Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2501915 Environmental Sciences | OT | 4 | 0 |
No prerequisite is requested.
The main objective of the subject is that students apply the knowledge of Geology to the development of models capable of predicting, preventing and / or mitigating environmental problems.
The course will focus on empowering students to evaluate and manage the consequences derived from anthropogenic interference in the geological environment:
-Geo-health: Materials harmful to health
- Savviness and use of geological heritage.
Also when empowering the student in the analysis of the dynamics of natural or anthropogenic geological processes that generate risk, to manage the minimization of these risks.
Finally, we want to give the student tools and geological criteria for the management of the territory.
I. Introduction: geological risks
II. Geological materials harmful to health
III. Risks associated with external geological processes
IV. Risks associated with internal geological processes
V. Geoconservation and management
The directed activities will consist of: master class of theory, practical activities in the classroom and a field trip.
Master class
Theoretical knowledge will be transmitted, mainly, in the classroom through master classes, with support of ICT and debates in a large group. Apart from the selected bibliography, students will have a diversified material for the follow-up of classes. These support materials will be available for students on the virtual campus of the subject and at the libraries. The theoretical knowledge acquired by the students will be evaluated through the written tests.
Practical activities in the classroom
The acquired knowledge will be applied to the practices and simple problems will be solved. Cases of different types of geological risks and their associated cartographies will be interpreted and analyzed.
Field practices
At the field trip the student must acquire a transversal and systemic knowledge of some of the problems worked on the geological risks: recognition of the process, acquisition and validation of data in the field, cartography associated with the risk analyzed. The tasks will be carried out in a group.
The activities will be supported through tutorials in the classroom and at the teacher's office.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Field trip | 7 | 0.28 | 2, 13, 3, 6, 5, 15, 4, 7, 8, 11, 10, 14, 16, 1, 19, 17, 18 |
Master class | 13 | 0.52 | 2, 3, 12, 15, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 10, 14, 16, 1, 18 |
Practical classes | 5 | 0.2 | 2, 13, 3, 15, 4, 7, 8, 11, 10, 14, 16, 1, 19, 17, 18 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorials and follow-up activities proposed, face-to-face and virtually | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 13, 3, 8, 14, 16, 1, 19 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Problem solving, draft reports. | 16 | 0.64 | 2, 13, 3, 15, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 10, 14, 16, 1, 19, 17, 18 |
Study of the subject of examination | 16 | 0.64 | 2, 13, 3, 12, 6, 5, 15, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 10, 14, 16, 1, 18 |
The assessment is carried out throughout the course on a continuous basis, partly in group and in part individually.
-Exam: in this part, the scientific-technical knowledge of the subject obtained by the student, as well as their capacity for analysis and synthesis, and critical reasoning, is evaluated individually. The evaluation of the theoretical contents and part of the practical part of the subject is carried out by means of a minimum of 2 written tests that are carried out throughout the course with a weight of 35% each. The contents will be eliminatory (subsequent tests do not include the contents of the previous ones). The qualification of this part is the average of the two written tests, provided that the marks of each one exceed 4.
-Correction of practical activities in the classroom and in the field (30%): it will correspond to the delivery of the reports of practices resolved during the classroom practices.
To pass the course it is necessary that the average of the tests is approved and that the average of the practical activities is also approved.
When the mark of the continuous evaluation is less than 5, the final exam can be recovered the partial exams suspended.
To ask for a reevaluation the student must have been received a mark in activities that represent at least 2/3 of the global mark during the course.
The two partial tests that will be made jointly on the agreed date for coordination will be subject to recovery. In order to be able to present itself to the recovery it is necessary that the average mark of the continuous assessment corresponds to the reports of classroom and field activities; and of the autonomous course work is equal to or greater than 5.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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1st partial exam | 35 | 1.5 | 0.06 | 2, 13, 3, 12, 6, 5, 15, 4, 7, 8, 11, 10, 14, 16, 1, 19, 17, 18 |
2nd partial exam | 35 | 1.5 | 0.06 | 2, 13, 3, 12, 6, 5, 15, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 10, 14, 16, 1, 19, 17, 18 |
Reports of laboratory and field practices | 30 | 0 | 0 | 2, 13, 3, 6, 5, 15, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 10, 14, 16, 1, 19, 17, 18 |