Objectives

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

• Disciplinary scientific education: to promote the deepening of knowledge in planning, spatial planning, urban policies and natural and technological risk prevention areas; 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 new problems and to solve them creatively, showing adaptation capacities to the fast 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 a critical mind; to improve oral and written communication, group work and intercultural and interpersonal relationship skills.

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Comments

"The Master’s in Hazards, Cities and Spatial Planning gave me a much more comprehensive understanding of spatial problems and dynamics, as well as of the processes to minimise and mitigate the issues related to living in our city."

Sandra Carla Pereira Melo - Senior Officer, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto

Contacts

For scientific and academic issues - contact the course direction: mrcot@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

Study Plan

Certificates

Main Scientific Areas