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.
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%
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 )
- Silvério Carlos Matos Rocha e Cunha [responsible]