English Curricula
Programme Overview
The FCSH offers a multidisciplinary curricular programme taught in English. The programme is designed to broaden learning opportunities at FCSH, enhancing existing curricular offerings to international students and Portuguese students who are fluent in English. Semester-long courses offered at undergraduate level and worth 6 ECTS.
This programme is offered through an agreement established between the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the Council for International Educational Exchange (CIEE), USA.
Who can participate?
All students at FCSH may register for individual courses. Courses may be taken in fulfillment of “optional course” (opções livres) by regular students at FCSH. Courses may be taken in fulfillment of academic requirements under the Erasmus and Erasmus Mundus programme.
Course Offerings – Fall Semester 2011
ANTHROPOLOGY: Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
711 001 061
Course Description: This course aims to provide a critical introduction to theory and debates in the fields of colonialism and post-colonialism, highlighting lines of connection and disconnection between the two. Over the past three decades, the field of post-colonialism has brought issues of race, nation, empire, migration, and ethnicity to the forefront of academic knowledge, examining their interconnection with cultural, political, and economic forces. The present course reflects this interdisciplinary approach, examining the effects of colonization and of the cultural, political, and linguistic power of the West over non-Western cultures and societies, through literary, historical, anthropological, and sociological readings.
Prof. Phillip Havik
HISTORY: The Portuguese Colonial Experience in the Early-Modern Period
711 051 135
Course Description: Lectures cover the history of the Portuguese colonial experience from the 15th to the early 19th century. The course provides students a specific, ample, detailed and up-to-date knowledge of the several periods of Portuguese expansion in the early-modern period, as well as the ability to compare it with other colonial ventures.
Prof. Pedro Cardim
LITERATURE: Portuguese and Brazilian Literature
711 091 142
Course Description: This course is an introductory approach to Portuguese and Brazilian literature focusing on their singular modernities and focusing on the connections between (affinities, differences, and so on). Students read some of the most important literary works by Portuguese and Brazilian modernists such as Eça de Queiroz, Machado de Assis, Fernando Pessoa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and Clarice Lispector.
Prof. Abel Barros Baptista and Prof. Humberto Brito
ART HISTORY: Lisbon: city and architecture
711 001
Course Description: How did Lisbon acquire its present form? This course covers the history of Lisbon from Roman times to the present by analyzing selected aspects of urbanism, architecture, sculpture and painting and their relationship with the city’s particular historic context. In this course, students will read primary sources and analyze the works of art in loco. This course will enhance students understanding of Portuguese art history and provide them with tools to read any work of art.
Prof. Ana Margarida Rodrigues
COMMUNICATION & MEDIA: The Portuguese Media Ecology
711 160 005
Course Description: This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the changes underwent by the various Portuguese media in the last decade, particularly regarding the widespread use of the Internet and mobile communications technologies, as well as cable and the future implementation of digital TV. These changes will be analyzed from the perspective of Media Ecology, a discipline that studies the interaction of media as well as their social, cultural, economic and political impact. This theoretical framework will provide the basis for an analysis of particular cases. In-class teaching will be supplemented with fieldtrips.
Prof. Luís Carlos Baptista
MUSIC: Music in Portugal Today: an overview
711 160 015
Course Description: This course offers an introduction to the rich variety of music cultures found in Portugal. We will take an ethnomusicological perspective, which means learning about the social and historical contexts from which different genres emerged, and paying attention to the ways in which performance practices reflect and produce those contexts. Part of the class time will be devoted to listening to music and observing excerpts from films and other media, and part to discussing the reading assignments. There will also be a short in-class assignment and writing assignments, as well as quizzes, a mid-term exam, and a final exam. We will also incorporate fieldtrips to, for example, the Fado Museum, Television Archives, and selected venues for live music.
Dr. Pedro Felix
Course Offerings - Spring Semester 2012
LITERATURE: Portuguese and Brazilian Literature
711 091 142
Course Description: This course is an introductory approach to Portuguese and Brazilian literature focusing on their singular modernities and focusing on the connections between (affinities, differences, and so on). Students read some of the most important literary works by Portuguese and Brazilian modernists such as Eça de Queiroz, Machado de Assis, Fernando Pessoa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and Clarice Lispector.
Prof. Humberto Brito
POLITICAL SCIENCE: The European Union: Portugal
711 071 056
Course Description: The course provides an ample, detailed introduction to the historical and political issues of European integration. Special attention is given to the historical processes and narratives that have informed the construction of the European Union, the political theories and practices that are at the base of its governance, as well as its institutions political system and public policies, specifically looking at the case of Portugal.
Dr. Paulo Barcelos
ART HISTORY: The Arts and the Portuguese Empire
711 160 004
Course Description: This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the art and architecture produced in the territories that composed the Portuguese empire in the early modern age (15th-18th centuries). Selected topics will be discussed in chronological and geographic order. A selection of thematic sessions will follow that will provide a different approach to the materials and establish connections between the different parts of the empire. In-class teaching will be supplemented with museum tours.
Prof. Nuno Senos
CINEMA: Portuguese cinema
711 160 007
Course Description: This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the history of film understood not only as an art form, but also as an industrial commodity, and as a public show. This manifold perspective will allow for an assessment of the specific contributions of film to the local negotiation and shaping of cultural representations and national identities. These took place under the broader context of the different responses to the fear of the “americanization” not only of European cinema, but also of European culture and society as a whole. Therefore, throughout the course special attention will be paid to a comparative analysis of Portuguese cinema in its relation to relevant international movements, directors, and films, and also to the reception of foreign cinema in Portugal. In-class teaching will rely on frequent screening and discussion of selected film clips that will be supplemented with tours to the National Film Archive’s conservation centre, to the permanent pre-cinema exhibition of Lisbon’s Film Museum, and to some of the capital’s most iconic movie theatres.
Dr. Tiago Baptista
HISTORY: Contemporary Portugal: Politics and Culture
711 160 017
Course Description: This course aims at examining the history of twentieth-century Portugal, from the fall of an 800-year old monarchy to the 1974 revolution, and the subsequent consolidation of a democratic regime. It will touch upon the major political, social and cultural changes between 1900 and 2000.
Prof. Alice Samara
SOCIOLOGY: Migrations and Globalization
711 000
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of transnational migrations. It will initially present contemporary immigration in Southern Europe, with special reference to the Portuguese case. In a second moment, selected topics will be discussed thematically and some empirical (ethnographic, statistic, etc.) data will be presented based on several examples from ethnographic realities from South Asia, Africa and Asia.
