CL003 - ECTS

The objectives of the CU are: 1. strengthen the foundations of grammatical analysis that were acquired by the students at Elementary and Secondary School; 2. promote the knowledge of central notions in Morphology, Morphossyntax, Syntax; 3. develop students' methods of grammatical description (to observe, to find regularities, to build generalizations and rules starting from linguistic data); 4. improve students' writing skills.

EP044 - ECTS This course unit  (which name African culture stands  for AFRICAN CULTURES)  sets out to provide an introduction to somes aspects of the geography, history,  mythology,  arts, traditions and social aspects of some African countries, focusing on subsaharian Africa and on transcultural encounters and exchanges.

EPL003 - ECTS

Introduction to Brazilian culture through the study of its formation and the society that supports it. 

EP042 - ECTS The study of political, social, religious and moral ideas of ancient Greeks, visible in some of their most important literary works, aims to deepen knowledge of the Greek matrix model of Western culture.

EPL014 - ECTS

Aims: An interdisciplinary approach, providing accurate, detailed and summary information, to critically discuss and raise awareness of some of the major and recurrent issues in Portuguese culture over time. The main programme guideline consists of providing elucidative and consistent frameworks on the evolution of mythogenesis and historiographical representations that the Portuguese have developed in the course of time, in terms of their identity and their role in history. 

EPL015 - ECTS

Students are intended to to both deepen the lexicons and master essential grammatical, morphological and syntactical structures of Latin which will, where possible, be related to that Portuguese. Students are also intended to apply this knowledge to the translation into Portuguese of simple (original or adapted) texts and into Latin of small sentences.

At the end of the semester, students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of grammatical and lexical structures studied by translating simple texts (Latin / Portuguese, Portuguese / Latin).

LLC104 - ECTS

EP043 - ECTS

The study of political, social, religious and moral ideas of Romans, visible in their literary works, aims to enhance the knowledge of the models of European culture and the recognition of the educational and informative value of classical culture. 

CL013 - ECTS

1. Reflect on the nature, properties and functions of verbal language.
2. Recognise language as an object of scientific study.
3. Identify the linguistic units and associate them with the respective levels of linguistic analysis.
4. Connect the levels of linguistic analysis with different linguistic areas.
5. Reflect on dimensions of language structure, meaning and use.
6. Encourage critical spirit and rigour.

EPL016 - ECTS

- Learning the vocabulary and basic grammatical, morphological and syntactic structures of Latin; - Using this knowledge to translate texts with an increasing level of difficulty.

LLC106 - ECTS

Provide theory, methodological and analytical tools for the study of the singularity of literary works and of historicity of national literatures.

EPL038 - ECTS

This programme aims to provide students with knowledge of the dominant themes in the writings of paradigmatic African authors of the five Portuguese-speaking countries, promoting, at the same time, a critical reflection on the modes of representation of African realities and the processes of self-representation in the standard Portuguese written language – or in “languages”, dialects and varieties resulting from a process of miscegenation with local “languages”.
Some of the selected authors: Alda Espírito Santo, Ana Paula Tavares, Baltasar Lopes, Conceição Lima, Corsino Fortes, David Mestre, Eduardo White, Francisco José Tenreiro, Jorge Barbosa, José Craveirinha, José Eduardo Agualusa, Luís Bernardo Honwana, Luis Carlos Patraquim, Luandino Vieira, Mia Couto, Noémia de Sousa, Ondjaki, Paulina Chiziane, Pepetela, Rui Knopfli, Viriato da Cruz.
Focusing on a synchronic and diachronic approach, we will seek to account for the specificities of literatures and cultures of each country (for e.g., the specific difference of Cape Verde) and of the various movements, magazines, newspapers, generations and currents that have characterized the literary history of those countries.
Whenever necessary, in this study we will bring the texts studied throughout the semester into a historical and cultural context.

CL011 - ECTS

The aim of this subject is to provide students with knowledge in three areas: analysis of linguistic variation theories and study methods; its application in the specific field of the history of the Portuguese language; and its integration in a more general perspective, within the scope of Romance linguistics.

EPL017 - ECTS

Students are intended to to both deepen the lexicon and master the grammatical, morphological and syntactical structures of Latin which will, where possible, be related to that of Latin and Portuguese.

Students are also intended to apply this knowledge to the translation into Portuguese of more difficult original texts and into Latin of short sentences.

At the end of the semester, students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of grammatical and lexical structures studied by translating texts (Latin / Portuguese, Portuguese / Latin).

EPL020 - ECTS

Introduction to Angolan literature through panoramic study of representative texts and authors.

EPL021 - ECTS

Introduction to Brazilian literature (and the Portuguese language of Brazil and Brazilian culture) through the panoramic study of representative texts and authors. 

EPL026 - ECTS The aim of this subject is to provide students with a wider knowledge on the richness of the contemporary Mozambican literature on several levels (thematic, aesthetic, linguistic and historical), by summoning founding texts and authors of the modern literature to help contextualize the plurality of the experimented routes.
The students must be familiarized with the most important works of this emerging literature and must acquire competences to recognize and discuss the peculiar discourse strategies of the authors, their aesthetic creations and the related processes of individual and collective identity assertion.

EPL029 - ECTS

1. Provide an overview of how Portuguese literature (poetry and novels) developed in the 16th century
2. Study in greater death the literary innovations introduced by the narrative of Bernardim Ribeiro, regarding the common practices in the sentimental and chivalry Iberian literature.
3. Delimit and define the specific features of the literary practices of Sá de Miranda, António Ferreira and Luís de Camões within the Renaissance lyric poetry and its theoretical concepts.

EPL032 - ECTS

The purpose of this course is to lead the students to a close contact with some of the most relevant texts of Galician-Portuguese poetry and to elucidate the social, cultural and aesthetical conditions surrounding the production and reception of those compositions.

EPL005 - ECTS

1. Access key data of historical, cultural and social nature that has helped shape the typical way of “being Portuguese” and its relation with the Iberian, European and universal contexts. 2. Critically reflect on the testimonies of voyages of discovery and discuss the vision of the Other evident in these texts. 3. Situate the participation of 16th century Portugal in the process of opening the West to other civilisations, and determine how it influenced the specificity of Portuguese culture.

EPL006 - ECTS

The syllabus and frequency of this curricular unit offer students an informed cultural complex approach to the Portuguese 17th and 18th centuries, considering both the European context and the specificities of ideas and ways of thinking, of social life and literary expressions of the times. Students are thus expected to develop knowledge and critical perspectives on the concepts and periods of the Baroque and Enlightenment, drawing on a set of texts representing aspects and themes of relevance for those periods. This will provide as well elements allowing them to understand the influence of thoseaspects and themes on the cultural development of these, and later, periods. The students will thus be able to explore the relation between "texts and contexts" as particularly relevant for understanding the conitnuities and changes between "Restored Portugal" and "Elightenment Portugal".   
 

CL005 - ECTS Broad phonetic transcription of Portuguese - Articulatory classification of Portuguese consonants and vowels - Identification of the main phonetic features of dialectal variation in Portuguese - Description of the phonemic inventory of Portuguese - Generalization and explanation of the main syllabic patterns of Portuguese - Description of the stress-assignment processes in Portuguese - The distinction of lexical and postlexical phonologial processes in Portuguese - Identification and explanation of the word-formation processes in Portuguese - Identification of interface phenomena (phonology/morphology) in Portuguese: word-stress; theme vowel specification; vowel harmony - Identification and delimitation of the main prosodic units of Portuguese: the phonological word; the clitic group.

EPL008 - ECTS

The purpose of this course is to lead the students to a close contact with Galician-Portuguese and Portuguese texts of the Arthurian prose romance, namely the «Livro de Galaaz e da Morte do rei Artur» (usually known as «Demanda do Santo Graal»), and to elucidate the social, cultural and aesthetical conditions surrounding the translation and circulation of that literature in Portugal and in Iberian context. The reception of those textes and the way they conveyed social models, myths and literary technics to Portuguese cultural milieu will be a major focus of inquiry.

EPL018 - ECTS

- Consolidate and strengthen knowledge of the language; - Familiarise students with texts by Cicero, Sallust and Catullus, and with the socio-cultural context in which they were produced; - Encourage the quality of translation.

EPL022 - ECTS

EPL028 - ECTS

1. Contact with and discuss some of the most significant literary works of the Baroque and Neoclassical periods in Portugal; 2. Identify and characterise the theory basics and aesthetic-literary practices developed throughout the 16th and 17th centuries; 3. Properly apply the basic theory instruments to the review of lyrical and narrative literary texts; 4. Produce, at analysis and comment level, a critical and reasoned discourse.

EPL004 - ECTS

Students will be motivated to reflect and debate critically on the great collective moments, achievements, cultural agents, themes and problems of Portuguese society between the 18th and 21st centuries, in order to optimise in them a deeper understanding of the present and a clearer and personalized awareness of the dynamics of a living culture.

CL006 - ECTS

1. Understand the concept of lexicon and types of lexical units. 2. Relate the lexicon with the different grammatical areas and the dictionary. 3. Characterise several processes of lexicon structure and composition. 4. Understand the different dimensions of the meaning of lexical structures and their organisation. 5. Describe the semantic relations of lexical structures. 6. Analyse the argument structure of the syntactic categories verb, noun and adjective. 7. Apply the theoretical principles analysis of linguistic material, through the use of accurate analysis instruments.

CL007 - ECTS

EPL009 - ECTS

Students are intended to learn the basics of greek  morphological and syntactical structures, which will, when possible, be related to that of Latin and Portuguese. Students are also intended to apply this knowledge to the translation into Portuguese of simple (original or adapted) texts and into Greek of small sentences. They should also be able to recognize the importance of the Greek language to the conformation of the Western philosophical and scientific terminology.

EPL013 - ECTS

This course aims to study and understand the history of theatre in Portugal since it appeared up to the 18th century. Students must be able to identify the most significant moments of the history of Portuguese theatre; understand and integrate the decisive phases of this history in various contexts (social, historical, aesthetic, and political) in which they appear; acquire skills to understand some representative works of this path and their codes, texts and contexts. Students are required to develop solid and justified knowledge on the various phases of this history, consolidated in authors, works, theories and evidence of this multifaceted reality, and be able to produce a critical and reflected discourse on the theatre and dramatization in Portugal between the 16th and 18th centuries, which is crucial to understand the future directions of the theatre in Portugal.

EPL019 - ECTS

The aim of this course is to study the authors of the imperial period in order to consolidate and complement the linguistic knowledge acquired in previous levels.  The aim is also to encourage the quality of translation.

EPL030 - ECTS To study 19th century Portuguese literature, focusing main Romantic, Realistic and Naturalistic authors.

EPL033 - ECTS Students will be able to question the concepts of “literature”, “oral literature”, “marginal literature”, and to analyse several forms of oral and marginal literatures (such as the folktale and the urban legend), from a theoretical and a chronological perspective.

EPL039 - ECTS Provide the essential concepts of the theoretical reflection bout the literary phenomenon.
Develop skills to discuss, argument, synthesis and have a critical spirit.
Maximisation of the reading skills.

EPL041 - ECTS

Study the role of Sensibility in the aesthetic perception of the literary text through the historical and systematic knowledge of Theory of Taste.

CL004 - ECTS

Through a theoretical and contextual perspective, as well as through case studies, this course aims to provide a set of introductory references on language as an aesthetic object, introducing arguments, examples and bibliography that alert to the complexity of the aesthetic and sensitive values of language, and that allow the development of critical thinking around these dimensions of the written word and the spoken word. Cases from different communicational and artistic practices will be discussed, namely from literature, cinema, comics, radio drama, architecture, political discourse and sociological reflection, which will be questioned according to logics of influence that bring language close to aesthetics and aesthetics close to ideology, as well as according to theoretical matrices that point to the importance of the physical and spatial nature of the word.

EPL010 - ECTS

LLC087 - ECTS

The study of some of the major works from Greek Literature, specially in lyric poetry and theatre, aims to obtain a broad overview of a literary tradition mainly fueled by myth and marked by intertextuality.

EPL027 - ECTS

To study Portuguese Literature after the Modernism, highlighting Surrealism and post 80s authors.

EPL031 - ECTS

This course aims to study Portuguese literature within the timelines proposed for this undergraduate degree, following its evolution path – from end of the century to Modernism – and highlighting some key moments, based on the concept of generation, on the polarizing action of literary journals and on the role of some of its collaborators.

EPL034 - ECTS

This curricular unit allows the students to know and to study several forms of oral literatures and marginal literatures. They become aware of different branches of “marginality”: from the traditional folk literature to the avant-garde strategies.

EPL040 - ECTS Provide the essential concepts in terms of theory reflection on the literary phenomenon.
Develop skills to discuss, argument, synthesis and critical spirit.
Maximise reading skills.

CL028 - ECTS

To reflect on the variation phenomenon as an inherent property of natural languages; to describe some aspects of linguistic variation in European Portuguese at various levels; to compare European Portuguese with the Portuguese spoken in Brazil, Angola and Mozambique. To understand the nature of Portuguese-based creoles.