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Master Degree in Intercultural Studies Portuguese/Chinese

The course is targeted to Portuguese graduates in Chinese/Asian Studies, holders of an official Chinese language certificate HSK IV, and to Chinese students majoring in Portuguese Studies, with a Portuguese B2 level.


The course is focused on preparing for labour markets involving relationships/interests with Chinese/Portuguese areas and cultures.

The aim of the course is to equip students with linguistic competence, communication skills and cultural sensitivity that will enable them to effectively contact the economic and cultural agents of those markets in order to build bridges between societies.

The curricular programme has a strong emphasis practical training in the areas of translation, educational and business activities.

Application stages:

1st stage: 11 to 21 April 2025 - International students

2nd stage: 04 to 15 de July 2025- International and National students
3rd stage: 03 to 08 September 2025 - International and National students 

2nd stage - International students - vacancies for the Specialisation Area in Portuguese for Chinese Speakers)
​Nationals
 ​Internationals
0
 5

2nd stage - International and National students - vacancies for the Specialisation Area in Chineses for Portuguese Speakers
​Nationals
 ​Internationals
12
 0

3rd stage - National and international students: unfilled vacancies from the previous stages.

Curso
2025/2026

General

Academic degree:
  • Master's degree
ECTS:
120
Duration:
4 curricular semesters
Regime:
Daytime
Place:
Gualtar Campus, Braga (UM)
Main Scientific area:
  • Cultural Studies

Contacts

    School of Arts and Humanities
    Campus de Gualtar
    4710 - 057 Braga
    Tel: +351253604173 Fax:
    E-Mail: pedagogico@elach.uminho.pt
    URL: http://www.elach.uminho.pt

Description

The main objective of the Course is the deepening of the knowledge and the communicative capacity of a graduate student, in its linguistic and socio-cultural aspects. It primarily focuses on the linguistic development of the students' working languages (Portuguese and Chinese). With regard to the training provided in the second year of the Course, it offers a set of theoretical-practical CU that allows them to explore the topics covered, in a spirit of sharing bilingual and intercultural points of view, as priority is given to students working in mixed pairs and groups. The course aims to provide its students with a keen sensitivity for the management of cultural conflict situations, as well as to develop their ability to work in areas associated with the linguistic domain, be it in translation and entrepreneurship activities, or in the educational area, enabling a range of opportunities and preparation for discovering one’s vocation. At the same time, it seeks to respond to the demand for versatility in the multiple job markets.

Key learning outcomes

1. To prepare master's students for the demanding labour market that, in one way or another, are related to the areas and cultures of the Course;
2. To develop linguistic competence, communication skills and cultural sensitivity of the Master's students in order to allow them to have an effective interaction, directed to the economic, cultural, educational, or other agents, of both markets, in establishing bridges between the two societies; 
3. Provide the Master's students with a set of tools, knowledge and sensitivities in order to enrich them with an adequate contextualized communicative capacity and linguistic specialization, according to the communicational situations that can be expected to arise over a continued professional life, and, above all, provide students with the indispensable cultural sensitivity for contact with these societies and markets; 
4. Understanding and ability to act in terms of teaching Chinese to Portuguese language students and Portuguese to Chinese; 
5. Execution of tasks at the translation level from Chinese to Portuguese and from Portuguese to Chinese, at a first level of technical and commercial texts, and, perhaps, at a future level of literary text; 
6. Involvement in situations of business exchange in an intercultural context, with what this means in terms of understanding the historical and idiosyncratic behavioural sensibilities of the two cultures in presence.

Access to higher education

This course confers the technical-scientific competence to access 3rd cycle courses (PhD).

Careers

This study cycle aims at training students with a profile oriented to the demanding labour market that, in one way or another, is connected with its areas and cultures, namely in the areas of translation, language teaching and business communication. The students of this course thus have a professional outlet in the general scope of interculturality, more specifically as:
- Chinese/Portuguese and Portuguese/Chinese translators; 
- Chinese/Portuguese and Portuguese/Chinese interpreters; 
- teachers/instructors of Chinese as a Foreign Language; - teachers/instructors of Portuguese as a Foreign Language to Chinese students; 
- employees in national, international and multinational companies in the business area; 
- cultural, business and tourism services consultants; 
- officials at Chinese embassies and Portuguese embassies in China; 
- media agents; 
- etc.

Access

24

Vacancies

15

Minimum

Access forms

The access to this Cycle of Study can be done at the Students Portal of the University of Minho
https://alunos.uminho.pt/EN/candidates/MastersDegrees/Pages/default.aspx 

This information does not replace consultation of the Academic Regulations of the University of Minho and other official documents.

Formal requirements

Chinese students applying for the Specialization Area in Portuguese for Chinese Speakers - Portuguese Language Level B2 or equivalent;
Portuguese students applying for the Specialization in Chinese for Portuguese Speakers - Chinese Language Level HSK IV.

Recommended requirements

In the field of Chinese studies: Students must have the official certificate of Chinese HSK IV. 

In the field of Portuguese studies: Students must have the proficiency exam of the Portuguese Language Level B2.

Application deadlines

Information on Application Deadlines can be found at:
https://www.elach.uminho.pt/en/Study/Pages/Master/Application-Master.aspx

Registration deadlines

Information on Registration Deadlines can be found at:
https://www.elach.uminho.pt/en/Study/Pages/Master/Application-Master.aspx

Aditional Information

Study Plan

Assessment/Accreditation

A3ES Accreditation status:
Accredited
Resolution publication date:
07-02-2022
A3ES deliberation:
https://si.a3es.pt/sia3es/page?stage=ConsultaPublicaProcesso&processID=21616
Registry number at Ministry:
R/A-Ef 2518/2011/AL01
Registry Date:
29-05-2022
Accreditation validity:
31-07-2027