Department: Exact Sciences
Duration: 8 Semesters
Language: Portuguese
Schedule: Day/Evening

Course Overview

The course provides future graduates with a comprehensive education in Chemistry, covering a wide range of theoretical subjects, both classical and contemporary, with the necessary mathematical tools and the essential experimental counterpart, in an integrated manner. The course also aims to train professionals with a critical perception of reality and the ability to work in teaching (secondary school) in accordance with specific legislation, who are capable of teaching Chemistry in Secondary Education, guiding students through the curriculum of that educational level using appropriate teaching techniques and developing related research work, with the aim of providing them with knowledge and awakening their interest in experiencing the scientific method; to work in multidisciplinary teams designed to plan, coordinate, execute, or evaluate activities related to Chemistry or related fields; and to perform other activities in society for which a solid university education is an important factor for success.

Graduate Profile

Knowledge Level

• Have in-depth knowledge of Chemistry curricula in institutions within potential areas of practice.
• Keep up with and understand scientific-technological and educational advances.
• Recognize Chemistry as a human construction and understand the historical aspects of its development and its relationships with the cultural, socioeconomic, and political context.
• Present scientific results in different forms of expression, such as reports, papers for publication, seminars, and lectures.

Skills Level

• Ability to integrate teaching and research in the production of knowledge and pedagogical practice;
• Analyze and interpret experimental data obtained through analytical instrumental techniques;
• Present scientific results in different forms of expression, such as reports, papers for publication, seminars, and lectures;

Attitudes and Values Level

• Understand Science as a human construction, socially and historically situated, and therefore subject to debates, conflicts of interest, uncertainties, and changes. Promote the teaching of Physics in a manner consistent with this view, as opposed to the idea of science as absolute and immutable truths;
• Value, when proposing topics for teaching, the treatment of environmental issues in an articulated manner with other areas of knowledge, with a view to developing pro-environmental attitudes, both individually and collectively;
• Highlight, in concrete situations in students’ lives, situations in which the physical knowledge addressed in the classroom is connected with everyday experience, whether refuting, corroborating, or deepening their prior conceptions;

Admission Requirements

• Candidates for the Chemistry Teaching Course at ISCED-Huíla include all students from teacher training schools in the Biology/Chemistry option and from General Secondary Education in the Physical and Biological Sciences option, as well as students from agricultural and food industry schools who wish to pursue a teaching career as a profession.