Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Final Degree Project
Teaching staff
By appointment, via email at plagos@uic.es
Introduction
The Final Degree Project iinvolves completing a professional journalistic information project.
The Professional Project will be done is teams of 3-4 members, who will receive guidance from the supervisor assigned by the Faculty to each group, based on the characteristics of their project.
In the case of the Academic Project, the project will involve researching a topic of interest in the field of Communication Sciences and will be done individually. The average grade of the academic record must be equal to or greater than 7.
Pre-course requirements
To enroll in the Bachelor's Final Project, students must be enrolled in the final year of their bachelor's degree programme and have passed all the courses from previous years or, where applicable, have no more than 20% of the ECTS credits corresponding to the courses from the year immediately preceding the final year of their degree programme still pending.
Objectives
To apply, integrate and develop the knowledge, skills and competences acquired during the degree.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 02 CG - The ability to learn and act an autonomously and responsibly
- 03 CG - The ability to work in a group
- 04 CG - The ability to organise time and workspace
- 05 CG - The ability to develop an ethical attitude
- 06 CG - The ability to read, analyze and synthesize
- 07 CG - The ability to confront difficulties and resolve problems
- 09 CG - The ability to innovate
- 11 CG - Knowledge and mastery of different research resources
- 15 CE - Lingustic ability in Catalan, Spanish and English
- 16 CE - The ability to make judgments and well-argued critical assessments
- 17 CE - The ability to produce spoken and written texts for journalistic projects
- 19 CE - The ability to elaborate a budget for a journalistic project.
- 20 CE - The ability to plan and carry out journalistic projects
- 22 CE - The ability to critically analyze Spanish, European and World journalism.
- 23 CE - The ability to contextualize and critically analyze mass media products
- 26 CE - The ability to understand and apply the legal dimension of a journalistic product
- 28 CE - The ability to understand and apply production and editing techniques for newspaper, radio, television and Internet
- 29 CE - The ability to understand and apply different journalistic genres and formats
- 30 CE - The ability to understand and apply the various stages of creation and implementation of a radio or television program
- 48 CE - The ability of insight, ingenuity and creativity
- 52 CE - The ability to adapt to changing circumstances
Learning outcomes of the subject
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To work naturally and professionally in a radio studio or TV studio.
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To have a command of video editing software, audio, web pages and graphics editing.
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To be familiar with the resources necessary to launch a radio or television programme.
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To be able to undertake online journalism or communication projects.
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To know how to use graphic resources in journalism or communication projects.
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To be able to design a specific type of radio or television programme in line with the structural reality of the sector.
- In the case of academic works, start in the field of research.
Syllabus
Students will produce the final product under the supervision of the tutors assigned to each project.
During the project development process, students will be required to:
Choose a topic, develop it, submit the final product and the final report, and defend it before a panel of specialised professionals and academics.
They must justify and develop the journalistic content to be distributed through each product, taking into account the specific characteristics of academic and practical projects, respectively. In the case of academic projects, consideration will be given to the relevance of the chosen topic, methodological development, approach, conceptual discussion, sources, content analysis, etc. In the case of professional projects, emphasis will be placed on the need the product aims to address, the analysis of the market in which the journalistic product will operate, its target audience, the definition of the business model that will ensure the product’s viability, the formal quality of the final result, etc.
+ Detailed information on the regulations to follow, both for the academic modality and for the professional modality, can be consulted in the subject's Moodle.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
| TRAINING ACTIVITY | ECTS CREDITS |
| Coaching. Monitoring how students learn the content of the subject, either individually or in groups. In the coaching sessions, mistakes will be corrected, queries answered, and exercises and activities to achieve the established objectives will be suggested. | 6,0 |
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
The FDP mark will be the sum of the following percentages:
Individual mark given by the supervisor of each FDP to each team member: 30%.
Individual mark given by the coordination of the FDP to each team member: 20%.
Individual mark of the FDP given by the panel members: 50%.
In the assessment performed by the panel (professional projects), both the final product and written report will be taken into consideration.