Cult of Port Speaking World

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

In this course we will explore how the Portuguese language is creating global cultural connections. Cultural differences are a vivid entanglement of languages, social, environmental, and artistic diversity in the Portuguese speaking world. The main goal of this course is to critically analyze these emergent territorial, societal creations, while considering how they are shaping creative cultural encounters. Constant interrelations are being created from hybrid emergent differences and showing that there’s no master narrative or knowledge, but rather shared responsibility and learning possibilities in areas and territories for cultural reproduction. We will use several materials that range from videos, interviews, literary texts, music and film, which address different aspects of the culture of Portuguese-speaking countries. Students are expected to prepare each text/film/audio in advance and to be ready to discuss these in class.