Abstract: The purpose of this research was to seek for classroom management strategies that a higher education professor uses in the context of a course of Literature taught to 2nd year undergraduate students from CVPU- Cape Verde Public University (Pseudonym) located in Cape Verde and to explore the role of the professor in using classroom management strategies to establish or maintain favorable conditions for learning and what classroom management practices do teachers implement in order to avoid behavioral problems. This research focused on qualitative data collection and the instrument that was used to collect the data of this study was semi structured interviews.