A3ES Decision
Accredited - A3ES Decision
Decision date
11/12/2014
Registration
R/A-Ef 3000/2011
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Confered Degree | Duration | ECTS
Bachelor | 6 Semesters | 180 ECTS
Programme Director
Secretariat
Entrance Conditions
This study cycle accepts candidates who submit their application via the institutional entrance competition and have obtained a positive score in one of the following national entrance exams:
06 Philosophy
11 History
17 Mathematics Applied to Social Sciences
18 Portuguese
Candidates may also apply via the regimes of institution/programme transfer or via Special Application, in accordance with the legal regulations in force (holders of higher education degree, holders of a Technological Specialization Course, holders of Professional Higher Technician Course or Over 23 years of Age).
Candidates who meet the requirements defined in the International Student Statute can also apply.
Programme requirements
Have completed a total of 180 ECTS
Objectives
The objective of the Bologna Declaration is to improve the quality of higher education across Europe, during the next 10 years. Thus, this document has highlighted the importance of involving students in constructing a project of lifelong education, focusing mainly on the development of both personal and social skills that will enable adaptability to changes and the challenges ahead.
The licentiate degree accepted the Bologna challenge and adapted its EP to these principles and launched a major overhaul of the study and teaching methods in force.
The 1st licentiate degree in Political Science and International Relations has a duration of three years or six semesters. It has a core of mandatory courses that are denominated as Majors and gives the students the opportunity to complete their training by choosing optional subjects and they may choose to include Minors from other scientific areas. It presents 4 Minors to students from other courses in Political Science, International Relations, Public Administration and Policy and Psychoanalysis.
Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired
The graduate student in Political Science acquires skills that equip them with a solid theoretical and practical preparation for the wide range of vocational opportunities that the rediscovery of the political-democratic-party system after the 25th of April of 1974, necessarily bears in the contemporary Portuguese society and the "Lusophone Space".
The graduate student acquires general skills concerning the basic essential knowledge pertaining to the functioning of Public Institutions and the different groups that participate in the running of the same, as well as in understanding the attitudes and behaviours of citizens.
The graduate student in Political Science and International Relations is a professional who, individually or as part of a team, is able to observe, characterize and evaluate the components that define certain socio-political contexts and intervene, directly or indirectly, in their modification.
In more formal contexts, the graduate student in Political Science can be included in administrative or management bodies at national, regional, local and international level (in terms of Europe and the Lusophone Space).
Further Studies
The Licentiate degree is the starting point for the logical furtherance of studies in Master of Political Science taught at the Lusophone University (¿Universidade Lusófona¿).
Career
Vocational opportunities extend to virtually all sectors of society (political parties, associations, unions, companies, central, regional and local governments, mass media, diplomacy and international organizations).
Scientific Areas
Ciência política e cidadania | Ciências sociais e do comportamento | Ciências sociais, comércio e direito