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Institute of Arts and Human Sciences

Academic degrees and Formative Offer

Academic degrees
Bachelor’s degrees, Masters’ degrees and Doctorates.
International projects
Joint degrees, International Bachelor’s Program, Project Via Láctea and European Master in Lexicography.
BabeliUM
The BabeliUM – Language Centre is a project of interaction with society of the Institute of Arts and Humanities society.

Academic degrees

The Institute of Arts and Humanities (Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas - ILCH) offers a wide and varied range of courses covering the three cycles of study, in the fields of Sciences of Language, Literature and Culture, Philosophy and Artistic Studies, enabling international mobility for students and developing several interuniversity cooperation programs.

International projects

The Institute of Arts and Humanities has been developing its strategic project through a wide variety of international exchanges, cooperation and mobility.

BabeliUM

BabeliUM offers a wide range of foreign languages courses, including Portuguese as a Foreign Language, and specialised translation services and others. BabeliUM implements institutional politics of multilinguism and interculturality, in order to internationalize the UMinho

R&D – Research

CEHUM
Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho – CEHUM).
CEPS
Centre for Ethics, Policy and Society
Diacrítica
University journal, published annually by the CEHUM.
EPS
Ethics, Politics & Society

CEHUM

The CEHUM has a library specialized in Human Sciences, accessible to students and teachers, and publishes annually a specialized journal, in three series - Diacrítica -, open to internal or external collaboration. This publication, with a peer review model, was recently been added to the SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online database, and is released internationally through an extensive network of exchanges.

CEPS

The Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS) is a research unit of the Institute of Arts and Humanities at the University of Minho, created by the Resolution nº3/2017, March 27 of the University of Minho's General Council.

Diacrítica

Diacrítica is an university journal, released once a year, published by the Center for Humanistic Studies of the Institute of Arts and Humanities of the University of Minho and financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology.

EPS

Ethics, Politics & Society is an academic journal with peer review dedicated to the publication of high level contributions in the fields of Political Philosophy and Theory, as well as Normative and Applied Ethics.

Cooperation

Center for Galician Studies (CEG)
Center for the dissemination of the Galician language and culture.
Russian World Foundation Office
It is a strategic program of the Foundation «Russkiy Mir», in partnership with the ILCH.
University of Mozambique
Advanced Scientific Internships (Estágios Cinetíficos Avançados - ECA) in the Department of Philosophy.

Center for Galician Studies (CEG)

The Center for Galician Studies, dedicated to the dissemination of the Galician language and culture, has been operating in the ILCH since 1997 in the framework of a cooperation protocol between the University of Minho and the Xunta de Galicia.

Russian World Foundation Office

This program aims at gathering good conditions to get familiarized with the roots of Russia civilization and its contemporary realities, through users’ autonomous habituation to elements of the Russian culture and improvement of language skills.

University of Mozambique

Cooperation between the Department of Philosophy of the ILCH and the Pedagogical University of Maputo, so that doctoral candidates in Philosophy (of the Pedagogical University of Maputo) can do research tutored by teachers from UMinho.