Thesis Plan

Code:

PDMD021

Acronym:

PT

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Communication Technology

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Informatics Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Doctoral Program in Digital Media

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PDMD	3	Syllabus since 2009/2010	2	-	30	50	810

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The objective of this curricular unit consists essentially in the design of a thesis plan that conducts to a relevant PhD thesis in Digital Media

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Analyze and select a specific research subject;


• Perform research work, focused in specific subjects;


• Identify the main bibliography, as well as the relevant Researchers and respective groups;


• Perform a critical synthesis of the above mentioned information in a State-of-the-art Report;


• Identify and state an hypothesis, as well as the main questions of the research;


• Clearly state the methods and methodologies, as well as to establish the thesis plan leading to an innovative solution for the proposed subject/problem

Working method

Presencial

Program

Contents to be proposed by the supervisor in accordance with the thesis thematic

Mandatory literature

Vários; As refs serão indicadas pelo orientador

Comments from the literature

NA

Teaching methods and learning activities

Tutorial guidance. Reading and analysis of scientific articles and other relevant literature in the Digital Media, in addition to conducting research work leading to the elaboration of the thesis plan, in close articulation with the advisors.

At the end of the semester the thesis plan is presented and evaluated by a jury composed by the members the accompanying group and a member of the PDMD Scientific Committee.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	100,00
Trabalho de investigação	700,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	10,00
Total:	810,00

Eligibility for exams

NA

Calculation formula of final grade

The evaluation will take place in a workshop in January and will be assessed by members of the Scientific Committee of the programme, taking into consideration the presentation and the report of the thesis project.

Grades below 16 will have to revise the thesis project taking into consideration the comments of the evaluators, before submitting it for validation by the monitoring group.

A monitoring group will be created for each student, composed of the supervisors and two other teachers or PhD researchers. At least one of these two must be external to the universities that are part of the PDMD.