PORT20220 Reading Portuguese Texts

Academic Year 2024/2025

This module is designed to facilitate a direct engagement with Portuguese language texts, by means of a structured path of guided reading. Texts are read in Portuguese with translations, synopses, and vocabulary lists made available for those studying Portuguese as beginners. This will aid students in their reading, comprehension and literary analysis of the original Portuguese language texts. The module will entail the study of various genres of literature.
The aim of the module is to empower students to become independent, critical readers of Portuguese-language cultural texts. Using close reading skills, students learn to reflect upon their own readings, to use appropriate terminology and strategies and to express their analysis in carefully crafted commentaries and tutorial setting.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
- use close analysis to develop a persuasive argument about prescribed texts in relation to their historical and cultural context.
- reason, argue and clearly express in written English (or Portuguese if desired) their own readings of the prescribed texts in terms of both form and content
- reflect on, modify and improve their command of Portuguese
- present ideas orally and engage in discussion

Indicative Module Content:

This module introduces excerpts from texts taken from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries Portuguese language literature.


Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

12
Tutorial

12
Specified Learning Activities

50
Autonomous Student Learning

48
Total

122
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
This module is delivered through one weekly 50-minutes lecture and one weekly 50-minutes tutorial. Attendance of both lectures and tutorials is crucial for successful engagement with this modules.
Task-based learning (close work on constructing commentaries), in the form of group-work, lectures, seminars, critical writing. Active participation in tutorials and full engagement with material and tasks made accessible on Brightspace is expected every week. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Participation in Learning Activities: Contributions to in-class discussions, debates and presentations Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

20

 No
Assignment(Including Essay): Commentary (750-1000 words): close analysis of one (or more) of the texts discussed in the first half of the module. Week 6 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

30

 No
Assignment(Including Essay): Essay: Comparative essay (1500-2000 words) based on material examined throughout the module Week 14 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

50

 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

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