Bachelor´s Degree Programme in Documentation Science. 3 years, 180 ECTS credits. Curriculum

I.Programme description
II. Programme structure
Options

I. Programme description
1. Contents
Documentation science includes theoretical and practical study of media such as sound, writing and images, analogue and digital media; documents such as speeches, concerts, books, film, home pages and paintings; and institutions such as libraries, archives, museums, cultural centres, schools, mass media, the internet, etc.

Documentation science studies how human beings use various media for communication, thereby creating documents. The programme also examines how documents are used and organised, for instance in document institutions.

Documentation science is a discipline that reaches across the traditions of the technological and natural sciences, the humanities and the social sciences. We can thus compare the relationship between technological, social and cultural aspects of communicative documentation processes. This interdisciplinary approach also enables students to combine theory and practice in project work that has theoretical as well as practical/experimental elements.

2. Objectives, access to further studies and professional prospects
The programme aims to provide students with thorough theoretical and practical competence in documentation science. A further objective is to qualify candidates for posts in document institutions such as libraries, archives, museums, the mass media, publishing and information consultancy in the private and public sectors.

3. Prospective students
The programme is suitable for students desiring to work with various media and/or in libraries, archives, museums, information consultancy or the mass media.

4. Programme coordinator
Programme board

5. Subjects involved
Documentation science

6. Admission requirement
General entrance requirement

1. 7. Student exchange
   We have a cooperation agreement with the library and information sciences programmes in the other Nordic countries through the Nordplus-agreement.
2. The department is working towards the establishment of student exchanges with other information science programmes in Europe and America.
3. Students can arrange to do their obligatory work practice at a foreign library or media and document institution.

8. Programme structure diagramme
The programme has three options with 110 and 150 credits of obligatory course work: Documentation science option

• 30 credits first-semester courses
• 80 credits specialisation in documentation science (60 credits basic undergraduate course group + 20 credits 2000-level courses)
• 70 credits optional courses

• 30 credits first-semester courses
• 60 credits basic undergraduate course group in documentation science
• 60-credits basic undergraduate course group in document development or library studies
• 30 credits optional courses

First-semester courses
Students are advised to take EXF-0720 Examen facultatum for the humanities.

Common 60-credit basic undergraduate course group in documentation science
The 60-credit course group is taken by all students in the programme and is part of all three options.

Optional courses
Students should preferably take courses in art, literature, or another relevant subject. Elective courses cannot be chosen from above the 2000 level.

9. Options

• General documentation science option This option gives students in-depth knowledge of general information science.
• Document development option This option prepares students for research and development work.
• Document institution: Library option. This option is primarily directed toward libraries. The department is currently collaborating with other departments with the aim of expanding the option to include other types of document institutions.

10. Access to further studies
Graduates are eligible for admission to the master?s programme in documentation science.

11. Teaching and evaluation methods, assessment, examination
Students carry out project work at all levels of the programme. Projects include theoretical analyses as well as practical experimentation. All teaching is related to the projects, and seminars and lectures are considered support for the project work.

Readings are not determined in advance, but are decided at the end of a topic/project based on recommended readings and other materials that have been used.

Evaluation consists of portfolio assessment, project submissions and an oral exam. The oral exam is a student presentation followed by a discussion.

Portfolios graded pass/fail, while project work and oral exams are given letter grades A-F.

12. Student evaluation
Student evaluation seminars are held regularly. See ?evaluation? under each course that is part of the programme.

II. Programme structure

i) Documentation science option

¹Second and third semester courses are taken by all Bachelor students in documentation science and together constitute one year of study (60 credits course group). These courses must be taken in the order indicated. Students taking the 1-year basic undergraduate course group must write one exam project covering all the three courses in documentation and media forms (third semester). All six courses can also be taken separately by students in other programmes, and the assessment will then be in the form of a project paper (for DOK-1010, DOK-1011 and DOK-1012) or project paper and oral examination (for DOK-1013, DOK-1014 and DOK-1015).

²Students are advised to take one or more courses in art, literature, or another relevant subject.

ii) Document development option

¹ Second- and third-semester courses are taken by all Bachelor students in documentation science. Together they constitute a basic undergraduate course group (one year?s study, 60 credits), and they must be taken in the order indicated. Students taking the whole course group must write one common exam project covering all the three courses in documentation and media forms (third semester). All six courses can also be taken separately by students in other programmes, and the assessment will then be in the form of a project paper (for DOK-1010, DOK-1011 and DOK-1012) or a project paper and oral examination (for DOK-1013, DOK-1014 and DOK-1015).

² Students are advised to take one or more courses in art, literature, or another relevant subject.

iii) Document institution option: Library

¹ Second- and third-semester courses are taken by all Bachelor students in documentation science. Together they constitute a basic undergraduate course group (one year?s study, 60 credits), and they must be taken in the order indicated. Students taking the whole course group must write one common exam project covering all the three courses in documentation and media forms (third semester). All six courses can also be taken separately by students in other programmes, and the assessment will then be in the form of a project paper (for DOK-1010, DOK-1011 and DOK-1012) or a project paper and oral examination (for DOK-1013, DOK-1014 and DOK-1015).

² This option consists of documentation science courses (60 credits) and library studies courses (60 credits). The library studies courses give students specialization within one particular document institution and thus a specialization based on general knowledge of document institutions acquired during the second and third semesters of documentation science.

³ Students are advised to take one or more courses in art, literature, or another relevant subject.

III. Course catalogue
BIB-2010 Document organization and forms of dissemination (10 credits) BIB-2011 Document history and media assessment (10 credits)
BIB-2012 Document institution and policy (10 credits)
BIB-2013 Library practice (30 credits)
DOK-1010 Media and document theory (10 credits)
DOK-1011 Document and media analysis (10 credits)
DOK-1012 Document organization (10 credits)
DOK-1013 Documentation and media forms (science and technology topics) (10 credits)
DOK-1014 Documentation and media forms (social science topics) (10 credits)
DOK-1015 Documentation and media forms (cultural topics) (10 credits)
DOK-2010 Document production (20 credits)
DOK-2011 Use of documents and media (20 credits)
DOK-2012 Document organization (20 credits)
DOK-2020 Experimental document analysis (20 credits)
DOK-2021 Document design (10 credits)
DOK-2022 Production project (20 credits)
DOK-2023 Evaluation project (10 credits)