Universitat de les Illes Balears

Students attending this BIP can have a simple attendance certificate issued (provided that they attend 80% of the sessions) but if they want a certificate awarding them with 3 ECTS they will also need to be assessed. WE ENCOURAGE STUDENTS COMING FROM ANY OF THE THREE UNIVERSITIES IN OUR ERASMUS+ CONSORTIUM (Kosice, Bucharest or Salzburg) TO APPLY TO BE ASSESSED, AS THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE ERASMUS NATIONAL AGENCIES WILL BE MONITORING. 

Note should be taken that the very concept of ECTS implies some autonomous work on the part of the students, who should read all the necessary materials prior to each session when applicable. 

A. Assessment for online live teaching (March 2023 – May 2023) 

Students are expected to select ONE session of their own choice and write a response paper (1200-1500 words). A response paper is a genre of academic writing describing your experience with a book, article, poem, movie or, in this case, with the course contents of a session. It should provide a short comprehensive summary of the work the student has engaged with and a formal assessment of it, his/her thoughts and opinions on it, and be backed up by evidence. 

These response papers will be marked by the lecturer(s) in charge of the particular session each paper addresses. Students are requested to submit their response papers by 12 June as e-mail attachments sent to the three convenors (jose-igor.prieto@uib.es, fruela.fernandez@uib.cat and r.jarazo@uib.es), who will in turn forward them to the relevant lecturer(s) for correction. The marks obtained here will account for 25% of their final grade. 

B. For programmed instruction (July 2023) 

1. Class participation will be graded (50 per cent of the final grade). Assessment criteria: (1) whether the student participates when requested to do so; (2) whether the student participates spontaneously; (3) whether his/her contributions show interest; (4) whether such contributions can be taken as evidence of having completed compulsory reading assignments; (5) whether such contributions can be taken as evidence of complementary reading on the part of the student; and (6) whether the student’s contributions somehow enrich class discussions. Regular attendance (80 per cent of the sessions) is a condition sine qua non for class participation to be graded. 
2. Students are expected to select ONE session of their own choice and write a response paper (1200-1500 words) (see above) (25 per cent of the final grade). Once again, these response papers will be marked by the lecturer(s) in charge of the particular session each paper addresses. Students will be requested to submit their response papers by 11 September as e-mail attachments sent to the three convenors (jose-igor.prieto@uib.es, fruela.fernandez@uib.cat and r.jarazo@uib.es), who will again forward them to the relevant lecturer(s) for correction. The marks obtained here will account for 25% of their final grade. 

* Teaching staff at state-funded secondary schools in the Balearic Islands are eligible to add this activity to their self-training record ('itinerari d'autoformació') as part of the Teaching Staff Lifelong Learning Programme ('Formació permanent del professorat'). 

Should this be the case, assessment requirement B.2 above will be replaced with a didactic application proposal, which should include the creation of sharable, easily re-usable interactive content or user-friendly, game-like learning management systems integrating audio, video, images and text. 

** Course recognized as a specific training activity of the PhD program in Philosophy and Philosophy of the UIB. 

Please note that a ‘Distinction’ grade will not granted unless the lecturer specifically requests it in a particular case.