The Doctoral Programme in Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship has a 4-year duration (8 semesters), totalling 240 ECTS). The PhD thesis project defense occurs at the end of the second academic year. The Programme is lectured in Portuguese.

1^st year, 1^st Semester
Transnational social movements, risk and public space (10 ECTS)
Political spaces, representation and decentralization in the postcolonial State (10 ECTS)
Postcolonialisms, identities and cultural citizenship (10 ECTS)

1^st year, 2^nd Semester
Postcolonial studies in the space of Portuguese language (10 ECTS)
Alternative globalizations and the reinvention of social emancipation (10 ECTS)
Knowledge, sustainability and cognitive justice (10 ECTS)

2^nd year, 1^st Semester
Research Seminar (22 ECTS)
Update and Debate Seminar - Thinking and Imagining Knowledge (8 ECTS)

2^nd year, 2^nd Semestre, 3^rd and 4^th years
Dissertation (150 ECTS)