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Overview Among its goals, the Sociology programme of the University of Porto highlights 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.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.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 ProspectsSociology 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. I want to find another Bachelor Course

The creation of the Sociology programme of the University of Porto occurred in 1985. It was adapted to the Bologna Program in 2007/2008 in order to be included in the higher education European space.

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1History of the application to higher education with the final marks for the 12th year and for the specific subjects, or equivalent national exam marks, for candidates to Portuguese university educationDocument attesting to the marks obtained in pre-university year and in the national exams corresponding to specific subjects, if applicable, for candidates to higher education abroadCertificate entitling the holder of a secondary education course, upper secondary education course, or of the 10th/11th years of schoolCertificate of approval in secondary education subjects corresponding to the admission exams required for the applicationHistory of application to higher education with entry gradeIdentification document. If you have not submitted a copy of the identification document, you must submit to the Academic Services of the Faculty the original document, within the deadline established for the submission of applicationsLetters of motivation

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