Encounters with Bodies in Lusophone Cultural Narrative

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• specific aspects of the histories, cultures and politics of the Portuguese-speaking world
• specific events and trends in the twentieth-century history of the Portuguese-speaking world
• specific forms of cultural expression in the modern Portuguese-speaking world
• the similarities and dissimilarities between the cultures and societies of the Portuguese-speaking world and your own culture

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• communicate your ideas in clear, concise and sophisticated writing
• plan and organise your learning, exercising independence and initiative
• critically evaluate and analyse cultural texts and secondary sources, to a specialised level
• make use of libraries, archives and online resources to access relevant information
• adhere to guidelines and deadlines

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• define, present and exemplify specific concepts related to the Portuguese-speaking world, to a specialised level
• select, synthesise and focus information about the Portuguese-speaking world from a variety of primary and secondary sources, to a specialised level
• apply a specialised level of knowledge, understanding and analysis critically to different topics related to the Portuguese-speaking world
• engage at a specialised level with subject matter and opinion related to the Portuguese-speaking world

Specific topics and concepts will vary year to year. Recent topics have included:

– Portuguese and Brazilian modernisms

– war photography

– Mozambican post-independence literature

– Bissau-Guinean cinema

– contemporary Brazilian documentary

Recent key concepts have included:

– queer bodies and gender performativity

– dead bodies and photographic portrayals of suffering

– disabled bodies and narrative disruption

– working bodies and intersectionality

– colonised bodies and imperial violence

Teaching and learning methods include:

– lectures introducing basic concepts and context

– seminars, where we will discuss cultural texts and concepts both as a whole and in small groups

– independent reading, thinking and writing

– one-to-one tutorials.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.