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Methodologies in Portuguese Studies

Objectives

a) To know and deepen the problem of investigation of nature in the humanities; b) To know and master the key concepts and techniques of research in the areas of Literature Studies, Cultural Studies, Classical Studies, Comparative Studies, Teaching Portuguese, History of the Book and Textual Criticism, Literatures and Cultures of Portuguese Language, Traditional Literature; c) Ability to perform the heuristic of the documents in the fields of Literature Studies, Cultural Studies, Classical Studies, Comparative Studies, Teaching Portuguese, History of the Book and Textual Criticism, Literatures and Cultures of Portuguese, Traditional Literature; d) Ability to carry out processing of the data revealed by research and their scientific interpretation and criticism.

General characterization

Code

73209180

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Abel José Barros Baptista

Hours

Weekly - 2

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

None

Bibliography

Peter Brooks, ed., The Humanities and the Publica Life. Fordham University Press. Nova Iorque, 2014.
Stefan Collini, What Are the Universities for? Penguim Books, 2012.
Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, They Say I Say. The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing. London, 2010.
Gerald Graff, Clueless in Academe. Yale University Pressa: New Haven, 2003.
Jerome McGann, Are the Humanities Inconsequente? Prikly Paradigm Press. Chicago, 2009.
Max Weber, Science as vocation (1917). The Vocation Lectures. Edited and with an introduction by David Owen and Tracy B. Strong. Hackett Publishing, Cambridge/Indianapolis, 2004.

Teaching method

The course takes place in a typical seminar work, ie exposure sessions the teacher responsible for theoretical framework and delimitation of issues to discuss, primarily based on work reading and discussion of texts in turn presented by the students in sessions scheduled in advance, preferably at the beginning of the semester.
The participation of students in the regular work of discussion and presentation of texts corresponds to 40% of the final grade. The rest is up to the final test the student must carry around one of the topics of the seminar.

Evaluation method

Evaluation method - The participation of students in the regular work of discussion and presentation of texts corresponds to(40%), The rest is up to the final test the student must carry around one of the topics of the seminar. (60%)

Subject matter

1. The specific nature of academic work in the humanities
a) An ongoing debate: the scientific profession and the university: Max Weber´s position.
b) Current Trends on the problem of the Humanities and the situation of the university: what is what is not research.
2. The thesis problema in the Humanities: dissertation, monoigraphy, essay ...
a) The thesis of the thesis;
b) The quest for originality and innovation;
c) The essay as solution.
3. Perspectives on the essay
a) The metaphysics writing: Plato´s Phaedrus;
b) The form: Gyorgy Lukacs theory of the essay.