TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL & MODERN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES
| GRADUATE PROGRAM IN SPANISH |
THE PORTUGUESE PROGRAM
Please contact:
Dr. Antonio Ladeira
Assistant Professor of Portuguese
Telephone: (806)742-1550
GRADUATE MINOR IN PORTUGUESE
For the Graduate minor in Portuguese, a minimum of 18 credit hours is required.
An affiliation agreement between Texas Tech and Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, is underway. After the approval of said agreement, Portuguese minor students will be able to fulfill up to half of their minor requirements by taking language and/or literature classes during the summer at Universidade de Lisboa. These requirements could be fulfilled in one, two, or three summers, depending on the number of courses taken. Class offerings are varied and taught by Professors from Universidade de Lisboa.
Scholarships from the Portuguese government covering up to 90% of the total expenses of the Program are available.
While we wait for the "Texas Tech-Universidade de Lisboa" agreement to become official, students may still apply for the Summer Program in Lisbon and request that their credits be transferred at a later date. Please consult the Universidade de Lisboa website: www.fl.ul.pt.
A similar agreement with a University in Brazil
will be available soon.
COURSES OFFERED AT TEXAS TECH:
SPRING 2003
1302 Elementary Portuguese II
Introduction and development of the four
language skills in Portuguese; listening comprehension, speaking, reading and
writing.
5355 Readings in Luso-Brazilian
Literature (Taught in Portuguese):
This course examines some of the main literary works and authors of Portugal and
Brazil in the XIX and XX centuries: Parnasianism and Neo-Romanticism, Fernando
Pessoa and Mário de Andrade, the Modernist lyrical tradition in Portugal and
Brazil, concrete and marginal poetry in Brazil, Surrealist and Neo-Realist
writing in Portugal, Eça de Queirós and Machado de Assis, Graciliano Ramos and
the novelists of Northeast Brazil, Socialist writers in Portugal during the
fifties and sixties, the Three Marias and the new women writers, António
Lobo Antunes and the wars in ‘Portuguese’ Africa, Milton Hatoum and the new
novel in postdictatorship Brazil. Course
may be repeated with different content.
7000 Introduction to Portuguese Literature (Taught in Portuguese): The course examines the main literary works and trends in Portugal since the medieval period until today. Topics include the medieval poetry of the Galician-Portuguese tradition; Gil Vicente and the bilingual writers of the XVI century; Camões and the Portuguese Renaissance authors; Mendes Pinto, the epic and anti-epic writing of empire; Padre António Vieira and the Baroque, Romanticism and Naturalism in the XIX century; Lídia Jorge and postrevolutionary fiction. Theoretical approaches are informed by the current debate on Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism and Postcolonialism.
FALL
2003
1301 Elementary Portuguese I: Introduction
and development of the four language skills in Portuguese; listening
comprehension, speaking, reading and
writing.
2301 Intermediate Portuguese I: Reading, cultural background, grammar review, conversation and compositiom.
1507 Intensive Portuguese for Spanish Speakers: An intensive course of Elementary Portuguese for Spanish Speakers. It covers, in one semester, the material taught in Portuguese 1301 and 1302. It admits to Portuguese 2301. The course will focus on comparative aspects of Spanish and Portuguese. It will cover basic vocabulary, fundamentals of grammar and will provide an introduction to the cultures of the Portuguese speaking countries around the world such as Brazil, Portugal, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Ginea-Bissau. Practice in speaking, reading and writing will be attained through communicative activities. Presentation of audio_visual materials and subsequent debate constitute an important part of the course.
5307/3307
Luso-Brazilian Civilization and Literature (Taught in English):
This course examines the civilization and cultures of the Luso-Brazilian world
through the study of representative literary, cultural and journalistic texts.
Topics range from the XVI though the XX centuries; Voyages of exploration in the
tropics, Portuguese and Brazilian dictatorships and the transition to democracy,
Masterpieces of the Luso-Brazilian lyrical tradition, the Amazon forest, the
landless movement in XX century Brazil, Immigration and race-relations, national
and transnational identities. Films will be
screened to illustrate the material. Course
may be repeated with different content.
5355 Readings in Luso-Brazilian
Literature: Advanced topics in
Luso-Brazilian literature (content to be
announced).