Academic Year:
2023/24
432 - Joint Law - Business Administration and Management Programme
30526 - Undergraduate Dissertation
Teaching Plan Information
Academic year:
2023/24
Subject:
30526 - Undergraduate Dissertation
Faculty / School:
102 - Facultad de Derecho
Degree:
432 - Joint Law - Business Administration and Management Programme
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
6
Semester:
First semester
Subject type:
End of Grade Dissertation
Module:
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1. General information
The goal of this subject is for the student to complete the development of the competences of the Bachelor's Degree in Law, through the writing of a written work and its public defense
Although the development of the course can be done in the context of an internship in companies or institutions, what is relevant, in these cases, is not the exposition of the work developed in such internships, but of the legal problems noticed and the solutions proposed for their resolution. Thus, students must demonstrate their ability to develop a report or written work of a legal nature that results in the proposal of solutions to specific problems of interpretation or application of law in general, or an activity of legal advice in the scope of an internship, leading to identify specific problems and propose solutions, in particular and in relation to the practical activity developed, or extrapolating such legal solution to a general area.
The development of this subject is useful to incorporate the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): 4 and 16.
2. Learning results
Have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues of a social, scientific or ethical nature.
To interpret legal texts from an interdisciplinary perspective and to use legal principles, as well as social, ethical and deontological values and principles as a tool of analysis
Convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences.
Make a basic argumentation and write papers on relevant legal, social or ethical issues.
Analyze critically, creatively and innovatively the legal system for legal dialectics.
3. Syllabus
Due to its special characteristics, there is no program for this subject.
4. Academic activities
Under the supervision of the director of the work, the student will search for the necessary sources to obtain information and will analyze the issues that are the object of the work. The report, therefore, must reflect a work developed in an autonomous and personal way by the student, although with the support of the assigned director.
To this end, it will be the teacher in charge of directing the work who, once the topic has been agreed with the student, organises the tutorials, as well as the internal deadlines for the delivery of the work or the different parts of it, in order to be able to offer guidance, corrections and observations to the student.
5. Assessment system
The student must demonstrate that they have achieved the expected learning results by means of the following assessment activities.
The Degree Final Project Report
The report should have a minimum length of 8,000 words and a suggested maximum length of 13,000 words. The structure and style ruleswill be those established in the document published on the Faculty's website and detailed in the version
above from the subject guide.
The public defense of the final thesis.
It is a necessary condition for passing the course to present the public defense of the work. The defense ceremony will take place at the place, date and time indicated in the announcement issued by the director of the work. The defense of the Degree Final Project will be public. The defense will consist of an oral presentation by the student of the most relevant aspects of the report and should not exceed ten minutes in length. At the end of the presentation, the director may ask questions to the studentto assess the learning results.
The overall computation of the grade will be the final result of these two factors:
a) Qualification of the written report of the work by the director. The assessment, which represents 80% of the final grade, will address the competencies indicated in this guide, with the following indicators:
- Management of sources and bibliography: 20%
- Analysis of legal institutions and regulatory structures: 20%
- Application of legal principles: 20%
- Clarity and coherence of written exposition: 20%
b) Qualification of the public defense by the director: it represents 20% of the final grade. The assessment will address the following indicators: persuasiveness, order and clarity, command of legal language, precision in the terms used, persuasiveness in the argumentation used, the tone of the presentation and the relevance of the answers given to the questions posed.
The director may assess the work with a quantitative grade from 0 to 10 and with the corresponding qualitative grade, except for the honorable mention.
The student who obtains a quantitative grade of at least 9.0 and has the approval of the director may exercise the option to achieve the qualitative grade of honorary degree by performing a new act of defense before the Board of examiners designated for this purpose. The board will always respect the numerical grade awarded by the director and will limit itself to awarding or not the honorary mention. For this purpose, both the written work submitted and the defense act will be assessed before the examining board.