This subject has no weekly in-class teaching activities. Learning activities of the course:

• Supervised: follow-up activities with the tutor. It is mandatory to have at least three follow-up sessions with the tutor.
• Autonomous work: the student prepares the written project and the oral presentation.
• Guided: group tutorials and informative sessions

Students who enroll in the TFG (Final Degree Project) for the second time or comply with the requierements of the “Protocol” of the Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres (https://www.uab.cat/doc/Protocol-TFG) may complete the TFG during the first semester of the 4th year. This option will only be possible if they obtain prior consent from the TFG coordination and Gestió acadèmica.

Schedule (regular call):

• From October 1 to 16: selection of tutors and topics.
• November 16: publication of tutor assignments.
• From November 17 to December 4: first face-to-face meeting with the tutor.
• January 13: submission of the project proposal (Ev1a). After evaluation, a follow-up session with the tutor is held.
• April 7: submission of the first part of the project (Ev1b). After evaluation, a follow-up session with the tutor is held.
• June 18: submission of the written project (Ev1c).
• From June 28 to July 2: oral presentation of the project (Ev2).
• July: publication of final marks.

Schedule (extraordinary call):

• From September 20 to 22: selection of tutors and topics.
• From September 25 to 30: publication of tutor assignments.
• From September 25 to October 7: first face-to-face meeting with the tutor.
• October 28: submission of the project proposal (Ev1a). After evaluation, a follow-up session with the tutor is held.
• November 30: submission of the first part of the project (Ev1b). After evaluation, a follow-up session with the tutor is held.
• January 25: submission of the written project (Ev1c).
• From February 1 to 5: oral presentation of the project (Ev2).
• February: publication of final marks.

Procedure and criteria for assigning tutors:

• The student must select five tutor proposals in order of preference through a form within the established deadline.
• The TFG coordinator will assign tutors to students based on their academic record and order of preferences, and will publish the assignment on TFE.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one session will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

The final evaluation of the course is individual, and the final grade is based on the following assessments:

1) Ev1 – The written work (individual). The tutor evaluates the written work and the process of monitoring the elaboration of the work, which accounts for 60 % of the final grade and consists of three mandatory submissions:

• Ev1a – Project proposal (5 %): The student must submit a written proposal of the project agreed upon with the tutor during the first follow-up session. The document must include the provisional title, justification or problem statement, general objectives, methodology, and planning. Additionally, it may include any information the tutor deems relevant (e.g., hypothesis formulation or predictions, definition of basic concepts).
• Ev1b – First part of the work (10 %): The student must submit a written part of the work including at least the introduction, literature review, research objectives or questions, bibliography, and if applicable, the methodology description and sections agreed upon with the tutor in the previous follow-up session.
• Ev1c – Final version of the work (45 %). Combined degrees: students enrolled in combined degrees must also submit a summary in the other language of the degree (see below).

2) Ev2 – Oral defense (in-person, individual). A panel of two professors evaluates the oral defense of the work, which counts for 40 % of the final grade. The oral defense is held in person.

Combined degrees: students must answer questions in the other language of the degree.

Tutors and panel members have rubrics to evaluate the assessments and monitor the student. It is mandatory to submit the written assessments through the TFE application (Treball de Final d’Estudis: https://tfe.uab.cat). Assessments not submitted according to the guidelines or submitted late will receive a zero.

To pass the course, it is necessary to:

• Obtain a grade of 5 or higher on each assessment (Ev1 and Ev2).
• Achieve a final grade of 5 or higher on the weighted average of the written work and oral presentation grades.

Formal requirements

The written work (Ev1c) must be between 20 and 40 pages long (2,100 characters per page), excluding acknowledgments, bibliography, and possible appendices. It must include two abstracts – one in Catalan and one in English – (maximum 150 words) and five keywords. Regarding other formal aspects (structure, citations, bibliographic references...), standard academic criteria for this type of text and the relevant knowledge field apply, which can be consulted with the tutor.

The oral defense must last 15 minutes. It is recommended that the oral defense contain the following information: (1) presentation of the topic and justification, (2) objectives, (3) methodology, (4) main results, (5) conclusions, contributions of the work and future research. After the presentation, the panel may ask questions, which the student must answer with arguments. This partwill last a maximum of 20 minutes. The questions may be related, among other things, to the content of the work, the bibliography used, the methodology or passages from the written work.

Language

The work must be written and orally defended in Catalan. It must comply with academic standards in linguistic norms, writing style, other aspects of written communication, as well as phonetics and oral communication. Otherwise, the final grade may be negatively affected or the activity could be failed.

Combined degrees

Students in combined degrees must include an extended summary (5 to 8 pages) of the work done in the degree’s other language. This summary should include objectives, methodology, analysis of results, and evaluation of conclusions, aas well as the most important bibliographical references (already cited in the TFG and in accordance with the citation system used in the TFG). Tables or figures cannot be included in this summary, as they will be in the TFG. If there are origional quotes that need translation, they will be included translated with a footnote. This summary must be included in the same document as the TFG, placed at the beginning of the word, after the index and the abstract in language 1. Failure to comply with the established lenght (less than 5 pages or more than 8 pages) will be considered in the evaluation.

Regarding the oral defense, students of combined degrees must do the final part of the presentation (conclusions, contributions of the word ant future research) in language 2.

Linguistic competence and academic use of both languages will be assessed by a panel of specialists in both languages. The panel will consider both parts written in different languages and oral expression, as questions will be asked in both languages during the presentation, which the student must answer accordingly.

Review

The final grade review is the responsibility of the course coordinator, who will announce the date and time when final grades are published.

Honors distinction

According to the Final Degree Project Protocol of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, a committee appointed by the coordinator of undergraduated studies will grant Honors only in the ordinary call, considering 75 % the TFG grade and 25 % the student’s academic record.

Not evaluable

Students who fail to submit either the final written work (Ev1c) or the oral defense (Ev2) will be considered not evaluable.

Single evaluation / Recovery

The course does not allow a single evaluation system nor any recovery mechanisms.

Extraordinary call

Students enrolled for the second time who have the coordinator’s approval may present the TFG in the extraordinary call. Students who have previously requested the final call for studies from Gestió acadèmica and who have enrolled in all the credits necessary to complete their studies will also have the possibility of exceptionally submitting the TFG in the extraordinary call.

Plagiarism

If the student commits any irregularity that may significantly affect the evaluation, the assessment will be graded zero regardless of disciplinary procedures. Multiple irregularities will result in a final grade of zero.

Artificial intelligence

In the TFG of philology degrees, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies (or tools that include generative AI) to generate text (eg. to write, rewrite, translate, summarize, synthesize, compile a bibliography, extract citations, produce a script or generate slides) is not allowed, since the student must demonstrate that he or she possesses these academic skills. The authorization or prohibition of all other possible uses of this technology is subject to the discretion of the TFG tutor and the subject coordinator. In the event that its use is authorized, the written consent of the tutor and the coordinator is required, by signing a document, which must be attached to the TFG, specifying for which tasks the student can use it. In addition, the student must include another annex in which, on the one hand, they clearly detail the use they have made of this technology and, on the other, they critically reflect on how the use of AI has influenced the process and the final result of the work. Non-transparency regarding the use of AI in the TFG is considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a partial or total penalty in the grade, or greater sanctions in serious cases.

TFG publication in the DDD

If the student obtains a grade of 9 or higher on the written work and wishes to publish it in the UAB’s Digital Document Deposit (DDD), they must sign and submit the consent form prepared by the Humanities Library to the TFG coordinator.