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Bachelor in Sociology


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The Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES), accredited this study cycle unconditionally (see the documents here).
Please consult the study cycle official documents.


The creation of the graduate degree in Sociology at FLUP occurred in 1985. It was adapted to the Bologna Program in 2007/2008 in order to be included in the higher education European space. Among its goals, we highlight the promotion of student mobility at a teaching and learning level, and in a future professional activity, as well as the internationalization of education and research in Sociology.

To join the 1sr cycle of studies – graduate degree – provides initial education in Sociology and a grounded knowledge of other Social and Human Sciences as a future sociologist.

What does it provide?

  • An adequate and updated scientific preparation;
  • Analytical, reflexive and operative competences which are important to a future professional insertion;
  • A valuable lifelong learning education and an expressive qualification in culture and citizenship.

Who is it for?

  • Secondary education students interested in the analysis of society’s structure and transformation and of social phenomena.

What are the goals?

  • Additional education in other Social and Human Sciences;
  • An education concerning social intervention and research methods and techniques;
  • Knowledge of the most important analysis about contemporary societies, including the Portuguese one;
  • Knowledge about the most relevant sociologists’ professional exercice forms.

Employment Prospects

Sociology aims to reflect and analyse social phenomena and, if necessary, to intervene in a critical way about the social, grounding decision-making, offering alternatives and promoting citizenship.
 
Sociology can provide a wide set of career possibilities in several work contexts.
Some of them are:
  • Companies and Organizations, in which it is possible:
    • To integrate polls teams, market studies and marketing;
    • To provide professional training;
    • To implement and to follow new trends in work organization;
    • To run human resources.
  • Municipalities, where the sociologist can:
    • Cooperate at an urban or environmental intervention level and local entertainment;
    • Requalify and/or run the cultural heritage;
    • Integrate marketing and advertising teams;
    • Promote cultural entertainment;
  • Central and regional administration (universities, schools, hospitals, etc.), where it is fundamental:
    • To implement the development of social politics, namely poverty and social exclusion fighting projects;
    • To promote disadvantaged social groups inclusion and social reinsertion strategies;
    • To cooperate in school administration, in hospital administration, in job and education/training policies;
    • To teach in various levels.
  • I&D centres, where all sorts of research activities are developed, including, for instance:
    • Information analysis;
    • Bibliographic analysis;
    • Field work.
To be part of a highly qualified learning, with a highly qualified teaching staff, is the fundamental step to a professional integration and to the accomplishment of the beginning of a lifelong education!

Information

For more information see:
Candidate webpage | Academic Portal

  Tuition Fee
  National admissions
  International Student
  Special admissions::

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Contacts

For scientific and academic issues - contact the course direction: soci@letras.up.pt
For administrative questions - contact the Academic Management Office: sga@letras.up.pt
For international mobility students - contact the International Office: sri@letras.up.pt

General information

Official Code: 9240
Director: Lígia Ferro
Acronym: SOCI
Academic Degree: Bachelor
Type of course/cycle of studies: First Degree
Start: 2007/2008
Duration: 3 Years

Study Plan

Certificates

  • Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (180 ECTS credits)

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