2024

Portuguese Fundamentals II

Name: Portuguese Fundamentals II
Code: LLT13415O
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Linguistics

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

1. Provide a general framework of Portuguese literary history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

2. Develop skills of synthesis, exposition, critical appreciation of literary and non-literary texts.

3. Consolidate knowledge at the syntactic and semantic levels in Portuguese.


4. Allow students an approximation to the university community and to the School of Social Sciences in particular.


Contents

Portuguese Literature
Interpretation, contextualization, analysis of stylistics resources in the following texts and authors:
1. The poetic work of Antero de Quental and Cesário Verde.
2. The tale in the twentieth century: Maria Judite de Carvalho e Mário de Carvalho.
3. José Saramago, O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis.


Portuguese Language
1. The classification of sentences. Coordination and subordination.
2. The verbal system in written texts.

Teaching Methods

The classes will be essentially expositive and dynamized by the teacher, combined with oral discussion of the contents.

The final evaluation will result from a written test at the end of the semester.

Students not approved in the written test may take an exam in the period established by the Academic Regulations of the University of Évora.

Only students with at least 70% of classes attended will be admitted to the evaluation.