Bachelor's Degree Final Project
Code: 104093 ECTS Credits: 12| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2500259 Political Science and Public Management | OB | 4 |
Contact
- Name:
- Dafne Muntanyola Saura
- Email:
- dafne.muntanyola@uab.cat
Teachers
- Carolina Galais Gonzalez
- Olivia Isabell Glombitza
- Dafne Muntanyola Saura
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
The requirements to register for the subject are the following:
a. Having passed all the subjects of the first year of the degree.
b. Have passed a minimum of 2/3 of the total credits of the curriculum (160 credits)
Objectives and Contextualisation
The Final Degree Thesis is a compulsory subject of 12 ECTS credits which consists of carrying out and publicly presenting a theoretical, research or intervention work.
The pedagogical objective of completing the Final Degree Thesis is to develop all the skills of the degree, which must provide tools both to continue other studies and to practice the profession. Basically, the TFG requires the independent work of each student, with the support of a few hours of tutoring, five pieces of evidence, in order to prepare a work under the supervision of a supervisor and prepare an oral defense before a court appointed by the Faculty.
Competences
- Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
- Assess the social, economic and environmental impact when acting in this field of knowledge.
- Develop critical thought and reasoning and be able to communicate them effectively, both in your own language and second or third languages.
- Develop strategies for autonomous learning.
- Make changes to the methods and processes of the area of knowledge to provide innovative responses to the needs and wishes of society.
- Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
Learning Outcomes
- Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
- Assess the social, economic and environmental impact when acting in this field of knowledge.
- Develop critical thought and reasoning and be able to communicate them effectively, both in your own language and second or third languages.
- Develop strategies for autonomous learning.
- Make changes to the methods and processes of the area of knowledge to provide innovative responses to the needs and wishes of society.
- Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
Content
The Final Degree Project (TFG) has the following characteristics:
- It is a 12 ECTS course.
- The main objective is to develop a final project with the supervision of a tutor.
- The work can be one of the three types: Research, Theoretical, Applied.
- The work is individual of the students, and implies an important autonomous dedication, but has the supervision of a tutor / a.
- The teaching load is 300 hours of work for the students.
- The work involves the realization of an initial project, follow-up tutorials, and the delivery of a final report, an executive summary and a poster.
- The work and the poster is presented before a court composed of qualified personnel.
- The course also consists of specific training sessions to support the students.
- The subject of the work can be chosen with reservation modality (previously agreed with the teaching staff) or with an offer modality (to be chosen from a catalog and through a prioritization system based on the grade).
Check the website of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology for information regarding the procedure for assigning topics and supervisors. On the other hand, in the virtual space of the subject will be the guidelines for the preparation of the TFG and the characteristics of the evidence of evaluation to be delivered, as well as specific information of each course related to the calendar of the subject, training sessions, materials and evaluation.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Group sessions | 6 | 0.24 | |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Development and writing of the FGP | 215 | 8.6 | |
| Office hours | 7 | 0.28 |
The subject contemplates three plenary sessions (one for presentation and two sessions Training oriented to the training in documentary exploration and preparation of the poster) and direct monitoring by the supervisor assigned.
The supervision will include a minimum of 5 face-to-face tutorials that correspond to the evidence presented, unless otherwise agreed with the students. Based on the guidance of the supervisor, the student will have to develop and deliver, throughout of the process, various evidence of evaluation: project, evolution, final report and poster, presenting publicly the results of the work before a court designated by the Faculty. The virtual space of the subject will expand the information regarding the characteristics of the evidence to be delivered and specific information about each course will be found.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E3. Final Report | 60 | 60 | 2.4 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| E4. Poster | 10 | 10 | 0.4 | 3 |
| E5. Oral presentation | 30 | 2 | 0.08 | 3 |
The TFG is a subject that requires monitoring, and continuous evaluation, through the TFE application.
The supervision will evaluate in a qualitative way and with an orientation note in the TFE the evidences E1 (initial project with question, objectives AND BIBLIOGRAPHY) and E2 (intermediate report), and will evaluate the final delivery (E3) with a note and comments that will be the 60& of the final mark. The panel will evaluate the presentation and summary (E4 and E5) with 30% of the mark, and a documentation specialist will evaluate the poster (10%)
In order to be evaluated and defend the TFG, you must have delivered the 5 pieces of evidence on time and through the TFE application. Specifically, the evidence to be monitored is the following:
1) First follow-up meeting: delimitation of the research question, list of bibliography to be consulted to make the breakdown and work schedule.
2) First installment (E1): Delimitation of the object of study: presentation of the research question, general and specific objectives, design and bibliography.
methodological
Return of the first delivery
3) Second installment (E2) Draft theoretical framework and analysis model, implementation of methodology and analysis (or theoretical reflection in the case of non-empirical TFG), initial results and analysis.
Return second delivery
4) Final draft delivery: Draft research question, objectives, theoretical framework, analysis model, design, results, analysis and conclusions.
Return final draft.
5) Delivery of the final report, summary and poster. (E3,E4 and E5)
Total or partial plagiarism in the delivered evidence will involve a 0 in the delivered evidence and a 0 in the subject if it occurs in E3 or E4 evidence. The student signs a declaration of honesty when enrolling and declares himself/herself the sole author of his/her TFG. It should be borne in mind that academic knowledge is based on being able to check the traceability of the data and the theoretical sources used. Therefore, the use of AI is NOT CONSIDERED RELEVANT in the theory building, data analysis and writing stages. Yes as a proofreader, finder and formatter of bibliographic references.
Bibliography
You will find complementary resources and more information on the website of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (at the special section devoted to it).
Software
No specific software
Language list
Information on the teaching languages can be checked on the CONTENTS section of the guide.