Portuguese Culture B1+

Recommended Prerequisites

N/a

Teaching Methods

The teacher will present in class topics and fiction and nonfiction texts with a progressive level of difficulty. Based on the models of textual approach presented, the work carried out by the students in class will help them develop, from the very beginning, skills in the analysis and critical interpretation of texts.

Learning Outcomes

The aim of this course is to enable students to understand and analyze texts by modern and contemporary Portuguese authors, focusing on short stories, chronicles and essays, while simultaneously developing their lexical, cultural and interpretative skills by establishing connections with different extratextual issues.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Lexical and semantic analysis of different types of texts, with a focus on the topics and issues therein addressed, as well as on the explicit or implicit cultural contexts to which they belong and with which they interact in a critical and dynamic way.

Head Lecturer(s)

António Campar de Almeida

Assessment Methods

Continuous Assessment
Final test: 40.0%
Oral and written participation in class: 60.0%

Bibliography

CARDOSO, Miguel Esteves, Explicações de Português explicadas outra vez. Porto: Porto Editora, 2011.

MELLO, João de (org.), Antologia do Conto Português. Lisboa: Ed. Dom Quixote, 2002.

SILVA, Neves da (org.), Citações e Pensamentos de Agostinho da Silva. Alfragide: Casa das Letras, 2011.