Compulsory Modules:

Elective Modules of Specific Formation:

Complementary Contents Modules in Human Biology - 10 ECTS

Common Modules - UB:

Research Practicum (code 560520) - 20 ECTS

The research module, of 20 ECTS (10 + 10), will consist of the design, exposition and defence of an original project about one of the specializations in Human Biology in the Physical Anthropology Knowledge Area. It will be developed under the tutorship of a professor (doctor) and will insist on the aspects concerning the raising of hypothesis, experimental design, result outcome and discussion of such results.

The research Practicum, which will have to be mainly experimental, will consist of the development of an original research project. Integrated in the research lines established in the Master, the project will have to contribute with new and innovative data in its field. It will be possible to develop it under the frame of an official research project directed by the tutor of the project, who will be a professor of one of the Universities included in the Inter-University Master, or by a doctor external to the Master. In the latter case, the project will have to be co-directed by a professor of one of the Universities of the Inter-University Master that is also teaching in the Master .

The acceptance to develop research projects will depend on the availability of each tutor and the places available in each academic year .

Research lines and responsible/s professor/s:

The research project will have to be publicly exposed and defended in front of a Committee created to such effect, to which a detailed memory of the project developed will have to be handed in. The Committee will consist of three professor of the Master, (UB, UAB, UPF), and will evaluate the adequacy of the module carried out according to the applicable legislation.

Criteria to pass the credits: delivery of the research memory within the established period of time and positive evaluation by the Committee of both the memory and public defence of it. The defence of the memory will be necessary to fulfil the training of the Research Master.

Periods: despite that to administration effects the defence session is a single one, it is disposed in two evaluation periods (July and September) and students will have to choose before the ending of the teaching period when the experimental project will be exposed. There will be no possibility to repeat the exposition. Therefore, the project of the Research Module will have to be fulfilled during the academic year registered, simultaneously to the other modules registered; however, the results can be handed in till before the beginning of the next academic year.

Professionalizing Practicum (codi 560521) - 20 ECTS

The professionalizing practicum will consist of a period of time in a company or entity, either public or private, aiming to gain experience in formative tasks directly related to all the needs that society demands. The objective of such stay is to develop a directed practical project allowing students to acquire competences, and above all, specific capabilities and skills in the specific tasks and functions in the implied companies. Registering in this module will demand the compromise of fulfilling the minimum required dedication for each associated entity.

The practicum will be developed under the tutorship of a professor (doctor) of the Master, directed by a representative of the cooperative institution and will insist in aspects of professional training of the project developed. It can be both methodological or technique, as well as applied, of research, design, formative or theoretical. In any case, the knowledge and training acquired for the labour insertion according to the specialization chosen will be evaluated.

The project done will have to be publicly defended in front of a Committee created to such effect, and formed by at least a professor of the Master and, if possible, one or two representatives of the cooperative institutions. Previously, a detailed memory of the project will have to be handed in to the Committee, who will evaluate the acquired training level, the excellence of the memory handed in and its defence.

Cooperative entities, professionalizing projects and responsible people:

Itineraries

Evaluation

The evaluation of the subjects will be done progressively including the attendance to theory classes, practice sessions, outings to the field, participation in seminars and guided activities, elaboration of projects, briefings, reports, and typical tasks of the research and professionalizing module, together with the evaluation tests established.