** The practical activities will be carried out individually and/or in groups.

• Continuous monitoring activity:

At the beginning of each session, the first five minutes will be devoted to answering in writing a short, basic-level question related to the content covered in the previous session. Each student will be assigned a question at random from among those related to the material taught.

Taken together, these questions will account for 2.5 % of the final grade and will form part of the individual and/or group practical activities component, which carries an overall weighting of 30 %.

Given its brief, continuous nature and its purpose of monitoring learning progress, this activity will not be eligible for reassessment.

• Criteria for passing the course:

To pass the course, students must obtain a grade of 5 or higher in each of the three assessment components separately.

If any of the three components is not passed, the course will be considered failed even if the weighted average grade is 5 or higher. In such cases, the maximum final grade will be 4.9.

Students will only be required to reassess the component they have not passed. In the case of individual and/or group practical activities, only the failed activities will need to be reassessed.

A student will be considered “Not assessable” if they have not provided sufficient assessment evidence to determine an overall grade for the course, in accordance with the criteria established in the University’s academic regulations.

• Reassessment:

The theoretical exam will be the only component that may be reassessed even if the student did not sit it during the initial assessment period, provided that the general requirements for participating in the reassessment process are met.

In the case of individual and/or group practical activities and the integrative project, all required submissions must have been handed in within the established deadlines before reassessment. Otherwise, the activity will not be eligible for reassessment.

Students who have had to reassess any of the assessment components will not be eligible for an honours grade.

• Submission of activities:

Submissions handed in after the established deadline will not be accepted, except in duly justified cases. In the absence of a justified reason, the corresponding activity will receive a grade of 0.

Any circumstances preventing an activity from being submitted within the established deadline must be communicated to the teaching staff as soon as possible and supported by documentary evidence. Technical problems will only be considered a justified reason when they can be adequately documented.

• Language accuracy criteria:

Linguistic accuracy will also be taken into account in practical activities, assignments and other submissions. Each spelling error may result in a penalty of 0.1 points, up to a maximum deduction of 1.5 points per activity.

• Academic integrity:

Total or partial plagiarism in any assessment activity will result in a grade of 0 for the activity concerned, without prejudice to any disciplinary proceedings that may be initiated.

Copying between students, submitting another person’s work as one’s own, and the total or partial reuse of work previously submitted will also be considered academic misconduct.

If several instances of misconduct occur in the course assessment activities, the final grade will be 0.

• Use of artificial intelligence tools:

The use of artificial intelligence tools is permitted as an occasional support resource during the learning process, provided that they do not replace the student’s own work.

These tools may not be used to generate exercises, activities or submissions in their entirety, nor to automatically complete tasks that are subject to assessment. Students are responsible for the authorship, accuracy and correctness of the content they submit and must be able to explain and justify the procedure followed and the results obtained.

When required by the teaching staff, students must declare their use of such tools and specify which tools were used, for what purpose and in which parts of the work.

Improper use of artificial intelligence, particularly when it involves replacing the student’s own work, generating an activity in its entirety or concealing the true authorship of the work, will be considered academic misconduct and will result in the application of the measures provided for in the assessment regulations.

• Single assessment:

This course does not offer the single-assessment option.