Department of Portuguese, Goa University - M.A. in Portuguese Literature and
Culture
Centro de Língua Portuguesa/ Instituto Camões-Goa have given support to the
students of the M.A. in Portuguese Literature and Culture, Department of
Portuguese, Goa University, and also to the teachers of Portuguese language
in the secondary schools of Goa.
This academic year, six students will finish their two year M.A. degree
program and it is expected that more students will enroll from next July in
order to become experts in Portuguese language and culture. Instituto
Camoes, together with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and also Orient
Foundation, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon,
is organizing a short study program in Portugal for these students of Goa
University. They were awarded scholarships in order to attend a course in
Didactics of Portuguese as a Foreign Language. Instituto Camoes has signed a
M.O.U. with Goa University and will go on supporting the language culture
courses of the Department of Portuguese through pedagogical materials, the
assistance of a Portuguese teacher as well as other means like scholarships
as possible.
This course is taking place in Lisbon from May 5th. until June 5th. These
students, Clifton Mervin Afonso, Ingrid Filomena de Jesus Ferrão Pereira,
Maria José Agnes Antonieta de Jesus Mascarenhas Prazeres, Maria Lira
Rodrigues, Mark Sebastian Pinto e Mónica Marize D'Lima will be accompanied
by José Miguel Ribeiro Lume, Leitor of Instituto Camões, and by another
teacher, Maria do Céu Barreto. Besides attending classes at the University
of Lisbon, they will fulfill other activities like study visits to different
historical and culture sites like Camilo Castelo Branco Museum or Eca de
Queiros Foundation in northern Portugal.
José Miguel Ribeiro Lume
Centro de Língua Portuguesa/ Instituto Camões
Goa-Índia
