Assessment

EVALUATION 

* The main activities (and the percentages regarding the global qualification) are the following: 

1) Written exams (20%): the individual written exams will assess the content of this course, focusing on basic geographical concepts and key issues. The exams are composed by two parts (10% each). These exams will take place in the classroom, i.e. they require physical presence. The one and only language of the exams will be English.

2) Written introduction to the course the essay (10%): the topic and the places to be studied in the essay have to be agreed with the lecturer during the early weeks of the term. In addition, a written course essay and oral presentation of its summary in the classroom (30%) will be developed: the individual essay will consist of a comparative research focused on international and internal migration in two places (municipalities, regions or countries) located in Europe. The essay will mainly be based on an academic literature review (including books, scientific journal articles, etc.) as well as statistical and cartographical work. At the end of the term, a brief oral presentation of the essay will be offered by the students with the support of a power point file. The one and only language of the essays will also be English.

3) Practical exercises (10%) that will take place on Bellaterra campus and that require physical presence.  

4) Exploratory fieldworks and reports (15%): the exploratory fieldworks will take place on Bellaterra campus and in surroundings areas (e.g. Badia del Vallès town and Bellaterra village). Thus it requires physical presence. Posteriorly, a written report based on that experience should be submitted to the lecturer.

5) Participation in face-to-face debates, on-line forums, reviews, assignments and/or other exercises (15%).  

-The evaluation will be continuous, most activities require physical presenceon Bellaterra campus and some additional activities will be on-line via the virtual campus (Moodle). For instance, there will be in-class practical exercises/assignments, exploratory fieldworks, written exams and an oral presentation in the classroom as well as homework, participation, written essays and assessments.

-The student will have a ‘no evaluable’ as a final grade if s/he hands in 0% of the course tasks. In other words, if the student does more than a 0% of the tasks s/he will be assessed.

-All activities have a deadline that must be met strictly, according to the proposed schedule. For all the activities, the working language is English. 

-The student must take into account the news and information published on the Virtual Campus (Moodle) at least on a weekly basis. Usually, the two days devoted to on-line activities will be Tuesdays and Thursdays. 

-To pass the subject students need a 5 (minimum) as a global final mark.

VERY IMPORTANT: Partial or total plagiarising will immediately result in a FAIL (0) for the plagiarised exercise (first-year subjects) or the WHOLE SUBJECT (second-, third- and fourth-year subjects). PLAGIARISING consists of copying text from unacknowledged sources -whether this is part of a sentence ora whole text- with the intention of passing it off as the student's own production. It includes cutting and pasting fromInternet sources, presented unmodified in the student's own text. Plagiarising is a SERIOUS OFFENCE. Students must respect authors' intellectual property, always identifying the sourcestheymay use; they must also be responsible for the originality and authenticity of their own texts.

RESIT:

-Resit will be offered to those students who did a continuous and on-site course and failed or did not hand just a few of the assignments or failed one of the exams. Some of the tasks cannot be re-evaluated (e.g. participation).

-Resit will consist in a written exam, which will contain all the content given throughout the course, as well as other exercises, essays, fieldworks, reports, etc. that were wrong or were not submitted during the evaluation period.