PD:Treball Final de Màster

Teaching plan for the course unit

Català

Castellano

English

General information

Course unit name: Final Project

Course unit code: 569563

Academic year: 2025-2026

Coordinator: Myriam Mallart Brussosa

Department: Department of Modern Languages, Modern Literature and English Studies

Credits: 12

Single program: No definit

Estimated learning time

Total number of hours 300

Supervised project

Independent learning

255

Recommendations

Students may use Catalan, Spanish, English and other languages for their written assignments. If a language other than Catalan, Spanish, or English is used, the coordiantion of the master’s program needs to be informed.

Further recommendations

TFMs should, whenever possible, aligned with SDGs.

Competences / Learning outcomes to be gained during study

Basic and general competences

— Knowledge forming the basis of original thinking in the development or application of ideas, typically in a research context.

— Capacity to apply the acquired knowledge to problem-solving in new or relatively unknown environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.

— Capacity to communicate conclusions, judgements and the grounds on which they have been reached to specialist and non-specialist audiences in a clear and unambiguous manner.

— Skills to enable lifelong self-directed and independent learning.

— Capacity for reflection: awareness of one’s own thought process, and ability to acknowledge and appraise different theories and points of view in the field of literary and cultural studies.

— Capacity to develop independent thought: critical and self-critical capabilities, capacity to develop original problem-solving strategies, capacity to generate new ideas, and capacity to delimit an object or field of study in terms of the construction and representation of cultural identities.

— Capacity to conduct basic research and monitor recent developments in the international scientific community in the fields of cultural studies, literary studies and gender studies.

— Capacity to integrate knowledge and tackle the complexity of formulating judgements based on incomplete or limited information, taking due consideration of the social and ethical responsibilities involved in applying knowledge and making judgements.

— Capacity to understand: identification of concepts, problems and key questions in debates on the construction of cultural identities.

— Capacity to interpret texts from different eras and cultural traditions.

— Capacity to manage information: capacity to extract and integrate information from different sources, making effective use of libraries, archives, newspaper archives and other resources (particularly digital resources) relevant to research in the humanities.

— Ability to work in a team (capacity to collaborate with others and contribute to a common project / capacity to work in cross-disciplinary and multicultural teams).

Learning objectives

Referring to abilities, skills

• Develop the capacity to construct robust, complex arguments that address the state of the art on an international level.

• Develop the capacity to manage information effectively, to identify the literary, sociological and cultural theories and methodologies applicable to specific cases.

• Participate with accuracy of thought and expression in oral and written debates in relation to literary and cultural studies.

Referring to attitudes, values and norms

• Demonstrate a respect for all reasonably argued and well-founded viewpoints.

Teaching blocks

Teaching methods and general organization

The teaching methodology is based on the research of information, the completion of a written assignment and the oral defense of it. Face-to-face or on-line tutorial sessions will be held periodically.

The gender perspective will be taken into consideration in the content of the subject.

Official assessment of learning outcomes

Students are assessed by an examination panel on the basis of the written report and an oral defence of the project.

Before the date set for each session, the candidate must submit three hard copies of the TFM and send a PDF version to the Committee. On the day of the deadline for submission, the Master’s Committee meets to determine the panel, the time, and the place of the defense, and this information will be made available on the website.

Prior to the defense, the tutor/supervisor of the paper will submit a report to the Committee on the TFM, comprising his or her evaluation and authorising its presentation.

The act of defense is a public act in which the candidate presents the results of the research activity (approx. 20 minutes) before the panel; following which the members of the panel formulate observations, comments, and questions that the candidate will have to answer.

The members of the panel must take into account the tutor’s report, but the final grade, which is the sum of the scores obtained for the TFM and its oral presentation, is calculated according to a formula and the following weightings:

— oral presentation quality and ability to debate and defend arguments (30%);

— formal and scientific quality of the written paper (technical standard, clarity, and adequacy as a piece of academic writing, coherence, rigour, originality, contribution) (70%);

The final grade is given to each student at the end of the public session.

Examination-based assessment