Assessment

1. System of compulsory attendance to classes

a) Attendance is mandatory. Professors will register absences for each session, which can be justified or unjustified. Absences can only be justified for reasons of illness, other important inconveniences and for academic reasons previously authorized by the teaching staff.

b) If a student does not attend at least 80% of teaching, he or she cannot be evaluated.

c) Justified absences cannot be counted negatively. The professor must enable the student to recover the work done in class in the case of excused absence. This kind of justified absences must be documented. Justified absences are those resulting from situations which prevent students from attending educational activities, such as unexpected illness or similar situations. Teachers may consider also justified absences the situations in which students have to attend (and document) other training activities of the degree.

2. Requirements to pass the course

Students need to have a minimum mark of five in the activities and exercises. The weight of each activity in the final academic notes is marked in the scheme of learning outcomes.

3. Resit

If a student fails any of the activities, he or she will have a possibility of a new evaluation by doing a new activity at the end of the classes.

4. Consequences of fraud

A student who cheats or attempts to cheat in an exam will have zero in the subject and will lose the right to be re-evaluated. A student who presents a practice that has indications of plagiarism or who cannot justify the arguments of his or her practice will obtain 0 as grade and will receive a warning. In case of repetition, the student will receive a zero as final grade and will lose the right of re-assessment. Given that there is no exam in this subject, the last evidence that involves the case study and that weighs 30% of the final mark will receive the same treatment as an exam. 

If a student copies or attempts to copy in the exam, he / she will fail the subject with a zero and will lose the right to re-evaluation. A plagiarism in a task will lead to the suspension of work and recidivism, the suspension of the subject and the loss of the right to reassessment.

5. Late presentations

They are not accepted, except in cases of force majeure. The student will get a zero in the undelivered practice.

6. Excuses

Excuses for fulfilling obligations due to illness or force majeure may be accepted if you have an official certificate. Absences for academic reasons must be previously accepted by the faculty.

7. Punctuality

Classes start on time. Except in duly justified cases, admission to class is not allowed once it has started. It is also not permitted to leave class before the scheduled end time. 

Single assessment system

To pass the single assessment, the student must submit three written pieces of evidence and take an oral examination.

1. A practical exercise on descriptive communication, which has a weight of 15% and which consists in

• Research on communication in conflicts and in particular on non-violent communication as described by Marshall B. Rosenberg.
• Analyse 6 fragments of relevant 20th and 21st century speeches, chosen from a pre-established list,establishing whether the communication is violent or non-violent and establishing proposals for improvement for each of the speeches chosen.

2. An analysis of a current conflict, no more than 3 months old, which has a weight of 20% and consists of:

• Documenting the proposed conflict analysis model.
• Be able to analyse whether a conflict meets the criteria for conflict.
• Be able to identify the parties and third parties involved in the conflict.
• Be able to identify the positions, interests and needs of each of the parties and third parties involved.
• Determine the stage of the conflict, as well as the behaviour of the parties and their strategies.
• Be able to describe the parties' perception of the conflict and their conflict culture.

3. The study of a social conflict relevant to criminology, with the design of an intervention based on the principles of conflictology, with a weight of 30%, which will consist of:

• The complete analysis of the conflict with the model of the previous exercise.
• The use of an intervention model to improve the conditions of the chosen conflict.
• The establishment of a prognosis for the conflict, based on the analysis carried out.

4. The oral examination of a maximum of 45 minutes will consist of an oral presentation of the study carried out on social conflict and of answering questions on the other two exercises carried out and on the theoretical bases of conflictology. The oral exam will have a weight of 35%.