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Environmental Sciences (Bachelor) 2020/2021

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General


Academic degree:
  • Bachelor (Bologna 1st cycle degree)
ECTS:
180
Duration:
6 curricular semesters
Regime:
Daytime
Place:
Gualtar Campus, Braga (UM)
Main Scientific area:
  • Environmental Sciences

Contacts


    School of Sciences
    Campus de Gualtar
    4710 - 057 Braga

    Tel: +351 253604390 Fax: +351 253604398
    E-Mail: cpedagogico@ecum.uminho.pt; sec@ecum.uminho.pt
    URL: http://www.ecum.uminho.pt

Description


The Undergraduate Degree Course in Environmental Sciences trains professionals with the skills to interpret the phenomena that control the state of the Environment. These graduates can contribute to the technique and/or policy decision-making, by grounding it on extensive scientific criteria.

The integrated and specialized perspective of the Environment allows these graduates to intervene in terms of spatial planning, Nature conservation, environmental monitoring and control of risks, in different professional fields:
-In business - consulting and environmental services (for example in the fields of Nature tourism, training, monitoring studies and environmental impact assessment);
-In research - access to postgraduate training and research in various fields of environment sciences and technologies;
-State agencies, municipal and multi-municipal companies.

Access to higher education


Graduates will possess a basic multidisciplinary background, which will give them access to a wide variety of Master courses where they can get more specific and advanced training in topics of their choice, and to supplement their initial training.

Careers


The perspective simultaneously integrative and specialized, allows these graduates to act in the domains of land management, Nature conservation, environmental monitoring and control of risks, in different professional fields:
- Business consulting and environmental services (eg in the fields of tourism of Nature, training, monitoring studies and environmental impact assessment);
- Research with the possibility of accessing to postgraduate training and research in various fields of science and technology environment;
- State agencies and municipal entities.

Access


38

Vacancies

0

Minimum

Access forms


The access to this Cycle of Study can be done through the following ways:
- Application for National Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Special Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Local Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Special Access to Higher Education Admissions;
- Application for Access to Higher Education Admissions through Re-Entry, Change and Transfer of Course.

Entry requirements


Entrance Testing

02 Biology and Geology
or
07 Physics and Chemistry
or
09 Geography

This information must be verified on
http://www.dges.gov.pt/guias/detcursopi.asp?codc=9379&code=1000

Aditional Information


Study Plan


Regime Curricular Unit Scientific Area ECTS
Year 1 60
S1 Cell Biology BIO 6
S1 General Chemistry QUI 6
S1 Physics I Fis 6
S1 Topics of Mathematics EC M 6
S1 Zoology BIO 6
S2 Botanics BIO 6
S2 Dynamic Geology GEOL 6
S2 Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry QUI 6
S2 Physics II Fis 6
S2 Statistics EC M 6
Year 2 60
S1 General Ecology BIO 5
S1 General Microbiology BIO 5
S1 Genetics BIO 5
S1 Geological Materials GEOL 5
S1 Landscape Resources GEOL 5
S1 Thematic Mapping GEOL 5
S2 Applied Tools for Environmental Sciences CAmb 5
S2 Ecologia das Populações CAmb 5
S2 Ecophysiology BIO 5
S2 Geological Resources GEOL 5
S2 Instrumental Methods of Analysis QUI 5
S2 Introduction to Environmental Law D 5
Year 3 60
S1 Earth-Atmosphere System CAmb 5
S1 Economy of the Environment and Natural Resources E 5
S1 Energia - do Carbono às Renováveis CAmb 5
S1 Environmental Geology GEOL; CAmb 5
S1 Pedology and Soil Conservation CAmb 5
S1 Opção UMinho 5
Academic English LLC 6
Computation with R M 6
Education, Citizenship and Human Rights CSEd 6
Foreign Language Level 1 - Spanish LLC 6
Fundamentals of Astronomy and Cosmology Fis 6
Inventories Management G 6
Mathematics Behind Things M 6
Optics for Digital Photography Fis 6
Personality and Crime Psi 6
Reading and Writing for Academic Production and Knowledge LEP 6
Substances that Changed the World - A History of Humanity QUI 6
S2 Professional Trainee - Research Individual Project CAmb 10
S2 Opção DB 5
Biodiversity and Global Changes CAmb 5
S2 Opção DCT 5
Environmental Monitorization CAmb 5
S2 Opção DF 5
Física dos Fenómenos Ambientais CAmb 5
S2 Opção DQ 5
Air Quality Monitoring CAmb 5

Assessment/Accreditation


A3ES Accreditation status:
Accredited
Resolution publication date:
15-09-2020
Registry number at Ministry:
R/A-Ef 2419/2011
Registry Date:
18-03-2011
Accreditation validity:
30-07-2026

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    4704-553 Braga
  • T.:253 601 100, 253 601 109
    E.: gcii@reitoria.uminho.pt
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