Francophonie and Globalization

Code:

LLC049

Acronym:

FMUN

Instance: 2014/2015 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LA	1	LA - Study Plan	2	-	6	52	162
			3
LLC	5	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	1	-	6	52	162
			2
			3
LRI	1	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	2	-	6	52	162
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To interrogate Francophony throgh a selected literary, philosophical and cultural corpus elaboration gives students the capacity of identifying French language exceptionally diverse contemporary production so that it will be critically evaluated even in the singularity of outstanding expressions, such as Andreï Makine`s , or pf more predictable exercises of distructuring nowadays romance cartography. These two particular axes practice, as a consequence, the primordial stimulus for a greater curiosity individual supervised researches will develop.

Learning outcomes and competences

The student should be able to produce, from the available literature, a personal discourse about the issues under consideration.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. The Russian dream of France: MAKINE Andrei, Le testament français, Paris, Folio, 1995

2. Africa within France: LE CLÉZIO, Désert, Paris, Folio, 1980

Mandatory literature

ATALHAH Marc; La littérature, un remède à l`aliénation scientifique, Colloquium Helveticum, nº 37, Colloquium Helveticum, 2007
ARGAND CATHERINE; ANDREI MAKINE, PARIS, LIRE, 2011
MAJORANO Matteo dir. de; La Caméra des mots, Edizioni Graphis, 2006
NAZAROVA Nina; Deux facettes de l`oeuvre littéraire d`Andreï Makine, Université de Dublin, 2003
PARRY Margaret et alii; Andreï Makine: La Rencontre de l`Est et de l`Ouest, L`Harmattan, 2004
KNORR Katherine; Andreï Makine`s poetics of nostalgia, The New Criterion, 1996

Teaching methods and learning activities

Expository classes, student participation in discussions and presentation of research findings in class.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	74,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Trabalho de investigação	32,00
Total:	162,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Weighted average of the various tests and student’s effort, according to each student’s learning path.