At the end of the Course, Students should be able to solve cases on their own on the subjects covered by the program

1. What is law;
2. What is the science of law;
3. What are the branches of law and how is public law distinguished from private law;
4. What are the sources of law;
5. When does a law come into force;
6. How do laws apply over time;
7. How are laws interpreted;
8. What is a lacuna and how is it integrated

Students can complete this course through continuous assessment throughout the semester or by final exam. Continuous assessment includes two tests (each accounting for 50% of the final grade). Students pass if they achieve a minimum grade of at least 9.5 out of 20 in each assessment component (and, therefore, a final average of 9.5 or higher). Assessment by final exam is conducted through an individual written exam (100%).

The theoretical-practical exposition of the matter taught, the study made autonomously by the students and the joint resolution, in class or online of practical exercises on the main contents taught enable the students, at the end of the semester to: - reflect critically on the issues dealt with in the scope of the taught program; - interpret and critically analyze the Constitutional Law in force in Portugal ; - apply the knowledge acquired in their future professional life.

Part I - Introduction to Constitutional Law: 1. Scope and object of Constitutional Law. 2. Constituent power and constitutional revision power. 3. The functions and interpretation of the Constitution Part III - 1. Brief History of Portuguese Constitutionalism. 2. Characterization and systematization of the 1976 Constitution Part III - Constitutional main principles: 1. Principle of the dignity of the human person. 2. Principle of the Rule of Law. 3. Principle of proportionality 4. Principle of equality Part IV - The constitutional organization of the Portuguese State: 1. Principle of the unitary State with autonomous regions 2. Democratic State Principle 3. Principle of separation and interdependence of powers. 4. Political systems 5. Principle of the independence of the judiciary Part IV - The Portuguese system of control of constitionality: 1. Comparative synthesis of the systems of review of constitutionality. 2. Constitutionality review system in the 1976 Constitution.

Students can complete this course through continuous assessment throughout the semester or by final exam. Continuous assessment includes two tests (each accounting for 50% of the final grade). Students pass if they achieve a minimum grade of at least 9.5 out of 20 in each assessment component (and, therefore, a final average of 9.5 or higher). Assessment by final exam is conducted through an individual written exam (100%).

This UC aims to introduce the future graduate to the relevance of the principles and rules that govern the use of TIPC, their meaning as an expression of the values ​​that companies, markets and technological progress itself must accommodate, with a view to promoting the absorption of knowledge and encourage critical perspectives, seeking to reconcile theory and practice, supported by the analysis and discussion of case studies.

1. General Theory of Information Security: vectors, pillars and principles;
2. General principles: Constitution, charters and soft law;
3. Links to national and European legislation and international standards of good practice;
4. Criminal motivation;
5. Computer-related crime: the modus operandi and jargon of the professional community;
6. Identification and technical, technological and legal classification of high-tech crimes;
7. The importance of open source research: screening and vetting as part of the audit;
8. Introduction to good international auditing and corporate social responsibility practices;
9. Connection to legal reality:
i. cybersecurity laws;
ii. privacy laws;
iii. cybercrime laws;
iv. securities laws.

The students can complete the UC through evaluation throughout the semester or evaluation by final exam.
The evaluation throughout the semester includes a written assignment with oral presentation (40% of the final evaluation) and a test at the end of the semester (60% of the final evaluation). Students who have minimum grade in each assessment element of at least 9.5 values (and therefore, final average equal to or greater than 9.5 values) are approved.
The evaluation by final examination is performed by individual written examination (100%).

A. Knowledge and understanding
- Introduction to the main concepts of economic theory
- Knowledge of analytical tools from other areas of social sciences with potential application to economics
B. Application
- Ability to use theoretical knowledge in the analysis of economic problems, bibliographic sources whithin the area, and integration of different perspectives to address real world problems
C. Judgement
- Ability of critical analysis and argumentation
D. Communication
- Ability to engage in team work, envisaging the prossecution of common goals
- Ability to communicate ideas (oral and writing)
E. Learning competences
- Ability to develop individual and collective research
- Ability and motivation to pursue studies at a higher and more specialized level
- Ability and motivation for life-long learning

1. Economics and the economic
1.1. Economic phenomena and economics as social science
1.3. Economics and the other social sciences

2. Concepts and fundamental tools in economics
2.1. Product, income and demand
2.2. Activity, employment, unemployment
2.3. Money, inflation and interest rate
2.4. States and public policies
2.5. International relations and the Balance of Payments

3. Economic theories and policies in historical perspective
3.1. The origins of Classical Political Economy
3.2. Classical Political Economy
3.3. Criticisms to Classical Political Economy
3.4. Marginalism and the Neoclassical approach
3.5. Keynes and keynesianism
3.6. The return of liberalism
3.7. An overview of current economic ideas and policies

4. Economics in a context of crisis, instability and incertainty

Assessment throughout the semester:
- Intermediate individual test (50%)
- Group written work (50%)
Note: Minimum grade in each instrument of assessment: 7.0

or

Final assessment:
- Written exam, 1st and 2nd sittings

Part I:
1. General concepts
2. Historical evolution of Public Administration
3. The principle of seperation of powers
4. The material separation of State's powers
5. Administrative systems
Part II: Adminstrative Organization:
1. Constitutional model of organization
2. The sectors of the Portuguese administrative organization
3. Public Administration and Private Law
Part III: Administrative Activity:
1. Principles of Administrative Procedure
2. Phases of the general administrative procedure
3. The administrative act
4. Classification of administrative acts
5. Effectiviness, validity and execution of administrative acts
6. Administrative guarantees
Part IV: Administrative Regulations:
1. Concept and Classification
2. Basis and limits of regulatory power
3. Hierarchy and application of regulations
4. Judicial review of regulations

Through Part I of the program, the objectives of explaining to students the meaning and scope of the administrative function and the indispensable character of Public Administration in its pursuit are fulfilled. Part II of the programme aims to teach students the main features of the legal-constitutional regime of the Portuguese Public Administration, in particular the constitutional principles that frame it. In the third part, it is intended that students obtain more practical knowledge, knowing how to apply the general principles and rules relating to the different phases of the general administrative procedure. In the last part, it is intended that students master the knowledge related to one of the main expressions of administrative activity: the administrative regulation.

Lectures introduce the subject offering an integrative and comprehensive view that allows students to acquire knowledge in the subjects taught and apply them critically. Following these more theoretical presentations, practical cases will be discussed, based mainly on the Jurisprudence of the Administrative Courts. Teaching, of a theoretical-practical nature, aims to transmit information, help the student to analyse it critically and to apply it to the resolution of practical issues close to those that he will solve when he graduates. In the interval between classes, students will carry out exercises to apply the knowledge acquired and will study legislative texts (in particular the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and the Code of Administrative Procedure), doctrinal and jurisprudential, which allow them to complete the contents taught, through autonomous study activity.

At the end of the Course, Students should be able to solve cases on their own on the subjects covered by the program

1. The civil legal system; 2. Civil law as common private law; 3. The general principles of civil law; 4. The legal relationship and its criticism; 5. Legal situations; 6. Legal personality, capacity to enjoy, capacity to exercise and legitimacy; 7. Natural persons, including the regime of minors and accompanied adults; 8. Legal persons; 9. Personality rights; 10. Animals; 11. Things; 12. Legal transactions: definition; classifications; the business declaration; interpretation; contracts of adhesion; formation of the contract and pre-contractual liability; lack and defects in the formation of the will; divergences between the will and the declaration; and disvalues and means to render the contract lawful

Students can complete this course through continuous assessment throughout the semester or by final exam. Continuous assessment includes two tests (each accounting for 50% of the final grade). Students pass if they achieve a minimum grade of at least 9.5 out of 20 in each assessment component (and, therefore, a final average of 9.5 or higher). Assessment by final exam is conducted through an individual written exam (100%).

1.Be able to identify & quote the legal sources;2.Be able to understand the labour law scope;3.Be able to assess HR management issues within the labour law framework - inductive analysis;4.Be able to apply labour law rules and regulations to corporate HR management - deductive analysis;5.Be able to apply labor law to solve labor disputes - auditing & disciplinary proceedings;6.Be able to assess the legal framework flexibility upon the HR management optimization and productivity;7.Be able to assess, within a microeconomic environment, the economic and social impact of the corporate decision-making upon HR management according with labour law mandatory rules;8.Be able to deliver executive summaries upon theoretical & practical information to other people from different backgrounds;9.Be able to integrate acquired knowledge on HR legal issues with other management areas.

I.Introduction:1.The Labour Law contents & extent;2.The Labour Law sources;II.The employment relationship:1.The employee admission;1.1.The recruitment legal instruments;1.1.1.The employment contract;1.1.2.Other recruitment legal instruments;2.The employment relationship dynamics and flexibility;2.1.The on job duties flexibility:the employer right to vary employee duties;2.2.The workplace mobility:the employer right to move the employee into another location;2.3.The working time flexibility:working time limits and work schedules;after hours work;the definition of working time adaptable schedules;the rest periods;the night time work;the work absence regime;the implications of holiday regime upon employment relationship;the temporary work leave regimes;2.4.The wage flexibility:the legal concept of salary;salary modalities;salary reduction & deductions;3.The employment contract termination:the downsizing legal instruments & other legal causes of contract termination

Students must submit a written assessment by the end of the term. A minimum grade of 10 points out of 20 is required for course approval. For further details please revert to this page final comments and specifications.

The student must:
LO1. Define, explain and use the concepts of descriptive statistics.
LO2. Know how to calculate, justify the use and interpret a set of statistical indicators and graphical representations.
LO3. Develop critical assessment skills for the choice and interpretation of statistical techniques.
LO4. Use the EXCEL to compute statistical analysis.
LO5. Present and discuss the results of a data analysis.

PC1. Basic Concepts of Statistics
PC2. Analysis of Quantitative Variables
a) Univariate - indicators, tables and graphs
b) Bivariate - indicators, tables, graphs and correlation
PC3. Analysis of Nominal Variables
a) Univariate - indicators, tables and graphs
b) Bivariate - indicators, tables, graphs and association measures
PC4. Analysis of Ordinal Variables
a) Univariate - indicators, tables and graphs
b) Bivariate - indicators, tables, graphs and measures of association and correlation
PC5. Performing statistical analyses using Excel

The assessment system for the ADCS: Descriptive curricular unit considers two modalities provided for in the General Regulation for the Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (RGACC):
1. Assessment throughout the semester:
• 1st individual test (70%)
• 2nd individual test (30%)
For the students to continue being assessed throughout the semester, they cannot have a grade lower than 7 in any of the individual tests.
2. Assessment by exam:
• Individual exam (100%).

The teaching methods adopted (theoretical expositions and resolution of practical cases with students) will allow students to acquire the knowledge essential to the resolution of concrete situations of application of current Portuguese Law in matters of administrative litigation and to critically evaluate the rules and principles that regulate the administrative process. The teaching methods, by developing critical thinking and a taste for acquiring knowledge in the area of Administrative Law, will allow the student to develop indispensable skills for the future exercise of their profession, such as filing an action in Administrative and Tax Courts or knowing how to appeal the sentences handed down by them.

1. Notion and scope of Administrative Justice (""AJ"")
1.1 The evolution of the organizational model of Portuguese administrative litigation
1.2. The evolution of the AJ procedural model
1.3 The current AJ system
2. The substantial scope and functional dimension of AJ
2.1. Administrative legal relations
2.2. Subjective legal positions of individuals and the Administration
2.3. The functional limits of AJ
3. Scope and organization of AJ
3.1. The scope of the constitutional reservation of administrative jurisdiction
3.2. The legal delimitation of the scope of administrative justice
4. The guarantee of effective judicial protection and procedural forms in AJ
5. Essential elements of the case and procedural assumptions
6. The Conduct of Administrative Proceedings
7. The Effects and Legal Force of Judgments
8. Enforcement Proceedings
9. Judicial Appeals
10. The General Principles of the Administrative Procedure

Lectures introduce the subject, offering an integrative and comprehensive view that allows students to acquire knowledge in the subjects taught and analyse them critically. Following this more theoretical exposition, practical cases will be discussed, based on Jurisprudence or the activity of administrative bodies. Teaching, of a theoretical-practical nature, aims to transmit information, help the students to analyse it critically and to apply it to the resolution of practical questions similar to those that he will have to solve once he has graduated. In the time between classes, students are invited to carry out exercises to apply the knowledge acquired and to read legislative, doctrinal and jurisprudential texts, which will allow them to complete the contents taught in class through an autonomous study activity.

The main contents taught should enable students, throughout the semester and at the end of it, to be able to:
- acquire in-depth knowledge about the specific legal regime of fundamental rights in current Portuguese Law; - reflect critically on the issues dealt with;
- interpret constitutional, civil and criminal rules on fundamental rights;
- apply the knowledge acquired to the resolution of concrete cases.

Part I - Introduction to the fundamental rights regime 1. Notion of fundamental rights 2. Fundamental Rights and Human Rights 3. Fundamental rights in History 4. Fundamental rights and dignity of the human person 5. Categories of fundamental rights 5. Fundamental rights and future generations Part II - Fundamental rights regime 1. Catalogue of Fundamental Rights in the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic 2. Other fundamental rights 3. General regime of fundamental rights 2. Special regime of rights, freedoms and guarantees 3. Specific regime of economic, social and cultural rights Part III - Fundamental rights in particular 1. Right to life 2. Right to personal integrity 3. Right to privacy 4. Right to education 5. Right to health protection 6. Right to the environment Part IV - Effectiveness of fundamental rights 1. Applicability and effectiveness of fundamental rights 2. Binding individuals to fundamental rights.

Students can complete this course through continuous assessment throughout the semester or by final exam. Continuous assessment includes two tests (each accounting for 50% of the final grade). Students pass if they achieve a minimum grade of at least 9.5 out of 20 in each assessment component (and, therefore, a final average of 9.5 or higher). Assessment by final exam is conducted through an individual written exam (100%).

1.Know and understand the fundamental collective principles and rights (union freedom, collective autonomy and collective self-protection). 2. Identify, interpret and apply labor standards relevant to collective labor relations, and in particular those relating to organizations representing collective workers.
3. Know the mechanisms and processes of collective negotiation, comparing and constructing their content, acting ethically and communicating your choices clearly to the social partners.
4. Choose the appropriate way to resolve collective labor disputes.

1. Introduction to Collective Labor Law.
2. Fundamental collective principles and rights: freedom of association, collective autonomy, collective self-protection.
3. Labor organizations. Constitution and acquisition of legal personality of labor organizations. The legal status of workers' representatives. Trade union associations and workers’ committees. The legal status of employers' representatives.
4. Collective contracting: actors, contents, scopes, procedures. Normative content and mandatory content. The principle of filiation and its consequences. The regime for the expiry of conventions.
5. Collective labor conflicts and legal processes for peaceful resolution.
6. The legal regime of strike and lock-out. The central problem of defining minimum services. The fundamental guidelines of jurisprudence in this matter.

The students can complete the UC through evaluation throughout the semester or evaluation by final exam.
The evaluation throughout the semester includes a written assignment with oral presentation (40% of the final evaluation) and a test at the end of the semester (60% of the final evaluation). Students who have minimum grade in each assessment element of at least 9.5 values (and therefore, final average equal to or greater than 9.5 values) are approved.
The evaluation by final examination is performed by individual written examination (100%).

O1 Master the conceptual bases of tax law.
02.Know the legal-constitutional framework of taxation.
03.Understand the elements of the legal tax relationship.
04. know how to interpret tax rules.
05. have the technical knowledge necessary to deal with the essential questions posed to individuals regarding the taxation of their income.
06. Interpret the tax rules governing the taxation of property.

Chapter 1: General Theory of Tax Law

1 Public financial activity
2. Financial law, tax law and fiscal law
3 The concept of tax and the distinction between related concepts
4. Classification of taxes
5. constitutional principles of tax law
6. Interpretation of tax rules
7. Tax legal relationship
7.1 Subjects of the legal tax relationship
7.2 Object of the tax legal relationship
7.3 Constitution of the tax legal relationship
7.4 Alteration of the tax legal relationship
7.5 Extinction of the legal tax relationship
7.6 Guarantee of the tax credit

Chapter 2: Income Taxation
1. personal income tax
2. Corporate Income Tax

Chapter 3: PropertyTaxation

Students can complete this course through continuous assessment throughout the semester or by final exam. Continuous assessment includes two tests (each accounting for 50% of the final grade). Students pass if they achieve a minimum grade of at least 9.5 out of 20 in each assessment component (and, therefore, a final average of 9.5 or higher). Assessment by final exam is conducted through an individual written exam (100%).

It is intended that, at the end of the academic semester, students will be able to understand the way in which public international law has evolved since its inception and up to the present day, as well as acquire skills regarding the content and formation of legal norms of international law, regarding the relationships that are established at the level of the international legal community and also regarding the relationships between international law and the traditional sphere of sovereignty of States, never forgetting the place that the protection of the individual deserves today by international law.

I. Introduction to International Law. Basic notion and problems of International Law
II. Subjects of International Law
III. States and their unilateral acts
IV. International organizations and their acts
V. Private actors
VI. The sui generis entities
VII. The sources of International Law
VIII. The general principles of international law
IX. The norms of international law
X. General principles of law
XI. The rules of jus cogens
XII. International treaties
XIII. The international custom
XIV. Jurisprudence, doctrine and ex aequo et bono decisions
XV. The relationship between international law and domestic law
XVI. Conflict resolution
XVII. Peace and conflict prevention
XVIII. International responsibility, including criminal responsibility
XIX. The protection of individuals in international law
XX. International protection of migrants and refugees
XXI. The protection of human rights
XXII. Diplomatic and consular protection

Students can complete this course through continuous assessment throughout the semester or by final exam. Continuous assessment includes two tests (each accounting for 50% of the final grade). Students pass if they achieve a minimum grade of at least 9.5 out of 20 in each assessment component (and, therefore, a final average of 9.5 or higher). Assessment by final exam is conducted through an individual written exam (100%).

A. Understand the principles, sources and structure of Portuguese Civil Procedural Law.
B. Analyze procedural rules, doctrine and jurisprudence, in order to resolve practical cases.
C. Distinguish between the various procedural subjects.
D. Understand the different phases of the process and its progress.
E. Reflect on the effectiveness of the judicial system, recent reforms and the way forward, in light of Constitutional Law and European Union Law.

1. Introduction to Civil Procedural Law, concepts and systematic location
2. Principles of Civil Procedural Law and its symbiosis with Constitutional Law and European Union Law
3. The subjects and the object
4. The procedural relationship
5. Types of actions and forms of process
6. Provisional and urgent protection
7. Procedural requisites and application of the law in time
8. The different stages of the common declaratory process

Students can complete this course through continuous assessment throughout the semester or by final exam. Continuous assessment includes two tests (each accounting for 50% of the final grade). Students pass if they achieve a minimum grade of at least 9.5 out of 20 in each assessment component (and, therefore, a final average of 9.5 or higher). Assessment by final exam is conducted through an individual written exam (100%).

1- Identify and understand the structuring principles of the European Union
2- Understand and differentiate between the various sources of law in the European Union and their scope
3- Identify and understand the functioning of European institutions and their relationship with national institutions
4- Identify the rights and obligations arising from European citizenship
5- Understand and apply the rules for implementing and maintaining the internal market
6- Understand the legal framework for the protection of fundamental rights within the European Union
7- Understand the mechanisms of judicial review
8- Assimilate the content taught and develop skills in applying specific rules to concrete cases

I. The history of European integration
II. The defining characteristics of the European Union
III. Guiding principles of the European Union
Integration
Solidarity
Loyalty to the Union
Gradualism
Subsidiarity
Proportionality
Transparency
IV. Organisation of the European Union
The European Parliament
The Council
The Commission
V. The Court of Justice of the EU, the General Court and the European Court of Human Rights.
VI. Normative structures
VII. European Union citizenship and fundamental rights and freedoms.

Students can complete this course through continuous assessment throughout the semester or by final exam. Continuous assessment includes two tests (each accounting for 50% of the final grade). Students pass if they achieve a minimum grade of at least 9.5 out of 20 in each assessment component (and, therefore, a final average of 9.5 or higher). Assessment by final exam is conducted through an individual written exam (100%).

This UC provides students with knowledge to master the regulatory framework of national and European anti-discrimination law. It aims to stimulate critical thinking and a rigorous knowledge of essential concepts. The study is not limited to national legislation, also adopting a perspective of International Human Rights Law, the European Union and Comparative Law, allowing an integrated view of norms, doctrine and jurisprudence. It seeks to sensitize students to the articulation between national legislation and supranational sources, resolving normative conflicts in a multilevel system. The course studies and problematizes topics often addressed in a dispersed manner in national doctrine. The diversity of situations treated reinforces the interest and practical usefulness for future professionals from various areas of law.

Part I. The concept of equality
Part II. Introduction to Anti-Divacrimination Law
Part III. The grounds for unlawful discrimination
Part IV. Categories of discrimination
Part V. Areas of protection
Part VI. Individual and collective means of protection

Detailed programme in observations.

The students can complete the UC through evaluation throughout the semester or evaluation by final exam.
The evaluation throughout the semester includes a written assignment with oral presentation (40% of the final evaluation) and a test at the end of the semester (60% of the final evaluation). Students who have minimum grade in each assessment element of at least 9.5 values (and therefore, final average equal to or greater than 9.5 values) are approved.
The evaluation by final examination is performed by individual written examination (100%).

Upon completing the course, students are expected to: LG1 - Know the fundamentals of internal and external auditing, its principles of lines of action; LG2 - Understand the characteristics of an internal control system as a management responsibility; LG3 - Identify and critically analyze the main internal control mechanisms in the different cycles of operations; LG4 - Identify the main mechanisms for assessing inherent risks and control in an organization.

1. Fundamentals of internal and external auditing;
2. Accounting system and internal control system;
3. Operation cycles: inherent risk and control risk;
4. Internal control mechanisms in operations cycles.
5. Main audit techniques for identifying inherent and control risks.

The assessment process in this course is carried out in two different ways:
1. Assessment throughout the semester: includes a Case Study Analysis and Presentation (weighted in 40% in the final grade) and an Exam (weighted in 60% in the final grade). The minimum mark for each assessment element is 7.5 points;
2. Exam: comprises a Final Exam with a weighting of 100%.

At the end of this learning unit's term, the student must be able:

1. To explain the concept of time value of money, discounting and compounding and to be able to compare cash flows with different timetables;
2. To compute cash flows from applications and financing operations;
3. To characterize the organization of the main financial markets;
4. To compute currency and interest rate operations;
5. To describe the concept of business profitability and to compute and analyze the more relevant profitability ratios linking profitability with the firm's capital structure;
6. To analyze the financial condition of a firm and to compute and analyze the more relevant financial ratios;
7. To describe and compute de concept of working capital and to link it with the firm's financial condition;
8. To describe and compute the concept of cash flow in capital investment valuation;
9. To describe and compute the main valuation criteria used in capital investment analysis.

I - Time Value of Money
1. The concept of interest rate, consumption and saving
2. Nominal and real interest rate
3. Financial intermediation and risk
4. Simple and compounding interest
5. Discounting and compounding factors
6. Periodic/regular flows: rents
7. Applications and financing operations

II - Markets, Instruments and Financial Institutions
1. Foreign exchange market: the currency rate
2. Monetary market: the interest rate
3. Capital markets: primary and secondary markets
4. Financial Institutions
5. Financial information: sources and analysis

III - Financial Analysis
1. Economic and financial flows
2. Income and profitability ratios
3. Financial leverage
4. Sources and application of funds
5. Working capital
6. Solvency
7. Cash flow analysis

IV - Capital Investments
1. Typology of investments
2. The concept of the project's cash flow map
3. Valuation methodology
4. The discount rate
5. Valuation criteria: NPV, IRR, PI and PAYBACK

Assessment throughout the Semester:
There is no mandatory attendance.

There are 2 Tests:
1. Intermediate Test - worth 40% of the final grade, in person, and with no minimum grade. It covers points I and II of the Syllabus.
2. Final Test - worth 60% of the final grade, in person (at the same time as the First Period Exam), and with no minimum grade. It covers points III and IV of the Syllabus.

For the Intermediate Test and the Final Test, prior registration may be mandatory.

Assessment by exam:
Both the First Period and the Second Period Exams are each worth 100% of the final grade and are performed in person. Each one covers all the points on the Syllabus.

Upon successfully completion of this Curricular Unit, the student should be able to:
OA1. Discuss the conceptual pluralism in personality studies and describe common assumptions.
OA2. Understand how different research methods have contributed to the study of personality.
OA3. Describe and contrast the main scientific theories in the study of personality in terms of their main objectives, concepts, assumptions, methods and assessment instruments.
OA4. Describe some of the factors that may contribute to the development and change in human personality over the life course and explain the complex person-social environment interaction in predicting behavior.
OA5. Assess the relaevance of studying personality for the field of Social Service.

CP1. Introduction
1.1 Personality definitions: Conceptual plurality and common aspects
1.2 Common objectives in personality theories and approaches
1.3 Personality determinants
1.4 Personality development: stability and change
CP2. Personality assessment methods and instruments
CP3. Main personality approaches and theories: assumptions, methodologies, assessment, limitations and complementarities
3.1 Psychoanalytic theories of personality
3.2 Behavioral approaches
3.3 Existential and humanistic theories of personality
3.4 Socio-cognitive and constructivist theories of personality
3.5 Theories that emphasize the structure of personality: trait theories.
CP4. Importance of studying personality in areas of Social Service.

Students can complete the course through assessment throughout the semester or assessment by exam.
Assessment throughout the semester includes individual and asynchronous participation in a discussion forum on the moodle platform throughout the semester (30%), group work on CP 3 (30%), and an individual oral/written test (40%). The group work will have a written component (15%) and an asynchronous oral component (15%). Students with a final average of 9.5 or more will be approved.
Assessment by exam is carried out through an individual written exam (100%). Students who obtain a final mark of at least 9.5 will be approved.
Class attendance is optional.

After completing this CU the student should be able to:
LG1: To acquire general understanding of the main methods used in the empirical study mental processes and human behavior.
LG2: To identify the fundamental findings in the psychological literature addressed.
LG3: To critically evaluate psychological claims, and recognize pseudo-science in the media as well as flaws in the literature.
LG4: To develop an empirical mindset in problem solving, namely by using scientific reasoning in answering psychological questions.
LG5: To use the concepts and the theoretical models of psychology to understand the relation between basic laboratory science and the broader society.

1.What is Psychology?Breadth of methods & perspectives
2.Research Methods:Observation & Experiments,Research Ethics
3.Brain and Nervous System:Methods for studying the NS,Architecture of the NS
4.Perception:Network Models,Attention
5.Consciousness:Functions of Consciousness,Neural Basis for Consciousness
6.Learning:Habituation,Classical & instrumental Conditioning
7.Memory:Acquisition,Storage,Retrieval,Memory Errors
8.Thinking:Representations,Judgment,Reasoning,Decision Making,Problem Solving
9.Language:Building blocks of Language,Language & Cognition
10.Intelligence:Psychometric approach,Building blocks of intelligence
11.Motivation and Emotion:Motivational States,Emotion & Emotion Regulation
12.Social Psychology:Social Cognition,Influence & Relations
13.Development:Prenatal,Infancy & Childhood,Adolescence,Adulthood & Older Age
14.Personality:Traits/psychodynamic/humanistic/social-cognitive approaches
15.Psychopathology:Defining,assessing, & treating mental disorders

Continuous evaluation:
Participate in 8h of studies
Group assignment (40%): ?Translate? a psychological finding for non-scientific audiences: paper (10-15p.) with recommendations to policy-makers; multimedia project (e.g., video, podcast, website, game) (3-5 minutes) that explains a psychological finding; or Wikipedia entry.
Individual test (60%): course topics.
Periodic Evaluation: (100%): exam in 1st/2nd periods.
Approval: >= 9.5 on each evaluation instruments and final average >= 9.5.

At the end of the Course, Students should be able to solve cases on their own on the subjects covered by the program

1. General principles of the law of obligations;
2. Some general notions about obligations: concept, structure, characteristics and modalities;
3. The life of the obligations.
3.1. The establishment of obligations: unilateral legal transactions and contracts. The promissory contract, the pre-emption pact, the contract in favour of a third party and the contract for a person to be appointed.
3.2. The fulfilment of obligations.
3.3. The breach of obligations.
3.4. Defective fulfilment.
3.5. Change of circumstances.
3.6. The transfer of obligations.
3.7. The termination of obligations other than the fulfilment;
4. Benevolent intervention in another's affairs;
5. Unjustified enrichment;
6. Civil liability

The students can complete the UC through evaluation throughout the semester or evaluation by final exam.
The evaluation throughout the semester includes a written assignment with oral presentation (40% of the final evaluation) and a test at the end of the semester (60% of the final evaluation). Students who have minimum grade in each assessment element of at least 9.5 values (and therefore, final average equal to or greater than 9.5 values) are approved.
The evaluation by final examination is performed by individual written examination (100%).

1. Provide students with basic and structural knowledge about Social Security Law.
2. Develop students' sensitivity to the dimension of social solidarity, in the context of major economic and social issues, fostering their ability to form opinions and participate in the debate on these. 3. Promote students' understanding of the different solutions offered by the legal system to the various contingencies protected by social security subsystems.

Program:
Part I - Introduction to Social Security Law. Background and general aspects
Part II – Normative sources of Social Security. Domestic law, international law and European Union law
Part III – Organization Financing and Sustainability of Social Security in Portugal
Part IV - The Citizenship Social Protection System
Part V - The Social Security System
Part VI – The Complementary System
Part VII – Sanctioning and litigation law

The students can complete the UC through evaluation throughout the semester or evaluation by final exam.
The evaluation throughout the semester includes a written assignment with oral presentation (40% of the final evaluation) and a test at the end of the semester (60% of the final evaluation). Students who have minimum grade in each assessment element of at least 9.5 values (and therefore, final average equal to or greater than 9.5 values) are approved.
The evaluation by final examination is performed by individual written examination (100%).

1. To know fundamental elements of the law regime applicable to family realities and the like.
2. Apply such a regime to hypothetical concrete cases.
3. Formulate critical and sustained judgments on relevant issues of Family Law.

Introduction
- Delimitation of the object of study
- Principles of Family Law
Filiation Law
- Constitution of the filiation bond resulting from sexual act or medically assisted reproduction
-Adoption
- Parental responsibilities in the context of cohabitation between parents or breakdown between them
- Other general effects of parentage, namely, maintenance
Protection of children in a danger caused, or not prevented, by holders of parental responsibilities
Matrimonial Law
- Constitution of the marriage bond
- Effects of marriage: duties of the spouses and the couple's property status
- Divorce: requisites and effects
Cohabitation without marriage: constitution, effects and extinction

The students can complete the UC through evaluation throughout the semester or evaluation by final exam.
The evaluation throughout the semester includes a written assignment with oral presentation (40% of the final evaluation) and a test at the end of the semester (60% of the final evaluation). Students who have minimum grade in each assessment element of at least 9.5 values (and therefore, final average equal to or greater than 9.5 values) are approved.
The evaluation by final examination is performed by individual written examination (100%).

Develop skills to interpret and apply legal instruments related to sustainability.
Identify and assess conflicts between legal norms and principles of sustainability and ESG.
Reflect on the integration of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ESG criteria into the Portuguese and European legal frameworks.
Create innovative proposals for public policies and business strategies that connect Law, Sustainability, and ESG.

Introduction to Law and Sustainability:
1.1. Concepts of sustainability and sustainable development.
1.2. The role of Law in social and environmental transformation.
International Legal Framework:
2.1. International agreements: Paris Agreement, Agenda 2030, and the SDGs.
2.2. Human Rights and Sustainability.
Portuguese and European Legal Systems:
3.1. Constitutional environmental principles in Portugal.
3.2. European Union directives and regulations on sustainability.
ESG Criteria and Law:
4.1. Introduction to ESG criteria.
4.2. Corporate environmental responsibility and sustainable resource management.
4.3. The social dimension of ESG.
4.4. Corporate governance: compliance, business ethics, and directors' accountability.
Contemporary Challenges and Case Studies:
5.1. Environmental litigatio.
5.2. Analysis of corporate sustainability reports and their legal basis.
5.3. ESG as a tool for mitigating legal and reputational risks.

The theoretical-practical classes are conducted by the Professor, with full openness to comments and questions from students, fostering a participatory and dynamic environment. These classes combine interactive theoretical lectures aimed at presenting concepts with discussions of case studies and practical simulations. In addition to the in-person support provided by the Professor during and outside class hours, students have access to carefully selected materials and recommended texts to deepen their understanding of the subject matter.

The student should be able to:
K1. Understand the nature and purposes of Criminal Law.
K2. Understand the specificities of the application and interpretation of Criminal Law.
K3. Understand the system of legal consequences of criminal offenses.
K4. Know the procedure for determining criminal sanctions.
S1. Reflect in a well-founded, up-to-date and critical manner on the nature, purposes and content of Criminal Law.
S2. Be able to solve problems of increasing complexity in the field of Criminal Law.
AT1. Develop legal awareness in order to understand and apply the rules of Criminal Law to any concrete situation in professional life.
AT2. Organize ideas and communicate appropriately, using appropriate terminology and concepts.

1. Concept of Criminal Law;
2. Purpose of Criminal Law and purposes of criminal sanctions;
3. Fundamental principles of Criminal Law;
4. Interpretation and integration of legal gaps in Criminal Law;
5. Application of Criminal Law;
6. Corporate liability
7. Penalties and security measures;
8. Determination of the penalty and security measure
9. Unity and plurality of criminal offences.

Students can complete this course through continuous assessment throughout the semester or by final exam. Continuous assessment includes two tests (each accounting for 50% of the final grade). Students pass if they achieve a minimum grade of at least 9.5 out of 20 in each assessment component (and, therefore, a final average of 9.5 or higher). Assessment by final exam is conducted through an individual written exam (100%).

In order to provide students with theoretical and practical knowledge about the law that applies to things in the Portuguese legal system, it is important to use teaching and learning methods that combine the theoretical presentation of content with the use of active teaching, analysis and practice practices. resolution of case studies, practical exercises and analysis of jurisprudence that will allow students to learn, understand, think and apply theoretical knowledge to daily practical situations and solve specific legal problems. Students will be able to apply knowledge and resolve legal issues involving Real Rights.

Part I. 1. Individual legal situations.
2. Real rights: characteristics, principles and content;
2.1. Advertising, in particular.
Part II.
2.2. Real rights of enjoyment:
2.2.1. The right to property: acquisition and scope, co-ownership;
2.2.2. The horizontal property;
2.3. Minor real rights: usufruct, use and habitation, surface rights and property easements;
3. Real acquisition rights: typology and, respective, legal regime;
4. Real guarantee rights: typology, content and legal regime;
5. Simultaneous co-ownership of real rights.

Students can complete this course through continuous assessment throughout the semester or by final exam. Continuous assessment includes two tests (each accounting for 50% of the final grade). Students pass if they achieve a minimum grade of at least 9.5 out of 20 in each assessment component (and, therefore, a final average of 9.5 or higher). Assessment by final exam is conducted through an individual written exam (100%).

1. To know fundamental elements of the law regime applicable to succession mortis causa.
2. Apply such a regime to hypothetical concrete cases.
3. Formulate critical and sustained judgments on relevant issues of Succession Law.

Introduction
I– Static of successions. 1– Notion of succession nomination. 2– Nomination of successors regarding object of inheritance. 3– Nomination of successors regarding origin of inheritance.
II– Dynamic of successions. II.A– Opening of succcession and calling. II.A.1– Opening of succession. II.A.2– Calling of successors. II.B– Calling of legitimary successors. II.B.1– Evaluation of unavailable portion. II.B.2– Liberalities in favour of legitimary successors. II.B.3– Quantitative protection of legitime. II.B.4– Qualitive protection of legitime. II.B.5– Nature of legitime (in the common succession). II.C– From inheritance in abeyance to partition. II.C.1– Inheritance in abeyance. II.C.2– Acquisition of succession rights and obligations. II.C.3– Rules on acquired inheritance. II.C.4– Administration of inheritance. II.C.5– Alienation of inheritance. II.C.6– Liquidation and partition of inheritance.
Final considerations

Students can complete this course through continuous assessment throughout the semester or by final exam. Continuous assessment includes two tests (each accounting for 50% of the final grade). Students pass if they achieve a minimum grade of at least 9.5 out of 20 in each assessment component (and, therefore, a final average of 9.5 or higher). Assessment by final exam is conducted through an individual written exam (100%).

1- Understand the process of creating a commercial company
2- Understand the attributes and significance of the legal personality of a commercial company
3- Identify and understand the scope of the main rights and obligations of shareholders
4- Identify the organisational structures of a commercial company and understand how they work
5- Understand and apply the rules relating to the preparation and rendering of accounts, as well as those relating to the application of results
6- Understand the legal system of private limited companies and be able to draw up the main documents relating to their incorporation and operation
7- Understand the legal regime of public limited companies
8- Assimilate the content taught on capital markets

I-The incorporation of a commercial company
II-A legal personality
III-The shareholding
IV-The governing bodies
V-The approval of accounts and the application of results. The conservation of share capital
VI-The private limited company
VII- The public limited company
VIII - The stock market

The students can complete the UC through evaluation throughout the semester or evaluation by final exam.
The evaluation throughout the semester includes a written assignment with oral presentation (40% of the final evaluation) and a test at the end of the semester (60% of the final evaluation). Students who have minimum grade in each assessment element of at least 9.5 values (and therefore, final average equal to or greater than 9.5 values) are approved.
The evaluation by final examination is performed by individual written examination (100%).

1. Financial Analysis of Investment Projects, comprising capital budgeting, forecasting cash flows, and criteria such as Payback Period, NPV, IRR) and Profitability Index.
2. Robustness Analysis of a project, identifying its drivers, through a series of complementary tests.
3. Identify the main Types of Financing for a project.
4. Establish a relationship between Valuation of a project and its Capital Structure.
5. Knowledge of the main methods of valuation of Companies, such as the Discounted Free Cash Flow (FCFF, FCFE), Multiples, and Economic Value Added (EVA, MVA).
6. Understand what is meant by cash management and identify sources and uses of short term funds. Understand the financial impact of working capital decisions

I - The Capital Budgeting Decision
1. Cash Flow Estimation.
2. Criteria for Investment Selection.
3. Choosing among projects with Different Lives.
4. Sensitivity Analysis, Scenario Analysis, Breakeven Analysis.
5. Decision Tree Analysis.

II - Long-Term Types of Financing
1. Equity
2. Debt

III - Capital Structure
1. The Irrelevance of Capital Structure
2. Capital Structure with Corporate Taxes
3. Limits to the Use of Debt
4. Valuation of Real Investment Projects with Debt

IV - Valuation of Companies
1. Discounted Cash Flows
2. Economic Value Added
3. Market Multiples

V - Cash Management
1. Short Run financial management
2. Short Term Financial Investments
3. Sources of Short Term Financing

Each student should acquire analytical and communication skills, according with the established learning outcomes. The acquisition of these skills will use the following learning methodologies:
1.Expositional, presentation of the theoretical reference frames
2.Participative, analysis and resolution of application exercises analysis of case studies, and reading texts
3.Active, realization of individual/group works
4.Self study and autonomous work, as is contemplated in the class planning.

1) Assessment during the academic semester:
- 1 mid-term test (40%)
- 1 final test (60%)

Students that opt to be out ot the regular grading system have two additional moments to pass each worth 100% of the final grade.

1. Know the meaning and the Audit main goal
2. Know Audit Profession
3. Know the Integrated Audit Process (IAP)
4. Understand how to apply IAP
5. Understand how to conclude an Audit exercise.

1.1. Audit meaning and types of Audits and Auditors
1.2. Audit Reports and Statutory Audit Certification
1.3. Audit main principles and specialized matters that an auditor should know
1.4. Threats and Opportunities to Audit
2.0. The Ecosystem of Audit and its main Bodies or Institutions
2.1. Audit responsabilities and the Certified Public Accountant
2.2. Professional Ethics
3.0. Audit Methodology: Risk Evaluation, Planning and work Programs
3.1. Audit evidence and working papers
3.2. Internal Control System and types of tests
3.3. Analytical procedures and tests of detail
3.4. Audit Sampling
4.0. Apply the IAP to the different business cycles (eg. Sales, Inventory, Investments) 5.0. Procedures to apply on completing the Audit
5.1. Evaluate Audit results
5.2. Issue the Audit report
5.3. Communicate with the company corporate bodies

The process of assessment in this curricular unit covers the following methods:
1) Assessment throoughout the semester.
2) Assessment by exam.
The assessment method mentioned in 1) includes a Teamwork (with a weighing of 40% in the final grade) and a Final Test (with a weighing of 60% in the final grade). The minimum mark in each of the mentioned assessment elements is 7.5 points (in a 20 points sclae).
The "Assessment by exam" occurs exclusively during the assessment period, throughout a written test, and covers all the material taught in the curricular unit.

The student who successfully completes this Curricular Unit will be able to:
LO1: Describe the specificity of Social Psychology within the scope of Social Sciences, both in terms of content and methods.
LO2: Identify paradigms and theories of Social Psychology.
LO3: Apply the concepts and theoretical models of Social Psychology to analyse contemporary problems.

PC1. Social Psychology: Perspective, Object, and Method
PC2. Themes of Social Psychology
PC3. Applications of Social Psychology

The Curricular Unit can be completed by assessment throughout the semester or by final exam.
Assessment throughout the semester: 1) An individual written test (65%); 2) Group assigment (30%); 3) Participation in a total of 2 hours of research in the Psychology laboratory (5%). Pass requirements: A minimum score of 8.5 out of 20 in 1) is required for passing, with a minimum final average score of 9.5 out of 20 for 1), 2), and 3).
Final exam: counts for 100% of the final grade. The scores from assessment throughout the semester are not considered in the final exam.

At the end of this course, the student should be able to:
LO1. Characterize the specificity of developmental psychology, within the scope of psychology, in terms of its objectives and research methods.
LO2. Describe and explain the central issues and concepts of development, and the major theories focusing on child/adolescent development.
LO3. Identify and explain the main tasks and milestones of socio-emotional to cognitive development, and their interconnections, from infancy to adolescence.
LO4. Apply the knowledge gained to the analysis and discussion of current themes and issues in the lives of children and adolescents.

S1. The bases of developmental psychology
The origins of the field.
Introduction to the main concepts and developmental theories.
Research methods in development, specificities and challenges.
Contexts of human development and their diversity.
S2. Social and emotional development
Infant's early abilities,
Infant and mother/caregivers’ interaction repertoires.
Attachment relationships.
Self
Emotional regulation.
Parenting styles and practices.
S3. Cognitive development
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Sociocultural perspectives on cognitive development.
S4. Social and emotional development in the peer context
Peer relations and friendships.
Social Competence.
Aggressive behaviors and social withdrawal.
Aspects of morality.

Students may complete this CU by assessment throughout the semester or by exam.
In the first case, students should do two individual written tests (50% each). Students must have a grade equal or higher than 8.5 on each evaluation component, and a final average equal or higher than 9.5 to successfully complete this CU. Students that choose this type of evaluation (grade = or > 8.5 - 1st test) must remain on it till the end (do the 2nd written. test).
In the second case (exam), students should do an individual written exam (100%). Students with a grade equal or higher than 9.5 are approved.
There are no mandatory presences in classes to be able to complete the CU.

LO1- Understand the emergence and evolution of compliance
LO2- Understand and articulate governance, ethics and compliance as related elements
LO3- Identify and understand the tools for building a compliance programme
LO4- Identify and understand the implementation of risk management systems
LO5- Understand how to identify and differentiate the various risks within an organisation
LO6- Understand the legal system for holding legal persons and their officers accountable
LO7- Understand the particular sectoral and thematic aspects of compliance
LO8- Assimilate the content taught and develop the skills to apply specific rules to specific cases

PCI. Introduction to the concept of Compliance
PCII. Business ethics and corporate governance
PCIII. The compliance programme, basic concepts
PCIV. The compliance officer
PCV. Identifying and managing risks
PCVI. The whistleblowing channel
PCVII. Obligations and action measures
PCVIII. Sectoral risks within the scope of Compliance
PCIX. The responsibility of individuals and legal entities

The students can complete the UC through evaluation throughout the semester or evaluation by final exam.
The evaluation throughout the semester includes a written assignment with oral presentation (40% of the final evaluation) and a test at the end of the semester (60% of the final evaluation). Students who have minimum grade in each assessment element of at least 9.5 values (and therefore, final average equal to or greater than 9.5 values) are approved.
The evaluation by final examination is performed by individual written examination (100%).

The theoretical-practical exhibition of the subject taught, the study done autonomously by the students and the joint resolution, in class or online of practical exercises on the main content taught must allow students, throughout the semester and at the end of this:
- be aware of different plans, processes and techniques of regulation of transnational situations;
- interpret situations of IPD;
- have general notions, know guiding principles, and have knowledge of the institutes and methods relevant to the determination and application of conflict rules;
- be aware of the main solutions to the problems of determining applicable law and the recognition of foreign judicial decisions.
- reflect critically on the issues dealt with;
- apply the knowledge acquired to the resolution of specific cases.

Introduction to Private International Law:
1.Relevance, object and scope
2. Values and principles
3. Sources of the Law
II.The European European Union or Communitarisation of the European IPD
III.International private relations
IV. The resolution of disputes
1.General theory of conflicts: conflict method, immediate application rules, material rules of PID, qualification, conflicts of systems, remission for complex systems, fraud to the law in IPD, international law enforcement, application of foreign substantive law.
2.Frong disputes-major solutions of the special party: state and capacity of natural persons; family relations; legal persons; contractual and non-contractual obligations, rights in rem; successions by death; law applicable to the fund of the case in international arbitration.
V. International Competence and Recognition of Foreign Judgments: general theory and fundamental aspects; recognition of foreign arbitral awards.

The teaching methodology will undergo a complementarity between the theoretical, practical and tutorial guidance classes.
Classes will be dialogued, proposing to students to reflect on the texts of authors who made a significant contribution to the development of the PD, as well as relevant jurisprudential decisions and some practical cases. Specific texts will also be provided by the teacher, as well as Power Points with the summary of the subject as well as taught. In the interval between classes, students are invited to carry out exercises to apply the knowledge acquired and to read legislative, doctrinal, jurisprudential texts, which allow them to complete the contents taught in class through autonomous study activity.

To provide students with theoretical and practical knowledge about the law that affects European funds in a governance system at various levels (European and national), it is important to use teaching and learning methods that combine the theoretical exposition of content with the use of active teaching practices, analysis, and resolution of case studies and practical exercises that will allow students to learn, understand, and apply theoretical knowledge to daily practical situations and solve concrete legal problems. Students will be able to apply knowledge and resolve legal issues involving the operationalization and governance of European funds.

1. The EU Law
1.1 The principles and values of the EU
1.2 Cohesion and investment policies
1.3 European policy of economic, social and territorial cohesion
1.4. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and its relevance in the administration of European funds
1.5. Portugal in the EU
2. 2. The European Funds in the Treaties
2.1. 2.1. The regulatory frameworks for financing periods
2.2. The principle of shared management of European funds
2.3.. 2. European funds and related schemes (public procurement and public aid)
2.4. Contractual scheme of investment
2.5. The European public aid framework
2.6. Implementation and governance of European funds
2.7. Guiding principles and operational structure on the programming of European funds. The relationship between national law of administrative organisation and EU law concerning the application of European funds
3. Non-compliance with the obligations of the beneficiaries
3.1. Strengthening prevention and combating fraud.

The students can complete the UC through evaluation throughout the semester or evaluation by final exam.
The evaluation throughout the semester includes a written assignment with oral presentation (40% of the final evaluation) and a test at the end of the semester (60% of the final evaluation). Students who have minimum grade in each assessment element of at least 9.5 values (and therefore, final average equal to or greater than 9.5 values) are approved.
The evaluation by final examination is performed by individual written examination (100%).

The student should be able to:
K1. Understand the nature and purposes of Criminal Procedural Law.
K2. Know the subjects and the object of the criminal process.
K3. Understand the legal regime of evidence and coercive measures in criminal procedure
K4. Understand the criminal proceedings
S1. Reflect in a well-founded, up-to-date and critical manner on the nature, purposes and content of Criminal Procedural Law
S2. Be able to solve problems of increasing complexity in the field of Criminal Procedural Law.
AT1. Develop legal awareness in order to understand and apply the rules of Criminal Procedural Law to any concrete situation in professional life.
AT2. Organize ideas and communicate appropriately, using appropriate terminology and concepts.

1. Concept of criminal procedural law
2. Fundamental principles of criminal procedure
3. Scope and nature of criminal procedure
4. Participants in criminal proceedings
5. The object of criminal procedure
6. Evidence in criminal procedure
7. The arrest
8. Coercive and patrimonial guarantee measures
9. Criminal proceedings

Students can complete this course through continuous assessment throughout the semester or by final exam. Continuous assessment includes two tests (each accounting for 50% of the final grade). Students pass if they achieve a minimum grade of at least 9.5 out of 20 in each assessment component (and, therefore, a final average of 9.5 or higher). Assessment by final exam is conducted through an individual written exam (100%).

1. Concept of criminal offence;
2. Historical evolution of the doctrine of criminal offence;
3. The action;
4. Actus reus and mens rea;
5. Unlawfulness and justification;
6. Guilt and the excuse;
7. Punishability and exclusion of punishability;
8. Iter criminis: preparatory acts, attempt, formal and material consummation
9. Parties to crime;
10. Crimes of negligence;
11. Crimes of omission.

The student should be able to:
K1. Understand the essential elements of the criminal offence.
K2. Know the various stages of the iter criminis
K3. Understand the various forms of participation in criminal offences
K4. Understand the specificities of negligent and omissive infractions in the face of intentional infractions by action
S1. Reflect in a well-founded, up-to-date and critical manner on the nature, purposes and content of Criminal Law.
S2. Be able to solve problems of increasing complexity in the field of Criminal Law.
AT1. Develop legal awareness in order to understand and apply the rules of Criminal Law to any concrete situation in professional life.
AT2. Organize ideas and communicate appropriately, using appropriate terminology and concepts.

The students can complete the UC through evaluation throughout the semester or evaluation by final exam.
The evaluation throughout the semester includes a written assignment with oral presentation (40% of the final evaluation) and a test at the end of the semester (60% of the final evaluation). Students who have minimum grade in each assessment element of at least 9.5 values (and therefore, final average equal to or greater than 9.5 values) are approved.
The evaluation by final examination is performed by individual written examination (100%).

A. Understand the various mechanisms for protecting subjective rights in the Portuguese legal system.
B. Analyse the preventive legal measures available to holders of subjective rights in the portuguese legal system.
C. Understand the executive measures in the Portuguese legal system.
D. Understand the various extra-judicial mechanisms and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms available to holders of subjective rights in the Portuguese legal system.
E. Reflect on the effectiveness of the judicial system, recent reforms and the way forward, in light of European Law.

1. Executive action, purpose, nature, and requisites.
2. Procedural procedure for the payment of a certain amount (ordinary and summary procedure).
3. The precautionary procedure, purpose, nature and requisites.
4. Precautionary measures and reversal of litigation.
5. The julgdos de paz, their purpose, assumptions and nature.
6. Alternative means of dispute resolution, purpose, nature and assumptions.
7. Arbitration in Portugal and under international law.
8. Mediation and conciliation in Portugal. 9. The evolution of alternative dispute resolution in Portugal and Europe.

Lectures, analysis and resolution of practical cases, presentations and analysis of jurisprudence and research papers, as well as guided study, using new technologies.

This course aims to provide students with an interpretation of the rules governing certain tax procedures, as well as an insight into the structuring lines of tax litigation. The aim is for students to understand the guarantees available to taxpayers to react against acts that offend their legal spheres.

CP1 - Introductory notions of tax procedure and process
1. Tax litigation and the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic
2. Full jurisdiction litigation
3. Conceptual delimitation of tax procedure and process
4. Organisation of (administrative and) tax jurisdiction
CP2 - Procedure for waiving banking secrecy
1. Legal regime
2. Case law analysis
CP3 - General anti-abuse clause
1. Legal regime
2. Case law analysis
CP4 - Procedural forms in tax litigation
1. Judicial challenge procedure
2. Administrative action
3. Procedure to oppose tax enforcement
4. Case law analysis
CP5 - New forms of access to the law
1. Tax arbitration
a. Structural characteristics
b. Arbitrability
c. Procedural handling
d. System of appeals against arbitration decisions
e. Case law analysis
2. Tax regularisation acts

Students can complete this course through continuous assessment throughout the semester or by final exam. Continuous assessment includes two tests (each accounting for 50% of the final grade). Students pass if they achieve a minimum grade of at least 9.5 out of 20 in each assessment component (and, therefore, a final average of 9.5 or higher). Assessment by final exam is conducted through an individual written exam (100%).

At the end of the unit, students should be able:
1st. To clearly distinguish the concept of creative accounting from fraud in an international perspective.
2nd. To identify the need for forensic auditing and to apply its basic principles.
3rd. To demonstrate the role of the auditor in the prevention and detection of fraud and its relation with financial scandalous.
4th. To distinguish and to critically appreciate common creative and fraudulent accounting practices followed by companies.

1. Creative accounting and fraud
2. Forensic auditing
3. The role of auditor in the prevention and detection of fraud
4. Common creative and fraudulent accounting practices

The evaluation system includes:
- Work in group (30%)
- Final Exam (70%)
Minimum grade required in the exam: 10 values.
This global grading system requires a rate of attendance to classes of at least 80%; Otherwise it will fail and to get approval in the unit it will apply to the 2nd chance final exam.

LG1 - To analize, sinthesize and solve complex problems, being able to identify the sources of value creation or destruction.
LG2 - To understand and be able to use appropriate company valuation techniques, for different life cycle stages and ownership structures.
LG3 - To use financial tools fit to predict and measure the value created through a restructuring process, by comparing the ex-ante and the ex-post value of the companies.

1 - Companies's Turnarounds
-Governance and agency problems
-Value creation decisions
-Key concepts and foundations
-Types and dimensions of corporate restructuring
-Main internal restructuring measures

2 - Diagnosis of Corporate Restructuring Situations
-Importance of the company’s life cycle
-Analysis of financial statements
-Financial analysis and ratios
-Risk analysis and leverage

3 - Review of the Main Methods and Models for Business Valuation
-Fundamentals of valuation
-Valuation approaches and perspectives
-EVA and MVA
-Multiples methods

4 - Impact Assessment of Restructuring Plans and Projects

Students can choose between continuous assessment throughout the semester or assessment by exam.

The continuous assessment consists of:
-Two written tests (50% each of the final grade)

The exam assessment consists of:
-One written test (100% of the final grade)

Approval in the course depends on obtaining a final grade, rounded to the nearest whole number, of 10 or higher.

Upon completing the course, students are expected to: LG1 - Understand the integrated reporting model and its importance in corporate governance and accountability; LG2 - Know the normative and regulatory framework of integrated reporting, including its legal impacts; LG3 - Understand the different types of financial and non-financial information to be included in the integrated report; LG4 - Calculate and interpret the main key performance indicators to be integrated into the integrated report.

1. Characterization of the integrated management reportING, including its normative and regulatory framework;
2. Financial information: identification and characterization of the financial reporting components;
3. Non-financial information: structuring pillars and information collection;
4. Performance metrics defined by management to be included in the integrated management report.

The assessment process in this course is carried out in two different ways:
1. Assessment throughout the semester: includes a Mid-term Test (weighted in 40% in the final grade) and an Exam (weighted in 60% in the final grade). The minimum mark for each assessment element is 7.5 points;
2. Exam: comprises a Final Exam with a weighting of 100%.

Upon completing this curricular unit, the student will be able to:
OA1) To know the contribution of Legal and Forensic Psychology to the study of the laws and relations of individuals with the justice system;
OA2) To recognize the importance of the role of psychology in the justice system and in its various subsystems;
OA3) Recognize and distinguish the main areas of intervention of psychology in the justice system and its subsystems - forensic psychological evaluation, testimony, hearing.

(CP1) Definition and delimitation of the field of study of Legal and Forensic Psychology;
(CP2) Contributions of Legal and Forensic Psychology to criminal investigation;
(CP3) Definition and delimitation of the activities of the psychologist in the justice system;
(CP4) Contact with the system of justice and secondary victimization;
(CP5) Decision and contributions of legal and forensic psychology – contexts, dynamics and practices;
(CP6)the Psychologist in the legal and judicial system (courts, police, expert evaluation, psychological support) and monitoring of victims in their relationship with this context.

The students can complete the UC through evaluation throughout the semester or evaluation by final exam.
The evaluation throughout the semester includes a group assignment (40% of the final evaluation) and a test at the end of the semester (60% of the final evaluation). Students who have minimum grade in each assessment element of at least 9.5 values (and therefore, final average equal to or greater than 9.5 values) are approved.
The evaluation by final examination is performed by individual written examination (100%).

LG1. Explain the inevitability of conflict in organizational settings;
LG2. Characterize negotiation as a mean of conflict management and allocation of scarce resources;
LG3. Diagnose the sources and nature of conflict in organizational settings;
LG4. Planning a negotiation;
LG5. Design and implement negotiation strategies depending on the preferred outcomes;
LG6. Deal with the specifics features of group negotiation.
LG7: Organize mediation and arbitration interventions.

Note. LG = learning goals

PC1. Negotiation: a response to the consequences of diversity in organizations; Types of organizational conflicts; The negotiation process as an effective manner for resolving organizational conflicts; The human resources manager as negotiator;
PC2. Integrative bargaining and distributive bargaining: strategies and tactics; Heuristics and biases in decision making: the impact on negotiation processes; Interpersonal relationships and emotions in negotiation; Power in negotiation;
PC3. Preparing negotiation;
PC4. Conflict management styles and negotiation strategies;
PC5. Negotiation between teams and groups: specific process of multilateral negotiations; Steps in the preparation and approach to a negotiation between teams;
PC6. Arbitration and Mediation;

Note. PC = program contents

1 – Assessment throughout the semester
Access to this assessment method requires the student to ensure attendance equal to or greater than 70% and includes:

a) Written test (50% of the final grade)
b) Group work according to a structured script (35% of the final grade)
c) Oral presentation of group work (10% of the final grade)
d) Learning control – group oral presentation of the UC syllabus after taught by the teacher (5% of the final grade)

Access to the written test requires an average of 9.5 or more in the set of assessment instruments carried out in groups and approval in the UC requires a classification equal to or greater than 7.5 in the written test.

2 - Assessment by exam
Students who opt for this assessment modality, as well as those who have not obtained approval in the Assessment modality throughout the semester, will take an exam that includes a written test that will cover all content taught at the UC (100 % of final classification).

The student who successfully completes this curricular unit must be able to:
OA1. Know how to define psychopathology from various perspectives and frame the concept in a historical and cultural context.
OA2. Characterize and distinguish different etiological models and theoretical approaches in psychopathology.
OA3. Identify different classification systems in psychopathology.
OA4. Identify the main psychopathologies in adults and children and adolescents.

1 Introduction to psychopathology
1.1 Evolution of the concept of psychopathology
1.2 Sociocultural dimension in understanding psychopathology
1.3 Vulnerability factors, stress factors, protective factors and resilience

2. Theories and etiological models in psychopathology
2.1 Biomedical approach
2.2 Psychodynamic approach
2.3 Existential phenomenological approach
2.4 Humanistic approach
2.5. Behavioral-cognitive approach
2.6 Ecological or systemic approach
2.7 Critical analysis of the limitations and strengths of the different approaches

3. Classification and diagnostic systems
3.1. Objectives, advantages and limitations
3.2 APA (DSM-5) and WHO (ICD-11) classification systems

4. Knowing psychopathologies in children, adolescents and adults
4.1 Externalizing and internalizing disorders in childhood and adolescence
4.2 Mood disorders
4.3 Anxiety disorders
4.4 Psychotic disorders
4.5. Other adult disorders

Students can complete the course through assessment throughout the semester or assessment by exam. Assessment throughout the semester includes: (1) an individual written test (40%); (2) group assignment with a written and an oral component (40%); (3) individual and asynchronous participation in an online forum (i.e. moodle platform) (20%). Students with a final average of 9.5 or more will be approved. Assessment by exam is carried out through an individual written exam (100%). Students who obtain a final mark of at least 9.5 will be approved.