The Degree in Portuguese Studies offers a diversified education program that is not limited to the knowledge of Portuguese language, literature and culture. In fact, it also includes historical and geographical coordinates with universal significance that arouse great interest in the contemporary world: the Greco-Latin roots of classical evolution and the modern derivations of Lusophony. This knowledge allows the discover of new linguistic, literary, artistic and cultural variants of various continents, united by a common matrix.

In order to consolidate and enhance the Student's cognitive pathway, the Course integrates a methodological and theoretical training in the fields of several language and expression sciences, namely linguistics and poetics, as well as literary rhetoric, stylistics, criticism, history and aesthetics, promoting a systematic view of Western culture through the prism of Portuguese Studies.

The training acquired along the six semesters of this 1st Cycle of Studies enables deepening and specialization in the 2nd Cycle (Master degree), highlighting the following routes in this Faculty:

• Masters in Literary, Cultural and Interart Studies;
• Masters in Linguistics;
• Masters in Teaching Portuguese in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and in Secondary Education and Latin in Secondary Education;
• Masters in Portuguese as a Second Language / Foreign Language;
• Masters in Teaching Portuguese in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and in Secondary Education.

Employment Prospects

• Editorial consulting;
• Text revision;
• Public Relations and advertising with an important linguistic component;
• Cultural products and intellectual heritage;
• Portuguese as a Foreign language teaching.

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• National exams:Portuguese
• Main study areas: Literature (Portuguese, Brazilian and African); Culture (Portuguese, Brazilian and African); Portuguese Linguistics; Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Literary and Aesthetical Theory.
• Official information on the graduation (DGES)
• Programme statistics (DGES)

• Over 23 years old
• Transfer from other institutions/ courses
• Readmission
• Holders of Other Higher Education Degrees

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