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Dissertation on Digital Curation and Digital Humanities

Objectives

- Acquire theoretical, methodological and technical skills, allowing students to develop their academic performance or start a professional career in the field of digital curation and digital humanities.
- Formulate relevant research problems, test methods and develop hypotheses, collect empirical data and analyze in innovative ways, be able to synthesize existing knowledge in such scientific field.
- Learn how to organise ideas and present results in a clear and proper way.

General characterization

Code

02111023

Credits

55.0

Responsible teacher

Daniel Ribeiro Alves

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - 1540

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

Depende da natureza de cada investigação. Os estudantes são em especial encorajados e treinados para recorrer desde o início aos repositórios digitais credenciados da área disciplinar.

It depends on the subject of each research. Students are specially encouraged and trained to work from the start with accredited bibliographical digital resources of the scientific field.

Teaching method

A master thesis is oriented by members of the courses academic staff, following the principles of tutorial supervision previewed in the regulation of the master course.

Evaluation method

Assessment - The final dissertation will be evaluated during a public viva before a jury, according to the MA course regulations.(100%)

Subject matter

The dissertation is the result of a substantial and profound research, which deepens the work developed in the classroom and must be prepared under the scientific guidance of a professor of the Master Course in association (NOVA FCSH-UNL and NOVA FCT), approved by the Faculty Scientific Council. The student prepares a “research plan”, about 5 pages, where are presented the main goals, the departure problem, the empirical data, the methodologies and theories from the scientific field. The making of the MA thesis follows and develops this plan, under regular guidance of the tutor(s).