Bachelor's Degree Final Project (20037)

Degree/study:Grade in Humanities
Year: 4º
Term:3rd
Number of ECTS credits:  10 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 250 hours
Teaching language or languages: catalan and spanish
Teaching Staff:Teresa Vinardell Puig (coordinator) and other assigned teachers as directors of the thesis

 

1. Presentation of the subject

 

The objective of this subject is the preparation and presentation of the degree final thesis and it is complemented by a space to guide the students when conceptualising and materialising the work that best suits their interests and what he/she has learned during all the degree and the time available to do it.

The final goal of the thesis is to prove through a written work that during the degree the students have acquired some knowledge, abilities, and competences that allow them elaborating rigorously an academic work with superior extension and complexity than the ones done during the degree. This is a kind of ambitious activity where it is learned how to interpret in a reasonably and competently written texts, iconographic evidences, statistical data, cartographic documents, etc. with the aim of developing and formulating the own opinion properly justified which will reflect the complexity of the studied phenomenon or work.

Naturally, it is needed that this work itself is a learning process that enables students to acquire new knowledge, but also integrate and apply what they learned during the degree, using transversal research methodologies, and always appropriate to the chosen profile and study. The type of work that they can choose can be very different: the work may consist of a study, a project, a report, a state of affairs, a text edition or other forms where the students show that they have achieved the final goal of the thesis.

The research work can be a research in the own sense and it can provide an innovation or a new view of a subject, author or work, or it can be understood broadly, if the students present an investigation of information that has enriched and consolidated their learning, even if they have not strictly contributed anything new to the studied field. In both cases, the resulting text must be an own discourse and not the mere summary, compilation or mechanical mimetic repetition of the sources used.

Students will have the guidance and advice of the director assigned, and he/she will be also in charge of monitoring the work and who will authorize the presentation and defence.

 

2. Competences to be attained

Transferable skills

Specific competences

Instrumental 1. Competence to recognise, interpret and use formalised information by verbal (texts), plastic (art works) and codified (maps, graphics, etc.) documents. 2. Ability to relate information and documents with different nature and from different specialities with a transversal and integrated perspective. 3. Competence to find and select information from the academic world in traditional and new formats 4. Ability to synthesise and elaborate, manage, formalise, transmit and communicate this information in a appropriate way depending on academic criteria Systemic 1. Creativity. 2. Ability for the autonomous learning and the continuous training.

1. Competence to elaborate a broad academic work and defend it orally in front of audience 2. Ability to know and manage the monographic studies and the relevant bibliography in order to create a work with the characteristics and the objectives of a final degree thesis. 3. When writing and defending it orally, competence to use the Catalan and Spanish languages in a correct and critical level desirable for the students of the degree in Humanities.

3. Contents

The final objective of the subject is to elaborate the final degree thesis. It must be individual and it can be on a lot of topics and fields. All this means that there aren't any units. However, there are two sessions where the students will be informed about the following aspects:

• Characteristics and objectives of the Degree Final Thesis.

• Enrolment of the DFT.

• Direction of the works and assignment criteria.

• DFT store place.

• Characteristics of the defence and qualification of the DFT.

• Methodological questions about research works.

 

*The full version with the sections: 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology, and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.

 

4. Assessment

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5. Bibliography and teaching resources

5.1. Basic bibliography

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5.2. Complementary bibliography

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5.3. Teaching resources

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6. Metodology

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7. Planning of activities

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