Authors and Texts

Code:

MEAAM001

Acronym:

AT

Instance: 2010/2011 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Anglo-American Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Masters in Anglo-American Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EAAT	0	Course Programme	1	-	9	-
MEAA	6	Study Plan since 2007/2008	1	-	9	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course will focus on the study and critical discussion of published Portuguese versions of literary texts in English. It will cover texts from all the dominant genres - drama, narrative fiction and the lyric - while laying some emphasis on canonical authors. The course will foster translation criticism, and will prompt students to identity strategies and patterns in Portuguese appropriations of texts in English, as well as the contexts that to some extent have determined them.
Aims, skills and results of learning - students are expected to be able to scrutinize a wide range of literary texts, in both their intrinsic nature and relevant historical and cultural frame; they are also expected to get a solid level of expertise as translators.

Program

This programme acknowledges and reflects its closeness to the ongoing Shakespeare translation project that the Department of Anglo-American Studies and the research centre (CETAPS) have hosted in recent years; this means that some of the work to be pursued will involve a critical reading of Portuguese translations of Shakespeare. Other authors to be considered include Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Those proper to a seminar: critical readings, discussion, submission of conclusions of case studies.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	45,00
preparation and submission of written work	Trabalho escrito	163,00		2011-07-29
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
supervised study	Estudo autónomo	35	2011-07-29
	Total:	35,00

Eligibility for exams

n.a.

Calculation formula of final grade

Active participation in seminar sessions: 40%. Research paper submitted at the end of the semester: 60%.

Examinations or Special Assignments

n.a.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

n.a.

Classification improvement

n.a.

Observations

n.a.