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Bachelor of Arts in Information Science

General information

Official Code: 9694
Acronym: CINF
Tuition fees: 996 Euros

Certificates

  • Bachelor of Arts in Information Science (180 ECTS credits)

Courses Units

Basic Management Principles

CINF011 - ECTS

History of Culture

CINF015 - ECTS Fazer passar sólidos conhecimentos sobre os grandes movimentos culturais que marcaram a evolução da humanidade, desde a Antiguidade Clássica aos nossos dias

Basic Information Technology

CINF019 - ECTS

Logic

CINF022 - ECTS Pretende-se que os alunos desenvolvam o raciocínio (de tipo dedutivo) efectuado em linguagem natural e dominem alguns dos conceitos essenciais da lógica actual, com vista à sua posterior aplicação na estruturação de linguagens de indexação e na análise de sistemas de informação e na recuperação de informação.

Communication Skills and Techniques

CINF033 - ECTS Development of cognitive, formative and affective dimensions of language;
Development of linguistic, sociolinguistic and communicative competence;
Acquisition of oral and written communication skills useful for effective action in various situations of use.

Technical English

CINF020 - ECTS In the field of Information Science, few would doubt the importance of the English language as a medium for the global communication of information. There is a recognised need for students of this degree course to develop a knowledge of how English can be used as a tool for the retrieval, interpretation and dissemination of information at this level of academic study.

Technical English for Information Science is a course designed to help students develop confidence in using English in their areas of study, as well as motivating them and developing a sense of achievement in the use of this medium for the accomplishment of certain academic goals. It is hoped that it will also enrich students’ study in other subjects within their degree course.

The course will mainly focus on developing receptive fluency and the study skills involved in reading a variety of texts within the area of Information Science. However, students will also have some opportunity to develop their productive skills in speaking and writing about the texts looked at in class.

Linguistics

CINF021 - ECTS 1. acquisition of basic knowledge in linguistics;
2. acquisition of founded and accurate capability of reflection on languages, in particular the Portuguese;
3. mastery of fundamental aspects about the formation of words, their meaning and their relations;
4. mastery of the basics of syntax and semantics of sentences;
5. acquisition of comprehension and analysis skills of the principles of textual organization.

Research Methodology

CINF023 - ECTS a) To adopt a critical attitude toward professional problems
b) To question the logic of the social processes of scientific production
c) To characterize and to apply different methodologies in the scientific production of Social Sciences
d) To critically apply and analyze different data collection instruments
e) To know and to apply formal norm for research presentation


1. To know scientific research fundamentals
2. To develop a critical and creative spirit when confronting problems related with their future profession
3. To present skills for team work
4. To develop skills for organizing and presenting individual work
5. To solve problems - to organize and plan research work based on acquired knowledge

Computer and Communication Systems

CINF029 - ECTS

Sociology of Organizations

CINF032 - ECTS

History of Public Administration

CINF014 - ECTS Objectivos

O objectivo fundamental, condicionador do programa, é colocar o aluno de ciência da informação dentro dos contextos históricos, de longa duração, das entidades administrativas produtoras de informação, concretamente, das sucessivas instituições criadas no âmbito da Administração Pública, no período que se desenrola entre a formação do Reino e a organização democrática

Competências
Pretende-se ainda que os alunos venham a ser capazes de organizar a sua própria pesquisa, em suportes bibliográficos, fontes impressas e, se possível, em documentação manuscrita.
Procura-se que a informação obtida possa ser reutilizada e divulgada em trabalhos práticos, a desenvolver noutras disciplinas e na sua específica vida profissional

Information for the Internet

CINF018 - ECTS Pretende-se transmitir aos alunos conhecimentos e experiência na arquitectura, linguagens e meta-linguagens para criação, recolha, tratamento, disponibilização e manutenção de informação na Internet.

Organization and Representation of Information I

CINF025 - 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.

Archive and Library Systems

CINF031 - ECTS To understand the evolution of archives and libraries as information systems and the development of the disciplines that were in the origin of Information Science; to characterize the different types of archives and libraries; to acquire competencies to apply correctly the Quadripolar Method of research to archives and libraries’ systems, specially in what concerns the technical procedures and the presentation of research results.

Theory and Methodology in Information Science

CINF035 - ECTS Introduzir os alunos no core ou núcleo central da Licenciatura em Ciência da Informação através de uma compreensão adequada da natureza desta Ciência no quadro mais amplo das Ciências Humanas e Sociais, seus fundamentos epistemológicos e a evolução que está a acontecer na conjuntura em rede da Era da Informação em que já estamos. Daí a importância do questionamento sobre o tipo de relação da C.I. com os Sistemas Informáticos ou Tecnológicos de Informação.
Perceber as diferentes perspectivas existentes sobre Ciência da Informação e seu relacionamento com a tradição bibliológica/biblioteconómica, documentalista e arquivística.
Expor e discutir a proposta de uma C.I. transdisciplinar e interdisciplinar, capaz de se projectar em programas de pesquisa guiados pelo Método Quadripolar e também vocacionada para mútliplas trajectories inter e muliidisciplinares.

Information Systems Analysis I

CINF001 - ECTS

Information Behaviour

CINF007 - ECTS Entre as disciplinas que formam o core ou núcleo central da Licenciatura em Ciência da Informação, Comportamento Informacional situa-se entre o desiderato epistemológico da Teroria e Metodologia da Ciência da Informação e a vertente aplicada ou teórico-prática do curso.
Visa, pois, uma melhor assimilção das bases epistemológicas e teórico-metodológicas ensinadas no 1º semestre e a aplicação das mesmas através do processo que conduziu os estudos de utilizador e os ensaios de bibliometria feitos surgidos entre Guerras e meados do séc XX até à abordagem mais holísitica e científica que se pretende com o estudo do information behaviour (comportamento informacional).

Administrative Law

CINF009 - ECTS - To equip the students with the basic tools that enable them to have knowledge of the major legal characteristics of Administrative Law, insofar as it affects their lives and professional activities (whether managing activities in the field of services, trade or industry).
- To provide a scientific legal perception of a vast field of intervention of Governments in Contemporary Societies and the way in which Public Authorities drive and shape the profile of these Societies and the conduct of the various elements that compose them.

Information Sources and Reference Services

CINF010 - ECTS

Organization and Representation of Information II

CINF026 - 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 (thesauri and classifications); they should also understand and apply authority control techniques for the establishment of access points.

Information Systems Analysis II

CINF002 - ECTS

Information Storage and Retrieval I

CINF003 - ECTS

Public Libraries

CINF006 - ECTS The students must learn the fundamental concept of public reading and should be familiar and current with the portuguese public library network project and the portuguese political model for public libraries. Students should demonstrate an understanding of the organization and performance of public libraries and of the processes to evaluate their efficiency.

Cataloguing of Old Books

CINF036 - ECTS Pretende-se que os estudantes conheçam as características e estrutura do livro impresso antigo (anterior a 1800), bem como adquiram as competências necessárias para procederem à sua descrição bibliográfica e catalogação com recurso às normas nacionais e internacionais. Pretende-se ainda que os alunos analisem o impacto da aplicação das novas tecnologias no tratamento e acesso ao “livro antigo”.

Information Management

CINF012 - ECTS

Preservation and Conservation

CINF028 - ECTS - Understand and organizationally contextualize the preservation and conservation of information/documents – the transversality, the complementarity and the global evolvement.

- Acquire the theoretical and methodological principles oriented to the study, analysis and evaluation of the processes related with the preservation and conservation of information, independently of the information nature, the information lifecycle stadium, the production method or the medium of storage.

- Acquire the theoretical and methodological principles oriented to the preservation, conservation and information long-term access, considering the methods of acquisition/production, selection, organization, representation, retrieval and use of information.

- Acquire the knowledge related to the Information and Communication Technologies in the context of the information long-term preservation.

- Acquire the competences and abilities to perform the technical procedures, standards and other tools related with information long-term preservation and access.

- Understand and apply the techniques of management and evaluation of information management systems oriented to the long-term preservation.

- Apply and correctly use the technologies, considering them as a non dissociated component of the long-term preservation and access processes and strategies.

Multimedia Technology

CINF034 - ECTS

Information Storage and Retrieval II

CINF004 - ECTS - Acquire the theoretical and methodological principles oriented to the information storage, representation, retrieval and use, independently of the information nature, the information lifecycle stadium, the production method or the medium of storage.

- Acquire the theoretical and methodological principles oriented to the planning, organization and evaluation of storage and retrieval information systems.

- Acquire the theoretical and methodological principles oriented to the study, analysis and evaluation of the processes of information storage and retrieval.

- Acquire the knowledge and competences related with the main information storage methods, formats and platforms.

- Acquire the competences and abilities to perform the techniques of organization and evaluation of information storage and retrieval systems.

- Understand and apply the techniques, standards and other tools related with representation, retrieval, access and use of information.

- Apply and correctly use the technologies, considering them as a non dissociated component of the information retrieval and evaluation of information resources processes.

Databases

CINF005 - ECTS

Accounting

CINF037 - ECTS

Information Services Management

CINF013 - ECTS - Understand and organizationally contextualize the management of an information service.

- Acquire the theoretical and methodological principles oriented to the planning, organization and evaluation of information services, independently of the information nature, the information lifecycle stadium, the production method or the medium of storage.

- Acquire the theoretical and methodological principles oriented to the study, analysis and evaluation of the processes of information services management.

- Acquire the competences and abilities to perform the technical procedures related with the organization and evaluation of information services

- Understand and apply the techniques, standards and other tools related with information services management.

Business Information

CINF017 - ECTS

Palaeography and Diplomatics

HISTO059 - ECTS 1) proporcionar aos alunos conhecimentos que lhe permitam ler e interpretar fontes históricas escritas, sobretudo relacionadas com a História de Portugal.
2) fornecer elementos que permitam, após a leitura de um documento, analisar os seus caracteres externos e internos
3)analisar criticamente os documentos, retirando informação de diversos tipos de fontes históricas
3) habilitar os alunos a responder a questões de diversos tipos sobre documentação variada (como por exemplo "quem escreveu?", "quando?", "onde?", "com que fim?", etc.)
4) habilitar os alunos a classificar os diferentes tipos de documentos (quanto à natureza, proveniência, etc.)

Decision Support Systems

CINF030 - ECTS
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