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: Organisation of Companies and Commercialisation, Forensic Science, Pathological Anatomy, Gynaecology and Obstetrics and Paediatrics
Areas: Business Organisation, Toxicology
Center Faculty of Sciences
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
- To be able to identify the company as an open system.
- To understand the institutional and legal framework of the company.
- To comprehend the organization and management of companies.
- To know the functional subsystems.
- To know the terminology used in the field of Industrial Administration and Organization.
- To understand the ethical principles in the field of biochemical research.
1. Concept of company and entrepreneur
2. Limitations of the administrators
3. Investment and financing subsystem
4. Marketing subsystem
5. Management and human resources subsystem
6. Production subsystem
7. Principles of bioethics. Bioethics and human and animal research. Ethics in scientific publication.
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Ganaza Vargas, J. G. (2017). Introducción a la economía de la empresa. Madrid: Pirámide
González Domínguez, F. J., & Ganaza Vargas, J. D. (2017). Fundamentos de Economía de la empresa. Madrid: Pirámide.
Gracia, D. (2008). Fundamentos de bioética. Humanidades médicas. Madrid: Triacastela.
Hernández Arriaga, J. L. (2002). Ética en la investigación Biomédica. Madrid: Manual Moderno.
Maynar Mariño, P., Bañegil Palacios, T. M., & Galera Casquet, C. (2008). La economía de la empresa en el espacio europeo de educación superior. Madrid: Mc-GrawHill
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Armstrong, G., Kotler, P., Merino, M. J., Pintado, T., & Juan, J. M. (2011). Introducción al marketing (3ª edición). Madrid: Pearson.
Carrasco, M. A., Pastor, L. M., & Valera, L. (2022). 50 años de Bioética. El futuro es hoy. Tirant Lo Blanch.
Curto Rodríguez, E., García Chas, R., & Castro Casal, C. (Coord.) (2016). Introducción a la dirección de empresas. Madrid: Pearson.
Robbins, S. P., Coulter, M., & DeCenzo, D. A. (2017). Fundamentos de Administración. México: Pearson.
Sánchez González, M. A. (2021). Bioética en ciencias de la salud (2ª edición). Madrid: Elsevier.
Santesmases Mestre, M., Merino Sanz, J. J., Sánchez Herrera, J., & Pintado Blanco, T. (2018). Fundamentos de marketing (2ª edición). Madrid: Pirámide
Specific bibliography may be recommended for the different contents.
H/D13: Adequately apply the knowledge and techniques acquired in the different subjects of the degree to analyse a complex situation or concept and find a way to solve it.
Comp01: Develop the ability to organise and plan work appropriately, based on a synthesis and analysis that allows decisions to be made.
Comp05: Collaborate in interdisciplinary teams in any work environment, based on knowledge of the environment and the legal regulations in force.
Con11: Adequately interpret the institutional and legal framework in the business sphere, protection of intellectual and industrial property, ethical and bioethical aspects, etc.
The lecture sessions (33 hours) will be used to introduce the basic contents of the topics that make up the program, emphasizing the particularly relevant aspects and the relationships between them.
During the practical sessions, problem solving will be approached by means of the case study methodology. In the seminars (3 hours) and laboratory sessions (12 hours), work such as the resolution of exercises and cases, search for information or analysis of documents and readings, among others, will be addressed. In many cases, after their elaboration, they will be discussed and/or debated (class presentation). Some activities will be addressed individually and others in groups; some will be solved in their entirety during class time; others will be started during class time and must be addressed/completed during the students' autonomous work, and others will be prepared during the time dedicated to autonomous work and will be solved during class time. The teacher will guide this autonomous work during tutorial hours (mainly in group tutorial sessions: 3 hours), which will serve to resolve doubts and solve problems faced by the students in the teaching-learning process. The tutorials will also serve as a feedback channel on the results obtained.
The Virtual Classroom will be used as a communication and teaching support tool.
The development of the sessions will be carried out in the established class schedules, and attendance at the sessions (lectures, seminars, and laboratory sessions) is compulsory if you want to score in the continuous assessment. The additional tutorial hours (not scheduled in the timetable of the subject) will be carried out preferably in person, although in some instances they can also be carried out virtually, synchronously (through the institutional platform MS Teams) or asynchronously (through the virtual campus). In any case, they will be developed in the timetable officially published by the faculty.
The evaluation system will take into account all the students' activities: theoretical exams, assignments, and case studies carried out in the seminar and laboratory sessions, presentations of work, and active participation in classes and debates.
There are two opportunities to pass the subject. Students who do not pass the subject on the first opportunity have the right to a second one, which will appear in their academic record if the grade achieved is higher.
Class attendance, both expository and interactive (seminars and laboratory sessions), is compulsory. According to the ‘Regulations for class attendance in official undergraduate and master's degree courses of the USC’, approved by the Governing Council on 25 November 2024, UNEXCUSED absences, in any of the scheduled classes, will result in a reduction of the continuous assessment grade in the following proportion and with the following particularities:
- From 0 to 5 absences: 0 points deduction in the continuous assessment if the absences occur in the lecture sessions. If the unexcused absence affects the seminar or laboratory activities, the student will lose the mark corresponding to that interactive activity.
- From 6 to 10 absences: 0.25 points deduction in the total continuous assessment and loss of marks corresponding to seminars and laboratory activities, if the absence corresponds to any of these activities.
- From 11 to 15 absences: 0.50 points deduction in the total continuous assessment and loss of marks corresponding to seminars and laboratory activities, if the absence corresponds to any of these activities.
- More than 16 absences: 1 point deduction in the total continuous assessment and loss of marks corresponding to seminars and laboratory activities, if the absence corresponds to any of these activities.
EXCUSED ABSENCES from lectures will not impact the continuous assessment. If they occur in seminars and laboratory sessions, new activities will be proposed to the students with a new submission deadline.
The evaluation system for these two opportunities, both for first-time students and repeating students, is shown below:
First ordinary opportunity. Continuous assessment is contemplated, combined with a final test.
A. Continuous assessment (weight in the final grade: 30%), distributed as follows:
- A1. Laboratory practices performance (24% of the grade).
- A2. Elaboration of the work assigned in the seminars (6% of the grade).
Each of the activities proposed to the students will be evaluated in a 70/30 proportion (70% content; 30% presentation and active participation in resolving the problems and debates in class).
In this part, the following competences will be evaluated:
- Laboratory practices performance: Con11, H/D13, Comp01, Comp05.
- Elaboration of the work assigned in the seminars: Con11, H/D13, Comp01, Comp05.
B. Final exam of contents (weight in the final grade: 70%): compulsory test in which the learning results will be evaluated, and may include short answer questions, multiple choice questions, short reasoning questions, or cases (real or hypothetical) that students must give a solution, based on the theoretical contents of the subject and/or on the skills/competences developed throughout the term.
In this part, the following competences will be evaluated: Con11, H/D13.
To add B and A the student must obtain a minimum of 2.8 out of 7 in the final exam. The combined grade reach at least 5 out of 10 to pass the subject.
Students who do not obtain any score linked to the activities carried out in the lectures or interactive sessions can only get a maximum of 7 points in this call.
Second extraordinary opportunity:
The same evaluation system will be applied as in the first opportunity. A new final exam of contents will be carried out, with the weighting established for the first opportunity, which will be added to the score achieved in the continuous assessment.
Following the Permanence Regulations in force in USC for Bachelor and Master studies (art. 5.2), mere attendance and/or participation in any of the activities subject to evaluation will result in a different final grade from NOT PRESENTED.
Students officially exempted from attendance according to the ‘Reglamento de asistencia a clase en las enseñanzas de Grado y Máster de la USC’, approved by the Consejo de Gobierno on 25 November 2024, will be assessed with a specific final exam that will be worth 100% of the mark.
For cases of fraudulent conduct during exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of students' academic performance and grade review will apply.
The subject has 6 ECTS credits assigned. Each credit is equivalent to 25 hours, so the workload for students is 150 hours. Face-to-face activities include 33 hours of lectures, 12 hours of interactive laboratory sessions, 3 hours of interactive seminars, and 3 hours of tutorial sessions. The student's personal work amounts to 99 hours.
- Attend and participate in lectures, laboratory sessions, and seminars.
- Consult the recommended bibliography.
- Review the materials recommended by the faculty and/or delivered physically or through the virtual classroom.
- Seek clarification from the faculty, using the tutorial hours and all available means of communication.
The teaching will be conducted in Galician and Spanish.
Paula Vazquez Rodriguez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Organisation of Companies and Commercialisation
- Area
- Business Organisation
- Phone
- 982824475
- paula.vazquez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Elena Lendoiro Belio
- Department
- Forensic Science, Pathological Anatomy, Gynaecology and Obstetrics and Paediatrics
- Area
- Toxicology
- elena.lendoiro [at] usc.es
- Category
- PROFESOR/A PERMANENTE LABORAL
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