Having an interdisciplinary focus and promoting a reflection on the past and present, the Curricular Unit of History of Culture aims at providing students with precise knowledge on the cultures of several eras, namely the written culture, so as to deepen the knowledge already acquired in the relationship with the knowledge to be acquired, stimulating the reflection on concepts. The aim is that students develop their critical sense and capacity of connection between past and present, so as to promote the acquisition of skills that allow them to identify a problem, critically discuss a topic and apply that knowledge to new situations.

The aim of this subject is to encourage students (1) to develop skills in deductive reasoning by means of natural language and (2) master some of the key concepts of contemporary logic, in order to subsequently apply it in the structuring of indexation languages, in the analysis of information systems and in information retrieval.

Development of linguistic, sociolinguistic and communicative skills; acquisition of oral and written expression and communication techniques for an efficient performance in different usage situations.

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 in their area of study;
5. To develop writing skills for summarising longer academic texts.

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 basic aspects about the sounds of language and the sounds of speech;
4. mastery of fundamental aspects about the formation of words, their meaning and their relations;
5. mastery of the basics of syntax and semantics of sentences;
6. acquisition and operationalization of fundamental notions on Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics.

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

The learning objectives are based on providing students with information about the consequences of changes (disruptions, changes or evolution) of the general public, local and national, for the perception of its effects on different documentary production that in historical archives will find. The evolution of the Portuguese district council structure; Das structures: Provincial, District and offi ces, the houses of the Porto and Lisbon and its meaning; From the evolution of the 'Terms' of cities and towns and their meaning and extent; From organic the different administrative structures.

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.

- 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 in order 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.

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.

Among the subjects that form the nucleus of the degree in Information Science, Informational Behaviour lies between the epistemological requirement of the theory and methodology of Information Science and the applied or theory-practical strand of the course. Students are therefore required to better assimilate the epistemological and theory-methodological basics taught in the first semester, and to apply them using the process that guided the user studies and the bibliometry tests that emerged between the two world wars and mid-20th century, up to the more holistic and scientific approach involved in the study of information behaviour.

To enable students with the essential tools that allow them to be aware of the broad outlines of Administrative Law, in so far as it affects their lives and professional actions, whether in the management of activities in the area of services, commerce or industry; and also in so far as this branch of Law regulates the huge and complex Administrative Organization of the State.

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.

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.

1- Understand and place preservation and its management in a systemic approach, as part of the organizational information system (OIS) management and throughout the information life cycle (theoretical, organizational, physical / material 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, life 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/implementation of a preservation strategic plan and operational/preventive and safety plan; a digitization project and creation, management and certification of digital repositories, either in digital or hybrid OIS.

- Consolidate the acquired knowledge and develop new skills related with 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 and storage medium.
- Consolidate the acquired knowledge and develop new skills related to the theoretical and methodological principles oriented to the analysis, planning and implementation of the information storage and retrieval processes and related to the main methodologies, media, formats, standards, technologies and other tools, specifically directed to the information storage, representation and retrieval.
- Acquire the competences related with the development/support of the main processes related to the analysis, planning and implementation of information storage and retrieval systems and develop those related with the supporting and performing of techniques, standards, technologies and other tools directed to information storage, representation, retrieval, continuous access and use, despite the used platform.

1- Understand and organizationally contextualize the information service management.

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

3- Acquire the theoretical and methodological principles oriented to the study, analysis, modeling, management and evaluation of the processes of information services management, as well in services and people performance assessing.

4- Acquire the basic knowledge, competences and skills in order to participate in the conception, planning, management and evaluation/performance assessment of information services.

5- Understand and apply the techniques, standards and other tools and perform the technical procedures related with the management and evaluation/performance assessment of information services.

1) The students will acquire the knowledge that will allow them to read and understand written historical resources about Portugal’s History. 2) They will be able to analyze the internal and external characters of a document 3)They will also be able to scrutinize documents, searching for information in different historical resources 3) The students will be able to answers questions relating to several documents (i. e. “Who wrote it”, “when was it written?”, “where was it written?”, “Why was it written?", etc.) 4) They will be able to classify different documents (Its nature, where were they written, etc.)