Education of Masters and Doctors: Requirements and Skills
| Keywords |
| Classification |
Keyword |
| OFICIAL |
Sports Sciences |
Instance: 2019/2020 - SP
Cycles of Study/Courses
Teaching language
Suitable for English-speaking students
Objectives
- Helping students to acquire an accurate perspective on the changes underway in the University, as a reflection of the ethics, cultural, political and social situation that plagues the world;
- Drafting a set of requirements and responsibilities relating to the education of doctors as staff really superior, as well to their profile as intellectuals and to the obligations that entails.
Learning outcomes and competences
The syllabus of this UC integrates the central issues of the problematic on the role and objectives of the University regarding the education of Masters and Doctors looking to situate it and understand it in the current situation and draw attention to the duties that compete the different actors of this process.
Working method
Presencial
Program
1. University roads: To where it is being taken the University?
i) Introduction
ii) Some theses
ii) Threats and ongoing changes
iv) Cautions and positions:
v) Circumstances and challenges
2. Competences and duties
i) Scientific, spiritual and cultural preparation
ii) Philosophical education
iii) Ability to think, to see, to understand, to admire, to dream with and to pursue the Great
iv) Competence for the role of intellectual: several obligations
v) Competence of the word
vi) The love to the wisdom (philo-sophia) for the practice of wisdom.
vii) Attachment to human virtues
3. Conclusions
Mandatory literature
Boaventura de Sousa Santos; A Reuniversidade, REVISTA DO SNESUP, 2010 (nº. 38, OCT/NOV/DEZ 2010)
Eckhard Meinberg; Bildung in dürftiger Zeit, DSHS Köln, 2010
Jorge Olímpio Bento; Formação de Mestres e Doutores, Belo Horizonte: Instituto Casa da Educação Física, 2008
Luc Ferry; A sabedoria dos mitos gregos: aprender a viver II, Objetiva, 2009
Pascal Mercier; Comboio Nocturno para Lisboa, Publicações Dom Quixote, 2008 (p. 172, 2ª Edition)
Zygmunt Bauman; Medo Líquido, Jorge Zahar Editor, 2006
Zygmunt Bauman; Legisladores e intérpretes - Sobre modernidade, pós-modernidade e intelectuais, Zahar Editor, 2010
Teaching methods and learning activities
The expositive teaching methodology adopted in this UC seeks to facilitate the acquisition by students of the knowledge that they will need to further develop themselves their sustained reflections on the theme
discussed, which will lead to the elaboration of their works to be delivered for evaluation. In addition, the
possibility of the exposure and explanation of the contents being interrupted at any time by the students for questions and doubts allows the development of debates and questions that also promote a higher quality of their final reflections.
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
| designation |
Weight (%) |
| Trabalho escrito |
100,00 |
| Total: |
100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
| designation |
Time (hours) |
| Estudo autónomo |
60,00 |
| Frequência das aulas |
15,00 |
| Trabalho escrito |
60,00 |
| Total: |
135,00 |
Eligibility for exams
not applicable
Calculation formula of final grade
The classes will follow the expositive method, using the technology of PowerPoint, but open for the permanent questioning and debate.
The evaluation will involve the presence in 75% of the classes and the elaboration of a reflection work on a theme of the program, defined in agreement with the students.