Bachelor's degree in Digital Information and Documentation Management

Introduction

Objectives and competences

Objectives

• To acquire professional training in the creation, analysis, management, assessment and communication of information in different means and formats for its final users.
• To understand the techniques for planning, implementation, management and assessment of information products and services, and the current channels and devices through which they are offered.
• To understand the national and international legal framework regulating information in the new digital world.
• To perform the specific competences of gathering, selecting, organizing, preserving and disseminating information and documentation through the application of technologies.
• To develop the communication skills required to link users and documents as well as the resource management competences to ensure the quality of information services.
• To acquire training as a professional with an open mind to change who is able to adapt to professional environments characterized by constant innovation of processes and tools and to prove the strategic value of information and documentation in all kinds of organizations.

Competences

Basic competences

• Capacity to understand and apply knowledge to professional environments.
• Capacity to gather and interpret data relevant to the area of study to make judgements that include a reflection on social, scientific or ethical issues.
• Capacity to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
• Capacity to develop oral and written communication and information skills.
• Capacity to acknowledge one's own limitations and the need to keep and update professional competence.

General competences

• Commitment to ethical practice (critical and self-critical capabilities, and capacity to demonstrate attitudes consistent with accepted notions of ethical practice).
• Capacity for learning and responsibility (capacity for analysis and synthesis, to adopt global perspectives and to apply knowledge in practice, and capacity to take decisions and adapt to new situations).
• Ability to work in a team (capacity to collaborate with others and contribute to a common project, and capacity to work in cross-disciplinary and multicultural teams).
• Creative and entrepreneurial skills (capacity to conceive, design and manage projects, and capacity to research and integrate new knowledge and approaches).
• Concern for sustainability (capacity to assess the social and environmental impact of actions taken in a particular setting/i capacity to adopt integrated and systemic approaches).
• Communication skills (capacity to understand and produce spoken and written Catalan, Spanish and a third language, including the comprehension and use of specialized terminology, and capacity to research, use and integrate information in these languages).

Generic competences

• Capacity to acquire, update and apply knowledge on information and communication technologies to different professional environments.
• Capacity to acquire, update and apply knowledge on devices and applications of the production of audiovisual material to different professional environments.

Specific competences

• Capacity to acquire, understand and update knowledge on the different information environments, systems and units and their specific processes.
• Capacity to acquire, understand and update knowledge on the historical evolution and on the socio-economic reality of information, knowledge and documental heritage.
• Capacity to acquire, understand and update basic knowledge on other disciplines required to carry out professional activities in different information environments.
• Capacity to acquire, understand and update knowledge on the legal, administrative, national and international framework of information management and distribution.
• Capacity to analyse communicative languages and models, to understand their theoretical principles and apply them correctly.
• Capacity to apply planning techniques to carry out projects that meet the needs for information and facilitate the optimization of the operation of organizations.
• Capacity to analyse the environment of information units and services and the requirements of users on the basis of user studies.
• Capacity to manage collections through the preparation and application of criteria and techniques for document gathering, selection, acquisition, preservation, conservation and disposal.
• Capacity to define criteria and apply the regulations and other tools for the structuring, description and representation of data and information in different environments and contexts.
• Capacity to meet the requirements of real and potential users of organizations and to provide support, materials and training to use and exploit information.
• Capacity to identify the most appropriate sources and resources to tackle information requirements and issues.
• Capacity to analyse, assess and create products for data communication.
• Capacity to identify the strengths and weaknesses of an information organization, service or product through the application of evaluation indicators and to make suggestions for improvement.
• Capacity to apply marketing tools and strategies in different information and communication environments.
• Capacity to apply specific techniques of information search and retrieval.

Access and admission

Applicant profile and access requirements

Recommended applicant profile

Although students may have different academic backgrounds, certain attitudes and skills facilitate the successful completion of this bachelor's degree, many of which will be acquired and developed as the course progresses. They include the following:

• Capacity to adapt to the continuous changes taking place in the information environment and deriving from the rapid evolution of information and communication technologies.
• Capacity to plan and organise tasks and processes and to arrange and structure related concepts.
• Communication and social skills, such as empathy, assertive oral communication skills, capacity to participate and cooperate in collaborative projects and work teams.
• Readiness for learning and life-long training, intellectual curiosity, a sense of responsibility and critical and self-critical capabilities.
• Creativity, imagination, flexibility and initiative.

Access requirements and conditions

Admission for students with studies completed outside Spain.

Applicants holding higher educational qualifications from a university outside Spain should consult the page Admission with foreign qualifications to find out about specific admission requirements.
 

Pre-enrolment

Students that have studied abroad and who wish to study at the University of Barcelona may be admitted to EHEA bachelor's degree courses. Procedures for gaining admission will depend on the qualifications held by each applicant.

For further information about admission, consult the page Admission with foreign qualifications.
 

Enrolment

As a general rule, at the UB you will be required to enrol online via the Món UB portal. To find out the date and time you have been assigned, check the specific information for your course. Remember that you can lose your place if you do not enrol on the day you have been assigned.

Academic information

• Documents required for enrolment
• Procedure to formalize enrolment
• After enrolment
• Grants and financial aid
  

Welcome

Support and guidance

Pre-enrolment information and events

• Welcome portal
• Student Support Service (SAE)
• Open days
• Informative sessions

Course curriculum

Subjects and course plans

Distribution of credits

List of subjects

Pathways and specializations

Previous years

• Course plans 2022 - 2023
• Course plans 2021 - 2022
• Course plans 2020 - 2021

Teaching staff

Placements

Placements are supervised by tutors and subject to assessment.They are therefore included in the academic record.  There is also an option to complete non-curricular placements of up to 500 hours, which can be extended to 900 hours. For both curricular and non-curricular placements, an educational cooperation agreement is signed between the UB and the company, institution or other organization at which the placement will be carried out.
 

Institutional information

• Regulations on external placements
• FeinaUB

Career opportunities

What can you work on ?

Digital information and documentation professionals may be employed in any sector that requires expertise related to the management of documents, content addressed to clients or social networks, among others. Therefore, graduates have a wide range of career opportunities, including the following positions/roles:

• Systems architect
• Archivist in heritage environments
• Information auditor
• Librarian in public, school, academic or specialized libraries
• Information system consultant
• Documentalist in companies, the media or public administration
• Specialist in content management: content manager and content curator
• Social media specialist
• Usability specialist
• Data literacy training specialist
• Digitization project manager
• Knowledge manager in organizations
• Corporate document manager
• Webmaster

Contact us

Melcior de Palau, 140 – 08014 Barcelona