ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 33 Interactive Classroom: 15 Total: 51
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Bromatology
Areas: Analytical Chemistry
Center Faculty of Sciences
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
- Acquire the knowledge to use modern analytical techniques.
- Being able to select the most appropriate methods and instrumental techniques for analysis in the biochemical laboratory.
- Know the instrumental equipment for biochemical analysis.
Theory:
Introduction to instrumental analysis.
Molecular spectroscopy: UV-visible and infrared absorption spectrometry, molecular fluorescence.
Atomic spectroscopy.
Fractionation and isolation techniques. Dialysis, filtration and centrifugation.
Separation techniques. Liquid and gas chromatography.
Electrophoretic techniques: denaturing, two-dimensional, capillary electrophoresis.
Practices:
1.- UV-Visible Spectroscopy.
2.- High Resolution Liquid Chromatography.
3.- Molecular fluorescence
4.- Visit to external laboratories.
Técnicas y métodos de laboratorio clínico. J. M. González de Buitrago, Elsevier, 2010.
Bioquímica clínica, 5ª ed. Alan Gaw y otros. Elsevier, 2015
Bioquímica. Técnicas y métodos. Roca P, Oliver J, Rodríguez AM. Ed. Hélice (2003).
Principios de análisis Instrumental. D. A. Skoog, S.R. Crouch y F.J. Holler. Ed. Cengage Learning Latin America (2008).
Análisis químico cuantitativo. D. C. Harris. Ed. Reverté (2007).
H/D08 - Planify and use the main experimental methods towards the analysis of biological activity, isolation techniques, caracterization of biological molecules, development of therapeutic systems and assessment of active substances.
H/D09 - Proper interpretation of the information from the main bilogical data base (genomic, transcriptomic, metabolomic, etc.) and references data, using computering tools.
Comp01 - Development of the capacity to organize and planify the work, starting from the analysis of circumstances that allow to make decisions.
Comp06 - Development of the capacity to learn on an individual way with initiative and entrepreneurial spirit.
Con04 - To prove the knowledge of the chemical bases that allow the design of any experimental technique for molecules analysis.
H/D01 - To apply properly physical, chemical, mathematical and statistic tools to study biological processes.
Con10 - To acquire the knowledge and distinguish between the different applications of the main experimental methods and their instrumentation.
For the correct acquisition of skills, the following general set of methodologies has been adopted:
1st) Expository teaching.
2nd) Interactive teaching: practices (in the laboratory and/or in the computer room), resolution of problems and/or case studies, visits to companies and facilities, seminars, tutorials in small groups, Virtual Campus.
3rd) Realization of works: Individual or group works (without or with exhibition).
4th) Individual tutorials.
Competency acquisition evaluation system:
For the correct acquisition of competences by the student, the following general evaluation set has been adopted for the degree, common to all subjects, in which one or more of the following aspects will be included:
ASSESSMENT SYSTEM:
Exams
Use of practices
Realization and/or exhibition of works
Participation in classroom activities
The evaluation of this subject consists of a continuous evaluation (25%), which will include carrying out activities and the work developed in the laboratory, and an exam at the end of the semester (75%).
• Continuous evaluation will be carried out through various mechanisms; In the first place, those students who actively participate in the tutorials or in the seminars will be positively evaluated, solving the problems proposed in the bulletins on the blackboard (5%).
Assessed skills: Con04, H/D01
The second will be based on the delivery to the students of certain exercises or activities that they must answer and deliver for correction (10%).
Assessed skills: H/D08, Comp06, Con10
The work developed in the laboratory will be controlled through continuous evaluation in the laboratory and through the reports prepared by the students that they will deliver to the teacher for correction (10% of the final grade).
To pass the subject, the student must obtain the APTO qualification in the laboratory practices.
Assessed skills: H/D08, H/D09, Comp01, Comp06
• Finally, there will be an exam (75%) at the end of the semester that will consist of reasoning questions, both theoretical and practical, in which the student's capacity for deduction and reasoning can be evaluated.
Assessed skills: H/D09, Comp06, Con10
The final grade will be achieved provided that the exam grade (75%) is at least 3.75. In this case, the positive assessment of the work done through the rest of the activities will increase the exam grade up to the total of your score. Attendance at group tutorials and seminars will be mandatory, and will be taken into account when adding this grade to the final grade for the subject.
- ATTENDANCE TO THE TOTALITY OF THE LABORATORY PRACTICES WILL BE MANDATORY TO PASS THE SUBJECT.
- THE INTERNSHIP NOTE WILL BE STORED FOR A MAXIMUM PERIOD OF TWO ACADEMIC YEARS (the one in which it was completed and one more).
-For the evaluation corresponding to the second opportunity, students must repeat the part corresponding to the continuous evaluation and the memory of practices, when in said parts they have not reached at least half of the total qualification, in addition to taking the exam.
The subject consists of 6 ECTs credits. The total number of student work hours is 150 hours, of which 34% are face-to-face work hours and 66% are personal student work hours.
The detailed distribution of student work time is as follows:
Face-to-face work in the classroom
Master classes in large groups (33 hours).
Interactive classes in small groups (Seminars) (3 hours).
Laboratory practice (12 hours).
Tutorials in very small groups (3 hours).
• Total hours of face-to-face work in the classroom or laboratory (51 hours).
Student personal work.
Autonomous, individual or group study (62 hours).
Problem solving (Seminars) (13 hours).
Preparation of laboratory work and reports to be submitted (12 hours).
Resolution of tasks or other exercises (9 hours).
Preparation of group tutorials (3 hours).
• Total hours of personal work of the student (99 hours).
- Attendance and use of expository classes that must be completed, by the student, with the reading of texts and bibliography related to the topics discussed.
- Carrying out the exercises proposed in the bulletins prior to their explanation in the seminars.
- Realization of the individual or group activities proposed in the different topics to establish and reinforce the explained concepts and their practical application.
Classes will be taught in any of the official languages of Galicia: Galician and/or Spanish.
Attendance to expository and interactive classes is considered necessary to pass the subject.
The material that will be provided to the student intends to facilitate and guide their learning, but it does not replace the consultation and study of the recommended reference texts nor do they constitute in themselves a reference manual for the preparation of the exam.
Rosa Maria Peña Crecente
- Department
- Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Bromatology
- Area
- Analytical Chemistry
- Phone
- 982824117
- rosa.penha [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Julia Barciela Garcia
- Department
- Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Bromatology
- Area
- Analytical Chemistry
- julia.barciela [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Carlos Herrero Latorre
- Department
- Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Bromatology
- Area
- Analytical Chemistry
- carlos.herrero [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Ana Maria Botana Lopez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Bromatology
- Area
- Analytical Chemistry
- anamaria.botana [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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