Classes of theory - Lectures: Students will acquire the knowledge of the subject by personally attending the classes taught by the teacher. Subsequently, this knowledge should be complemented with the individual work of thestudent consulting the bibliography that the teacher will indicate and participating in the accomplishment of the programmed activities. Master classes are a type of activity that requires little interaction with the student; they are conceived as a fundamentally unidirectional transmission of knowledge of the teacher towards the student. During the classes, students' participation will be encouraged through the dynamization of classes by the resolution of cases and questions on a regular basis. Also, each student will prepare a topic of his/her choice from a list of proposed topics, which will be exposed in class.

Classes of problems and Seminars: The knowledge acquired in theory classes and in personal study, will be applied to solving problems and/or exercises in the form of practical cases or theoretical assumptions. During this process, we will try tothe participation of students is important. Thus, in these sessions, the solutions proposed by the students will be discussed, based on their autonomous work developed individually or in groups, for previously raised cases. The faculty will helpdevelop critical thinking and logical reasoning, in order to increase students' ability to solve problems.

Practical classes: Laboratory practices will be carried out (3 sessions of 4 h each) related to the topics of the subject through which the student will become familiar with a series of basic laboratory techniques related to the manipulation ofproducts and chemical reagents and biological material as well as the use of small equipment typical of this area of knowledge and the most common instrumental techniques inthis discipline. The laboratory work will be done individuallyand will be supervised by the teacher who will evaluate the students considering their attention and performance in the laboratory as well as the reports (laboratory notebook) made.

Information on "satisfaction surveys": The teacher will allocate approximately 15 minutes of any of the classes at the end of the course to allow the students to answer the evaluation surveys of the teaching performance and the evaluation of the subject.

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.

The skills of this subject may be assessed:

A) continuously through two modules that include written tests and practice reports and/or written assignments, which will be assigned a specific weight in the final grade, or

B) through single assessment

It is necessary to obtain a grade ≥5.0 in the overall evaluation to pass the subject.

NON-ASSESSABLE: A student receives the grade of NOT ASSESSABLE if he/she has only been assessed, at most, on 25% of the tests and leaves the subject.

A) CONTINUOUS EVALUATION

1. Written tests (80%)

They will consist of two compulsory partial exams. In order to consider a student as "Not Presented" (NP) it will be necessary that he/she has not done any of the partial exams or the recovery exam (final exam or repechage).

To pass the subject by partials, you must have a minimum grade of 5.0 points in each partial and the final grade will be the simple average of the marks of the two partials that will be increased with the 10% of the overall grade obtained in the presentation of the theme prepared for each student. For students who do not pass one or both of them, there will be a repechage. In this case, the grade will be the weighted average of the final written test (70%) and of the marks obtained in the two partial tests (remaining 30%).

These exams will consist mainly of short theoretical questions and some practical exercises or cases to solve.

1.a) First partial exam

There will be a first partial exam, which will collect approximately 50% of the subject matter. The mark obtained in this first part will be increased with a 10% of the average mark obtained in the controls carried out in class during the first part of the course. The result of this operation will determine the final grade of the first partial.

1.b) Second partial exam

The second test of evaluation of the subject will be done once the theoretical classes are finished and may include some of the concepts that have already been evaluated in the first partial exam as well as the practical classes. The note obtained in this second partial will be increased with a 10% of the average mark obtained in the controls carried out in class during the second part of the course. The result of this operation will determine the final grade of the second partial.

1.c) Recovery exam

It will be done after the two partials and will include all the course material. In order to attend this final exam (recovery activity), the student must have been previously evaluated in the continuous assessment activities that are equivalent to a minimum of 2/3 of the final grade.

2. Laboratory module (20%)

Students will deliver reports on the practices carried out, and their skills in the laboratory will be assessed

B) UNIQUE ASSESSMENT

Students who have chosen the single assessment modality will have to take a final test which will consist of an exam that will include 100% of the theory explained in class (including the oral presentations of their classmates) and which will consist mainly of short theoretical questions and some practical exercises or cases to solve.

Afterwards the student will have to deliver a Word file and a Power Point presentation corresponding to the preparation of a subject of free choice (that has not been chosen by any of his/her classmates) among those offered at the beginning of the course for the oral presentations of students. Likewise, she/he will hand in the reports of the laboratory practices that are compulsory in-person attendance.

The student's grade will be the weighted average of two of the three previous activities, where the theory exam will account for 80% of the grade and the practice reports the remaining 20%. The final mark of the subject will be calculated by adding to the previous mark the 10% obtained in the preparation of the free-choice theme.

If the final grade does not reach 5, the student has another opportunity to pass the subject through the recovery exam that will be held on the date set by the degree coordinator. In this test the student can recover 80% of the grade corresponding to the theory and the problems. The practice part is not recoverable.

Restricted use of artificial intelligence (AI): For this subject, the use of AI technologies is allowed exclusively in support tasks, such as bibliographic or information search, text correction or translations and the preparation of the topic to be developed. The student should clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used, and include critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final outcome of the activity. The non-transparency of the use of AI in this assessable activity will be considered academic dishonesty and may lead to a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in cases of severity.

The performance of any irregularity in an assessment act (academic fraud, plagiarism or improper use of AI, unless such use is expressly authorized in the teaching guide), which may lead to a significant variation in the grade, means that this act will be graded with a 0. In the event that the teaching guide provides that in order to pass the subject it is an essential requirement to have obtained a minimum grade in this evaluation act or that there are several irregularities in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade of this subject is 0. Apart from this, a disciplinary process may be initiated against the student who incurs in any of these irregularities.