Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL)

A normal undergraduate (licencaturas) student should take 30 ECTS or 15 American credits worth of courses at the very least (the norm for this is 4 courses). These are the courses I took plus comments: 1. International Management: In my opinion, we should all take this course on Erasmus as management majors. Do NOT take it in your home university, take it in the host university because the different perspectives just make the course much richer than that at home where you barely listen to the internationals anyway. 2. Information Systems: Professor graduated in MIT so he has higher standards. Students can use either English or any of the 4 Romance languages in the FINAL EXAM (not as impressive as it seems, I'd like to see him be able to understand some Germaic or Sino languages as well). Most local students dread the professor. However, the contents of the course are useful. 3. Social Sciences: VERY boring and is known to induce sleep ever so often. However, it is relatively easy to pass and even ace this course. (For all party-goers, take this giveaway instead of history) 4. Information and Games: For those who are either 3 years removed from calculus concepts OR are not economics majors... DO NOT take this course. You have been warned. Though I passed as a management student, I could say that I will not redo this error if given the chance. For those who need this in their program: professor is approachable and gay (in more ways than one I heard...), lectures are very organized. I ranked the choice of courses under a "Could've been better" because I only had 174 ECTS / 87 American credits upon the second semester of my 3rd year (as to how I survived 87 credits in 2.5 years... I've no clue). You need 180 ECTS to have masters options available. And I must say, if that had happened, I would have ranked every aspect a "pretty good" at the least. BTW, crammers rejoice and despair. Finals are given weights of at least 50% so the score may make or break your marks. However, this system gives you 2 cycles of exams which makes failing a formality in a bureaucratic attempt at redemption. Fail the first, pass the second (note: you can only take a total of 2 courses for the 2nd round of exams, so you CAN fail) On a final note: you may take as many courses as possible. There is NO deadline to DROP a particular course. Extended non-attendance and not taking the finals can be indicative of dropping a course. Yes, the system is sweet. (at least when I left)

Note: this is 1st of all a cultural experience, so open up and SPEAK in class. Just chill, do your thing and you should be fine. If you are having difficulty, ask for help or drop the course (note: do not abuse the no deadline drop)

if you have any questions concerning the classes go to the teachers, they are very nice and help you

you are exchange student and you have all the exams at the end of the semester, the last week where all the people and your new friends are together, make smaller exams also during semester, that not everything of your grade is the final exam

Remember ground school? When the teacher was writing everything on the blackboard an you had to copy? If you want to have a revival take 'Seminar in European Economics'! The other courses were more or less okay.

There is too much to improve. Leave it the way it is. It has charm.

Unfortunately, there were not too many courses offered in English, which is a pity because the teachers and the course structure were very good. There was always a lot of work to do during the semester - many case-studies and assessments.

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Lots of work to do during the year (papers, presentations, midterms), so don't take too much. Exams are not so easy, but if you study, it's ok!

Less papers and presentations. Courses are too theoretical.

you can choise a lot of courses so interesting, you have practical and theoritical couses.50 per cent are erasmus student within Economics Faculty. The courses are dynamics.

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