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BACHELOR DEGREE IN PORTUGUESE STUDIES
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The Bachelor Degree in Portuguese Studies provides a general and interdisciplinary training through the study of the Portuguese language in its European and non-European variants, as well as of Portuguese, Brazilian and African cultures and literatures, together with a solid training in classical studies. Targeted to employment in the areas of culture and teaching, this course enables its graduates to act appropriately in contexts permeated by the new media and by new behaviours and languages of culture.


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:
  • Portuguese and Lusophone Literature

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 Portuguese Studies is part of a plan already established for the provision of teaching at ELACH and it meets the objectives defined in the Specific Development Program of the University of Minho to improve higher education supply in Portugal.
The goals set by the Degree in Portuguese Studies are consistent with the educational, scientific and cultural project of the University of Minho, as they aim to strengthen relevant areas in national and international higher education institutions. They further allow for a more profitable use of the human resources as well as the scientific potential and experience of PhD teachers in this area.
It should also be added that a Portuguese Studies Course is essential for the defense and promotion of Portuguese and Lusophone cultures, tasks that are necessarily the responsibility of a Portuguese university.
Consisting essentially of disciplinary areas linked to the Humanities and Classical Studies, it contains humanistic aspects that are absolutely necessary for the constitution of a university in the most global and full sense of the term, that is, a university that is not limited to a set of only technical and scientific knowledge, but also encompassing the whole essence of what makes us human.
The main objective of the Degree in Portuguese Studies is to provide general and interdisciplinary training through the study of the Portuguese language, in its European and non-European varieties, and the study of Portuguese, Brazilian and African cultures and literatures in the Portuguese language.
The study cycle aims at solid qualification in the areas of literary studies and in the studies of cultures, linguistic studies and classical studies.
Having as the preferred horizon of employability the areas of culture and teaching, the Degree in Portuguese Studies proposes literacy models that are not limited to the natural language and printed material, enabling its graduates to teach and act appropriately in contexts permeated by the new media and the new behaviours and culture languages.

Key learning outcomes

1. Identify theoretical and methodological models of the areas of Literature Theory, Interarts, Comparative Literature, Portuguese Literature, Portuguese Expression Literature (Angolan, Mozambican and Cape Verdean), Brazilian Literature and Culture, Classical Culture, Portuguese Linguistics, General Linguistics, Philosophy and Culture.
2. Reveal extensive knowledge in the following areas: Portuguese Literature; Literatures of Portuguese Expression; Portuguese Linguistics; General Linguistics; Theory of Literature; Comparative Literature; Classical Culture; Philosophy and Culture.
3. Apply the acquired literacy models.
4. Demonstrate a solid training in the Portuguese language and its European and non-European variants.
5. Take a critical stand on the theoretical and methodological models learned.

Access to higher education

A graduate in Portuguese Studies can undertake a Master’s degree that qualifies him for teaching in the area of Portuguese both in basic and secondary level.
The Degree in Portuguese Studies also aims to provide adequate training to be able to pursue specialization studies in 2nd and 3rd cycle programs in the areas of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Careers

Cultural industries; content creation; support, in the linguistic domain, for the revision of texts in Portuguese related to journalism, creative industries and advertising, translation, creation of web pages and other digital contents in Portuguese; work in corpora collection teams for the purposes of databases in Portuguese; cultural advice linked to the tourism industry and cultural portfolios of local authorities.

Access

36

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

15 Portuguese Literature
or
18 Portuguese

This information must be verified on
http://www.dges.gov.pt/guias/detcursopi.asp?codc=9917&code=1000

Aditional Information

Study Plan

Regime Curricular Unit Scientific Area ECTS
Year 1 60
S1 Academic Writing and Investigation Methodologies LPLE 6
S1 Communication Technologies in Humanities HD 6
S1 European Humanistic Heritage ECl 6
S1 Introduction to Literary Studies TL 6
S1 Introduction to the Study of Language LG 6
S2 Latin Language and Grammar 1 LPLE 6
S2 Literatures and Cultures of African Portuguese-Speaking Countries 1 LitLP 6
S2 Medieval Portuguese Literature LitLP 6
S2 Portuguese Phonetics and Phonology LP 6
S2 Opção I 6
Discourses and Orality LG 6
History of Political and Social Ideas F 6
Language Strategies in Advertising LG 6
Roman Civilization Ar 6
Travel Narratives LitComp 6
Year 2 60
S1 Contemporary Portuguese Culture CPLP 6
S1 Latin Language and Grammar 2 LPLE 6
S1 Portuguese Lexicon and Morphology LP 6
S1 Portuguese Renaissance and Mannerism Literature LitLP 6
S1 Opção II 6
Ethics and Social Responsibility G 6
Greek Civilization Ar 6
History of Islam H 6
Terminology and Information Technologies ETra 6
S2 Brazilian Literature and Culture 1 LitLP 6
S2 Literatures and Cultures of African Portuguese-Speaking Countries 2 LitLP 6
S2 Portuguese Baroque and Neoclassic Literature LitLP 6
S2 Portuguese Syntax LP 6
S2 Opção III 6
Discourses and Orality LG 6
History of Political and Social Ideas F 6
Language Strategies in Advertising LG 6
Roman Civilization Ar 6
Travel Narratives LitComp 6
Year 3 60
S1 Brazilian Literature and Culture 2 LitLP 6
S1 Intermedial Poetics IN 7
S1 Portuguese Literature from Romanticism to “fin de siècle” LitLP 6
S1 Pragmatics of Portuguese LP 6
S1 Opção IV 5
German A1.1 LPLE 5
English B1.1 LPLE 5
French A1.1 LPLE 5
Spanish A1.2 LPLE 5
S2 History of the Portuguese Language LP 6
S2 Literary Theory TL 7
S2 Portuguese Literature from Modernism to Contemporaneity LitLP 6
S2 Opção UMinho 6
Bioethics ECS 6
Collaboration for a Sustainable Development in the Digitalization Era EGI 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
S2 Opção V 5
English B1.2 LPLE 5
German A1.2 LPLE 5
French A1.2 LPLE 5
Spanish A2.1 LPLE 5
Spanish B1.1 LPLE 5

Assessment/Accreditation

A3ES Accreditation status:
Accredited
Resolution publication date:
13-02-2023
A3ES deliberation:
https://a3es.pt/pt/resultados-acreditacao/estudos-portugueses-14
Registry number at Ministry:
R/A-Ef 2427/2011/AL02
Registry Date:
29-04-2023
Accreditation validity:
30-07-2028