The learning process for this course is structured as follows:

• Directed activities (26.6%). These activities are divided into lectures and practical sessions and seminars led by the instructor, in which theoretical explanations will be combined with the discussion of all kinds of texts. 40 hours

• Supervised activities (10%). These consist of tutorials scheduled by the instructor, devoted to the correction and discussion of difficulties at different levels of literary analysis and contents comprehension. 15 hours.

• Autonomous activities (63.3%). These include time devoted to personal study as well as the completion of the different assessment tasks. 95 hours.

Note: 15 minutes of one class session, within the timetable established by the faculty or the degree program, will be reserved for students to complete evaluation surveys on the teaching performance and on the course or module.

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.

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT will consist of:

• 1 exam (15%): Unit 1

• 1 exam (45%): Units 2, 3, and 4

• 1 learning portfolio (40%): all units

The dates and requirements for each assessment will be provided during the first week of classes and will be available on the Virtual Campus.

Exchange students who need to reschedule an exam must submit a written document from their home university justifying their request to the instructor.

As this is a Basic Training course, a single final assessment system is not allowed.

Grade REVIEW procedure:

At the time each assessment activity is carried out, the instructor will inform students about the procedure and date for reviewing grades.

Requirements to PASS the course:

• Having taken all the scheduled assessments

• Obtaining an overall average grade of 5 or higher across all activities

In the event that a student commits any type of irregularity that may lead to a significant alteration of the grade of an assessment activity, the activity will be graded with a 0, regardless of any disciplinary proceedings that may arise from it. In the event that multiple irregularities are verified in the assessment activities of the same course, the final grade for the course will be 0.

Clarifications regarding to RETAKE assessment:

Students who, after calculating the average of the different assessment activities, do not obtain a grade equal to or higher than 5 may take the resit exam, provided that they meet the following requirements:

• Having completed 2/3 of the assessment activities

• Having obtained a minimum average grade of 3.5 in the assessment activities

• Having no record of irregularities or infractions

• Only failed assessments may be retaken. It is not possible to take the resit in order to improve grades for assessments with a score equal to or higher than 5

• The resit involves retaking all failed assessments, in the event that there is more than one

o Failure to attend an assessment activity will result in a grade of 0, and no alternative date will be scheduled. However, it may be retaken, provided that 2/3 of the assessment activities have been completed, as established by the regulations.

o Certain activities may be excluded from the resit process if the instructor considers that they are not recoverable. These will be specified at the beginning of the course.

Conditions for the “NOT ASSESSED” grade:

• Students will receive a “not assessed” grade if they have not submitted more than 30% of the assessment activities (that is, if they have not completed at least 2 out of the 3 assessments). The “not assessed” status implies that they cannot take the resit assessment.

Plagiarism or fraudulent conduct:

In the event that a student commits any type of irregularity that may lead to a significant alteration of the grade of an assessment activity, it will be graded with a 0, regardless of any disciplinary proceedings that may arise from it. In the event that multiple irregularities are verified in the assessment activities of the same course, the final grade for the course will be 0.

Total or partial plagiarism will result in a fail for the entire course. In other words, all assignments must be original. Total or partial copying of materials already published in any format is not permitted. If non-original material is submitted without indicating its source, the grade for the activity or assignment will automatically be a fail (0).

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

This course allows the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies exclusively for tasks such as bibliographic or information searches, text correction, or translations, at the discretion of the instructors. In the case of philology degree courses, the use of translation must be authorized by the instructors. Other situations may be considered, always with the agreement of the instructors.

Students must: (i) identify the parts that have been generated using AI; (ii) specify the tools used; and (iii) include a critical reflection on how these tools have influenced the process and the final outcome of the activity.

Lack of transparency in the use of AI in assessable activities will be considered a breach of academic integrity and will result in the activity being graded with a 0 and not eligible for resit, or in more severe sanctions in serious cases.

Other matters regarding assessment:

• Spelling, punctuation, and discourse structure will be taken into account. Each mistake will deduct 0.20 points, and any assessment containing more than 10 mistakes will not be corrected further.
• If assessments cannot be carried out in person, their format will be adapted (without altering their weighting) to the possibilities offered by the UAB’s virtual tools.

For the evaluation of the course, it will be considered whether students demonstrate the following abilities:

• Clarity in exposition and argumentation: appropriate structuring of discourse, with coherence and cohesion, thematic progression, proper justification of statements and explanations, etc.

• Ability to analyze and synthesize, going beyond mere description and repetition of arguments from the works and historiographical or theoretical commonplaces; as well as development appropriate to the proposed topic and task.

• Use of theoretical-critical sources: in-depth reading and correct use of the core bibliography of the course.

• Richness and correctness of expression, especially with regard to vocabulary, syntactic structures, and spelling.

• Participation in the development of the course.

Students’ work throughout the entire course, their progress, their involvement in the learning process, and the achievement of the stated competencies will be taken into account. The aim is also for assessment to be formative, that is, integrated and oriented toward improving learning