Project

Code:

CL018

Acronym:

PRJ_CL

Instance: 2020/2021 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Language Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CL	17	CL - Study Plan	3	-	6	-

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

1. To help students develop skills to perform scientific research tasks or to support scientific research.
2. To involve students in the dynamics of research, stimulating their participation in teams, groups and research projects.
3. To confront students with the practical use of essential knowledge acquired in the previous semesters, at both theoretical and methodological levels.
4. To develop students’ spirit of responsibility.
5. To contribute to students’ in-depth study of theoretical knowledge and methodological skills.

Learning outcomes and competences

The students should:
1. Have aquired skills to perform scientific research tasks or to support scientific research;
2. To be able to devellop practical use of essential knowledge acquired in the previous semesters, at both theoretical and methodological levels;
3. To be able to devellop  in-depth study of theoretical knowledge and methodological skills.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Types of projects: The Linguistic lecturers involved in the course will prepare a list of projects available.
Each proposal will be described briefly as to:
1. the identification of main scientific area;
2. the objectives and nature of the project;
3. the lecturer responsible and
4. eventual requirements to participate in the project.

Projects will depend on the availability of lecturers of the Language Science course. Type of participation in the project: Students will be integrated into existing or newly formed teams, groups or research projects in Linguistics, and they will be given tasks and objectives achievable within no more than three months, which students must develop on their own but in close contact with the lecturer responsible for the project and, when applicable, with the other team members.

Mandatory literature

Faria, I. et al.; Introdução à Linguística Geral e Portuguesa, Caminho, 1996
MATEUS, M. H., BRITO, A. M., DUARTE, I., FARIA, I., FROTA, S., MATOS, G. A., OLIVEIRA, F., VIGÁRIO, M. e VlLLALVA, A., ; Gramática da Língua Portuguesa, Caminho, Série Linguística, 2003
Raposo, E. B. P., Nascimento, M. F. B., Mota, M. A., Segura, L. e Mendes, A. (orgs); Gramática do Português, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013

Comments from the literature

 The particular reading list will depend on each project and will be presented by the lecturer in charge, according to the themes proposed and chosen by the students.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Project supervision: Each project will have a lecturer in charge, from the Language Science course with teaching duties assigned for the semester in which the project will be done, who will be responsible for supervising and assessing the students.

The Head of the Language Science course will ensure the coordination among all the projects and their supervisors.

Each project will be presented in a public session specially organized for that purpose.

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	20,00
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho escrito	70,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	62,00
Trabalho de investigação	100,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Work with the lecturer in charge of the project

Calculation formula of final grade

1. Monography (detailed report of the work completed; 10-15 A4 pages, with the scientific project description, results and resources used, theoretical framework and literature sources), to be submitted to the lecturer by the 16th June. Subject to discussion with the supervisor.
2. Oral presentation will take place on the 22th of june, in a public session.

The supervisor will be responsible for assessing each project, taking into account:
1. the quality of the work;
2. the assiduity to the meetings and
3. the oral presentation.

Work with the lecturer in charge of the project:10%
Project oral presentation: 20%
Research and essay: 70%

Classification improvement

Only the written essay can be subjet to improvement of overall classification.