Course syllabus

Welcome to PR2004 Portuguese: African Literature in Portuguese at Dalarna University!

You are now in your course room. Until you register in your course, you will only be able to enter this room and log in as a guest. As a guest, you can access certain information about your course and your first weeks of study.

Registration to the course starts on week 34.

Study Format

This course starts in week 36.

The seminars in this course will be taught entirely online (net-based). Portuguese is used as the language of tuition and communication in the course (English or Swedish can be used as support languages).

Seminars scheduled on Mondays 17:30-19:00

Be Ready to Start your studies

Throughout your studies, you will use this platform for information and material and Zoom will be used for our digital seminars.

For this course you will find the course schedule (available two weeks before the course start) and a list of the books that you should buy before your course starts (see below). These you can buy at a book supplier.

When you take this course, you will study the following:

In-depth studies of African literary works in Portuguese. A number of representative contemporary literary works from Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé e Príncipe are studied and contextualized in the specific aesthetic, cultural and political discussions that have engaged the African authors. Through the theoretical texts we deepen the understanding of some central topics and themes, such as Modernism, Hybridity and Nationality.
 
You will improve your skills in these areas:

• identify and formulate key issues in a selection of works in the African
  literature written in Portuguese.
• analyse and interpret literary works and critically examine their content in
  their historical socio-political and cultural context
• in writing and orally communicate their own and others’ literary
  interpretations with very good mastery of the Portuguese language.

Here you can find a preliminary schedule for the course (attach file): Programa PR2004 HT26-2.pdf

Grading Criteria here: Grading criteria PR2004 HT26.pdf

Course guide : PR2004 AFRICA COURSE GUIDE - Ht26.pdf

MPORTANT
It is important that you read the information on our Welcome Page to find out more about your upcoming studies, how to find accommodation and what it is like to study at university.

If you have questions about the course, contact the course coordinator, Alda Maria Lentina.

Looking forward to meeting you very soon.

Alda Maria Lentina

(course coordinator)

	Course Syllabus			Contact information
	Reading List			Alda Maria Lentina Course Coordinator and teacher alt@du.se