Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa - Foundation ProgramAbout this program
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The Degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures has monolingual and bilingual variants, allowing you to combine Portuguese with one of the foreign languages of the course (German, Spanish, French and English).
The student who intends to attend the Degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures chooses a variant from among those available at the Department, having the support of professors to advise them in the choice of subjects and in the construction of their timetable.
Admission requirements
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1st year
Monodisciplinary course – English and North American Studies
- English (1st level)
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- Introduction to Language Sciences
- Scientific Work Methodology
- (1st) Foreign Language Culture
- English (2nd level)
- Introduction to Cultural Studies
- Guided Readings
- (1st) Foreign Language Literature
- (2nd) Foreign Language Literature
Bidisciplinary course (two foreign languages)
- Foreign Language A (1st level)
- Foreign Language B (1st level)
- Scientific Work Methodology
- Introduction to Language Sciences
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- Foreign Language A (2nd level)
- Foreign Language B (2nd level)
- Introduction to Cultural Studies
- Guided Readings
- (1st) Foreign Language Literature (A)
Bidisciplinary course (Portuguese and Foreign Language)
- Foreign Language A (1st level)
- Introduction to Language Sciences
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- Scientific Work Methodology
- (1st) Foreign Language Culture
- Foreign Language A (2nd level)
- Guided Readings
- Introduction to Cultural Studies
- (1st) Foreign Language Literature
- Portuguese grammar
2nd year
Monodisciplinary course – English and North American Studies
- English (3rd level)
- english linguistics
- (3rd) Foreign Language Literature
- (2nd) Foreign Language Culture
- (3rd) Foreign Language Culture
- English (4th level)
- (4th) Foreign Language Literature
- (4th) Foreign Language Culture
- 2 optional subjects
Bidisciplinary course (two foreign languages)
- Foreign Language A (3rd level)
- Foreign Language B (3rd level)
- Linguistics [of the Foreign Language] (A)
- (1st) Foreign Language Literature (B)
- (1st) Foreign Language Culture (A)
- Foreign Language A (4th level)
- Foreign Language B (4th level)
- (1st) Foreign Language Culture (B)
- (2nd) Foreign Language Literature (A)
- 1 optional subject
Bidisciplinary course (Portuguese and Foreign Language)
- Foreign Language A (3rd level)
- Foreign Language Linguistics
- (1st) Portuguese Culture
- (2nd) Foreign Language Culture
- 1 optional subject
- Foreign Language A (4th level)
- (3rd) Foreign Language Culture
- (1.*) Portuguese Literature
- (2.*) Foreign Language Literature
- History of the Portuguese Language
3rd year
Monodisciplinary course – English and North American Studies
- English (5th level)
- (5th) Foreign Language Literature
- English Linguistics Themes
- (5th) Foreign Language Culture
- 1 optional subject
- English (6th level)
- (6th) Foreign Language Literature
- English seminar
- (6th) Foreign Language Culture
Bidisciplinary course (two foreign languages)
- Foreign Language A (5th level)
- Foreign Language B (5th level)
- (2nd) Foreign Language Literature (B)
- (3rd) Foreign Language Literature (A)
- Foreign Language Linguistics (B)
- Foreign Language A (6th level)
- Foreign Language B (6th level)
- Foreign Language Seminar (A or B)
- (2nd) Foreign Language Culture (A)
Bidisciplinary course (Portuguese and Foreign Language)
- Foreign Language A (5th level)
- (2nd) Portuguese Culture
- (2nd) Portuguese Literature
- (3rd) Foreign Language Literature
- 1 optional subject
- Foreign Language A (6th level)
- (3rd) Portuguese Literature
- Portuguese or Foreign Language Seminar
- 1 optional subject
Program delivery
Areas of Specialization
- Spanish and German Studies
- French and German Studies
- French and Spanish Studies
- English and German Studies
- English and Spanish Studies
- English and French Studies
- English and American Studies
- Portuguese and German Studies
- Portuguese and Spanish Studies
- Portuguese and French Studies
- Portuguese and English Studies
Curricular Structure
Duration: 3 years/6 semesters.
The student must complete 180 credits. At the beginning of each semester, the student will be advised on the curricular units to be taken, most appropriate to his/her academic path.
Undergraduate students can also benefit from the different mobility programs in which NOVA FCSH participates, such as Erasmus+, Almeida Garrett, among others, and participate in research work within the research units that make up the Faculty.
Tuition
Tuition Fees
- Foreign students: 697 €/year
- Foreign students: 3500 €/year
Qualification
Learning Outcomes
- Obtain methodological tools for research and analysis, in order to develop learning skills, critical choice, and reflection that allows an adequate application of acquired knowledge in practical situations;
- Acquire basic skills in the area of human sciences, which allow lifelong learning with a high degree of autonomy in theoretical and practical knowledge of foreign languages.
- Develop the ability to collect, select and interpret relevant information, textual and non-textual, enabling the reasoning of judgments that take into account the relevant social, scientific, and ethical aspects associated with the learning of new languages, literatures, and cultures;
- Develop theoretical and practical knowledge of languages, literatures, cultures in their national historical contexts;
- Develop communicative skills in a foreign language and in the mother tongue in variants with the Portuguese language component, fostering plurilingualism and interculturality;
- Develop the ability to carry out autonomous work in the interdisciplinary field of literary, cultural, and linguistic studies;
- Develop skills in the application of new technologies to literary, cultural, and linguistic sciences.
Career paths
Outputs Professionals
- Documentation Centers
- Culture Industries
- Publishers and Booksellers (Editing and Proofing)
- Translation and Interpreting Companies
- Consultancy
- International Relations Divisions
- Community and Diplomatic Institutions
- Teaching and Research
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