• General Information
• Objective
• Dedication of the student
• The Supervisor
• Submission's deadline
• Language
• Dissertation's Deadline
• Publication of the Project
• Submission Documentation
• Assessment
• Committee
• Formal Requeriments
• The Regulations
• How to write an academic project 
• UPF Style Book 
• Recercat 

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General Information

The 15 ECTS of the Master's Final Project have to be passed through the submission of a work in order to show the student's research skills. The project has also to be presented in a public dissertation session in front of a Committee made up of three doctor lecturers. 

Dissertation Guidelines.

Objective

The Master's Final Project has the objective to prove the intellectual maturity and the research skills of the student. It has to be an original project, as a result of the personal work of the student under the guidance of a supervisor.

Dedication of the student

The dedication of the student for the Master's Final Project is of 375 hours. These hours includes the work of literature review and sample collection if required, research time, the discussion with the supervisor and the writing of the project.

The Supervisor

The Master's Final Project is carried out under the monitoring of a supervisor which is assigned to the student by the coordinator during the second term.

Eligible supervisor are the doctors who give teaching in the Master, the doctors of the Department, doctors of UPF as co-supervisor with a doctor from the Department, doctors outside UPF as co-supervisor with a doctor from the Department.

Submission's Deadline

The Master's Final Project must be delivered within the deadline fixed by the regulation.

The project must be submitted by 17 June. We encourage early submissions.

Delays won't be admitted. All the students which won't deliver or pass the Master's Final Project will be able to register it in the next academic year, with the related surcharge provided that they fulfil the requirements about continuity and number of calls.

Language

The project can be written in English, Spanish or Catalan

Dissertation's Deadline

The Project will be defended publicly in front of an assessment made up of three doctor lecturers.

The dissertations will take place from 2, 3 and 4 of July. The schedule for the public defences will be announced on this page.

You can check the timetable here. 

The period between the delivery and the public dissertation won't be in any case inferior to fifteen calendar days. During this time, the project will be available to all the doctor lecturers of the Department. 

Publication of the Project 

Only for students who are awarded a grade equivalent to A (9 to10):

Authorization for the paper to be deposited at the Repositori Electrònic de la Recerca de Catalunya (RecerCat). Instructions below according to your situation:

Submission Documentation

To be delivered to the Secretary of the Department of Communication

1. Form for the delivery of the Master's Final Project
2. One PDF copy of the Master's Final Project uploaded to the master's programme moodle, stating in the subject "TFM Name.Family name". (40 MB maximum allowed).
3. In case of being awarded a 9 or higher, the regulations require the project to be published in RECERCAT, the repository of digital research documents from universities and research centres in Catalonia, with the aim of increasing their reach (see the TFM publishing section).

Assessment

The final evaluation of the dissertation will be done through the presentation and oral defence of it. The examination committee will be made up of three research and teaching members of the Department of Communication at the UPF. The committee will issue a grade that will have to take into account the following elements:

• Quality of the project (75% of the final grade of the tribunal)

• Oral presentation (25% of the final grade of the tribunal)

In the quality of the project, the committee will also take into account the evaluation of the tutor. This includes for each student:

• Participation in tutoring sessions (physical or virtual)

• Compliance to the working plan and timing

For the calculation of the final grade, none of the qualifications may be less than 4.

The final project grade, as decided by the commission, will be notified privately to each student on the week after.

For more details on the criteria used by the committee to assess both the project and the presentation please check the Final Project Guidelines (available in Moodle).

Committee

 

The Project will be defended publicly in front of an assessment committee made up of three doctor lecturers chosen by the Department.  

Committee for the year 2021-2022: 

- The supervisor of the project (as chair of the committee)

Formal Requirements

Cover and first page

All types of final project must include:

1. Cover page with:

• Title of the document
• Author or authors' name
• Supervisor
• Publication date: Academic Year 20--/--
• The name of the collection: Research Project of the MA in International Studies on Media, Power, and Difference
• Name of the sub-community: Department of Communication  
• Name of the University: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
   

Cover Template

2. First page with:

• Abstract: maximum 150 word length in the same language of the Project
• Keywords: a list of keywords about the content, with a maximum length of 200 characters
• Type of the project (PhD proposal, Research Report, Academic Paper)

 

Digital file

A second file can be uploaded if necessary for supplementary material (audio/video recordings, extra images, etc.). Standard formats are recommended.

Types of final master project

See guidelines of the Master final project in the General Master's area in Moodle.

The Regulations

The Master's Final Project is structured according to:

- Regulations about the research project of Postgraduate Courses of the Department of communication 

This regulation has been approved by the Postgraduate Committee of the Department of Communication.