Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Essay	30%	5	0.2	4, 1, 22, 2, 6, 7, 5, 8, 9, 10, 20, 13, 12, 15, 14, 17, 21, 25, 24, 23, 18, 19, 11, 27
Oral presentation	10%	3	0.12	12, 17, 24, 23
Seminar attendance	10%	2	0.08	4, 1, 2, 6, 5, 13, 12, 16, 15, 14, 17, 21, 26, 25, 24, 23, 18, 11, 27
Test 1	25%	5	0.2	4, 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 13, 12, 16, 15, 17, 26, 25, 23, 18, 19, 27
Test 2	25%	5	0.2	4, 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 13, 12, 16, 15, 17, 26, 25, 23, 18, 19, 27

FIRST ENROLMENT STUDENTS

Continuous evaluation

Continuous evaluation consist of the following evaluation activities and percentages:

1. Two partial examinations (test format) related to theoretical content of the subject, and representing 25% of the final grade each. Every partial examination deals with different parts of the content.

To pass the course it is necessary to pass these two exams (Minimum: 5/10 each). If one of the two partial exams is not taken the final grade will be "not assessable".

2. Essay, 30%. At the beginning of the course, seminar lecturers will provide guidelines about the project and its evaluations, as well as about calendar and deadlines. Seminar lecturers are also responsible for follow up and tutorial of student’s projects.

In case that the student doesn’t deliver it or doesn't do it at all, the mark will be “not evaluable”. Taking into account that the module has a continuous evaluation system, if a student is “not evaluable” on the project, he/she will also be “not evaluable” on the module’s final grade.

3. Seminar: Oral exposition, 10%. Required readings will be presented and discussed at seminars. These readings are planned to promote student learning and the application of communication theories to the analysis of reality and current events. The compulsory readings will be, together with the content of the theoretical classes, one of the main axes of the partial exams.

4. Seminar attendance, 10%.

Recuperation

In the event of failing one or both of partial exams, students are entitled to the revaluation: there is no minimum grade, but partial examination (or examinations) has/have to be taken. In the event that the second chance of one of thetwo exams isn’t passed, the final grade of the subject will be the one obtained in this exam (or the average, if both are failed).

There is no second chance for activities 2, 3 and 4.

Single evaluation

Single evaluation consist of the following evaluation activities and percentages:

1. Knowledge control: 50% - Theoretical exam (test format) on the theoretical contents and compulsory readings of the course. To pass the course it is compulsory to pass this exam
2. Completion and delivery of practical an individual essay: 30%
3. Oral presentation of one of the course mandatory readings, 10%. 
4. Delivery of an individual analysis and reflection task for each of the compulsory course readings. 10%

Recuperation

In the event of failing the knowledge control, students are entitled to second chance: there is no minimum grade, but the examination has to be taken.

There is no second chance for activities 2, 3 and 4.

 

SECOND ENROLMENT STUDENTS

In case of second (or third...) enrolment, students can choose between continuous examination (see above) and a single synthesis exam or final examination (test format) with second-chance option (no minimum grade, it is compulsory to have taken the examination in the first chance). The grading of the subject will correspond to the grade of the synthesis or final examination. In the event of failing the second chance examination, the final grade of the subject will be the one obtained in this (second chance) examination.

It will be understood that students from second registration who do not communicate explicitly by e-mail and within the deadline announced at the beginning of the course their evaluationoption will take the synthesis test.

 

CALENDAR

Evaluation and reevaluation dates will be announced on the day of the presentation of the subject. Information will also be uploaded to Virtual Campus.

Plagiarism

In the event that the student performs any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation of an evaluation act, this evaluation act will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that could be instructed. In the event, that several irregularities occur in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade for this subject will be 0.

REVIEW OF QUALIFICATIONS

Ordinary revision of the evaluated activities:

Given the case the student is not satisfied with the grades of his or her different evaluated activities, there will be an option for revising these marks. In the case of the tests and final exam (test type), the ordinary revision will be carried by the lecturers responsible of theory groups. The individual project and seminar participation will be revised with seminar lecturers. Dates and time of ordinary revisions will be made public through UAB’s Virtual Campus.

Extraordinary revision of the module’s final grade:

In case of not agreeing with the final qualification of the module, students will have the right to ask for an extraordinary revision. He or she will have to fill a reasoned request to the Communication Sciences Faculty office within the fifteen days following the publication of the final mark. The revision will be carried out following the extraordinary revision instructions approved by the Faculty Board on 5th May of 2016, and revised in May 2019, and in March 2023, available at:

https://www.uab.cat/web/studies/bachelor-s-degrees/academic-information/evaluation/extraordinary-review-of-the-final-qualification-1345783446223.html