CINF015 - ECTS

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.

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 employ 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

Contextualize, in space and time, the evolution of public administration, its organization and functionality.

Identify the administrative entities that produce information, specifically, the successive institutions created within the Portuguese Public Administration, in the period between the formation of the Kingdom and the democratic organization.

Identify the logic of governance of the Portuguese territory.

Understand and identify the reflexes of the administration (central, peripheral and local) in the production of information and in the different record supports that are in the custody of local and national archives.

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 Infromation 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

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 supposed that the students may understand the function, in the current social life, of the Archive, Library and Museum services, giving them an adequate adaptation to such contexts, if they are called to work in them


It is supposed, also, to help the students to establish relations between the differences and resemblances of these services in what concerns the work cycle that they usually follow and about the way how they interact with society and their “public”.

It is still expected that the students easily articulate the theoretical and technical knowledge, acquired in other courses with the normal and practical functions of those cultural spaces

CINF047 - ECTS

To endow students with skills to identify, explore and search Business information (BI) resources and to develop 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 research skills.

CINF030 - ECTS