2024

ADVANCED SEMINAR IN LITERATURE A

Name: ADVANCED SEMINAR IN LITERATURE A
Code: LLT14603D
9 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/234 hours
Scientific Area: Literature

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

Presentation

Curricular unit of the PhD in Literature.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

1. To understand, discuss and systematize concepts and knowledge related to core structuring themes within research in Literature.
2. To develop critical thought and the capacity to know and to understand the epistemological grounds underlying literary history and analysis.
3. To strengthen methodological competences, necessary to research in the field of Literature.
4. To develop analytical critical capacity and autonomy in research.

Contents

MODULE 1
1. Literary Studies and the construction of Literature.
2. The History of Literature and literary periodology.
3. National Literature as literary system.
4. Questions of Reception.

MODULE 2
1. Literature as a system of representation of ideology and identity.
2. Gender representations: the construction of the feminine.
3. Space configurations: confrontations and challenges.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodologies combine theoretical sessions with active sessions of dialogue and argumentation. The organization of the teaching-learning process is thus a combination in each session of exposition, discussion, and synthesis. To promote the quality of the discussions, a set of topics of reflection and texts will be provided to students previously. This previous preparation will enable them to participate in a critical and well-founded way in the collective debate on the themes under analysis. Autonomous activities of research, reading and analysis of reference bibliography, which complements the texts given by teachers, and which must integrate face to face debates, are encouraged to promote students’ autonomy.
Assessment:
Continuous – 25% (participation in the seminar) + 75% (written essay).
Exam – 100%