Subject analysis of the final projects of the Documentation programme in the University of Murcia

Abstract

The adaptation to EHEA of the Spanish University involves a wide range of changes in the existing curricula of Documentation. The launch of the new title ‘Bachelor in Information and Documentation’ implies the implementation of a compulsory subject –the Grade Thesisoriented to the realization of a research project at the end of the studies, with the objective of introducing the student in basic or applied research about any of the subjects studied along the grade. The object of this paper is to analyze the main themes of the projects developed in the LIS studies of the University of Murcia; and verify their degree of consistency with the subjects of the present curriculum and with the proposed compulsory subjects for the new title; checking whether if, at the end of their studies, the students channelled their activity within the main subjects of the curriculum or whether they directed their research into elective subjects and even into collateral subjects of their curricula. This review provides very valuable information with a view to this launching.