a) During the first half of October, students will formally present to the TFG coordinator, through a face-to-face tutorial (or virtual if a face-to-face meeting is not possible), the topic of their project, in accordance with the indicative list of thematic areas included in this guide or as a personal proposal. Consequently, the topic is freely chosen by the student, with the approval of the TFG coordinator.

b) No more than one specific project on the same topic may be carried out; that is, it will not be permitted for more than one student to work on the same specific subject. Obviously, there may be more than one project within the same thematic area, but with different content.

c) The assignment of the supervisor will be carried out by the TFG coordinator, who will evaluate the student’s proposal in this regard.

d) During the first half of November, the TFG coordination will make public the assignment of the topic and the supervisor.

e) Deadline for submission of the project: within the first 10 days of June (the TFG coordination will indicate the exact date in due time).

f) Date of the project defence: around 20–26 June (the TFG coordination will indicate the exact date in due time).

I – Basic requirements

a) The project must be individual. The student’s effort, imagination, quality of writing and critical spirit will be assessed.

b) The project topic may not coincide with the topic of any other course assignment in the Degree. If duplications are detected, the project will not be assessed.

c) The consultation of foreign-language bibliography will be valued and is in any case essential in most situations.

d) The project may be written in Catalan, Spanish, English, French or Italian.

e) The project must be correctly written, as corresponds to any academic text.

II – Length, structure and format

(* Further details will be provided in the protocol that the coordination will make available via the Virtual Campus).

Length. 30 pages (2,100 characters/page), including notes. The cover page, acknowledgements, abstract, table of contents, bibliography and appendices (images, graphs, documents, etc.) are excluded.

Structure. It must be clear and concise and will broadly include, as its main sections, a state of the question on the topic, a critical development and a conclusion section.

The elements and sections to be included (with varying length) are, in this order:

a) Cover page: it must necessarily include the type of project (Final Degree Project), the full title of the project, the student’s first name and surname(s), the corresponding student ID number, the first name and surname(s) of the supervisor, and the academic year.

b) Abstract: a minimum of 200 and a maximum of 300 words, as well as 5 keywords.

c) Table of contents, with the titles of the sections and their corresponding page numbers.

d) Introduction, where the topic of the project will be presented and the justification for its choice will be clearly set out; the general and specific objectives (formulated in a clear, precise and measurable way) will be stated and the methodology used will be specified. The student’s personal or academic motivation and the relationship of the topic with other existing works or lines of research may also be briefly presented.

e) State of the question: critical review of the bibliography and the most relevant precedents related to the topic of the Final Degree Project.

f) Main body of the project. This constitutes the core and largest part of the Final Degree Project and must present the development of the topic clearly, systematically and coherently.

e) Conclusions: the main results of the project and the conclusions drawn from them. The capacity for synthesis and critical reflection will be assessed, as well as the connection between the results and the initial objectives.

f) Bibliography. It must include all the sources consulted and cited throughout the project. Only references that have actually been used should be included.

g) Appendices. These will include exclusively all those materials that complement the main body of the project and are separate from its length: illustrations, documents, etc.

Format:

• Pages and illustrations must be properly numbered.
• The captions of illustrations must necessarily include, in addition to the usual information, their source.
• Explanatory notes must appear as footnotes, while for bibliographic notes any of the most commonly accepted referencing systems may be used.
• The bibliography and notes must necessarily follow the referencing guidelines available from the UAB Library Service ( There are various bibliographic citation systems. Each student may choose the one they consider most suitable for their project (APA, MLA, Chicago, ISO, among others). In any case, regardless of the system chosen, it is essential that it be used in a coherent and consistent way throughout the document.

III – Submission (early June)

Once the supervisor has reviewed the final version of the project and given their approval for its submission:

1. The PDF version must be uploaded to the virtual campus within the established deadline.
2. A single printed version must be submitted to the Final Degree Project coordination.

The dates and means of these submissions will be specified in due course by the Final Degree Project Coordination via the Virtual Campus.

IV – Assessment

The assessment and mark of the project will result from the sum of:

• The mark awarded by the supervisor for the written project (55% of the final grade) and for the supervision process (5% of the final grade). A minimum of three supervision meetings must be held.
• The mark corresponding to the student’s oral presentation – a presentation of approximately 15 minutes, accompanied by a PowerPoint or audiovisual – before a panel appointed by the Final Degree Project coordination and made up of two members of the teaching staff other than the supervisor (40% of the final grade). The presentation will be assessed in terms of oral delivery, structure of the discourse, resources used and the interest generated by the presentation. The written project will also be consulted and its suitability in relation to the structure, format and objectives of a Final Degree Project will be considered.

• The grade “not assessable” will be given when the student has not submitted the final version of the Final Degree Project.
• The Final Degree Project has only one examination session (June) and cannot be retaken. Exceptionally, and provided that the student has enrolled all the credits required to complete the degree, an extraordinary February session may be requested (this must be agreed with the supervisor and communicated to the Coordination between November and December so that the procedure can be processed by the Academic Management Office).
• Honours Distinction (Matrícula d’Honor) may be awarded to the projects with the highest grades, according to the number of distinctions allowed per group (5% of the number of enrolled students). In the event of a tie or doubt, the Final Degree Project coordination will appoint a committee that will take into account 75% the Final Degree Project grade and 25% the student’s transcript grade for the last two academic years (3rd and 4th year).
• There is the possibility of publication in the UAB Digital Repository of Documents for Final Degree Projects with a final grade equal to or higher than 9. In order to allow publication, the student must sign and submit to the Final Degree Projects coordinator the consent form prepared by the Humanities Library.
• This course does not provide for a single-assessment system.
• Spelling mistakes and grammatical inaccuracies – both in the written project and in the oral defence and the resources used therein – will reduce the project’s grade.

IMPORTANT

• The supervisor’s approval is an essential requirement for the submission of the Final Degree Project. The supervisor must have received (in the format agreed with the student) the final version that will be uploaded in digital format to the Virtual Campus and submitted in printed form to the Final Degree Project Coordination.
• The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is allowed exclusively for support tasks, such as text correction and/or translation, and under no circumstances for the drafting of the text, whether in whole or in part. In very specific and justified cases (some kind of processing and/or analysis of accumulated data, statistics, etc.) it may be used on an ad hoc basis and always with the supervisor’s agreement. In such cases, the student must clearly identify which sections have been generated with this technology and specify the tools used. The non-transparent use of AI in any assessable activity is considered a breach of academic integrity and may lead to partial or total penalties in the grade for the activity, or more serious sanctions in serious cases. A Final Degree Project generated in whole or in part with AI will be graded with a 0.
• In cases of plagiarism, the project will be graded with a 0. Plagiarism occurs when a text (of whatever length) is copied from sources that have not been properly identified, presenting them as if they were the student’s own (this includes copying sentences or paragraphs taken from the Internet without modifying them and presenting them as original). Plagiarism is a serious offence. Students must respect the intellectual property of others, properly identifying any source they use and, at the same time, being responsible for the originality and authenticity of the texts they produce.