CINF015 - ECTS

Having an interdisciplinary focus and promoting a reflection on the past and present, the Curricular Unit of History of Culture aims to provide students with knowledge about culture from a diachronic perspective, encouraging reflection on concepts related to cultural history. It aims for students to develop skills that involve critical thinking and the ability to relate past times to the present, in order to promote the acquisition of skills that allow them to identify a problem, critically
debate a topic and apply the knowledge acquired to new situations.

CINF038 - ECTS

This course aims to introduce the main scientific, technical and professional aspects of Science and Information Systems, providing students with a general overview of the area, and serving as a guide in their academic journey.

CINF022 - ECTS

Logic is the systematic study of valid inference. In this course, an introduction is given to this study, which includes propositional logic and predicate logic. It is intended that students acquire some of the essential concepts of logic, as well as certain formal methods to represent and evaluate arguments and reasoning, in order to subsequently apply it in the structuring of indexation languages, in the analysis of information systems and in information retrieval.

CINF050 - ECTS

CINF033 - ECTS - Development of linguistic, sociolinguistic and communicative skills.
- Acquisition of oral and written expression and communication techniques for an efficient performance in different usage situations.

CINF011 - ECTS

CINF014 - ECTS

• Understand the structure and functioning of the main administrative institutions over time;
• Identify the causes, processes, and impacts of reforms in public administration;
• Develop the ability to analyse and compare different historiographical perspectives on public administration;
• Understand the current organisation of public administration and identify contemporary challenges;
• Identify and understand the vocabulary and operative concepts related to public administration in the long term;
• Develop analytical skills concerning historical sources and administrative processes.

CINF020 - ECTS

1. To develop students' confidence in approaching academic texts written in English;
2. To develop receptive fluency in reading and listening to academic discourse;
3. To develop knowledge and use of key terminology and grammatical structures common to specific academic disciplines;
4. To develop students' communicative competence when presenting ideas and expressing opinions on themes related to Information Science;
5. To develop summary writing skills.

CINF021 - ECTS

This curricular unit aims to provide students with basic knowledge in linguistics, by encouraging their critical skills and competences to accurately and soundly reflect on how languages work, and in particular relate this knowledge to information science.

CINF029 - ECTS

CINF052 - ECTS

CINF010 - ECTS

CINF039 - ECTS

This course teaches students the principles and techniques of information representation and will help them to demonstrate the ability and competence in applying techniques, standards and other instruments for organizing and representing information and database construction. Students should also understand the fundamental role of technology in sharing information stored in databases.

CINF051 - ECTS This UC intends to provide a legal-scientific perception of the vast field of intervention of the State and other legal persons. More specifically, it is intended to provide students with the essential tools that allow them to gain knowledge of the Portuguese Public Administration and the legal regime that is applicable to it, with a view to entering the job market in the area of Information Science within the framework of the transition digital.

CINF035 - ECTS

To introduce students to the core or nucleus of Degree in Information Science through a proper understanding of the nature of this science in the wider context of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and its epistemological evolution that is happening in the network environment of Information Era. Provide students with the theoretical assumption of the matrix of the programme and at the same time, make them aware that the IS is an applied social science, i.e., has a clear and applicational vocation, enriching itselvf through a permanent interdisciplinary dynamics.

CINF007 - ECTS

CINF053 - ECTS

- Know the field of studies on Strategic and Organizational Communication
- Observe how Organizations operate and understand the strategic role of communication
- Know the nature, structure and types of Organizational Communication
- Identify the different publics of an Organization
- Work in the development of communication actions for the different stakeholders
- Identify the ethical implications and codes inherent to the performance of the professional activity
- Develop communication plans and promote their application in Organizations

CINF041 - ECTS

The students should acquire competencies to create access points by author/producer of information, by title and by subject, using, in this case, indexing languages (subject headings, thesauri and classifications). They should also understand and apply authority control techniques for the establishment of access points and use automated systems for this purpose.

CINF043 - ECTS Allow students to understand the ethical bases of the infocommunication process so that:


- Know how to distinguish between Information Ethics and ethics of information professionals (if there are relations between these two levels, they represent specific and distinct dimensions).



- Acquire, as an operational competence, the awareness that the production, selection, storage of information and its dissemination through communication unfold, implying interesting and profound relations with Ethics.



- To be able to have a reasoned opinion on the Ethics of Information, to distinguish Ethics from Professional Deontology and to explain to what extent Ethics is related to the various procedures and activities of the infocommunication process.



- Understand the ethical implications and network relationships in organizations in the Digital Age

CINF018 - ECTS

CINF042 - ECTS

CINF034 - ECTS

CINF044 - ECTS

CINF012 - ECTS

CINF054 - ECTS

This unit course aims that student:

• Understand and organizationally frame Project Management and the Management based on Projects.
• Realize what is a project and existing methodological approaches to develop its management, focusing Communication and Information area, its products and services.
• Know how to draw up a Business Plan.
• Acquire basic knowledge and skills to take part in the conception, planning, implementation and control of a project.
• Acquire basic knowledge and skills to apply methodologies, tools and techniques related to Project Management.
• Acquire basic knowledge and skills to apply methodologies, tools and techniques related to the development of a Business Plan.

CINF045 - ECTS

CINF046 - ECTS It is intended that students:
- understand the function, in current times, of Archive, Library and Museum Services, providing them with adequate adaptability to the context in which they operate;
- identify differences and similarities between these Services in terms of the cycle of tasks they regularly perform and the way they interact with society and their respective “publics”;
- articulate theoretical and technical knowledge obtained in other UCs with the functionality of archive, library and museum services.

CINF047 - ECTS

To provide students with skills in the identification, exploration and retrieval of business information (BI) resources and the development of information services in this context.

CINF005 - ECTS

CINF048 - ECTS

1- Understand and place preservation and its management in a systemic approach, as part of the organizational information system (OIS) management and throughout the infocommunicational flow (theoretical, organizational, strategic and operational perspectives)

2- Acquire basic knowledge/skills to provide long term information preservation and continuous access (models, requirements, strategies, processes, techniques, tools, services), considering the nature of information, layers to be preserved, flow / management cycle phase, production / acquisition / capture, processing, selection, organization, representation, communication, retrieval, use and storage options/ methodologies, and technological platform / medium on which it is recorded.

3- Acquire the ability to collaborate in the planning and implementation of a preservation policy, strategic plan and operational/preventive and security plan; a digitization project and creation, management and certification of digital repositories (either in digital or hybrid information systems).

CINF049 - ECTS

This curricular unit aims to give the students opportunity to:

- use the acquired knowledge and developed competences/skills to real situations and deepening the integration of interdisciplinary knowledge;

- know and contact with developed projects, or in progress, in the field of information science;

- develop skills in project management solving real problems.;
- develop initiation to research skills in Information Science.

CINF030 - ECTS