Sumários

Official opening of 2018-2019 academic year

20 Setembro 2018, 16:00 Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

There was no class.


What are cultural studies?

20 Setembro 2018, 12:00 Zuzanna Zarebska

Students read from the text "What are cultural studies?". We have discussed the idea of mythologies, signs, signifiers and signified. Students gave their own examples of historically constructed myths. Names to remember: Roland Barthes, Raymond Williams, Michel Foucault. Key themes: cultural and literary studies, paradigm shift.

Revision of present tenses: definitions and models. 


Landscapes of fear

20 Setembro 2018, 10:00 Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Class discussion about sources and effects of fear; fascination with fear, the representation of fear in the cinema.


For next class:
Read the article "What happens in the brain when we feel fear?" and answer the pre-reading questions.


What's it worth?

19 Setembro 2018, 16:00 David Michael Greer

Further Intros
Notes on Evaluation


What's it Worth?

19 Setembro 2018, 10:00 David Michael Greer

Further Intros
Notes on Evaluation