Course Details in 2024/25 Session

Module Title	LI Portuguese Core III - Intermediate: Global Cultures in Portuguese
School	Lan, Cult, Art Hist & Music
Department	Modern Languages
Module Code	09 30129
Module Lead	Emanuelle Santos
Level	Intermediate Level
Credits	20
Semester	Semester 1
Pre-requisites	LC Portuguese Core II - Beginners: Modernities in Portuguese - (09 31625)
Co-requisites	LI Portuguese Core IV - Intermediate: Transatlantic Exchanges - (09 30136)
Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-10 hours Seminar-60 hours Guided independent study-130 hours Total: 200 hours
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Description	This module presents a fusion of linguistic competencies and content analysis to allow students to continue developing a depth and breadth of subject expertise within Portuguese and Lusophone studies and explaining the significance and relevance of that knowledge. In place of the traditional separation between language and content in Modern Languages curricula, and through the interrelation of comprehension, speaking, and writing, students on the module will develop their understanding and expertise within Portuguese language in conjunction with a consistent focus on cultural awareness and analysis. The module will build on the knowledge of key cultural concerns that students developed in year 1; social, political, and historical phenomena; and linguistic skills relating to the Portuguese-speaking world within and across global contexts and disciplines. Students will also hone skills sets in critical thinking and research that will allow them to engage with and interrogate pressing socio-political issues and cultural phenomena from local and global perspectives. Students will have regular opportunities to use technology to understand language and culture, derived where possible from teaching and research projects based in the Department of Modern Languages.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: evaluate further key cultural movements, historical periods and socio-political events of the Portuguese and Lusophone world and their significance within and across global contexts. make appropriate use of up-to-date technology - derived from research and pedagogy that are current in Portuguese - to analyse, understand, and draw inferences regarding key aspects of Portuguese language and culture from a variety of critical perspectives. develop the use of varied academic methods and concepts fundamental to the advanced understanding of languages and cultures across different multiple periods and disciplines, and apply this understanding to connections and conflicts between peoples in history and the contemporary period. demonstrate independent learning, reflective learning, critical thinking and the ability to perform a range of research tasks in order critically to examine diverse local and global phenomena relating to languages and cultures. demonstrate higher-level use of the Portuguese language working towards level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages.
Assessment	30129-01 : Critical Exercise in Portuguese (600 words) : Coursework (50%) 30129-02 : Oral-Aural Exercise : Practical (50%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Critical exercise of 600 words (or equivalent) in Portuguese (50%). One oral-aural exercise (50%) Alternative assessment if on campus activity is restricted: If live oral assessments are planned, then the alternative will either be recorded presentations or conducted via Zoom/Skype. Re-assessment: Re-submission of failed component
Other	See BAML programme specifications for prohibited language combinations.
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