Students opting for the unique evaluation will have a first exam covering the entire subject on the day of the second partial exam for continuous evaluation students. To pass, a minimum score of 5 will be required.

Recovery for Unique Evaluation

Students who do not pass the first exam will be able to take a recovery exam, also covering the entire subject, on the final exam dates scheduled for continuous evaluation students. The passing score will also be a 5.