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BACHELOR DEGREE IN CULTURAL STUDIES
This degree is aimed at training agents and mediators endowed with multiple skills enabling them to implement professional projects in public and private organizations in the socio-cultural sector.

The study plan is characterised by multidisciplinarity, valuing several areas of knowledge. The graduate must be proficient in two foreign languages (intercultural communication) and have in-depth knowledge of Lusophone cultural diversity and several other cultures. The historical and comparative approaches, combined with the study of various aspects of contemporary life (science, technology, digital culture), is aimed at developing analytical and critical competences suitable to the understanding of the complexity of cultural practices and discourses.



Curso
2024/2025

General

Academic degree:
  • Bachelor (Bologna 1st cycle degree)
ECTS:
180
Duration:
6 curricular semesters
Regime:
Daytime
Place:
Gualtar Campus, Braga (UM)
Main Scientific area:
  • Cultural Sciences

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 Degree in Cultural Studies it is markedly multidisciplinary and structured according to four three matrices: the sudy of cultures, languages and literatures, the aof cquisition historical and philosophical knowledge that foster critical thinking, and training in the use of information and communication technologies.
The student will develop the necessary skills to work in an increasingly interdependent and multicultural world and will have a critical and humanistic training that leads to the defense and promotion of the artistic and cultural environment in an increasingly globalized socio-cultural context. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to articulate this bachelor course with a focus on multilingualism and multiculturalism, which has always distinguished the Institute of Arts and Humanities and which hosts this pioneering study cycle in the country.
Communicative competence, both in the mother tongue and in two foreign languages, is essential for the acquisition of an intercultural proficiency based on the awareness that culture is constructed through other cultures in a context of transculturality. These objectives are highlighted and promoted in the set of curricular units and in the form of seminars taught by invited professors from various scientific areas and from the most diverse countries through the use of Erasmus exchange and mobility programs, with a view to developing communicative skills by experiencing on the spot multicultural contexts. In this way, students can choose between a diverse offer of partnerships with universities from all over the world, since the various departments of languages and cultures of the Institute of Arts and Humanities have, for a long time, maintained a dense network of international exchanges. This degree has a highly qualified teaching staff and the vast majority of them have a doctorate degree. It is also up to a group of specialists to teach in areas they were academically trained for.

Key learning outcomes

At the end of the course, graduates should: 
1. Have excellent multicultural and multilingual understanding and mediation skills;
2. Know how to use the knowledge of the arts and humanities using technological means of information and communication.
3. Be able to solve problems in the context of organizing and carrying out cultural content ventures.
4. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate, plan, coordinate and execute cultural projects.
5. Achieve a degree of critical ability that allows them to compare and evaluate different and alternative views of the world.
6. Articulate the knowledge of languages and cultures with the social, economic and political reality.
7. Understand the complex reality of human cultural structures and be able to influence the development, innovation and transmission of culture and its values.

Access to higher education

This degree confers the technical-scientific capacity to access courses of the second cycle (Master's) and the third cycle (Doctorate) in different disciplinary areas, namely in the domains of culture, arts and humanities.

Careers

The graduate in Cultural Studies will be highly qualified to exercise the functions of cultural agent in the most varied institutions and can serve as a facilitator of the dialogue in international cooperation in contexts of inter, multi and transculturality.
In the field of culture, properly speaking, he/she can work in the creative industry, in cultural advice with administrations, as a cultural agent, or as a content writer, reviewer and author, in the management of cultural events and cultural intervention, in organizations such as centers of intercultural training (languages and cultures), establishments and agencies dedicated to cultural tourism as well as cultural and artistic mediation (publishing market, theater festivals, music, events of multi-media expression).

Access

30

Vacancies

0

Minimum

Access forms

The access to this Cycle of Studies can be done through the following ways:
- Application for National Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Special Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Local Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Special Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Access to Higher Education Admissions through Re-Entry, Change and Transfer of Course.

Formal requirements

Entrance Testing

06 Philosophy
or
13 English
or
18 Portuguese 

This information must be verified on
http://www.dges.gov.pt/guias/detcursopi.asp?codc=9134&code=1000

Aditional Information

Study Plan

Regime Curricular Unit Scientific Area ECTS
Year 1 60
S1 Classical Studies 1 ECl 7
S1 Communication Technologies in Humanities HD 6
S1 Introduction to Cultural Studies CCul 7
S1 Mentalities and Portuguese Culture 1 F; CCul 5
S1 Língua I.1 5
English B1.1 LPLE 5
French A2.1 LPLE 5
German A2.1 LPLE 5
Spanish A1.2 LPLE 5
Spanish A2.1 LPLE 5
S2 Academic Writing and Research Methodologies in Humanities LPLE; MIH 5
S2 Classical Studies 2 ECl 5
S2 Cultural Studies 1 CCul 5
S2 Design of Cultural Projects CCul 5
S2 Travel Literature CL 5
S2 Língua I.2 5
English B1.2 LPLE 5
French A2.2 LPLE 5
German A2.2 LPLE 5
Spanish A2.1 LPLE 5
Spanish A2.2 LPLE 5
Year 2 60
S1 Cultural Studies 2 CCul 5
S1 German Culture CCul 5
S1 Mentalities and Portuguese Culture 2 F; CCul 5
S1 Museology and Artistic-Historic Heritage H 5
S1 Língua I.3 5
English B2.1 LPLE 5
French B1.1 LPLE 5
German B1.1 LPLE 5
Spanish B1.1 LPLE 5
S1 Língua II.1 5
German A1.1 LPLE 5
French A1.1 LPLE 5
Italian A1.1 LPLE 5
Russian A1.1 LPLE 5
Spanish A1.2 LPLE 5
S2 Aesthetics F 5
S2 English Culture CCul 5
S2 Literature and Culture of Portuguese-Speaking Countries 1 CPLP 5
S2 Língua I.4 5
English B2.2 LPLE 5
French B1.2 LPLE 5
German B1.2 LPLE 5
Spanish B1.2 LPLE 5
S2 Língua II.2 5
German A1.2 LPLE 5
French A1.2 LPLE 5
Italian A2.1 LPLE 5
Russian A1.2 LPLE 5
Spanish A2.1 LPLE 5
S2 Opção UMinho 5
Bioethics ECS 6
Collaboration for a Sustainable Development in the Digitalization Era EGI 6
Crime, Deviance and Control SOC 6
Education and Interpersonal Development in the University Context CEd 6
Environment and Energy ENG 6
Fundamentals and Practices of First Aid ENF 6
Gestão de Ativos EC 6
Governance and Public Private Partnerships CA 6
Green Buildings ENG 6
Leadership and Entrepreneurship EIS 6
Mathematics Behind Things M 6
Occupational Safety and Health EH 6
Photographic Literacy from Physics to Message Fis 6
Political Issues in the History of the Present Time H 6
Preparing Generation Z Beyond Technologies ENG 6
Principles of Economics E 6
Psychology of Aging and Communication Psi 6
Reading and Writing for Academic Production and Knowledge LEP 6
Scientific Research Methodologies IDP 6
Social Skills and Employability Psi 6
Sport and Health EF 6
Year 3 60
S1 Intercultural Representations CCul 5
S1 Literature and Culture of Portuguese-Speaking Countries 2 CPLP 5
S1 Spanish Culture CCul 5
S1 Língua I.5 5
English C1.1 LPLE 5
French B2.1 LPLE 5
German B2.1 LPLE 5
Spanish B2.1 LPLE 5
S1 Opção 1 5
Chinese Popular Culture CPA 5
French A2.1 LPLE 5
German A2.1 LPLE 5
Hermeneutics F 5
Italian A2.2 LPLE 5
Italian B1.1 LPLE 5
Japanese Culture I CPA 5
Russian A2.1 LPLE 5
Spanish A2.1 LPLE 5
Spanish B1.1 LPLE 5
Western Literary Tradition CL 5
S1 Opção 2 5
Culture in the Media CCul 5
Topics in Digital Humanities HD 5
S2 Contemporary Cultural Geography GEO 5
S2 French Culture CCul 5
S2 North-American Culture CCul 5
S2 Língua I.6 5
English C1.2 LPLE 5
French B2.2 LPLE 5
German B2.2 LPLE 5
Spanish B2.2 LPLE 5
S2 Opção 3 5
Contemporary Political Paradigms F 5
Creative Writing in English CL 5
French A2.2 LPLE 5
German A2.2 LPLE 5
Hermeneutics F 5
Italian B1.1 LPLE 5
Italian B2.1 LPLE 5
Japanese Culture II CPA 5
Russian A2.2 LPLE 5
Russian Culture CCul 5
Spanish A2.2 LPLE 5
Spanish B1.2 LPLE 5
S2 Opção 4 5
Electronic Editing Techniques HD 5
Introduction to Marketing G 5

Assessment/Accreditation

A3ES Accreditation status:
Accredited
Resolution publication date:
04-11-2021
A3ES deliberation:
https://www.a3es.pt/pt/resultados-acreditacao/estudos-culturais-5
A3ES submited report:
 download pdf file
Registry number at Ministry:
R/A-Ef 2426/2011/AL01
Registry Date:
14-04-2022
Accreditation validity:
30-07-2027