Academic management

The subject of Final Degree Project (TFG), of the fourth year (second semester) of the Degree in Economics, is a compulsory subject of 6 ECTS credits, which is taken in the final phase of the curriculum and is aimed at the student demonstrating that he has acquired the competences associated with the Degree in Economics.

The guidelines established at the University of Oviedo for the development of this subject are included in the Regulations on the subject Final Degree Project at the University of Oviedo, approved by Agreement of the Governing Council of March 5, 2020 (BOPA of March 30, 2020).

A student may enroll in the TFG when they have a maximum of 72 ECTS left to finish the degree and enroll in all the basic and compulsory credits that remain to finish. The student will have the right to examine the subject of TFG in the calls that are established for the subjects of the second semester.

The objective of the TFG subject is to verify in an integrated way if the student has acquired the competences of the Degree in Economics, both specific and generic or transversal.

In general, and according to the Verification Report of the Degree in Economics, the basic competences of the Degree in Economics are the following:

1. Possess and understand knowledge in the following modules:

• Economic Analysis.
• Spanish, International and Sectoral Economy.
• Public Sector Economics.
• Quantitative Methods.
• Historical and Social Analysis.
• Business Organization.
• Legal Framework.
• Transversal.

2. Know how to apply the knowledge acquired in the professional context, having the skills that allow to elaborate and defend arguments, and solve problems in the economic field.

3. Ability to gather and interpret relevant data to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.

4. Be able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both a specialized and non-specialized audience.

5. Have developed learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.

6. To transmit respect for fundamental rights and equality between men and women, the principles of equal opportunities, non-discrimination and universal accessibility of persons with disabilities, as well as the values of a culture of peace and democratic values.

The generic competences of the Degree in Economics related to the subject Final Degree Project mentioned in the Verification Report are the following:

GC1. Capacity for analysis and synthesis.

GC3. Ability to communicate fluently orally and in writing in one's own language.

GC4. Knowledge and understanding of other languages, mainly English.

GC5. Ability to search and analyze sources of information in the field of work.

GC6. Ability to use computer tools and communication technologies.

GC7. Ability to work autonomously.

GC10. Critical and self-critical capacity.

GC12. Ability to apply knowledge in practice.

GC13. Creative ability to find new ideas and solutions.

GC16. Ability to organize and plan.

GC19. Concern for quality and a job well done.

GC20. Have ethical values and behaviors.

GC21. Integrate democratic values and the culture of peace in the workplace.

GC22. Integrate the principles of equal treatment and opportunities between women and men in the workplace.

GC23. Integrate the principles of equal opportunities and universal accessibility of disabled people in the workplace.

The specific competences of the Degree in Economics related to the subject Final Degree Project are all those that correspond to the subjects related to the subject of Work together with CE17 (transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions of the economic field to both a specialized and non-specialized public).

Finally, regarding the learning outcome, it should be said that with the TFG the student must be able to:

RA8.2. Integrate the knowledge and skills acquired in the Degree and apply them in specific professional contexts.

RA8.3. Define and organize the contents of a project that integrates the knowledge and skills acquired in the Degree.

RA8.4. Prepare a report and defend in public in a clear and coherent way the results of the Final Degree Project.

The TFG involves the realization by the student of a project, memory or study in which he demonstrates in an integrated way that he has acquired the competences of the Degree in Economics. It is a personal and autonomous work of the student, which will be carried out under the supervision of one or more tutors, of which at least one must be a teacher of an area of knowledge of the University of Oviedo with teaching in the title. The function of the tutor will be, as established in the Regulations on this subject, on the one hand, to guide and advise the student during the completion of the TFG and in the preparation of the defense of the same and, on the other hand, to monitor the work developed; likewise, it must write the corresponding evaluation report of the work carried out, prior to the defense.

The TFG can deal with any content related to the basic, compulsory and optional subjects of the Degree in Economics.

Organization of the offer of Final Degree Projects and selection thereof.

The offer of topics-tutors for the realization of the TFG may be made according to any of the following alternatives:

1. Once the total number of TFG to be carried out is known, the center will communicate to each department involved in the teaching of the degree the number of students that must be tutored. The distribution of students among the departments will be made according to the weight of the training offer of each department (ECTS credits) in the Degree in Economics. Each department involved will send the center a list of topics and tutors sufficient to cover the number of students assigned. The same topic can be developed by more than one student, individually or in a group, if the department considers it so. In this case, the number of students to form the group will be indicated. However, each student in the group must individually present and defend their work, in the manner established in this Teaching Guide and in the Regulations.

2. Additional proposals submitted by professors of the degree, with the approval of the corresponding department, or suggested by the students themselves, may be accepted. In the latter case, the proposal must be endorsed by a teacher who will commit to act as a tutor with the approval of his department.

3. The TFG may be linked to the completion of the subject "External Practices" carried out by the student. In this case, the work will have an academic tutor (who must be a professor of an area of knowledge with teaching in the Degree in Economics) and a co-tutor member of the institution, company or organization where the student is doing the internship. For this, it will be necessary that there is an agreement of collaboration or educational cooperation with said institution. It will be the student who proposes the topic of the work with the endorsement of the professor and the co-tutor member of the institution, as well as the approval of the department to which the professor belongs.

4. The TFG may also be linked to the realization of a project for an institution external to the University of Oviedo (whether it is a company, public institution, or another type of organization), even if the student is not enrolled in the subject "External Practices" or, being so, does not carry them out there. Also in this case, a member of that institution may act as co-tutor and it will be necessary that there is an agreement of collaboration or educational cooperation with that institution. The topic may be proposed by the institution, the academic tutor and / or the student, with the endorsement of the professor and the co-tutor member of the institution, as well as the approval of the department to which the professor belongs.

5. Other proposals not included in the four previous sections will be admissible, as long as they have the approval of the Vice-Dean responsible for Final Degree Projects, the professor and the Department involved.

In accordance with the criteria established in the Regulations of the Subject Final Degree Project, the center will make public a list of tutors-topics, the number of students who can choose each topic and the assignment criteria. For those students who have extended their enrollment to the TFG in the period established for this purpose, a special list will be published, with the same characteristics as the previous one, in which the guardianships that have become vacant can be used.

Students must request the assignment, in order of preference, of all the proposed topics, being the center in charge of making a provisional assignment proposal, assuming, as far as possible, the preferences shown by the students. If situations of coincidence in the preferences of the students occur, they will be resolved by applying the criterion of best average grade of the respective academic records. In the case of topics proposed by students, their assignment to the respective proponents will be guaranteed. In the case of works related to the subject "External Practices", its assignment will be guaranteed to the students who are doing said practice. As for the works related to the realization of a project for an external institution, if it is the student who proposes it (with the corresponding guarantees), his assignment must also be guaranteed. If, on the other hand, the work is proposed by the institution and / or a professor of the Degree, the student must request the assignment of the same within his order of preferences, applying the rule of the best grade of record if situations of coincidence occur.

Subsequently, the center will publish the provisional list of the awards on the website and / or on the official boards of the same. With the publication of this provisional list, the center will establish a period of claims after which it will publish the final list. Any subsequent modification will have to be decided by common agreement by the students and teachers affected and, in any case, provided that the center authorizes it and makes it public.

If the student does not pass the subject in that course and enrolls in the following course, it will not be necessary to renew this award, unless the student requests to change it.

The TFG subject has a load of 6 ECTS credits (150 hours). The training activities of the TFG correspond mainly to the personal work of the student. According to the Degree Verification Report, the attendance will be 10% (15 hours), including in this calculation both the tutorials developed with the tutor and other face-to-face activities of a transversal nature programmed.

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The face-to-face activities with the tutor will be carried out, in general, by common agreement between the tutors and the students.

Additionally, during the second semester the following face-to-face activities will take place, which will take the form of group tutoring:

• 5 hours: Oral and written communication techniques
• 4 hours: Information on databases and their treatment.
• 2 hours: Slideshows.

The dates of these face-to-face activities will be published along with the schedules of the rest of the subjects.

Evaluation tribunals

The courts in charge of the evaluation of the TFG will be composed of a minimum of two and a maximum of three professors assigned to departments with teaching in the Degree, of which at least one will be attached to the area of knowledge in which the work is framed. Whenever possible, care shall be taken to ensure that the members of the tribunal do not belong to the same area of knowledge, unless it is not for well-founded and objective reasons, duly reasoned.

The center is responsible for the organization of the sessions of the courts and the appointment of their members, which will be made public well in advance in each call.

Format and rules for the presentation of the report

Prior to each call, you can enable a pre-registration period to request the defense of the TFG in that call. The pre-registration will not oblige the student to present and defend the TFG in said call, if it finally decides, although in order to defend the work at that time it must necessarily have been pre-registered, sending the web form that is established for this purpose.

Subsequently, within the deadlines established according to the academic calendar, students will deposit a copy of the TFG's memory, in electronic format, through the telematic means that are enabled by the University of Oviedo, following the style guide of the TFG of the Faculty of Economics and Business. In this report:

·         The name of the work guardian should not appear.

·         The title and a summary in English of the submitted paper should be included.

·         It must be included, compulsorily, a statement from the student that ensures the originality of the work and that the sources used have been duly cited. The court evaluating the work may use computer tools to detect matches.

Students will not require the approval of the tutor or tutors to present and defend the TFGs.

The tutor or guardians will incorporate after the time of deposit and, in any case, prior to the act of defense, a single reasoned report on the supervised work, in which their qualification will be recorded, which will be sent to the center by the telematic means that are enabled for this purpose.

Format of the act of public presentation of the TFG

The defense of the TFG will be carried out by the students in a public and face-to-face manner. The center may authorize remote defense virtually, as long as it is justified and the technical, administrative and economic conditions that allow its viability are met.

The defense will consist of the oral presentation of the TFG in the spaces that the faculty reserves for this purpose or in the way that is established if the defense is carried out virtually. The student will have to present his work orally before a court for a time not exceeding 15 minutes and then answer the questions raised by the members of the court.

The Faculty will establish the day, time and place or form of celebration of the defenses of the TFG and will communicate it to all the students and professors affected by its publication on the website and through the usual information channels.

Evaluation of student learning

The evaluation of students' learning will have as a fundamental criterion the level of integrated acquisition of the competences of the Degree in Economics. To facilitate the evaluation task and ensure homogeneity in the evaluations, the members of the panel will complete an assessment report, according to the format proposed by the center, for each student evaluated, which must collect the grade awarded. The final grade obtained by the student will be calculated based on the following criteria:

Grade of the TFG report: it will constitute 60% of the total grade of the subject and includes the evaluation of the progress followed by the student, the final quality of the work, its adaptation to the competences of the degree, the bibliography used and the student's capacity for written expression. Based on these criteria, the tutor, in his report, will award a maximum of 4 points, while the members of the court will award a maximum of 2 points.

Qualification of the public presentation of the TFG: it will constitute 40% of the total qualification of the subject and will be granted by the members of the tribunal who will evaluate, among others, the competences acquired in the field of oral communication and capacities of debate and defense of the work, as well as the capacity of synthesis of the work presented.

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The evaluation board shall draw up a report, in the format established by the centre, in which at least the result of the evaluation shall be recorded; the proposal, if applicable, for 'honours'; the language in which it was defended and the members of it who, eventually, would have intervened telematically.

After the evaluation, the court will communicate to the student the grade obtained, as well as the proposal, if applicable, of honors, and the student may request the review before the same court.

The center, once the minutes have been validated by at least the President and Secretary of the court, will proceed to make the student's grade public.

Each evaluation board may propose the reasoned granting of the mention of "honors" to one or more TFG that it has evaluated and that have obtained a grade equal to or greater than 9. This motivation must include the innovative and excellent aspects that, in the opinion of the court, make it worthy of the aforementioned mention. The number of mentions finally awarded may not exceed 5% of the students enrolled in the corresponding subject of the TFG in each academic year, unless the number of students enrolled is less than 20, in which case a single "honors" may be granted. For these purposes, the number of enrolled students who have paid the concept corresponding to the defense will be taken as a reference. In the event that the number of proposals is higher than the number of mentions available, the allocation of registrations will be carried out taking into account the average grade of the academic record corresponding to the set of basic, compulsory and optional subjects of the degree.

In accordance with the Regulations for the evaluation of learning outcomes and competences acquired by the students of the University of Oviedo, the fraudulent use of the work of others as if it were one's own and with the intention of taking advantage of it for one's own benefit will imply the qualification of 0-Suspenso (SS) of the TFG in the corresponding call, this regardless of other responsibilities that the student may incur.

It is recalled that the Code of Ethics of the University of Oviedo is in force and applicable, which can be accessed from the following link: University of Oviedo - Code of Ethics (uniovi.es)

The centre shall publish the provisional notes before the third working day after the last defence session.

The review or claim of the qualifications of the TFG will be carried out in accordance with the deadlines provided for in the regulations on evaluation of the University of Oviedo, although in this case, because it is a court, the review of the evaluation in the first instance will be carried out before the same court, once the act of defense has concluded. The procedure to be followed for the claim of the final grades of the TFG will be the same as for the rest of the subjects of the degree, included in the agreement of June 17, 2013, of the Governing Council of the University of Oviedo, which approves the revised text of the regulations for the evaluation of learning results and the competences acquired by the students.

Regulation on the subject Final Degree Project at the University of Oviedo, BOPA of March 30, 2020, approved by Agreement of the Governing Council, of March 5, 2020.

Style Guide of the Final Degree Project prepared by the Faculty of Economics and Business.

Tutor and court evaluation templates.

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