School:
School of Tourism and Hospitality Management
Course:
Tourism and Leisure
Degree:
Graduation
Course code:
9255
ECTS:
180
Duration:
3 years (6 semesters)
Qualifications:
Entry Exams (09 – Geography or – History or 18 – Portuguese; application grade 95; calculation grade for entry (average high school - 65% and entry exams - 35%); Regional preferences - 30% (Aveiro, Castelo Branco, Coimbra, Guarda, Porto, Vila Real e Viseu) and courses with preferential entry – 20% (Consult the Entry Guide to Public Higher Education).
Learning objectives:
The graduate degree is awarded to students who show to have a deep knowledge and skills in this area of training, backed by the knowledge got in the High school and are able to develop and expand them, assisted by learning materials for advanced level and, at the same time, demonstrate a level of innovative knowledge in the various fields of Tourism and Leisure; they also have to know how to apply the knowledge acquired, evidencing professional skills to work in the vocational area of tourism and leisure; have ability to solve problems in their area of training, produce and analyze their own arguments; have ability to collect, select and interpret relevant knowledge, particularly in tourism, to find out solutions to solve identified problems concerning social, scientific and ethical aspects; have skills to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions.
Incoming profile:
Methodologies:
Learning strategies are diversified according to a teaching-oriented inter and multidisciplinary Tourism for the development of skills by students, for teachers fulfilling the task of facilitating and guiding the teaching for the acquisition of these skills.
Output profile:
Tourism professionals to public and private administration, travel agencies, tour operators, education and training, hospitality and other areas of tourism and the like. Interest in the heritage and cultural identities. Development projects with different frameworks and public.
Career Opportunities:
The various business sectors of the tourism industry require graduates in tourism and leisure, which are directly or indirectly linked to the travel, tourism and leisure, with particular relevance to the following:
• Tour operators and travel agencies;
• Accommodation;
• Restoration;
• Parks entertainment and leisure (theme parks);
• Transport companies;
• Enterprise rental car;
• Bodies central state, regional and local tourism-related;
• Business organization and management of events;
• Teaching and research;
• Training;
• Creation of tourism service businesses (self-employment).
Employability:
Course director:
Fernando Manuel Florim Ribeiro de Lemos
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