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MASTER DEGREE IN LITERATURES OF PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE

​The master’s program will not operate in the 2026/2027 academic year.

This postgraduate programme offers advanced scientific training to graduates in various fields of Humanities. It is characterized by an integrated perspective of literary studies and the study of Lusophone Literatures, focusing on an inter-artistic and transdisciplinary universe adjustable to the aesthetic and multicultural mapping of contemporaneity. This programme aims at changing pedagogical paradigms underlying the teaching of these Literatures in the various educational stages, which still tends to maintain a type of focus on facts and literary paradigms that is excessively restrictive and unilateral.

Course
2024/2025

General

Academic degree:
  • Master's degree
ECTS:
120
Duration:
4 curricular semesters
Regime:
Daytime
Place:
Gualtar Campus, Braga (UM)
Main Scientific area:
  • Literary Theory
  • Literatures in Portuguese

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 Master's Degree in Literatures in Portuguese follows on from the Degree in Portuguese Studies, which is part of the School of Arts and Human Sciences’(ELACH) current undergraduate curriculum. This second cycle of studies aims to promote the autonomy of the students’ work, developing their skills in articulating knowledge, research and communication of that research, within the framework of a humanistic training that is intended to be aligned with the mission of ELACH whose Statutes emphasize the purpose of “strengthening, in an increasingly intense, inclusive and consolidated way, both culture and humanistic training, critical thinking and the arts, as well as the appreciation of the Portuguese language and multilingualism as a fundamental condition for the deepening of mutual understanding in a world increasingly globalized.”
Given the particular relevance of postgraduate programs in the current context of higher education, understood more and more as a natural sequence of graduation, this Master's Degree program allows for the provision of specialized training in the field of literary theory and criticism and of the several Portuguese Language Literatures (Portuguese, Brazilian and African).
The highly qualified teaching staff of the Master's program are mainly located in one of the school's research center (CEHUM), which facilitates and promotes the desirable articulation between teaching/research as well as the insertion of the course's students in the research environment.
This course offers a complement of scientific training to graduates in various fields of Human Sciences and intends to propose an integrated perspective of literary studies and the study of Literatures in Portuguese, focusing on an intermedial and transdisciplinary universe that is especially adjustable to contemporary epistemological paradigms. It is also intended, in particular, to foster pedagogical repercussions in the teaching of these Literatures at various levels of education, through theoretical deepening and practices of critical and comparative reading, articulating literary objects with other artistic and cultural objects.

Key learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate advanced knowledge and capacity for autonomous research in the scientific areas that make up the course's curriculum. 
2. Express theoretical, critical and applied skills in the field of Literary Studies and Literatures in Portuguese. 
3. Reveal aptitude for the comparative analysis of literary objects, articulating them with other artistic and cultural objects. 
4. Communicate adequately about research and demonstrate ability to interact with the community. 
5. Provide a scientifically specialized and updated contribution in professional sectors that emphasize humanistic and literary training (publishers, libraries, creative and cultural industries, pre-university education, among others).

Access to higher education

The completion of this Master's course allows the realization of scientific activity and research at the doctoral level in diversified areas of the Humanities.

Careers

Among the potential professional opportunities of the course, in the public or private sector, there is employment in the editorial activity, in libraries and documentation centers or in other cultural, educational and artistic dynamization services (embassies, museums, galleries, cultural tourism), as well as within the creative and cultural industries.

Access

20

Vacancies

12

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

The following are specific conditions for admission to the course:
a) Degree holders in the following areas of knowledge: Portuguese Literature or Literatures in Portuguese or Theory of Literature;
b) Holders of other Degrees, as long as they have 20 ECTS in their curriculum in one of the specific areas of the course: Portuguese Literature or Literatures in Portuguese or Theory of Literature;
c) Holders of a foreign higher education degree in the areas of knowledge of Portuguese Literature or Literatures in Portuguese or Theory of Literature, duly recognized, or who have in their curriculum the equivalent of 20 ECTS in one of the three scientific areas of the course;
d) Holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum, which is recognized by the Board of the Course as attesting the capacity to carry out this cycle of studies.

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

Regime Curricular Unit Scientific Area ECTS
Year 1 60
S1 Themes in Brasilian Literatures LitLP 7.5
S1 Themes in Portuguese African Literatures LitLP 7.5
S1 Themes in Portuguese Literature LitLP 7.5
S1 Opção I
O estudante pode ainda optar por qualquer UC do 2º ciclo pertencente a uma das seguintes áreas científicas: LG/LitLP/CPLP/CultLI/ETra/LitComp. 		7.5
Contemporary Poetry in Portuguese LitLP 7.5
Culture Themes of Portuguese Language Countries CPLP 7.5
Early English - Language and Culture CultLI 7.5
Themes in Pragmatics LG 7.5
Topics in Comparative Literature LitComp 7.5
Translation and Communication Methodologies and Practices I ETra 7.5
S2 Studies on Camões LitLP 7.5
S2 Studies on Pessoa LitLP 7.5
S2 Topics in Theory of Literature TL 7.5
S2 Opção II
O estudante pode ainda optar por qualquer UC do 2º ciclo pertencente a uma das seguintes áreas científicas: LG/IN/LitLP/CultLI/ETra. 		7.5
Contemporary Narrative in Portuguese LitLP 7.5
Discourse Analysis LG 7.5
Early English - Language and Culture CultLI 7.5
Meaning and Cognition LG 7.5
Specialized Translation in the Humanities, Science and Technology I ETra 7.5
Themes in Intermediality IN 7.5
Year 2 60
A Dissertation TL; LitLP 50
S1 Research Seminar on Literatures in Portuguese TL 10

Assessment/Accreditation

A3ES Accreditation status:
Accredited
Resolution publication date:
13-02-2023
A3ES deliberation:
https://si.a3es.pt/sia3es/page?stage=ConsultaPublicaProcesso&processID=22482
Registry number at Ministry:
R/A-Ef 2555/2011/AL02
Registry Date:
29-04-2023
Accreditation validity:
31-07-2028