2025

Contemporary Forms of Power

Name: Contemporary Forms of Power
Code: FIL14580M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Legal-Political Theory and International Relations

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

This curricular unit aims to give students in-depth perspectives on the issues surrounding power and politics in complex societies.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

This curricular unit aims to give students in-depth perspectives on the issues surrounding power and politics in complex societies.

Contents

1. Power and Politics.
2. Forms of government.
3. Problems and paradoxes of power in the contemporary era.
4. Power and theories of the world as a whole.

Teaching Methods

Methodologies:
Lectures, periodic debates and preparation of an essay of a scientific nature, in addition to its public defense.

Evaluation:
Continuous evaulation: assistance: 20%; participation and debate: 20%; final essay and discussion: 60%.
Exam: 100%

Teaching Staff (2024/2025 )