2023/2024 school year
Target audience: Adults for whom Portuguese is not their mother tongue, with the exception of citizens from countries where Portuguese is the official language.
Teaching mode: face-to-face
Duration: 64 hours
ECTS: 6
Levels:
A1 Breakthrough
A2 Elementary
B1 Threshold
B2 Vantage
C1 Advanced
Students can only enroll in one level per semester.
Vacancies per level: 20 (each level only opens with a minimum number of 8 students).
Dates:
|
1st semester |
2nd semester |
Classes |
12th of September to 15th of December 2023 |
14th of February to 31st of May 2024 |
Application period |
10th of July to 8th of September 2023 |
11th of December 2023 to 7th of February 2024 |
How to enroll: Prior to enrollment, you will be required to take a placement test. Ask us for the link to the test by sending an email to cursoportugues@fcsh.unl.pt with the subject Semester Course placement test. The result will be sent by email along with the instructions for enrollment.
Schedule for the 1st semester 2023/2024:
Horário_2023-2024_ S1 (1).docx (1)*You can only choose one class (A, B, C, D…) and you cannot change classes/timetable after the start of the course.
Location: School of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University Lisbon – Avenida de Berna 26 C, Lisbon (see map). Check our campus map HERE
Prices:
- External students: €450 + €7 (school insurance fee);*
- Erasmus+ NOVA FCSH students (with a Portuguese as a foreign language course in their Learning Agreement): free;
- Erasmus+ students from other schools of NOVA University (with a Portuguese as a foreign language course in their Learning Agreement): €7 (school insurance fee);
- Students at NOVA FCSH(including Erasmus + students without a Portuguese as a foreign language course in their Learning Agreement as well as Freemover and ICM students): €150;
- Academic staff, researchers, and other workers at NOVA FCSH: €150 + €7 (school insurance fee);
- Students, professors, researchers, and workers from other schools of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa: €350 +€7 (school insurance fee).
*(If you need a declaration proving your enrollment, you must add €6 to the course fee. This declaration can only be issued upon payment of the total cost of the course).
Payment method: PAYPAL (payment instructions will be given by email after application validation)
General conditions of the course:
- Each level of the semester course, successfully completed, awards 6 ECTS.
- The result of the placement test is not binding – in the 1st class, the teacher will reevaluate all students.
- Attendance begins to count on the day the course begins, and not when the student begins attending the course.
- The justification of absences is only valid upon the presentation of an official document.
- Attendance of 80% of the classes is mandatory to get the certification.
- The number of justified absences cannot exceed the number of classes attended.
- Assessment is continuous and based on: attendance and oral participation (10%), written and oral assignments (30%), a mid-term test (20%), and a final test with five components – reading, writing, listening, speaking and grammar (40%).
- The same rules established in the NOVA FCSH Assessment Regulations for undergraduate courses apply to the semester courses in Portuguese as a Foreign Language.
- The language of instruction is Portuguese.
- Schedules may be subject to changes.
- The payment is valid ONLY for the date(s) of the course(s) that you enrolling in.
- Payment is non-refundable, except if the course you enrolled in does not open because there is not a minimum number of 8 students.