
How is a semester at NOVA FCSH?
At NOVA FCSH, the school year consists of two semesters: the first runs from September to the end of January. The second from February to May. January and May (there are no classes) are the months where students take final classes exams (not every curricular units have them). During classes, they can do assignments or written tests (depending on academic degrees).
Social Sciences and Humanities Track
Starting in February 2021, NOVA FCSH offers an international and interdisciplinary range of courses, the Social Sciences and Humanities Track. This is a set of interdisciplinary Curricular Units taught in English based on the results of research developed by NOVA FCSH and open to all the students of the Campus.
The courses usually involve at least two scientific areas and offer different perspectives on crucial problems in the area of humanities and social sciences. Enrich your CV and check the courses you can apply for below. Class timetables for 2021 can also be found below.

English curricula at NOVA FCSH
Intercultural communication and reflection in context
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Available soon
- Semester: 2.º
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Argumentative Strategies
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Fabrizio Macagno
- Semester: 2.º
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Research Manager as a profession in the EU ecosystem: concepts, tools and practice
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Susana Trovão
- Semester: 2.º
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Nature and Culture: the Cultural Ecology of Modern Societies
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Iva Pires e Karl Bruckmeier
- Semester: 2.º
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Political Theory
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Filipe Nobre Faria
- Semester: 2.º
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Urban Aesthetics: Philosophy, Art and the City
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Nuno Fonseca e Nélio Conceição
- Semester: 2.º
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Introduction to Western Music: History, Arts and Sociology
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Elsa de Luca
- Semester: 2.º
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Introduction to Ethics (through Film)
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Paolo Stellino
- Semester: 2.º
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Didactics of the Iberian Medieval Historical Culture
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa and Francisco José Diaz Marcilla
- Semester: 1.º
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Epicurus, Epicurianism and the Epicurian Tradition
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Leonor Santa Bárbara, Luís Bernardo and João Matos
- Semester: 1.º
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Organization and processing of data from the cetacean observation activity in the Sado estuary
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Carlos Pereira da Silva and Ricardo Nogueira Mendes
- Semester: 1.º
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Advertising
- Available to students enrolled in Ciências da Comunicação
- Teachers: Fabrizio Macagno
- Semester: 2.º
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Great Britain in the 20th Century
- Available to students enrolled in Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas
- Teachers: Iolanda Cristina de Freitas Ramos
- Semester: 1.º
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North American Literature
- Available to students enrolled in Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas
- Teachers: Isabel Maria Lourenço de Oliveira Martins
- Semester: 1.º
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Contemporary North American Literature
- Available to students enrolled in Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas
- Teachers: Isabel Maria Lourenço de Oliveira Martins
- Semester: 2.º
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English Linguistics
- Available to all students
- Teachers: Joana Alexandra Vaz Teixeira
- Semester: 2.º
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Phoenician and Greek Expansion across the Mediterranean – a Comparative Analysis of Mobility, Trade and Interactions (from 10th to 6th centuries BCE)
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Leonor Santa Bárbara and Ronaldo G. Gurgel Pereira
- Semester: 1.º
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Researching on the Middle Ages: working on IEM’s projects I
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Maria João Branco
- Semester: 1.º
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The Digital Humanities Applied: Exploring Medieval Text and Culture
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Maria João Branco, Tiago Viúla de Faria and Amélia Hutchinson
- Semester: 1.º
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History of the Construction of Brazil
- Available to students enrolled in História
- Teachers: Roberta Giannubilo Stumpf
- Semester: 2.º
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Contemporary North American Culture
- Available to students enrolled in Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas
- Teachers: Teresa Maria Dimas Botelho da Silva
- Semester: 1.º
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The United States in the XXth Century
- Available to students enrolled in Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas
- Teachers: Teresa Maria Dimas Botelho da Silva
- Semester: 2.º
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North American Media
- Available to students enrolled in Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas
- Teachers: Teresa Maria Dimas Botelho da Silva
- Semester: 2.º
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Human Rights – Theory and Practice
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: André Campos
- Semester: 2.º
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Language and Intercultural Education
- Available to students enrolled in Ensino de Inglês no 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico and Ensino de Inglês no 3º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e no Ensino Secundário
- Teachers: Ana Alexandra Gonçalves de Veloso e Matos
- Semester: 1.º
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History of Political Philosophy
- Available to students enrolled in Filosofia
- Teachers: André Filipe dos Santos de Campos
- Semester: 1.º
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Argumentative Strategies
- Available to students enrolled in Ciências da Comunicação
- Teachers: Fabrizio Macagno
- Semester: 2.º
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Questions of Philosophical Anthropology
- Available to students enrolled in Filosofia
- Teachers: Filipe Miguel Nobre da Silva Faria and João Rodrigues Lemos
- Semester: 1.º
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Philosophy of Law and the State
- Available to students enrolled in Filosofia and Ensino de Filosofia no Ensino Secundário
- Teachers: Giovanni Damele
- Semester: 2.º
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Nature and Culture: the Cultural Ecology of Modern Societies
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Iva Pires and Karl Bruckmeier
- Semester: 1.º
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Researching in the Middle Ages: a post graduate Workshop I
- Available to all courses
- Teachers: Maria João Branco
- Semester: 1.º
- Syllabus
Questões de Ética Aplicada (not translated)