Theoretical master classes

The teacher will explain the contents of the program with the support of audiovisual material that will be available for students at the Moodle/Virtual Campus section. This support material will be written in English, Catalan or Spanish.

Optionally, seminars by specialists in the field will be held.

Problem cases

Throughout the course you will attend 8 hours of problems’ teaching. Classes will include sessions at the computer room.

Practices

There will be guided tours to large installations with specialized equipment. The Protocol of practices will be available at the Virtual Campus before the practice session. Practices will also include sessions at the computer room.

Students must attend the practice session with the Protocol (available at the Virtual Campus) printed and read beforehand and bring a notebook to write down observations and data.

Practices, as well as its evaluation, will be carried out individually or in groups of two people. Attendance at practical sessions is mandatory, except in cases where there is a justified reason to prove the student absence.

Tutorials

Several tutorial sessions can be held during the semester. The aim of these sessions is to answer questions and review concepts with a high level of difficulty.

Description

The qualification will be based on the following elements:

1 - Final test of theoretical content: a maximum of 7 points

2 – Problems’ reports: maximum 1.5 points

3 - Participation in practices: maximum 1.5 points

The content of the course will be evaluated in two partial exams.

The proportional weight in the final mark for each of the issues will be proportional to the number of hours taught by each teacher.

The course will be overcome when the final mark is equal to or greater than 50 for a maximum of 100.

Other considerations

Students who cannot attend an individual evaluation test due to a justified cause must provide an official documentation to the Coordinator of the course and shall be entitled to perform the corresponding test in a different date.

To be eligible for the retake process, the student should have been previously evaluated in a set of activities equaling at least two thirds of the final score of the course or module. Thus, the student will be graded as \"No Avaluable\" if the weighth in of all conducted evaluation activities is less than 67% of the final score

Rules for improving your mark:

It is possible to improve the note of the midterms exam on the occasion of the Recovery Examination. The second note obtained will be considered as final if this one is higher than the one obtained in the first test.

When the obtained note at the second chance is less than 1 point or more than the first note obtained, the final note considered will be the average of the two notes.

The student will have 10 minutes at the start of the test to decide whether or not to perform the test.

For the maximum award of honours qualification priority will be given to qualifications obtained in midterms’ exam.

Calculation of the final mark:

Final mark = 0.70 * Theory + 0.15 * Problems + 0.15 * Practices

To pass the course the final mark must be≥ 5

Single evaluation:

Students who take advantage of the single evaluation must carry out all the sessions of laboratory practices, practices in the computer room and field trip (visit to the synchrotron).

The single assessment consists of a single synthesis test (with questions of variable format on the contents of the sessions of all types). All assignments commissioned during the course must be delivered either during the corresponding session or on the day of the final exam.

The single assessment test shall be carried out coinciding with the date fixed in the calendar of the final examination for the continuous assessment and the same recovery system shall be applied as for the continuous assessment.

The calculation of the final grade for students who request the single evaluation will be as follows:

Final grade = 0.80 *Theory + 0.10 *Problems + 0.10 *Practices

Fraud and improper use of AI.

The commission of any irregularity in an assessment activity (academic fraud, plagiarism, or improper use of AI, unless such use is expressly authorized in the course guide), which may lead to a significant variation in the grade, means that this activity will be graded with a 0. If the course guide establishes that obtaining a minimum grade in this assessment activity is an essential requirement to pass the subject, or if several irregularities occur in the assessment activities of the same subject, the final grade for that subject is 0. In addition to this, a disciplinary process may be initiated against the student who commits any of these irregularities.