English Curricula
New Curricular Initiative at the FCSH Taught in the English Language
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Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH) offers a multidisciplinary curricular program taught in English. The program is designed to broaden learning opportunities at FCSH, enhancing existing curricular offerings to international students and Portuguese students fluent in English.
Program Overview
Program offered through an agreement established between the Universidade Nova / FCSH and the Council for International Educational Exchange (CIEE), U.S.A.
Undergraduate-level courses, taught in English, on Portuguese history, culture, politics and society.
All courses taught by faculty and invited postdoctoral fellows at FCSH.
Semester-long courses (6ECs) offered during Fall and Spring Semesters.
Courses open to all FCSH students.
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 program.
Enrollment numbers are limited to 20.
Priority of Admission
Students must demonstrate fluency in English.
Students whose area of academic concentration is that of the course for which they wish to register.
Pre-Registration
Students wishing to register for individual courses are asked to contact the CIEE/FCSH office in person (Avenida de Berna 26C, Torre B, Gabinete 723) or by email.
Course Offerings - Fall Semester 2009
ANTHROPOLOGY: Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
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.
Instructor: Dr. Phillip Havik
HISTORY: The Portuguese Colonial Experience in the Early-Modern Period
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.
Instructors: Prof. Pedro Cardim
LITERATURE: Portuguese and Brazilian Literature
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.
Instructor: Prof. Abel Barros Baptista
ART HISTORY: Lisbon: A journey from Olisipo till nowadays
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.
Instructor: Dra. Ana Margarida Rodrigues
COMMUNICATION & MEDIA: The Portuguese Media Ecology
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.
Instructor: Prof. Luiz Carlos Baptista
MUSIC: Music through Iberian looking-glass
Course Description: The course covers the history of music genres and traditions in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America and other Portuguese-speaking cultures elsewhere, from the middle ages to the present. Classes focus on selected aspects and repertories of Portuguese and Spanish-speaking rich classical and popular music cultures, ranging from 12th-century monody to popular music today. Particular attention is given to the social, aesthetic and political contexts of each genre.
Instructor: Prof. Gabriela Cruz
Course Offerings - Spring Semester 2010
schedule [pdf]
LITERATURE: Portuguese and Brazilian Literature
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.
Instructor: Prof. Gustavo Rubim
POLITICAL SCIENCE: The European Union: Portugal
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.
Instructor: Prof. Cristina Montalvão Sarmento, Dr. Paulo Barcelos
ART HISTORY: The Arts and the Portuguese Empire
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.
Instructor: Prof. Nuno Senos
CINEMA: Resisting the “irresistible empire”: Portuguese cinema and the “americanization” of European culture
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.
Instructor: Dr. Tiago Baptista
HISTORY: Imagining Portugal: Politics, Culture and Knowledge
Course Description: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Portugal was objectified as a community. This objectification process was strongly invested by the images materialized by political ideologies, cultural discourses and scientific and non-scientific knowledge. This course will consider a wide range of Portuguese nationalist discourses and classes will analyze politics from liberalism to fascism, culture from sports to literature and knowledge from anthropology to history.
Instructor: Prof. José Neves
SOCIOLOGY: Migrations and Globalization
Course Description: 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.
Instructor: Prof. José Mapril, Prof. Nuno Dias
For more information please contact:
Prof. Nuno Senos / Ciee Study Center at FCSH:
nuno.senos@gmail.com
Protocolo - Cooperação Educacional entre a Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH) e o Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE)
O acordo referido foi celebrado na Reitoria da Universidade Nova de Lisboa no dia 2 de Maio, onde estiveram presentes:
A Vice-Reitora responsável pela área de Relações Internacionais da UNL, Prof.ª Doutora Maria Arménia Carrondo;
O Director da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da UNL, Prof. Doutor João Sàágua;
A Directora do Programa para a Europa Ocidental, Ms. Catharine Scruggs.
Este protocolo tem como objectivo concretizar uma relação de cooperação que visa o benefício mútuo para todas as partes.
No âmbito deste protocolo, caberá à FCSH organizar um programa educacional para estudantes americanos de universidades ligadas ao CIEE. Os cursos, de 15 semanas por semestre, serão leccionados em inglês, por professores da FCSH nas instalações da Faculdade.
Os alunos poderão também escolher opções de disciplinas da Faculdade de Economia da UNL.
Serão aceites 25 estudantes por semestre, podendo este número aumentar no futuro. Aos estudantes aceites no âmbito deste protocolo, estarão disponíveis todos os serviços e actividades aos quais os outros estudantes da Faculdade também têm acesso.
Através dos Serviços de Acção Social da Universidade serão disponibilizados, no mínimo, 5 quartos individuais por semestre na Residência Alfredo de Sousa, situada no Campus de Campolide, sendo concedido acesso às cafetarias e serviços médicos da mesma.
Serão definidos pré-requisitos para cada curso, que os estudantes terão que preencher.
