Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2015-16

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Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

General Competences (CG)

  • CG1 : Be able to work efficiently in a team in their professional or research work, acquiring the ability to participate in research projects and scientific or technological collaborations.
  • CG2 : To be able to make quick and effective decisions in complex situations in their professional or research work, through the development of new and innovative work methodologies adapted to the scientific/research, technological or professional field in which they carry out their activity.
  • CG3 : Be able to access the necessary information in the specific field of the subject (databases, scientific articles, etc.) and have sufficient criteria for its interpretation and use.
  • CG4 : Apply critical reasoning and argumentation based on rational criteria.
  • CG5 : To apply science from a social and economic point of view, promoting the transfer of knowledge to society.
  • CG6 : Ability to prepare, write and present reports and projects in public in a clear and coherent manner, to defend them with rigour and tolerance and to respond satisfactorily to any criticism that may arise from their presentation.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE1 : To have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the nature of biodiversity and its ecosystemic relationships both now and in the past.
  • CE12 : To know and understand in depth the regional geology of Spain and peripheral areas, and in particular of the Valencian Community, knowing in detail the main palaeontological landmarks represented in the deposits of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa.
  • CE13 : To know and handle with dexterity the field, laboratory and laboratory techniques for the extraction, preparation, cataloguing, digital reconstructions, study and dissemination of microfossils and macrofossils.
  • CE15 : Conocer y entender las causas del cambio climático y los proxies (estudio de diatomeas, foraminíferos, anillos de crecimiento de árboles, núcleos de hielo, datos del clima actual, etc.) usados para la caracterización de climas del pasado.
  • CE19 : Elaborar de una forma clara y concisa, todo tipo de memorias relacionadas con la temática paleontológica a nivel oficial o profesional (informes, subvenciones, memorias de impacto patrimonial, proyectos de investigación, etc.).
  • CE2 : To understand the nature of the fossil record in relation to the sedimentary process, the biostratinomic and phosildiagenetic phases of the process and the mechanisms of fossilisation.
  • CE23 : Ser capaces de aplicar la experiencia investigadora adquirida para iniciar el desarrollo de la fase investigadora de un programa de doctorado en temas relacionados con la biodiversidad.
  • CE24 : Desarrollar las habilidades experimentales en el manejo de material y equipos de laboratorio en paleontología.
  • CE3 : To know and understand the palaeodiversity of living beings, their ecosystemic relationships and the palaeogeographical distribution achieved by the main groups of living beings throughout the Earth's history.
  • CE4 : To know, understand and draw conclusions, applicable to the present time, about the crises of biological diversity, its causes and consequences within the framework of actualism.
  • CE5 : To understand in depth the historical nature of the evolutionary process, both in its aspects of unrepeatability and contingency, and in those linked to the fulfilment of laws of nature of all kinds and, therefore, of necessity.
  • CE6 : To know and understand past biological events, as well as the zonations, in time and space, of biota in order to establish the relative stratigraphic position of sedimentary rocks from different geographical areas.
  • CE7 : Know and be fluent in the divisions of the geological time scale, and the biostratigraphic scales constructed from different groups of biota in the fossil record.
  • CE8 : To be able to interpret environmental and ecological variables of the past from the study of trace organisms in the fossil record.

 

Basic Competences and Competences included under the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education (MECES)

  • CB10 : Saber aplicar esos conocimientos al mundo profesional, contribuyendo al desarrollo de los Derechos Humanos, de los principios democráticos, de los principios de igualdad entre mujeres y hombres, de solidaridad, de protección del medio ambiente y de fomento de la cultura de la paz.
  • CB6 : Poseer y comprender conocimientos que aporten una base u oportunidad de ser originales en el desarrollo y/o aplicación de ideas, a menudo en un contexto de investigación.
  • CB7 : Ser capaces de integrar conocimientos y enfrentarse a la complejidad de formular juicios a partir de una información que, siendo incompleta o limitada, incluya reflexiones sobre las responsabilidades sociales y éticas vinculadas a la aplicación de sus conocimientos y juicios.
  • CB8 : Poseer las habilidades del aprendizaje que les permiten continuar estudiando de un modo que habrá de ser en gran medida autodirigido o autónomo.
  • CB9 : Saber comunicar las conclusiones, y los conocimientos y las razones últimas que las sustentan, a públicos especializados y no especializados de un modo claro y sin ambigüedades.

 

Transversal Competences

  • CT1 : Ser capaces de acceder a herramientas de información en otras áreas del conocimiento y utilizarlas apropiadamente.
  • CT2 : Ser capaces de valorar la necesidad de completar su formación científica, histórica, en lenguas, en informática, en literatura, en ética, social y humana en general, asistiendo a conferencias o cursos y/o realizando actividades complementarias, autoevaluando la aportación que la realización de estas actividades supone para su formación integral.
  • CT3 : Proyectar la inquietud intelectual y fomentar la responsabilidad del propio aprendizaje.
  • CT4 : Asumir el compromiso ético y la sensibilidad hacia los problemas medioambientales, hacia el patrimonio natural y cultural.
  • CT5 : Capacidad para la comunicación y divulgación de ideas científicas.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2015-16

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General

Code: 38369
Lecturer responsible:
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Credits ECTS: 3,00
Theoretical credits: 0,72
Practical credits: 0,48
Distance-base hours: 1,80

Departments involved

  • Dept: UNIVERSIDAD DE VALÈNCIA ESTUDI GENERAL
    Area: UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA ESTUDI GENERAL
    Theoretical credits: 0,72
    Practical credits: 0,48
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

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