Bachelor's in Liberal Arts

The Bachelor's in Liberal Arts (Estudos Gerais) is a 3-year first-cycle degree (6 semesters, 180 ECTS) at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, created to combine the arts, the humanities and the sciences. Students can take courses at eleven schools of Universidade de Lisboa: the Faculties of Architecture, Fine Arts, Sciences, Law, Arts and Humanities, Human Kinetics and Psychology, the School of Agriculture, the School of Social and Political Sciences, the School of Economics and Management and Instituto Superior Técnico.

The plan starts with a common core of 10 courses (60 ECTS), usually taken in the 1st year: 2 to 3 levels of a foreign language, courses on Big Questions in the Arts and Humanities and in the Sciences, the Fundamental Texts sequence, from antiquity to the present, and 1 or 2 Tools courses, such as Logic, Programming I or Calculus I. The other 20 courses (120 ECTS) are electives. With the help of a tutor, each student builds their own path, either free or organised into up to two Majors and up to four Minors, in fields such as Economics and Management, Mathematical Sciences, Legal Studies, History, Translation, Computer Science or Smart Cities.

Former students work in fields as varied as telecommunications, the arts, information, heritage management, environmental management, design, political studies, data science, communication, education and research. Many go on to master's and doctoral programmes at the eleven participating schools.