Literature
Master Degree
Ano Letivo 2024/2025

Course Overview

The Master's Degree in Literature, recently evaluated and unconditionally approved by the A3ES, offers a complement of scientific training to Literature graduates, as well as to all those interested in Literature from other areas of study. It integrates two areas of specialization that, being complementary, develop different competences, providing a broadening of horizons in different fields of Literature and favoring interdisciplinarity in the field of Social and Human Sciences. The specialization in Comparative Literature Studies is not limited to a specific chronological period. It is understood that the central element is the concept of relationship, around which the other elements, methods and notional fields are organized. Pay attention also to the consequences implied by all comparative activity in Literature, which consists of studying every object that can be considered literary, placing it in relation to other cultural objects. The specialization in Comparative Literature Studies will be available.

Specialization Areas:

Comparative Literature Studies

Organic Unit: School of Social Sciences

Duration: 4 Semesters/120 ECTS credits (57 required and 12 optional in curricular units)

Language: Portuguese

Regime: Presencial

CNAEF Areas:

Foreign languages (222)

Study Plan

A3ES Accreditation

Career Prospects

Teaching and research; editorial functions; work in local, regional and national administration, in the areas of Culture; work practice in museums, cultural associations and libraries; creative and/or critical intervention on different platforms and networks; promotion, preparation and dynamization of cultural, communicative and literary activities.

Specific Entry Requirements

The basic training of students should allow the minimum requirements for each of the areas: a) Holders of a 1st cycle degree at national or international universities in compliance with the Bologna Process in study area 22 - Humanities - and their areas of education and training provided for in Decree No. 256/2005 of 16 March (National Classification) as well as having other areas of study. b) Undergraduates Pre-Bologna, national or international, of the same areas described above or legal equivalent or in areas not specified by the Ordinance mentioned, but considered relevant by the competent scientific council of the University of Évora; c) Holders of academic, scientific, or professional relevant curricula which are recognized as meeting the objectives of a degree by the competent scientific council of the University of Évora as well as the holder of an international academic degree that is recognized as equivalent to a national degree. d) Candidates must have a written and oral mastery of the Portuguese language and a passive knowledge of at least one foreign language from French, English or Spanish.