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Masters in Geographical Information Systems and Spatial Planning


Image with quote from Gelsa Bugs, Researcher at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul:
The Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES), accredited this second-cycle degree programme unconditionally
(see the documents here).


The use of Geographical Information Systems has been registering, over the last decade, a significant increase in spatial planning, which is materialized by the adoption of this technology in areas as diverse as: environment, transportation, water supplying and waste treatment, agriculture, civil protection, among many others.

One can say that the GIS are a transverse tool, whose employment has generalized to all activity sectors, where location, associated to mobility, are important factors of work rationalization and productivity gains. This course will develop specific competences to answer these new challenges.

Credited with 120 ECTS, the Masters is four semesters long.

Important:
  • the approval in 1st and 2nd semester subjects provides a specialization diploma in Geographical Information Systems.
  • The 3rd semester includes, in addition to two curricular units, a 108-hour internship.
  • The 4th semester is entirely dedicated to the dissertation.

Objectives

The aims of this course are grouped in four great parameters:

  • Disciplinary scientific education: to promote the deepening of knowledge in the cartography, geographical information systems; and in the scope of planning and spatial planning, to apply explicative models and diagnosis methodologies and to propose territorial intervention areas;
  • Multidisciplinary scientific education: to promote interdisciplinarity and transversality of knowledge;
  • Adaptation capacities: to train post-graduates to face and to solve new problems creatively, showing adaptation capacities to the fast changes in the current world;
  • Personal training: To improve time and resource management capacity;
  • To solidify the structuring of reason and thought, the identification and formalization capacity and to develop of a critical mind;
  • To improve oral and written communication, group work and intercultural and interpersonal relationship skills.

Information

  For more information see:
Candidate webpage | Academic Portal

   Applications calendar and number of vacancies
  Tuition Fee
  Requirements: graduate degree or equivalent
Degree approved under Art. 54 of the Teaching Career Statute, regulated by Ordinance number 334/2008, of 30/04, for the groups: 420 (Order of October 2nd, 2019).This degree enables those who are already in the teaching profession to advance in their career, but it is not a teaching qualification degree.

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Contacts

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

General information

Official Code: 9637
Director: José Teixeira
Acronym: MSIGOT
Academic Degree: Master
Type of course/cycle of studies: Masters Degree
Start: 2007/2008
Duration: 2 Years

Study Plan

Involved Organic Units

Certificates

  • Master of Arts in Geographical Information Systems and Spatial Planning (120 ECTS credits)
  • Master's Course in Geographical Information Systems and Spatial Planning (60 ECTS credits)

Main Scientific Areas

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