Bachelor's Degree Final Project
Code: 103054 ECTS Credits: 12| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2501928 Audiovisual Communication | OB | 4 | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Carme Ferré Pavia
- Email:
- Carme.Ferre@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Other comments on languages
Usually, Catalan and Spanish are the languages used writing the TFGTeachers
- Carme Ferré Pavia
External teachers
- Responsables d'institucions en el cas de TFG externs
Prerequisites
It is necessary to course all the first year and 2/3 of the amount of total credits corresponding the degree, 160 ECTS. Each year has 10 courses of 6 credits, a total of 60 credits/year. Two complete years passed imply 120 credits or 180 credits three complete years.
Is recommended to read carefully all the information in the Faculty web and consult the refreshments.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The aim of the Treball de Fi de Grau (Degree Final Work) is to develop the competencies that the degree determines, giving the students tools to study in superior grades and to work in the communication field as well.
Competences
- Demonstrate a critical and self-critical capacity.
- Demonstrate a self-learning and self-demanding capacity to ensure an efficient job.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills to execute a practical and theoretical project with a scientific basis.
- Develop autonomous learning strategies.
- Develop critical thinking and reasoning and be able to relay ideas effectively in Catalan, Spanish and a third language.
- Disseminate the area’s knowledge and innovations.
- Generate innovative and competitive ideas in research and professional practice.
- Manage time effectively.
- Research, select and arrange in hierarchical order any kind of source and useful document to develop communication products.
- Rigorously apply scientific thinking.
- Use advanced technologies for optimum professional development.
- Use one’s imagination with flexibility, originality and ease.
Learning Outcomes
- Build a coherent discourse in any of its forms, written or audiovisual.
- Contribute original knowledge.
- Demonstrate a critical and self-critical capacity.
- Demonstrate a self-learning and self-demanding capacity to ensure an efficient job.
- Develop autonomous learning strategies.
- Develop critical thinking and reasoning and be able to relay ideas effectively in Catalan, Spanish and a third language.
- Disseminate the area’s knowledge and innovations.
- Generate innovative and competitive ideas in research and professional practice.
- Implement the different research methodologies of communication phenomena.
- Manage time effectively.
- Raise and contrast hypotheses regarding the different aspects of audiovisual communication in all its fields of action.
- Research, select and arrange in hierarchical order any kind of source and useful document to develop communication products.
- Rigorously apply scientific thinking.
- Use advanced technologies for optimum professional development.
- Use one’s imagination with flexibility, originality and ease.
Content
There are two basic types of TFG:
-Project: this kind of work designs or develops (its performance is not compulsory) a media product, in the fields of broadcasting, advertising and journalism. It includes the planning, the framework, the style guide, the briefing in advertising and PR, the budget, filming plan, storyboard, production plan, market analysis… The TFG evaluate the know-how in that field, and not always the pilot or the final product.
-Research: is a traditional academic research of 12,000-30,000 words. The Faculty has links with institutions and media to develop applied researches. In this case, the student will have a tutor in the Faculty and another in the organization.
More information: Link
Methodology
The student has to meet with the tutor at least 4 times:
- To initiate the work
- During the development of the work
- To finish the research
- In the oral presentation
The student Will present a unique document attached in an e-mail to tutor, revisor, tfg.fcc@uab.cat (Gestión Académica) and the Campus Virtual of each degree.
All the works avaluated with an 8 or more (being 10 the maximum), will be sent to the DDD (Digital Documents Archives).
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| General sessions about TFG aspects | 3 | 0.12 | 1, 6, 8, 11 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Oral exposition | 1 | 0.04 | 13, 15, 2, 12, 1, 4, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 9, 11, 14 |
| Supervised sessions and meeting with the tutor | 14 | 0.56 | 13, 15, 4, 3, 6, 10, 9, 11 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Preparation of oral presentation | 6 | 0.24 | 13, 15, 2, 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| TFG development | 275 | 11 | 13, 15, 2, 12, 1, 4, 5, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 9, 11, 14 |
Assessment
The evaluation corresponds to the tutor (60%) and the revisor (40%). The punctuation minimum to pass is 5 (being 10 the maximum).
Calendar: (http: / /www.uab.cat/web/estudiar/graus/graus/calendari-de-tramits-1345704364482.html)
The general criteria for evaluate the work are:
Writing skills
Theoretical knowledge
Analysis capability
Originality
Methodological correction
Adequate interpretation of results
Autonomy searching information and using references
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final work | evaluation of the final research or project | 1 | 0.04 | 13, 15, 2, 12, 1, 4, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 9, 11, 14 |
| Oral presentation | evaluation of the oral speech | 0 | 0 | 13, 15, 2, 12, 1, 4, 5, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 9, 11, 14 |
Bibliography
The TFG Guide has not concrete references because they have to be adapted to each object of study. The tutor and the supervisor will recommend bibliography. The guides of the Communication Library can be useful:
http://blogs.uab.cat/dretsautor/
http://www.uab.cat/web/estudia-i-investiga/citacions-i-bibliografia-1345708785665.html