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General provisions

1. The permanence of students at the University is limited to a period comprising two more courses than those established in the corresponding programs of study plans. 

However, once this period has expired, it may be extended by one or two more courses for those students who have obtained the majority of the credits of Degree, and justify that they have not been able to give due dedication to programs of study for sufficiently justified and worthy of consideration reasons.

3. The extension must be requested, within the last year of permanence, by means of written request addressed to Office of the Executive Council of the University, which will decide after report of the board Board of Directors of the Center.

enrollment annual minimum

4. Ordinarily, all students must register annually for the minimum number of credits established for each issue Degree , so that the pace of their programs of study is distributed in an orderly fashion according to the issue of courses of the Study program. Students must first enroll in those compulsory subjects pending from previous courses and fill in the rest of the credits with other subjects, up to a minimum of 40 ECTS credit or a maximum of 78. Within these limits, specific maximums and minimums may be established for each Degree.

Students part-time

5. Those students who cannot count on a dedication full-time for the overcoming of the programs of study will be able to apply for their condition of students part-time by means of a written request directed to the Office of the Executive Council of the University, that will solve previous report of the board Directive of the School of Philosophy and Letters. A minimum of 3 ECTS credit and a maximum of 39 ECTS credit may be enrolled. Within these limits, specific maximums and minimums may be established for each degree program.

First course of Degree

6. First year students who have not obtained a minimum of 24 ECTS credit corresponding to compulsory or basic subjects in the whole of the calls of a academic year , will not be able to continue their programs of study in the Degree for which they have enrolled. Likewise, students must have passed 60 ECTS credit (accumulated between 1st and 2nd year) to remain in the degree program in which they are enrolled.

7. Exceptionally, these students may be admitted, only once, to begin at the University of Navarra another Degree different from the one previously taken and in which there are vacancies. If they do not pass the issue of ECTS credit indicated in the previous paragraph, they will not be able to continue their programs of study at the University.

Access to the second half of the Degree

8. The curricula may establish certain conditions for access to some courses or to the second half of Degree.

Calendar of exams

9. In order to change the date of the exams, the approval of the board Board of Directors is required, at least one month before the two dates. The committee of the course will collect the written agreement of all the students summoned to that exam, and will send the request for a change of date to the board Board of Directors.

10. In the event that a student student has two final exams of two subjects on the same day, the professor of the subject of the lower course will give student the option of changing the date if requested. This criterion does not apply when one of the subjects is compulsory or basic and the other elective subject for the student affected. In such cases, it will always be the responsibility of the professor of the subject elective subject to take another exam. 

11. The board Board of Directors of a Center should consider whether it is appropriate to hold mid-term exams and whether they should be concentrated on certain dates.

12. The student who represents the University in an institutional activity (e.g. official sports competitions or university congresses), will have the right to take the exam on a date other than the scheduled date when it coincides with such activity.

Examination dates for compulsory subjects

13. Students are entitled to four exams in each subject, except as indicated in n. 5 for first year students. 

14. Those who do not manage to approve a subject after the fourth call can apply for the extension to two more calls, except as indicated in n. 6 for first year students. The application must be formalized within the month following the publication of the grades of the fourth convocation, by means of a reasoned letter addressed to Dean or Director of the Center; if the opinion of the board Board of Directors and Dean is against granting the fifth and sixth convocation, the Office of the Executive Council is automatically informed and will resolve the application. 

15. Students may not waive exams at their own discretion, but they may be excused from those exams for which it is impossible for them to attend for a duly justified cause, and alleged in writing to Dean or Director of the Center thirty days before the end of the class period, or before the exam if the cause for non-attendance occurs at that time. The dispensation of the summons does not have economic effects. 

16. Except in the cases of dispensation mentioned in the previous issue , all the exams in which the student was enrolled will be counted, including those that have been exhausted in other Universities and those in which the student does not sit for the exam.

17. The exams corresponding to the sixth summons, when granted, are taken before a board constituted for this purpose, which, in addition to evaluating the results of the test , will take into account the academic record and other academic circumstances of the student student.

18. In the case of 5th and 6th call applications, they may be denied when there are more than two subjects in that status. With few exceptions, applications for more than the 6th call will be denied.

Examination call for optional subjects

19. The subjects that for a student are optional, will only appear in their academic transcript when they have obtained the corresponding credits. Therefore, students can leave without approve a subject elective subject and enroll in another of the same subject as many times as they wish, within the general limitation of issue years of permanence in the Center.

Special exams

20. Students who are no more than 30 ECTS credit short of 30 years of schooling for Degree, even if they have not enrolled in previous years, may take the special exams, provided that they have completed the period of schooling established in the provisions in force on their programs of study . These students must take their exams in September or in December of all pending subjects. They must apply through written request during the month of August.

Final provisions

21. When there are sufficient reasons and experience so advises, the Centers may propose their own specifications to these standards to Office of the Executive Council . 

22. Students with special educational needs or those attending programs of study part-time , who cannot comply with these provisions, should consider each year their status before formalizing the enrollment, in order to adapt it to their possibilities of dedication to study. 

23. Students enrolled in curricula not adapted to the European Higher Education Area Education will be subject to the requirements for continued study applicable to those curricula programs of study.

It is a matter of intellectual honesty - as well as common practice -to cite sources used in research.

Citing consists of making explicit references to the origin of the information or data used by an author in the preparation of his or her text.

The citation also provides the interested reader with access to other sources of knowledge, in a network that is typical of university work, which must tend to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge.

On the other hand, to go to sources and omit them implies insincerity, intellectual imposture and, at final, plagiarism, a behaviour that is often punishable by Fail.

When writing an academic paper, it is therefore essential to clearly indicate the readings or other sources used, and only those. For this purpose, there are various citation procedures and conventions, with which student should be familiar. In each case, it is advisable for the writer to consult report about the styles used in his or her area of knowledge. Some of the most common are:

• Degree of Philosophy: yearbook Philosophy 

• Degree de Filología: Journal of Spanish Philology

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• Acknowledging sources in an academic paper

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is the act of copying or paraphrasing the work or ideas of others in a work without explicit acknowledgement of authorship. It includes any material, whether made public or unpublished, handwritten, printed or in electronic form.

Collusion is another form of plagiarism: it occurs when other students or other people collaborate on work that should be done individually.

Cases of possible plagiarism in assessed work will be dealt with in the light of the disciplinary regulations governing examination behaviour. Plagiarism, whether intentional or hasty/inadvertent, can lead to serious penalties, including termination of studies or expulsion from the university.

Why is plagiarism important?

It would be a mistake to describe plagiarism only as a minor offence, or as a matter of academic formality. On the contrary, plagiarism is a serious breach of academic honesty . It is a principle of intellectual honesty that all members of the scientific community acknowledge their debt to the authors of the ideas, papers and data that form the basis of the work they present. Passing off the work of others as one's own is not only sample a lack of collegiality, but also a failure in the learning process. Deliberate plagiarism is unethical behaviour and can have serious consequences for your future career; it also undermines the instructions of the institution and the studies in which it takes place.

What forms of plagiarism are possible?

• Quoting verbatim from the intellectual work of others without proper acknowledgement. Quotations should always be identified by the use of established marks - inverted commas or the use of a different subject font - and a proper bibliographical reference. It should be clear to the reader which parts of your work are your own and which are based on the ideas or expressions of others.

• Paraphrasing the work of others by changing a few words and changing the order, or closely following the structure of their argumentation, is plagiarism because one draws one's expressions or ideas from the work of others without acknowledging it. Even if one includes a reference to the author, it may give the false impression that the paraphrased expressions are actually the student's own. It is better to write a short summary of the author's entire argument in your own words than to paraphrase particular paragraphs from his or her paper. This will ensure that you have a true mastery of the argument and will avoid the difficulty of paraphrasing without plagiarising. You should also give specific reference to anything that comes from your reading.

• Copy and paste from the Internet. Information from the Internet should be cited and referenced and included in the bibliography used. It is important to carefully examine all material found on the Internet, because websites are not always as reliable as books.

• Collusion or dissimulation. This is an impermissible collaboration between students; it occurs when one covers up the financial aid received from another or does not follow the indications given for the work on group. It is the responsibility of each student to know what limits of collaboration are allowed and which parts of the work they are allowed to do.

• Inaccurate citations. It is important to cite correctly, according to the conventions of each area. In addition, do not include any reference in the notes or bibliography that you have not consulted. If you have not been able to consult the source, it should be clear in the citation that your knowledge of the book comes from a secondary text (e.g. Bradshaw, D., Title of book, reviewed in Wilson, E., Title of book (London, 2004), p. 189).

• Omission of acknowledgement. You should clearly state all sources used in the preparation of your work, such as advice from peers or other external support. This requirement does not apply to attendance from tutor or supervisor, nor does it apply to the usual proofreading; but it is necessary to acknowledge other guidance that leads to substantial changes to your writing in content or point of view.

• Companies or professional agencies. You should not make use of companies in the completion of assignments, or submit material that others have written for you (on commission or on websites that sell work). It is vital for your learning and intellectual development that you undertake the research process without (external) help.

• Self-plagiarism. You must not submit a work that you have previously submitted (partially or completely) in order to fulfil the requirements in another course or test.

Plagiarism concerns not only texts. The obligation to give the reference concerns the text, but also other media, such as computer documents (web pages), illustrations, graphics, etc. It also applies to texts published in books and periodicals, as well as to unpublished texts, whether they are Materials of lectures, theses or essays by other students.

• Participation in university cultural, sports, student representation, solidarity and cooperation activities, which have been approved by the Office of the Executive Council or by School, are recognized academically (up to a maximum of 6 ECTS credit of optional character).

• The necessary application will be made via written request in the corresponding center. The credits obtained must be made effective at Office of the Registrar. The amount of these credits is the same as that of the credits of the enrolled subjects.

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In order to participate in the graduation ceremony the student must be listed as a senior student (your enrollment must be a majority of senior course credits).