This version of the course guide is provisional until the period for editing the new course guides ends.

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Introduction to Information and Communications Technologies

Code: 101517 ECTS Credits: 6
2025/2026
Degree Type Year
East Asian Studies FB 1

Contact

Name:
Sonia González Cruz
Email:
sonia.gonzalez.cruz@uab.cat

Teachers

Xenia Amoros Soldevila
Tomás Grau De Pablos

Teaching groups languages

You can view this information at the end of this document.


Prerequisites

The student should have basic skills for managing elements regarding folders and files (create, move, copy, paste, delete, compress and decompress, etc.) and applications (open, close, move windows, switch sessions, etc.).


Objectives and Contextualisation

The objective of this course is to initiate the student in the use of general technologic resources applied to edition, managing and search of scientific, economic and humanities data related to East Asian Studies.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

  • Show knowledge of general technologic resources for files management and data related to East Asian Studies field.
  • Apply this knowledge to text edition in different forms and perform linguistic correction.
  • Apply this knowledge to basic automation of actions.
  • Apply this knowledge to efficiently search and manage online resources related to East Asian studies’ different objects of study.

Competences

  • Developing self-learning strategies.
  • Ensuring the quality of one's own work.
  • Knowing and using the information and communication technology resources (ICT) in order to collect, produce, analyse and present information related to the East Asian Studies.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Developing self-learning strategies.
  2. Ensuring the quality of one's own work.
  3. Using search engines of specific scientific data.
  4. Using software for specific purposes.

Content

Collecting information

Reference managers

Zotero

Search engines, 'internet’

 

Creating information

Spreadsheets

Excel

File managements

 

Google Drive, Dropbox.

 

Analysing information

AI tools

 

Disseminating information

Text processing

Text processing features, linguistic resources, automatized editing, text processing in languages from Easter Asia.

Infografics

Piktochart, Infogram, Canva

Presentation

Presentations of team projects at the classroom.

Comunicating skills (rethorics and argumentation).

Web editing

Wordpress


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Lectures 10 0.4 1, 3, 4, 2
Oral presentations 10 0.4 1, 3, 4, 2
Solving exercises 40 1.6 1, 3, 4, 2
Type: Supervised      
Fixed tutorials 24 0.96 1, 3, 4, 2
Type: Autonomous      
Implementation of skills 20 0.8 1, 4, 2
Learning tools 20 0.8 1, 3, 4, 2
Search documents and resources 20 0.8 1, 3, 4, 2

The activities will mainly consist of practical demonstrations, and the lectures by the teaching staff will aim to help students acquire the skills and knowledge related to the digital tools and resources selected for their relevance to East Asian Studies.

Methodology based on continuous assessment

  1. Selection of an article, either academic or popular science, that contains quantitative data.

  2. Extraction and processing of data from the article – charts using a spreadsheet – 1st submission

  3. Presentation of an explanatory infographic based on the article, including conclusions – 2nd submission

  4. Report on the individual work process – 3rd submission

  5. Website creation – tutorial to follow up on Version 1 of the website – 1st group submission

  6. Website creation – submission of the complete website – 2nd group submission

  7. Oral presentation of the group project – 2nd group submission

Note: 15 minutes of a class session will be reserved, within the timetable established by the institution/degree program, for students to complete surveys evaluating the performance of the teaching staff and the subject/module.

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
Data and graphics editing of the individual project 15% 1 0.04 1, 3, 4, 2
Developing a report of the individual project 15% 1 0.04 1, 3, 4, 2
Infographic (elaboration and presentation) of individual project 25% 1 0.04 1, 4, 2
Presentation/Report of the group project 20% 1 0.04 1, 3, 4, 2
Website development (group project) 20% 1 0.04 1, 3, 4, 2
Website tutorial (version 1 presentation) of the group project 5% 1 0.04 1, 3, 4, 2

Continuous assessment

Students must provide evidence of their progress by completing the tasks and tests listed below. These activities are detailed in the table at the end of this section of the Study Guide and below.

Individual project

 

   Data and graphics editing 

 15%

   Infographics (elaboration and presentation)

 25%

   Report 

 15%

Group project

 

Website tutorial - version 1 presentation

5% 

Website development

                        20%

Presention/report of the group project

 20%

 

These tasks are compulsory. Task deadlines will be indicated in the course schedule on the first day of class. The information on assessment activities and their weighting is a guide. The subject's lecturer will provide full information when teaching begins.  

Review 

When publishing final marks prior to recording them on students' transcripts, the lecturer will provide written notification with a date and time for reviewing assessment activities. Students must arrangereviews in agreement with the lecturer. 

Missed/failed assessment activities 

Students may retake assessment activities they have failed or compensate for any they have missed, provided that those they have actually performed account for a minimum of 66.6% (two thirds) of the subject's final mark and that they have a weighted average mark of at least 3.5.  

The lecturer will inform students of the procedure involved, in writing, when publishing final marks prior to recording them on transcripts. The lecturer may set one assignment per failed or missed assessment activity or a single assignment to cover a number of such activities. Under no circumstances may an assessment activity worth 100% of the final mark be retaken or compensated for.  

Classification as "not assessable" 

In the event of the assessment activities a student has performed accounting for just 25% or less of the subject's final mark, their work will be classified as "not assessable" on their transcript. 

Misconduct in assessment activities 

Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, etc.) in an assessment activity will receive a mark of “0” for the activity in question. Inthecase of misconduct in morethan one assessment activity,the student involved will be given a final mark of “0” for the subject. Assessment activities in which irregularities haveoccurred (e.g. plagiarism, copying, impersonation) are excluded from recovery.

Single Assessment

This subject may be assessed under the single assessment system in accordance with the terms established in the academic regulations of the UAB and the assessment criteria of the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting.
Students must make an online request within the period established by the faculty and send a copy to the teacher responsible for the subject, for the record.
Single assessment will be carried out in person on one day during week 16 or 17 of the semester. The Academic Management Office will publish the exact date and time on the faculty website.
On the day of the single assessment, teaching staff will ask the student for identification, which should be presented as a valid identification document with a recent photograph (student card, DNI/NIE or passport).

Single assessment activities

Single assessment will include a minimum of three assessment activities of different typology, as stated in the evaluation guidelines.

Grade revision and resit procedures for the subject are the same as those for continual assessment. See the section above in this study guide. 


Bibliography

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Aranda, Xavi. 2015. “Piktochart, Una Eina per Crear Infografies”. Xarxanet.org  http://xarxanet.org/informatic/recursos/piktochart-una-eina-per-crear-infografies.

Cañas, Alberto J.; Novak, Josep. 2009. “¿Qué Es Un Mapa Conceptual?”. Data de consulta: 12 de juny de 2019. http://cmap.ihmc.us/docs/mapaconceptual.php.

Espeso, Pablo. 2018. “10 Herramientas Para Crear Infografías | EDUCACIÓN 3.0.”. https://www.educaciontrespuntocero.com/recursos/crear-infografias/37194.html.

García, Pablo. 2017. “5 Herramientas Para La Gestión de Proyectos - Infoautónomos”.  https://infoautonomos.eleconomista.es/blog/5-herramientas-gestion-de-proyectos/.

Gibaldi, Joseph, and Modern Language Association of America. 1999. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. Modern Language Association of America.

Guerra Frías, Miroslava, Silvia Rosa. Peña Alfaro González, Santiago. Viveros Fuentes, and American Psychological Association. 2010. Manual de Publicaciones de La American Psychological Association. El Manual Moderno.

Ivey, Camille, and Janet Crum. 2018. “Choosing the Right Citation Management Tool: EndNote, Mendeley, RefWorks, or Zotero.” Journal of the Medical Library Association 106 (3): 399. https://doi.org/10.5195/JMLA.2018.468.

Julià Lundgren, Daniel. 2012. “Sistemes de Gestió de Continguts.” UOC. http://cv.uoc.edu/annotation/d0e2e1ba3ee6a4e869edae20aa88db1b/462918/PID_00168263/index.html.

Pacual, Juan Antonio. 2018. “Cómo Crear y Ejecutar Una Macro En Word | Tecnología - ComputerHoy.Com.” 2018. https://computerhoy.com/tutoriales/tecnologia/como-crear-ejecutar-macro-word-254058.

Pascual, Juan Antonio. 2018. “Cómo Hacer Un Índice Automático En Word | Tecnología - ComputerHoy.Com”. 2018. Accessed June 12, 2019. https://computerhoy.com/tutoriales/tecnologia/como-hacer-indice-automatico-word-251018.


Software

The required software will be seen during the classes.


Groups and Languages

Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(SEM) Seminars 1 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(SEM) Seminars 2 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(SEM) Seminars 3 Spanish second semester morning-mixed
(SEM) Seminars 4 Spanish second semester morning-mixed