The Doctoral Programme in Sociology – Cities and Urban Cultures has a 3-year duration (6 semesters), totalling 180 ECTS). The PhD thesis project defense occurs at the end of the first academic year. The Programme is lectured in Portuguese.

1^st year, 1^st semester 
City and Citizenship: Contemporary Perspectives (7,5 ECTS)
Cultural Policies and Urban Ways of Living (7,5 ECTS)
Doctoral Seminar I (7,5 ECTS)
Option I (7,5 ECTS)
     Sociological Research Methodology
     Migration and Mobilities
     Advanced Sociological Theories: Exemplary Works
     Urbanism, Territoriality and Public Space

1^st year, 2^nd Semester
Cities, Images and Heritage (7,5 ECTS)
Thesis Project (7,5 ECTS)
Doctoral Seminar II (7,5 ECTS)
Option II (7,5 ECTS)
     Sociological Research Methodology
     Migration and Mobilities
     Advanced Sociological Theories: Exemplary Works
     Urbanism, Territoriality and Public Space

2^nd and 3^rd years
Doctoral Dissertation (120 ECTS)