{"id":141,"date":"2023-02-21T08:43:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T08:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cqllab.upc.edu\/courses\/iql\/?page_id=141"},"modified":"2024-12-21T17:41:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T17:41:11","slug":"philosophy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cqllab.upc.edu\/courses\/iql\/philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I want to be clear about the philosophy of this course. The students and the professor form a team for learning and thinking (in both directions) and thus attendance is a fundamental component.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am doing this course because I love both the topic and teaching on it. In exchange, the administrative support I receive from UPC is minimal. The school is giving me no support other than a room (no Rac\u00f3, no fancy slots for the lectures,&#8230;). Neither the school nor my department consider this course part of my teaching load. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus this course is special for me. For some of you, it may be just a means to get credits. Therefore I have to warn you. This is not a standard master degree course at UPC where students can skip lectures\/lab freely. Attendance is mandatory by default. Missing a lab\/lecture must be properly justified. I want to be clear about scoring in general and especially in this course: it just measures some little fraction of the whole intellectual process (btw: there is no final exam in this course).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Especially for those who, at present, can only think in terms of matter (money,\u00a0 scores or followers) rather than interest or intellectual excitement, please check  the <a href=\"https:\/\/cqllab.upc.edu\/courses\/iql\/evaluation\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"33\">evaluation<\/a> so that everything is clear in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a two-way relationship. I totally understand that somebody has very reasonable reasons for minimizing attendance but then this is not the course for him\/her. For those who decide to stay, believe me, we will have a great time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be clear about the philosophy of this course. The students and the professor form a team for learning and thinking (in both directions) and thus attendance is a fundamental component. I am doing this course because I love both the topic and teaching on it. In exchange, the administrative support I receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-141","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqllab.upc.edu\/courses\/iql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqllab.upc.edu\/courses\/iql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqllab.upc.edu\/courses\/iql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqllab.upc.edu\/courses\/iql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqllab.upc.edu\/courses\/iql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cqllab.upc.edu\/courses\/iql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/cqllab.upc.edu\/courses\/iql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqllab.upc.edu\/courses\/iql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}