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2024-2025
Studies
Final project
General information and regulations
In the final years of their studies, undergraduate students must take and pass the Final Degree Project (TFG), which is mandatory.
The Royal Decree 1393/2007, of October 29, which establishes the organization of official university courses, establishes its mandatory nature and says: "The work at the end of the Degree... must be carried out in the final phase of the plan of studies and be oriented towards the evaluation of skills associated with the degree".
The TFG involves the completion by the student and individually of a project in which the skills (knowledge, skills and attitudes) acquired throughout the degree are applied, integrated and developed.
Exceptionally, and when the difficulty, complexity or interdisciplinary nature of the work justifies it, it can be done in a group (maximum 3 students); in these cases it is necessary for the tutor to draw up a short report justifying the work and to receive the authorization of the TFG coordinator of the education.
The TFG can be carried out simultaneously or consecutively to the realization of external curricular practices (compulsory or optional). In this case, the student can link both subjects.
As a general rule, the TFG must conform to one of the following types:
- In-depth study and/or synthesis based on the research of bibliographic sources (state of the issue, review, synthesis, theoretical and conceptual development).
- Essay or work where the acquired knowledge and skills are applied.
- Creative work of a professional nature linked, preferably, to external curricular practices.
The training activities of the TFG correspond fundamentally to the student's independent work.
The TFG is regulated by the Regulations governing the final degree theses of the Faculty of Philology and Communication of the University of Barcelona, approved by the Academic Committee of the Faculty on June 3, 2024 and by the Academic Committee of the Governing Council on June 26, 2024.
According to this regulation, "the student must write the TFG when he is in the final phase of the study plan. He can do it when he has registered all the credits he lacks to obtain the degree".
Enrollment requirements and application
The subject "Final Work of Degree" can be enrolled by selecting it in the automatic registration in the block of compulsory subjects of the fourth year. The requirement is that the student completes his degree studies in the course in which the TFG enrolls. In this sense, the Secretariat will review the registrations and files of the students and, in those cases where it is found that the requirement is not met, a modification of registration will be made ex officio by deleting the TFG.
Tutoring of the TFG
The TFG is carried out under the guidance of a TFG tutor, who must act as facilitator and facilitator of the learning process. The tutor must be a teacher, preferably with teaching related to the corresponding degree. The tutoring of a TFG is structured in an established number of face-to-face group sessions and a series of individual tutoring sessions. In any case, at least three individual sessions and two collective sessions will be held. The teaching staff guides the student in relation to:
Assignment or choice of TFG topics
When assigning or choosing TFG subjects, it must be borne in mind that, in order to be able to evaluate the skills achieved by the student, the subject chosen as the subject of study must be directly linked to the subjects that make up the degree. For the choice of the topic of the TFG, the tutor must provide a selection of topics to the student or he can attend to the student's proposals in this sense. In any case, the choice made by the student must have the approval of the tutor.
Evaluation of the TFG
The evaluation of the TFG continues. Given the unique nature of the TFG, in which transversal skills must be evaluated, something that can only be done through student monitoring and tutoring, there is no possibility of accepting the single evaluation. For this reason, it is not possible for the student to opt for the extraordinary end-of-studies convocation. It can only be accepted if, attending the stipulated collective and individual sessions, you have not been able to present the TFG in the June and September calls of the course immediately preceding the registration date of the extraordinary call The evaluation periods of the TFG are adjusted to the evaluation calendar established for each academic year. The teaching plan for the TFG subject includes the criteria and evidence that make up the evaluation system and the weighting of each one. The evidence is, at least: It is an essential requirement that the student approves the written report in order to pass the subject. The formal and content requirements and characteristics of the written memory are included in the corresponding teaching plan for the subject of each degree. To be able to carry out the reevaluation of the TFG, it is required that the student has completed the individual tutorials and the oral presentation within the period of the continuous evaluation. The TFG evaluation of Philology degrees follows a system of rubrics as indicated in the attached document.
Guide of the TFG for Philology degrees
1. Assignment or choice of tutor and thematic axis Once registration and the presentation session have been completed, and the students' proposals have been collected, the TFG coordinator for each grade will assign each one a tutor. The distribution of students will be made, if applicable, in accordance with the average grade of the academic record. 2. Elaboration of the TFG In this way, the preparation of the TFG will progress according to the following sequence: a. First session (collective). At the beginning of the semester, the tutor will meet with the assigned students, comment on the subject program, inform them about the characteristics of the work, about the individual and collective tutorials and about the evaluation system. In addition, he will be able to provide them with a selection of topics, within the chosen thematic axis, or he will attend to the student's proposals in this regard. b. The starting point for the preparation of the TFG will be located, as is clear, in the determination of the topic of the work, which will be done in agreement with the tutor assigned and within a certain time limit, which is advised which is about fifteen days. c. From this moment on, the student will have to delve deeper into the chosen topic, while establishing the work objectives, the methodology, the basic bibliography and their action plan. Through individual sessions, the tutor will guide the students in setting objectives, in methodological and documentary issues and will monitor the development of the work. Second collective session. It will take place approximately one and a half months before the end of the TFG. The student will make an oral presentation of the work in progress in front of his tutor and group mates. The fundamental objective of this session will be to supervise the progress in the development of the TFG, guide the student with the contributions of the tutor and exercise the skills of oral communicative ability, that is, the correction in expression and the ability to student debate. From the oral presentation, the student will already be in the final phase of the TFG. Through individualized sessions, the tutor will guide the student in the problems and doubts related to the conclusion of the work and in the aspects related to the writing and presentation of the written report. At the end of the semester, on the day, time and place set at the beginning of the course, the student must deliver: a. Written report, preferably double-sided, according to the criteria indicated in the teaching plan and in this TFG guide. b. Resum en català o espanyol. c. Resum en anglès o en la llengua de redacció de la memòria, si aquesta no és el català o l'espanyol. d. Delivery of the report and summaries. e. Signed declaration of authorship (on paper). In a period of approximately fifteen days, the student will defend the TFG before a court. 3. Formal criteria for drafting the TFG report Style criteria. structure a. Covered 4. Date of delivery of the TFG Ordinary call: the last 3 days of the evaluation period (17, 18 and 19 June 2025) Re-evaluation: 2 and 4 September 2025 5. Evaluation and public defense Each evaluation committee will be made up of the tutor and two other doctors from the education where the TFG is presented. The evaluation event will consist of a public event in which the student will present the results of their work (15 minutes long) in front of the evaluation committee. This commission may make the comments and/or questions it considers pertinent, to which the student must respond. The TFG qualification will be the result of: assess, by the tutor, the attitude of the student and the evolution of the work in the preparation process (10%); The tutor will be responsible for entering the grades of the group of students he/she supervises in the minutes. 6. The TFG presented 6.1. Publication in the digital repository Final Degree Theses that have obtained the excellent rating, if the author gives their consent, will be published in the digital repository of the University of Barcelona. A TFG published in the Digital Depository of the UB has a permanent identifier of a digital object called handle which is equivalent to the DOI, and allows the work to be cited as a publication. The student whose work has been graded as excellent and who wishes to publish it must follow the following protocol: The coordinator sends to the library (crailletres@ub.edu) the digital version of the TFG, the assignment of rights document and the authorization for publication. (only if the collection has not been created). At the CRAI-Library, once it is checked that all the data is correct, the TFG is published. 6.2. Storage of TFGs The TFG coordinators for each course are responsible for uploading to the digital repository that they are assigned all the TFG for each academic year. In the space reserved for this function, the rubrics of each student and the summaries of each of the works must also be added. On the other hand, they must record in an Excel all the relevant information about the TFGs for each course, so that they will progressively record, for each course, the title, the author, the qualification, the tutor (or tutors) and the keywords of each TFG.
The preparation of the TFG by the student follows a process marked by the two collective sessions that are mandatory, although the tutor can schedule some more, if he considers it appropriate.
Extension. The length of the TFG will range between 42,000 and 63,000 characters with spaces approximately (equivalent to 20-30 pages of conventional dimensions), plus the bibliography and, where appropriate, appendices.
b. The required font is Times New Roman 12, spaced 1½ spaces, margins 2.54 cm x 2.54 cm (conventional dimensions of a Word page).
c. The papers must be accompanied by an abstract in two languages (no longer than 150 words) and a list of keywords (between 3 and 5, in two languages).
d. For formal looks, see the style sheet.
Once the student has handed in the TFG, the tutor will appoint the committee that will have to evaluate the public defense of the work. The different evaluation commissions have a maximum period of fifteen days to make the evaluation.
assess, by the tutor, the content and formal quality of the work (60%);
assess, by the court, the student's presentation, oral communication and debate skills (30%).
The evaluation procedure will be carried out using rubrics, which distinguish these three aspects and at the same time evaluate the transversal skills associated with the TFG.