Curricular Unit:			Code:
Great Themes of Information Sciences and Documentation			1051GTCI
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
1	Doctorate	Information Sciences (Sciences of the Information)	2 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
		Portuguese	26
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
Origins of Information Science. The interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary dimension. Similarities and differences between IS and the others Social Sciences. Disciplinary problems. The professional dimension and the new skills. Research methodology.
Syllabus:
1. Epistemology of Information Science 2. The problems of Information Science 3. Transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity of CI 4. The scientific, professional dimension and new skills 5. Methodology of IS research
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
- To understand and discuss the historical and epistemological routes of Information Science as autonomous branch of knowledge. - Multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary dimensions. - To understand the traditional dimension and the «new» informational dimension established with the Information and Communication Technologies.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
continous
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The classes are theoretical and practical, focus on problematizing approach to the thematic units of Information Science today, by reading and analysising scientific information sources.
Reading:
Araújo, C. A. Á. (2014). O que é Ciência da Informação? Informação e Informação, v. 19, n. 1. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5433/1981-8920.2014v19n1p01 Ciência da Informação: contributos para o seu estudo (2012), dir. Judite A. G. de Freitas, Luís B. Gouveia e A. Regedor eds., Porto: UFP Edições. Silva, J. C. e Gomes, H. F. (2015). Conceitos de informação na Ciência da Informação: percepções analíticas, proposições e categorizações. Informação e Sociedade: Estudos, v. 25, n.1, p. 145-157. López-Cozar, E. D. (2002). La investigación en biblioteconomía y documentación. Trea Edições. Pinheiro, L. V. R. (2018). Mutações na ciência da informação e reflexos nas mandalas interdisciplinares. Informação e Sociedade: Estudos, v. 28, n. 3, p. 115-134.