Information Behaviour

Code:

CINF007

Acronym:

CINF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Information Science

Instance: 2025/2026 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Communication and Information Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor of Arts in Information Science

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CINF	43	Study plan	2	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Learning outcomes and competences

Skills:
To provide students the ability to relate theoretical concepts to solve real, specific and practical problems. To deepen knowledge about the search needs and use of information in various institutional and organizational contexts (business). To enable students to distinguish and relate research method and operating models, allowing them to create, apply and reformulate them according to the requirements of the profisisonal context.
Results:
To contribute to (1) strengthening the conceptual and theoretical-methodological issues of Information Science and (2) constructing the synthesis that the student has to perform.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Mandatory literature

Robinson, L., & Bawden, D. ; International good practice in information literacy education., Knjiznica, 62(1/2), 169-185., 2018
LE COADIC, Yves-François ; Usages et usagers de l'information., Association des Professionnels de l'Information et de la Documentation (ADBS)/Nathan, 2001
Bawden, D., & Robinson, L.; Introduction to information science., Facet Publishing, 2015
Tom Wilson; Information behaviour
CHANG, Shan-Ju L.; LEE, Yu-ya; Conceptualizing context and its relationship to the information behavior in dissertation research process. Journal of Library and Information Science. Taipé (Taiwan). 26:2 , (Oct. 2000) 4-18
DAVENPORT, Thomas H.; Ecologia da informação : por que só a tecnologia não basta para o sucesso na era da informação., Editora Futura, 2002
GARCÍA SANTIAGO, Lola ; Extraer y visualizar información en internet: el web mining, Ediciones Trea, 2003
González-Teruel, A. ; Referentes teóricos y dimensiones aplicadas en el estudio del usuario de la información. In M. N. González de Gómez & R. Rabello (Eds.), Informaçao: agentes e intermediaçao (pp. 135–194)., Brasilia: Instituto Brasileiro de Informaçao em Ciencia e Tecnologia. , 2017
Gonzalez-Teruel, A., & Pérez-Pulido, M. ; The diffusion and influence of theoretical models of information behaviour. The case of Savolainen's ELIS model., Journal of Documentation, 76(5), 1069-1089., 2020

Complementary Bibliography

MARCOS, Mari Carmen ; Interacción en interfaces de recuperación de información: conceptos, metáforas y visualización, Ediciones Trea, 2004
CHOO, Chun Wei ; Gestão de informação para a organização inteligente: a arte de explorar o meio ambiente., Editorial Caminho, 2003
DEVLIN, Keith ; Info-senso : como transformar a informação em conhecimento, Edição "Livros do Brasil", 2000

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lecture method with class discussion of certain topics and following up of the work to be developed by students during the semester.

keywords

Humanities > Information science

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Exame	50,00
Teste	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	54,00
Trabalho de investigação	37,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Frequência das aulas	41,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Class attendance is not compulsory but students will have to perform 1 working group and 1 mini test.

Calculation formula of final grade

Evaluation components

Mini-test - 25%
Working group - 25%
Exam- 50%.


Calculation formula of the final classification: The final classification implies the following components:

1. One mini test - 25%

2. One Group work - 25%

3. Exame - 50%

Mini-Test and group works are mandatory.

Minimum score for  exam access 9,5. This classification is the result of the average of the mini test and the work.

Exam minimum score for approval - 9,5.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Working students will have to perform the same evaluation components.

Classification improvement

Only for final examination.
Given their nature, the mini test and group work are not subject to appeal and/or grade improvement.