Perspectives on the history of Brazil

Spring semester 2022

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Course content

This course introduces students to key events, figures and processes that have shaped modern Brazil since the time of European conquest. Students engage critically with a variety of historiographical approaches and narratives and thus get to know the field of History as a contested arena of different positions and schools of interpretation.

Description of qualifications

Purpose:
The purpose of the course is that the student should acquire an overview of the historical developments of Brazil.
The course addresses questions of Brazilian historiography, covers main continuities and changes in Brazilian history, and identifies important personae and events.
The course provides students with an overall orientation competence to understand key processes and events and their local/national as well as global relevance for the region today.

Academic goals:
In the evaluation of the student’s performance, emphasis is placed on the extent to which the student is able to:

Knowledge:
- Demonstrate knowledge of important regional and global historical moments/developments and understanding of the implications of periodisation as well as the use of different types of sources

Skills:
- Assess key concepts and interpretations of Brazilian history, independently locate relevant literature, contextualise it in time and space and identify arguments in scholarly texts

Competences:
- Critically approach Brazil’s history and evaluate different types of historical sources
- Apply and communicate findings in group work and present results/arguments in a meaningful way to others

ECTS
10
Level
Bachelor
Semester
BA 2nd semester
Language of instruction
English
Hours - week - period
Time and place will be announced no later than at the start of the semester here: https://timetable.au.dk/schedule
Type of course
Exchange
Primary programme
Bachelor's Degree Programme in Brazilian Studies
Department
Department of Culture and Society
Faculty
Arts
Location
Aarhus
STADS UVA code

Teaching

Form of instruction
Classroom instruction
Instructor
  • Fabio Santos

Comments on the form of instruction

Lectures, classroom discussions, individual coursework

Literature

Will be announced on Brightspace in the beginning of the semester

Examination

Form of examination
Take-home assignment (Assign)
Form of co-examination
Internal co-examination
Assessment
7-point grading scale
Permitted exam aids
Not specified

Comments

Ordinary examination:
In order to take the exam, the student must participate in class as well as submitting and gaining approval of a collection of assignments.
The exam consists of a portfolio containing a number of assignments. The number of assignments, their form (individual and/or group-based, written and/or oral, set and/or on a topic of the student’s choice) as well as the deadline for submission will be announced on Brightspace by the instructor at the start of the semester.

It must be possible to carry out an individual assessment. So if some parts of the portfolio have been produced by a group, it must be stated clearly which parts each student is responsible for, and which parts the group as a whole is responsible for.

Re-examination:
The re-examination involves a set take-home assignment on 8-10 standard pages.
Duration: Seven days