ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Particle Physics, Mathematics
Areas: Condensed Matter Physics, Algebra
Center Faculty of Education Sciences
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
To know and to think about the nature and structure of science and about the scientific work.
• Historical evolution of life sciences, nature and mathematics. Great Ideas: Science in Classical Greece. Arab hegemony. s. XVII, Galileo, Descartes, Newton and Leibniz.
• Obstacles and errors that have arisen in the development of science: Measurement of the meridian and the Law of Gravitation. The study of heat: from phlogiston to mechanical theory.
• Scientific method: Origin of the scientific method. The scientific method applied to experimental sciences.
• Science, society and technology: Science as a social institution. Political-scientific controversies. Science and ethics.
Basic
• Bunch, B.H. & Hellemans, A. (2004). The history of science and technology: a browser's guide to the great discoveries, inventions, and the people who made them, from the dawn of time to today. Houghton Mifflin.
• Derry, G.N. (1999). What science is and how it works. Princeton University Press.
• Mak, D.K., Mak, A.T. & Mak, A. B. (2009). Solving everyday problems with scientific method. World Scientific Publishing Co.
Complementary
• Boyer, C.B. (1991). A History of Mathematics. John Wiley & Sons.
• Bunch, B.H. (2004). The history of science and technology. Houghton Mifflin.
• Fernández Rañada, A. (1995). Los muchos rostros de la ciencia. Nobel, D.L.
• MacGinn, R.E. (1991). Science, technology and society. Prentice Hall.
• Newman, J.R. (1962). ¿Qué es la ciencia?. Aguilar.
• Pledge, H. T. (1996). Science since 1500: a short history of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology. Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
• Riveros, H.G. & Rosas, L. (1982). El método científico aplicado a las ciencias experimentales. Trillas.
• Rosas, L. & Riveros, H.G. (1985). Iniciación al método científico experimental. Trillas.
• Sánchez Ron, J.M. (1999). Cincel, martillo y piedra: historia de la ciencia en España (siglos XIX y XX). Taurus.
• Schlager, N (Ed.). (2000). Science and its times: Understanding the social significance of scientific discovery. The Gale Group.
(CG4) To seek, to obtain, to process and to communicate information (oral, printed, audiovisual, digital or multimedia), to transform it in knowledge and to apply it to the processes of teaching and learning in the matters specific to the specialisation studied.
(CG16) To work as a team with other professionals of the education, enriching its training.
(CG17) To develop habits and attitudes to learn to learn throughout its later professional development.
(CE-G13) To know and to apply education resources and strategies in the respect and value of the linguistic diversity and its educational implications.
(CE-E1) To know the training and cultural value of the matters corresponding to the specialisation.
(CE-E3) To know the recent history and developments of the matters and its perspectives in order to transmit a dynamic vision of the same.
(CE-E8) To promote a climate that provides the learning and puts in value the contributions of the students.
(CE-E9) To integrate the training in audiovisual and multimedia communication in the process of teaching-learning.
(CT-1) To use bibliography and search tools of general and specific library resources, including the access for Internet.
(CT-3) To promote the skills for the work in cooperative and multi-disciplinary environments.
The work in the classroom in the lectures consists, fundamentally, in teaching given by the teachers. Sometimes the model will be closer to that of the lecture, sometimes the involvement of all the students will be sought in the discussion of the issues raised. In face-to-face teaching, the interactive classes aim for a greater active participation of the students. It may have different formats, sometimes questions prepared by the students, not previously explained, will be addressed; sometimes it will be dedicated to the monographic discussion of questions that are difficult to understand. In general, it will be more practical in orientation than the lecture sessions. Eventually, the delivery in writing of some activities, or the summary or comment of any proposed reading will be required. All the students' tasks (studies, work, use of platforms, projects, readings, exhibitions, ...) will be guided by the teachers. The teachers will send the information on the topics covered, the activities to be carried out, and the grades through the virtual classroom.
The tutorials of the subject may be, for all students, face-to-face or through the Teams application. These tutorials will be organized at the request of each student at predetermined times and will consist of the presentation of doubts by the students that will be resolved collaboratively together with the teacher and/or other students. Tutorials are not mandatory.
First opportunity:
The evaluation will be carried out:
- By written test, at the end of the semester, on the contents of the theoretical and practical part (60% of the grade).
- Continuous evaluation (40% of the qualification): 1. A written work that will be exposed and discussed on a specific topic of the block: Historical evolution of the life sciences, nature and mathematics, in which they will be valued the presentation, the contents, the exposition and the defense (up to 3 points). 2. Attendance and participation in interactive classes (up to 1 point). These activities will be carried out in groups.
- In the case of students who have an exemption from attending class (instruction No. 1/2017 of the General Secretariat of the USC), the evaluation will be carried out by means of a written test on the official date (75% of the qualification) and the realization of a written work on a specific topic in the block: Historical evolution of life sciences, nature and mathematics (25% of the mark).
Second opportunity:
For the evaluation of the second opportunity, a written exam will be carried out. The grade will be calculated in the same way as described for the first opportunity.
For the computation of the final grade (F), the continuous assessment (C) and the exam grade (Y) will be taken into account and the following formulas will be applied:
- Students attending the class: F = max (Y, 0.4 * C + 0.6 Y).
- Students with dispensation: F = max (Y, 0.25 * C + 0.75 Y) The minimum score to pass the subject will be a 5 (out of a maximum of 10).
Second Chance: The score (C) obtained in the continuous evaluation of the first call is kept and a new final test will be carried out. (Y).
Class meeting:
Expositive lessons: 9 h
Interactive lessons: 12 h
Work hours total in person: 21
Independent work:
Individual self-study or in group: 21
Writing exercises, conclusions or other derivative works of the subject: 10
Preparation of debates, oral presentations or similar: 5
Library activities, recommended readings, seek bibliographic: 15
Total hours working personal: 51
Class attendance and participation in the proposed activities.
- The works carried out by the students must be delivered, preferably, through telematic means.
- ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY- In relation to personal or group work carried out for the subject, the following indications must be taken into account: - Avoid plastic caps or other unnecessary external packaging. - Whenever possible, use clamps instead of gutters. - Print both sides in "ink saving" quality. - Do not use blank pages as separators for chapters or parts. - Avoid annexes that do not have direct reference to the topics developed.
- GENDER PERSPECTIVE: In attention to criteria of gender equality in the university environment, it is recommended to make use of non-sexist language both in the classroom work and in the academic work assigned.
- Mandatory use of the rai email account.
- Compulsory use of institutional technological tools: Virtual Campus, Microsoft Office 365, and other tools provided by the faculty and authorized as institutional tools by the university.
- The mobile phone may not be used, except when it is used as a work tool following the instructions given by the teacher, the student being responsible for the legal and academic consequences that may arise from its inappropriate use.
- Bear in mind that teaching-learning (classes / tutorials) is a private process, understood as a process of communication and exchange between the teacher and the students enrolled in the subject.
- Compulsory compliance with data protection regulations https://www.usc.gal/es/politica-privatidad-protección-data
Leovigildo Alonso Tarrio
- Department
- Mathematics
- Area
- Algebra
- Phone
- 881813159
- leo.alonso [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Carolina Torron Casal
Coordinador/a- Department
- Particle Physics
- Area
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Phone
- 881814023
- carolina.torron [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
| Monday | |||
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| 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | CLASSROOM 5 (LIFE CAMPUS-Module A) |
| Tuesday | |||
| 16:00-17:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | CLASSROOM 5 (LIFE CAMPUS-Module A) |
| Thursday | |||
| 18:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | CLASSROOM 5 (LIFE CAMPUS-Module A) |
| 01.17.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | CLASSROOM 9 (LIFE CAMPUS-Module A) |
| 06.24.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | CLASSROOM 9 (LIFE CAMPUS-Module A) |