Bachelor in Secretarial Direction and Administration

The course in Secretarial Direction and Administration aims to train professionals capable of performing higher level functions to support companies in their management and administration, with a high degree of adaptability and response to different professional situations in the context of the companies management and administration. The importance of business and the markets internationalization emphasize the relevance of the professionals in this area, who should gather a set of skills and abilities, not only from the technical point of view, but also from the personal point of view.
About the study plan, it includes three years (six semesters), taking place a curricular training in the last semester of the course with report writing to be defended before a jury of three elements.

Secondary school or equivalent and one of the following exams: Portuguese (18) or English (13) or Geography (09)
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Secretariat of Direction and Administration;
Administration Assistance;
Management Assistance;
Technical coordination of communication services and office;
Organization and coordination of socio-cultural activities.

Portuguese Language.

These professionals should gather a set of competences which allow them to perform successfully the functions they are given: – Acquire linguistic competences; to master the orality and the writing of the Portuguese Language, of the English Language and also of the Spanish Language; to master the orality and the writing of the above mentioned languages in a technical context, in the area of Secretarial Direction and Administration; to be able to communicate with the various publics, taking into account the aims and culture of the organization; to acquire notions of companies and public services organization and management; to understand fundamental notions of Financial Accounting and Management Accounting; to use in an autonomous way the ICT to organize information and other secretarial tasks; to acquire fundamental notions of commercial, tax and labour legislation.

The first degree allows the application to post-graduate courses.