Students will have to develop different types of activities throughout this course:

 a) Guided activities: Theoretical classes and exercises will be held in the classroom. On the other hand,
 students will also carry out laboratory experiments consisting of the synthesis and / or characterization of supramolecular systems.
All the materials needed for these activities will be found in the space of the course on the Virtual Campus.

b) Supervised activities: Tutorial classes would be done in order to monitor one of the assessment activities
that students must work on, which consists in reading, understanding and writing a scientific article related to the subject.

c) Autonomous activities: Students will have to study the contents of the course, solve problems,
 prepare laboratory experiments, summarize and present a scientific article.

 

The assessment will have two options: continuous assessment, and single assessment.

OPTION A: Continuous assessment (this is the option by default)

The assessment will be carried out by means of several evidences:

Written exams: There will be two midterm exams throughout the course, one in the middle and the other at the end of the semester.

Each of these exams will have a weight of 35% on the final grade. If the average mark of these two exams is less than 5, a final exam will be required at the end of the semester (as long as more than 2/3 of assessment tasks have been passed), which will include the contents of the whole course, and the mark will be the 70% of the total (it will replace the partial exams).

In order to do the final exam the student will have to appear in both partial sessions. Students wanting to improve their mark may also be present at the final exam; If the mark of this exam is greater than the average of the two partial exams, the final exam will be the 70% of the final. Otherwise, the exam grades will correspond to the final exam mark.

Laboratory: Laboratory experiments will be evaluated by carrying out a small written test at the end of the last practice session, which will be equal to 15% of the final mark of the subject.

Written work on a scientific article: The students will be distributed in groups of 3-5 students, and each of these groups will be assigned a subject related to the contents of the subject. Students will have to look for a scientific article focused on this topic, read it, analyze it, and prepare a presentation in the English language that will be evaluated. This activity will have a weight of 15% on the final grade of the subject.

In order to pass the subject, students must have:

1) An average grade of exams exceeding 5.

2) An average grade over 5.

3) Have attended the three practice sessions in the laboratory. In the event of having completed less than one third of the evaluable evidence of the course and / or having failed in an unjustified manner in any of the practice sessions in the laboratory, the students will be evaluated as \"not presented\".

OPTION B: Single assessment (to select this option, the student must communicate it to the Academic Office (Gestión Académica) of the Faculty of Sciences and to the professor or professors of the subject in the periods of time established for the purpose)

The single assessment is exclusively applied to the written exams, and it will consist in a single exam where all the contents of the subject will be evaluated with exercises of different typology (multiple choice, problem solving, concepts development, etc.).

The mark of this assessment will count the 70% of the final mark for the subject. The other percentage will be obtained by making the laboratoy exercises (15%) and by making the work/report on the scientific paper (15%). To pass this subject the student must get a mark greater than 5,0 over 10 in this test, to attend the laboratory exercises and to have obtained an overall mark greater then 5,0 over 10.

The single assessment of the written exams will be at the same day, time and place than the last written test of the continuous assessment. Those students getting marks lower than 5,0, will have a second opportunity to retake the assessment which will be at the same day, time and place that the retake exam for the continuous assessment, providing the student had follow the laboratory exercises and performed the report/work on the scientific paper.

For this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted exclusively for support tasks, such as literature or information searches, text proofreading, translations, and similar activities, and only when authorized by the instructor; their use is never permitted in written examinations. Students must clearly identify which parts of their work have been generated using AI technologies, specify the tools employed, and include a critical reflection on how these tools have influenced both the process and the final outcome of the activity. Failure to disclose the use of AI in any assessed activity will be considered a breach of academic integrity and may result in a partial or complete penalty in the activity grade, or more severe sanctions in serious cases.

The commission of any irregularity in an assessment activity (academic fraud, plagiarism, or misuse of AI, unless such use is expressly authorized in the teaching guide) that could lead to a significant variation in the grade will result in that activity being graded as a 0. In the event that the teaching guide stipulates that obtaining a minimum grade in that assessment activity is an essential requirement to pass the course, or if multiple irregularities occur in the assessment activities of the same course, the final grade for that course will be 0. Aside from this, disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against the student who commits any of these irregularities.