Courses
[UPDATING]
LINGUISTIC STUDIES
LET 611 – THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Definition of Applied Linguistics; Research in Applied Linguitics; Areas of research in Applied Linguistics.
LET 612 – DISCURSIVE GENRE ANALYSIS
Conceptualization of genre, rhetorical pattern, textual type and sequence; Theoretical and methodological perspectives of discursive genres; Critical semiotic-discursive perspective on the study of genres; Discursive genres: multimodality and intergenericity; The relationship between discursive genre and teaching.
LET 613 – THEORETICAL BASES IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
The precursors of AD; Enunciative and argumentative theories; The heterogeneity of discourse; The constitution of subjects and their speeches; Approaches in Discourse Analysis; Discourse and Teaching; Discourse linguistics; The different conceptions of discourse.
LET 615 – LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION
Overview of mother and foreign language teacher education; Constructs for language teacher education; New perspectives in language teacher education.
LET 616 – ASPECTS OF THE LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS
Aspects of the language teaching and learning process; Language learning styles and strategies; Motivation; Learners’ beliefs about language learning; Affectivity; Identities; Social factors.
LET 617 – DISCOURSE, RHETORIC, AND ARGUMENTATION
Introduction to Rhetoric Studies; New Directions in Rhetoric
LET 618 – MULTILITERACY, LANGUAGES AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Multiliteracies: theoretical foundations; Language practices involving multiliteracies; Multiliteracies, languages and digital technologies; Multiliteracies in Applied Linguistics: research and application perspectives.
LET 619 – LANGUAGE POLICIES AND MULTILINGUALISM
Language Policy and the Politics of Language; Language policies and planning in multilingual and multicultural contexts; Language policies, translanguaging and the decolonial perspective; Monolingualism / bilingualism; Plurilingualism / multilingualism; Linguistic diversity / plurality.
LITERARY STUDIES
LET 630 – LITERATURE THEORIES
1. Discourses on literature in the 20th and 21st centuries; 2. Epistemological, theoretical and methodological assumptions for literary approaches from a contemporary perspective; 3. Literary Theories and the Cultural Studies
LET 631 – THEORIES IN COMPARACTIVE LITERATURE
Theoretical assumptions for the interdisciplinary and contextual analysis of
phenomena from a comparative perspective; Identification of analytical parameters that reflect contemporary trends in intercultural studies.; The contribution of Cultural and Post-Colonial Studies to the New Comparatism.
LET 632 – LITERATURE, HISTORY AND MEMORY
Approximations between literary discourse and historical discourse; An overview of the relationships between Literature and History; The current perspective on the relationship between History and Literature; Convergences and divergences between literary discourse and historical discourse; Mimesis, representation and fictionality; Literature and History as memory discourses; Memory and fiction; Fiction in Literature and History; Individual memory and collective memory; Historiographic metafiction in postmodernism; The analysis of literary, historical and autobiographic narrative.
LET 633 – LITERATURE AND OTHER FIELDS OF KNOWLEDGE
Reflection on literary language and the possible dialogues between literature and other fields of knowledge; Discussion on disciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity.
LET 634 – LITERATURE AND LITERATURE TEACHING
Conceptualization and status of literature at school; Literary reading practices among other reading modalities; Theories of literature and the teaching of literature; Discussion about literary canon and the historiography of literature; Literature teacher training.
LET 635 – LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES OF GENDER
A study of theoretical assumptions which place the issue of representation and discourse at stake based on the concept of gender; A discussion about the constitution of the subject in the order of language and its social environmen; An analysis of relations between subjectivity, gender, discourse and power; Criticism of works related to the construction of subjectivities, via space and the body in the field of otherness,
with gender as the privileged operator.
LET 637 – WOMEN’S WRITING
Pioneering Voices; Women’s Subjectivities; Intersectionality; Contemporary Voices
INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSES
LET 777 – TEACHING INTERNSHIP II
The units and subjects will be defined according to the syllabus of the course in which the student will undertake the teaching internship.
LET 790, 791 AND 792 – SPECIAL TOPICS I, II AND III; AND LET 794, 795 AND 796 – SPECIAL PROBLEMS I, II AND III.
Discussion of current topics in the field of Literary and Linguistic Studies, according to the areas of expertise of the instructors. This is a non-regularly offered course, taught by visiting professors or faculty members from the institution, either in an intensive or regular format
LET 797 – SEMINAR
The Master’s Programa in Languages requires graduate students to present a seminar based on the topic of their master’s thesis.
LET 799 – RESEARCH
Bibliographical research and writing of the master’s thesis in Letter.