Universidade Lusófona do Porto

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Duration / Confered Degree / ECTS

3 Years (6 Semester) / Bachelor / 180 ECTS

Programme Director

Professor Doutor José António Oliveira Rocha

Entrance Exams

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Qualification requirements and regulations

Candidates should have completed secondary school or equivalent qualification. Under current legislation any course of secondary education is qualification enough to compete.
The applicant must submit proof of completion of the national survey of the discipline that the establishment has taken as proof of admission to the course they want to apply and meet the minimum score of 95 points.

Objectives

In an accelerated society with clash of interests in global development, the Actors responsible for their transformations are prepared to changethe system of values, innovate and adapt to new methodologies and management techniques. That is the great challenge facing the new leaders of today throughout the Public Administration, to be able to respond in time of crisis, to big bets that global changes and developments in public organizations, regional and local cause.
This truly multidisciplinary degree based on the study not only of management sciences, as well as social science, selected and aimed to politicians, managers and technicians in this area of ¿¿future graduates be qualified to meet the growing needs and challenges of our time

Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired

Graduates should know and understand theories, methods, limits and nature of management and regional administration and local government;
To know and interpret the concepts, structures, contexts and ideas that support the instrumental public administration, regional administration and local government;
Acquiring basic concepts in environment, planning and land development and geographic information science;
Acquire skills in specific areas of management and regional administration and local government, including municipal accounting, planning and urban and regional human resources management;
Garnering the intellectual skills necessary to identify, describe and evaluate information relevant in regional administration and local government;
Reach generic intellectual skills to develop arguments, synthesise relevant information and produce critical judgments about the economic, social and environmental in national and regional administration and local government;
Enhancing personal skills to handle, select and communicate information (written and oral);
Develop personal skills to perform work independently with initiative and self-discipline.

Occupacional Profiles

Parliament;
Managers of Public Enterprises;
Management Schools and Hospitals;
Boards and Parish Councils;
Municipal Enterprises;
Foundations, Charitable, mutual societies, associations, cooperatives, IPSS;
Other that social, economic and cultural development in its overall requirement would create;

Scientific Areas

Ciências empresariais;
Gestão e administração;

Teaching staff

Lecturer	Academic Degrees	Dedication time
Armando Manuel De Matos Da Silva Almeida	Master	Full-time
Emília Natália Da Costa Nogueira	Doctorate	Part-time
Fernando Miguel Pinto Oliveira Pereira	Master	Part-time
José António De Oliveira Rocha	Doctorate	Full-time
Justino Da Cruz Santos	Bachelor	Part-time
Luis Maria Machado Abranches De Soveral	Master	Full-time
Luisa Mafalda Matos Ferreira Mendes Ribeiro	Doctorate	Full-time
Maria Teresa Ribeiro Candeias	Master	Full-time
Maria Bernardete Paiva Oliveira	Master	Part-time
Maria Emília Cortes Raposo	Doctorate	Full-time
Maria Teresa Couceiro Da Costa Sequeira	Doctorate	Part-time
Ricardo Manuel Magarinho Bessa Moreira	Doctorate	Full-time

Study Plan

Ministerial Decree nº 19839/2009 of 31 August, altered by the Ministerial Decree nº20254/2009 of 7 September

1st Year / Core Curriculum		ECTS
Macroeconomic	Semestral	5
Administration Science I	1º Semestre	5
Administrative Law I	1º Semestre	5
Introduction to Contemporary Thought	1º Semestre	5
Microeconomics	1º Semestre	5
Political Science	1º Semestre	5
Support Techniques to AP	1º Semestre	5
Accounting Principles	2º Semestre	5
Administration Science II	2º Semestre	5
Administrative Law II	2º Semestre	5
History of Municipal Management	2º Semestre	5
Statistics	2º Semestre	5
2nd Year / Core Curriculum		ECTS
Cost Accounting	1º Semestre	5
Option 1	1º Semestre	5
Public Accounting	1º Semestre	5
Public Economics	1º Semestre	5
Public Finance	1º Semestre	5
Public Managment Theory and Models	1º Semestre	5
Finantial Management	2º Semestre	5
Human Resource Management in Public Administration	2º Semestre	5
Option 2	2º Semestre	5
Political Socio-Economics of the EU and CPLP/Lusophone World	2º Semestre	5
Public Projects Management and Assessment	2º Semestre	5
Theory of the Political Process and Public Policies	2º Semestre	5
3rd Year / Core Curriculum		ECTS
Local Finance	Semestral	5
Local Government and Administration	Semestral	5
Managing Not-for-Profit Organizations	Semestral	5
Option 3	Semestral	5
Option 4	Semestral	5
Project / Internship	Semestral	10
Public Services Auditing	Semestral	5
Quality Management	Semestral	5
Urban Economics and Industrial Location	Semestral	5
Public Contract	1º Semestre	5
Deontology and Ethics in Public Services	2º Semestre	5