2023

Portuguese Fundamentals I

Name: Portuguese Fundamentals I
Code: LLT13414O
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Linguistics

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

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

1. Provide a general framework of Portuguese literary history between the 16th century and the beginning of the 20th century.


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:
Gil Vicente, A Farsa de Inês Pereira.
Camões, Os Lusíadas.
Padre António Vieira, Sermão de Santo António aos Peixes
Fernando Pessoa (ortónimo); Fernando Pessoa (heterónimos).

Portuguese Language:
1. The constituents of the sentence and their syntactic functions.
2. Processes of coherence and textual cohesion

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.