Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Courses Literature and Linguistics
São Paulo, Brazil
Course
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Full time
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EARLIEST START DATE
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On-Campus
Key Summary
About: This postgraduate programme at UNESP explores Portuguese language, Brazilian literature, English literature, comparative literature, translation studies and cultural studies. It focuses on discursive and textual structure, genre and literary theory, translation theory, language teaching and policy. Sample courses include Brazilian short stories and cinema, the Bildungsroman, Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil, comparative literature, language awareness for teaching, literature and history, early childhood literature, spoken language research, and translation research methods.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as teachers, translators, researchers, editors, curriculum developers or cultural managers, and in publishing, education, media, cultural institutions, NGOs and edtech.
Skills support teaching and research.
This program aims at exploring a wide range of topics in the Portuguese language, Brazilian literature, literature in English, Comparative Literature, Translation Studies, Cultural Studies. The courses will focus on issues such as discursive and textual structure of Portuguese language, genre, teaching/learning languages, literary theory, translation theory.
Courses:
- Brazilian Short Stories and Cinema: Modern and Contemporary Visions
- Educating and Self Cultivating Literature: The Bildungsroman (novel of self-cultivation) as a Genre
- Elizabeth Bishop: Brazil Through the Eyes of an American Poet
- Introduction to Comparative Literature
- Language Awareness and Implications for Teaching, Learning and Instructional Interaction
- Language Policy
- Literature and History
- Literature in Early Childhood
- Reading Brazil through Literature
- Spoken Language: Research Perspectives and Principles in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
- Translation Theory and Research Methods in Translation Studies
