This course aims at preparing qualified and trained technicians in Librarianship, Archival Science, Documentation and Information. Our graduates will acquire high level technical competences, including the ability to manage documents and information in several activity sectors, and the ability to integrate a work team and be mobile, professionally speaking.
Our graduates will be able to develop specialized continuous training and a technical, scientific and humanist culture open to internationalization. They will also specialize in different information skills and tools and document management skills (technologies and other material and human resources); our graduates will also possess a solid theoretical and practical background in evaluating, selecting, storing, organizing, treating technically, researching and analyzing documents and information.
| 1º Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Curricular unit | Period | ECTS |
| Technical French II | Summer Semester | |
| Internet and Digital Multimedia | Summer Semester | |
| Elective II | Summer Semester | |
| Information Analysis I | Summer Semester | |
| Systems Analysis and Modelling | Summer Semester | |
| Information Law | Summer Semester | |
| Information Representation in Archives | Summer Semester | |
| Information Organization I | Summer Semester | |
| Technical English II | Summer Semester | |
| Algorithms and Data Structures | Winter Semester | |
| Information and Communication Technology | Winter Semester | |
| Resources Planning and Management | Winter Semester | |
| Technical French I | Winter Semester | |
| Introduction to Information Science | Winter Semester | |
| Methodological Investigation in Information | Winter Semester | |
| Organizational Communication Technologies | Winter Semester | |
| Elective I | Winter Semester | |
| Technical English I | Winter Semester | |
| 2º Year | ||
| Curricular unit | Period | ECTS |
| Information Analysis III | Summer Semester | |
| Information and Communication Sciences | Summer Semester | |
| Informational Behaviour | Summer Semester | |
| Statistics in Information | Summer Semester | |
| Interoperability Systems | Summer Semester | |
| Information Retrieval | Summer Semester | |
| Information Organization II | Winter Semester | |
| Computational Systems | Winter Semester | |
| Information Analysis II | Winter Semester | |
| Databases | Winter Semester | |
| Archival Information Management | Winter Semester | |
| 3º Year | ||
| Curricular unit | Period | ECTS |
| Project Management | Summer Semester | |
| Project in Archival Science | Summer Semester | |
| Project in Library Science | Summer Semester | |
| Workplacement | Summer Semester | |
| Seminar | Summer Semester | |
| Informatics Applications | Winter Semester | |
| Preservation and Conservation | Winter Semester | |
| Advanced Studies in Library Science | Winter Semester | |
| Advanced Studies in Archival Science | Winter Semester | |
| Quality Management | Winter Semester | |
- Librarians (Universities, Schools, Town Halls, Museums, Foundations, etc.)
- Archivists (Town Halls, Hospitals, Court Rooms, Banks, Historic and Audio-visual archives, etc.)
- Documentalists specializing in several areas (Law, Economics and Finance, Health, Culture, etc.)
- Teachers of Information Technology and Information Science (may apply to Primary School and Secondary School positions)
- Trainers specializing in professional training (after getting the professional aptitude certificate)
- Digital Platform Content Managers
- Information System Managers
- Technicians in the areas of Quality Management, Organizational Communication and Gathering of Specialized Information.
Taking one of the following exams:
(11) History
(17) Mathematics for Social Sciences
(18) Portuguese Language
Minimum requirements
Application grade: 95 marks
Entrance exams: 95 marks
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