The MA program in Intercultural Studies for Business opens up new international horizons for students. The course has been approved unconditionally for 6 years by the national agency for accreditation A3Es.
With a highly specialized faculty, the MA offers innovative courses such as: Chinese (Mandarin) and Arabic Languages and Cultures for Business, Culture and Development, Intercultural Economic Relations, Entrepreneurship in Culture, Intercultural Communication Technologies, as well as English, French, Spanish, and German Cultures for Business.
The master's course is fully taught in English, thus allowing greater collaboration and international mobility. Students can opt for a double diploma, in combination with the Masters in Languages and Intercultural Management at Université d'Artois, France. The master's course has a specific ERASMUS mobility protocol with Hochschule Koblenz, University of Applied Sciences, RheinAhrCampus, Germany, and five specific protocols for PhDs at the Universities of Vigo, Santiago de Compostela and Salamanca, in Spain.
The course offers internships with Incubitz Business Consulting & Entrepreneurship, ACM High Commissioner for Migrations, National Association of Women Entrepreneurs, Vida Económica Publishing Group, EDUCOACH Education and Social Innovation, Sinerconsult Ltd, the London Eligent Club Ltd, and several other European partners.
The target audience is made up of graduates from all P.PORTO schools, as well as professionals from the fields of heritage, arts, communication sciences, social sciences and the humanities, economics, planning, languages, literatures, marketing, management, international trade, local and central administration institutions, public and international relations, tourism, hotel management; publishers and booksellers; translators and interpreters; project managers; socio-cultural mediators; NGO staff; teachers, coaches and mentors.
The program puts forward an innovative approach to the Humanities, in tune with the corporate job market, based on an interdisciplinary approach and the application of new technologies. Graduates will be able to understand, use and monetize methodologies of context analysis and measurement of cultural variables in a business environment. The MA will train professionals capable of autonomous, efficient and integrated performance in intercultural contexts, able to incorporate initiatives for the understanding between cultures into business practices.
In line with a policy of self-employment, the MA in Intercultural Studies for Business views the knowledge of culture as a profitable field, indispensable to any company, both as a tool and as an agent in business and economic growth. The MA pays special attention to postcolonial cultures and to the current flows of business and decision making centers to China, the Maghreb, the Middle East, Hispano-America, and the Commonwealth, among many others. This MA articulates intercultural studies with economics, communication, politics, history, management, and media arts, to create a professional profile with growing demand in business, publishing, communication, cultural management and political and administrative organizations, in different fields and institutions, within the global context.
Although English is the working language of the course, the linguistic component is NOT under assessment (except in Arabic/Chinese (Mandarin) Language and Culture). French, Spanish and German will be used in the respective UCs, with a level of intensity and proficiency to be negotiated with the group.
Please feel free to contact the course director, Professor Clara Sarmento, at:
dir-curso.misb@iscap.ipp.pt and clarasarmento@gmail.com
Webpage: https://www.iscap.ipp.pt/cursos/mestrado/20000248
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| 1º Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Curricular unit | Period | ECTS |
| English Culture for Business I | 1st Semester | 6.0 |
| French/German/Spanish Culture for Business I | 1st Semester | 5.0 |
| Language and Culture "Mandarin Chinese for Business I"/"Arabic I" | 1st Semester | 5.0 |
| Culture and Development I | 1st Semester | 6.0 |
| Intercultural Economic Relations | 1st Semester | 8.0 |
| Culture and Development II | 2nd Semester | 6.0 |
| English Culture for Business II | 2nd Semester | 6.0 |
| French/German/Spanish Culture for Business II | 2nd Semester | 5.0 |
| Enterpreneurship in Culture | 2nd Semester | 8.0 |
| Language and Culture "Mandarin Chinese for Business II/"Arabic II" | 2nd Semester | 5.0 |
| 2º Year | ||
| Curricular unit | Period | ECTS |
| Intercultural Communication Technologies | 1st Semester | 6.0 |
| Language and Culture "Mandarin Chinese for Business III/"Arabic III" | 1st Semester | 6.0 |
| English Culture for Business III | 1st Semester | 6.0 |
| Reseach Methodologies | 1st Semester | 6.0 |
| French/German/Spanish Culture for Business III | 1st Semester | 6.0 |
| Dissertation/Project/Professional Practice | 2nd Semester | 30.0 |
- Communication;
- Cultural planning;
- Marketing and publicity;
- International management and trade;
- Local and central power;
- Public and international relations;
- Tourism;
- Hotel and hospitality management;
- Publishing and bookselling;
- Translation;
- International project management;
- Socio-cultural mediation;
- NGOs;
- Teaching and mentoring.
Candidates with the following qualifications may apply:
a) Holders of a bachelor's degree or equivalent;
b) Holders of a foreign academic degree conferred following a 1st. Cycle Studies, organized according to the
principles of the Bologna Process by a State adhering to this process;
c) Holders of a foreign academic degree that is recognized as meeting the objectives of the degree by the
Scientific Council of the UO where they want to be admitted;
d) Holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum that is recognized as attesting the capacity to
carry out this cycle of studies by the Scientific Council of the UO where they want to be admitted.
e) Oral and written proficiency (European level B2) in English.
