Code: | LLC126 | Acronym: | NHAC |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Literature |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies |
Course/CS Responsible: | Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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LLC | 19 | Study plan | 3 | - | 6 | 41 | 162 |
Study plan | 2 | - | 6 | 41 | 162 | ||
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The main objectives of this course (UC) are:
1. To get to know, through an historical perspective, the main steps, movements, authors and plays of the Hispanic American narrative from the twentieth century until the present day.
2. To analyse, in a critical way, texts that are representative of the contemporary Hispanic American narrative, in order to identify it’s main characteristics, either thematic, formal or stylistic.
3. To discover the basic characteristics and peculiarities of the contemporary Hispanic American culture (historical, intellectual and artistic), through their literary texts.
4. To understand and value the contribution of the Hispanic American contemporary narrative to the western culture.
In order to assure coherence, a reflexion was made on the competences and knowledge that were expected as student’s achievements, starting from what they usually know about the issues in the beginning of the school year, to their learning needs, and the application of the new knowledge in their training.
This way, in order to achieve the objectives of the curricular unit, a selection was made among the key points of the Hispanic American literature, it’s contemporary narrative and among the diverse literary texts of it’s most representative authors, providing the students with the tools needed for an adequate critical analysis and for the discovery of the fundamental characteristics of the contemporary Hispanic American culture (historical, intellectual and artistic), and so, to be aware of the important contribution of this narrative for the western culture.
This UC implies the frequency of theoretical-practical sessions where the constructive dialogue between professor and students will be fundamental, promoting a combination of deductive and inductive learning. Classes will be taught in Spanish, although students are allowed to submit written tests in Portuguese. The support materials will be available at Moodle, so that the students may follow the subjects presented.
The professor will choose 3 books for the students to read, from this list:
-Los de abajo de M. Azuela
-La vorágine - J. E. Rivera
-Don Segundo Sombra - R. Güiraldes
-Huasipungo - J. Icaza
-El Señor Presidente - M. A. Asturias
-Pedro Páramo - J. Rulfo
-El túnel - E. Sábato
-Cien años de soledad - G. García Márquez
-The short story in the Hispanic American narrative (Borges, Cortázar, Valenzuela, Lemebel, Ocampo...).
In order to achieve the objectives of the curricular unit, the option was a methodology in which the student acquires the contents of the subject either in a deductive way, through the theoretical explanations of the themes done by the professor, or in an inductive way, reading and analysing texts that exemplify the characteristics of the work of an author or a literary trend in order to determine the general traces of a specific literary movement. The texts are given by the professor and placed at the virtual platform of the FLUP (Moodle). They consist of support materials in pdf format for each theme of the programme. These materials are a careful selection of fragments of works or literary manifestos that will be used as examples for analysis in class. Theoretical schemes will be included for studying the main characteristics of the Contemporary Hispanic American narrative, as well as bibliography and internet references, where the student is offered a collection of internet links and online articles that will help them enlarge their knowledge of the theme and to get informed in an autonomous way about other issues related to the subject.
Special emphasis is made in providing students with abilities to associate literary movements with other cultural manifestations or thoughts. In order to do so, it is usual, in class, to relate different cultural references with the texts analysed.
Audiovisual documents, reports and television interviews are of common use, extracted mainly from the archives of the Radio televisión española (RTVE). These resources help the student to analyse the literary texts as a whole, understanding and visualising the society and the cultural ambience in which they arose, as well as listening to the writers explaining the characteristics of their works, the intentionality behind their creation, and the social context in which they were made.
As said before, the students have to, not only, analyse fragments of works, but also read some complete works (suggested readings).
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Teste | 90,00 |
Participação presencial | 10,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Designation | Time (hours) |
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Estudo autónomo | 121,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 41,00 |
Total: | 162,00 |
Class attendance minimum of 75% of the lessons, except in the predicted cases.
According to the law in force at FLUP and given above criteria.
Students that work will be able to choose in this curricular unit to take a distributed assessment or to take a single global written test in June.
Since the assessment of this subject is distributed and continuous, there is no option to improve the classification in any of its components.
ATTENTION: For more detailed information, please check the UC at Moodle at the beginning of the semester.