DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS - Socrates/Erasmus Information

Teaching/Learning/Assessment Methods

For each course, the course plan defines the number of hours per week for each type of classes and corresponding credit units. There are four different types of classes: Tutorial classes/Problem-solving classes, in which theoretical notions introduced in lectures are put to practical use; Laboratory practicals - Classes carried out in laboratories where students conduct experiments and exercices; Seminars.

The various forms of assessment include: exams, short essays, individual and/or group work, projects. Written exams and compulsory: often, various forms of assessment are used together.

Course units are normally taugh in Portuguese (undergraduate and postgraduate courses). Incidentally, when the department receive visiting professors, courses may be taugh in a foreign language (English, French, Spanish).