Migration, Inter-Ethnicity and Transnationalism

Cycle

Segundo ciclo

Degree

Master

Coordinator

Maria Margarida Marques

Opening date

September 15, 2014

Vacancies

15 vagas

Fees

1st year - 1.000,00 € / 2nd year - 1.000,00 €

Schedule

After-work schedule

Education objectives

1) Students must demonstrate to mastery the conceptual vocabulary, the methodologies, the theories and the problematics in the realm of migration, inter-ethnicity and transnationalism;
2) In depth training of the ability to critically analyse the discourses, from within and from outside academia, focused on this domain;
3) In depth training of the ability to critically analyse professional practices in relevant social and institutional contexts (work, housing, justice, school, politics, local management, etc.);
4) Acquiring skills for relevant semi-autonomous research endeavour in this domain;
5) Acquiring the necessary instruments for carrying out rigorous diagnosis, the design of consistent intervention proposals, making scientifically sound advices, as well as the evaluation of
projects of intervention and the monitoring of situations;
6) Increase the ability of integration and collaboration in inter-disciplinary teams.

Access conditions

1) In accordance with n.º 1, article 17 of Decree-Law n.º 74 of 24 March 2006 2) Candidates who meet the academic and curriculum requirements set forth in number 1 of the above article will be selected and ranked according to the following criteria: a. 1st cycle degree (licenciatura) in Human and Social Sciences; b. Final grade of 1st cycle degree (licenciatura); c. Academic and scientific curriculum: d. Professional curriculum; e. Interview (optional).

Degree pre-requisites

Length: 4 semesters. Total credits: 120 credits (60 in course units of the study programme + 60 in the non-taught component). Types of non-taught component: Dissertation, Project Work, Practical Work Experience with Report (55 ECTS). Number of credits from free-elective optionals: 10 credits (the student can obtain 10 credits from free-elective optionals in course units taught at post-graduate level at FCSH/UNL, or at any other national or foreign higher education institution with bilateral agreement.)
In 3rd Semester the student realizes a mandatory seminar monitoring the non-taught component (5 ECTS).

Access to other courses

Completion of the Masters degree allows the holder to apply for the cycle of studies which leads to a Doctorate Degree. For the specific access requirements for doctoral programmes, consult the regulations governing the doctoral programmes at FCSH, UNL.

Evaluation rules

1) No obligatory precedences for attending the program’s courses. 2) Knowledge evalutation in the courses is individual and takes place at the end of each semester. The following tools will be considered: final oral and/or written assignments, papers or other assessment tools, in conditions to be agreed upon with each lecturer. The result of the evaluation is expressed in a mark from 0 to 20. 3) Approval in a course requires a final grade equal to or above 10. 4) Only those students who have obtained 60 ECTs on the scholar part of the program can proceed to the dissertation or project or internship. 5) For the evaluation of the non-taught component, please consult FCSH’s relevant regulations.

Structure

Mandatory
Code	Name	ECTS
Options
722081069	Methodology for the Social Sciences	10
722170168	Seminário de acompanhamento Dissertação/Estágio com Relatório/Trabalho de Projecto (not translated)	5

Elective option 1
Code	Name	ECTS
Options
722081034	Citizenship and Public Policies: Migrants between Power and Politics	10
722001027	Intercultural Communication	10
722081041	Da Escravatura à Globalização: a Construção da Modernidade (not translated)	10
722001029	Diasporas: Transnational Religions and Identity	10
722081045	Human Rights and Cultural Rights	10
722001031	Between ´Us´ and ´Others´: Ethnicity, Transnationalism and Identity Strategies	10
722001033	Gypsy Studies	10
722001034	Ethni-Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Genre and Deviation	10
722001035	Identity and Expressive Culture	10
722081063	Economic Incorporation: Local and Transnational Strategies	10
722081072	International Migrations: Demography and Forecasting	10
722081074	Nationalism and Racism in 20th Century Portugal: the Colonial Question	10
722081075	Migration Spaces: from Local Integration to Migratory Archipelagos	10

Elective option 2
Code	Name	ECTS
Options
722170169	Dissertation in Migration, Inter-Ethnicity and Transnationalism	55
722170170	Internship with Report in Migration, Inter-Ethnicity and Transnationalism	55
722170171	Project Work in Migration, Inter-Ethnicity and Transnationalism	55