Project Work in Languages, Literatures and Cultures - Iberian and Ibero-American Studies
Code
722111046
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Espanhóis, Franceses e Italianos
Credits
33
Weekly hours
0
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To exercise the ability to research and to select and read relevant and appropriate bibliography.
b) To improve the ability of delimitate and formulate the objective of the research.
c) To exercise theoretical, methodological and critical analysis skills.
d) Display processes of reflective thinking.
e) Display a scientific and academical ethic behaviour.
f) Master the global organisation of the text displaying coherence.
g) Write in appropriate scholarly style, respecting quotation and bibliographic referencing norms.
h) Write with objectivity, concision and fluency, applying appropriate sintaxis and lexicon.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
a) To research: to be or not to be and for what.
b) Languages, Literatures & Cultures research methodologies.
c) Research questions and objectives.
d) Data collection and analysis; presentation and discussion of results.
e) Searching, synthesizing, summarizing and critiquing literatures.
f) Textual organization and planning.
g) Assessment of research in Languages, Literatures & Cultures.
Bibliography
Bibliografia específica adequada à investigação de cada estudante.
Dependent on the nature of each students research project:
Anderson, Benedict (2006). Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Revised Edition. London/New York: Verso.
Pierre Bourdieu. 1992. Les règles de l´art, Génèse et structure du champ littéraire. Paris: Seuil.
Ceia, C. (2012). Normas para Apresentação de Trabalhos Científicos, 9ª ed. Lisboa: Editorial Presença.
Fabb, N. and Durant, A. (2005). How to Write Essays and Dissertations. 2nd ed. Harlow: Pearson Education.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. 2005. Entre lo uno y lo diverso. Introducción a la literatura comparada (Ayer y hoy). Barcelona: Tusquets Editores.
Teaching method
Presentation and discussion of research questions and issues in LLC. Analysis of action research projects and study cases; critical and reflective analysis of the individual research project. Individual and small group tutoring sessions to support the organisation and writing of the project.
Evaluation method
The project work will be evaluated during a public viva before a jury, according to the MA course regulations.