LLAW1110 

The Constitution and the Basic Law, being the legal bases of the Macao SAR, are embodied in two aspects. First, "One country, two systems" is implemented through institutionalisation and legalisation. The processes achieved the establishment of Macao SAR and the formulation of the Basic Law according to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. Second, "One country, two systems, a high degree of autonomy, Macao people governing Macao" are put into effect since the establishment of the Macao SAR following the legal system.

2

30 hrs

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PORT1131 

To teach students basic vocabulary and grammar (lexical and syntactic) structure of European Portuguese, so that they can understand the clear, standard expressions, grasp the main content, and can freely communicate on daily life topics and scenes, with simple and coherent language.

4

60 hrs

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PORT1132 

To cultivate students' reading comprehension and written expression in Portuguese (as a foreign language), and to combine reading comprehension/writing with the social culture of Portuguese-speaking countries, so that students can further understand the importance of written communication in social life.

6

90 hrs

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PORT1133 

To train students in the daily discussion and communication aspects of listening and speaking skills, so that they can use the knowledge learned from the course of "The Structure of Portuguese I".

6

90 hrs

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PORT1134 

Through training, students learn to identify and practice the phonetics of European Portuguese to understand how to pronounce the Portuguese language. The relationship between phonemic units and their spellings are also summarized in the course.

4

60 hrs

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PORT1141 

Following the "Structure of Portuguese I", students are introduced to the complex grammar (lexical and syntactic) structure, so that their vocabulary can be further expanded, and to understand the clear, standard expressions, to get grips with the main content, and to discuss the current affairs and/or a variety of different occasions with a clear/formal and coherent language; Students can expect to learn how to describe previous experiences and make justifications.

4

60 hrs

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PORT1142 

To enhance students' reading comprehension and writing skills in daily communication and at the workplace, so that students can master different strategies and methods to improve their reading comprehension and written expression and practice different styles.

6

90 hrs

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PORT1143 

Training and raising students' listening and speaking skills in complex discourse and communication so that students can learn what they have learned in "Structure of Portuguese II".

4

60 hrs

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PORT1144 

To train and to further enhance students' recognition and pronunciation of Portuguese speech sounds, and to systematically summarize the relationship between phonemic units and their spellings.

3

45 hrs

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PORT1145 

To train students to understand some of the basic concepts and topics of Portuguese thoughts and its development process, especially contemporary thoughts, and reflect on these; to understand the ideology of Portuguese, especially modern and contemporary thought; to think critically about the uniqueness of Portuguese thoughts in the postmodern era. To examine the national culture and national characteristics of Portugal, to understand the cultural genre of Portugal, and to understand the existence of Portugal from the perspective of ontology.

3

45 hrs

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PORT2131 

So that students can expand their vocabulary, and further grasp the more complex structure of the Portuguese grammar to understand the clear, standard expression, to comprehend the main content, and to discuss topics related to the workplace and current affairs in a more accurate and coherent manner.

6

90 hrs

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PORT2132 

As a continuation of Reading and Writing II, this course aims to improve students' reading comprehension and writing skills and to combine reading comprehension/writing with the introduction of the culture of Portuguese-speaking countries. With a particular focus on the exchanges at the workplace, texts used as materials are reader-friendly, with contents that are appealing to students. Students are led to understand in greater depth the importance of written communication in social life.

6

90 hrs

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PORT2133 

Training and raising students' listening, speaking and interactive dialogue skills in everyday discussions and communication, including understanding of information, talking about simple things of interest or current affairs, describing experiences, expressing opinions, and interacting with each other. Students are expected to use the knowledge learned from "Structure of Portuguese II".

4

60 hrs

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PORT2134 

To study the culture of the Portuguese-speaking countries, and to reflect on the common characteristics arising from etymology, history, culture, geography, social and political origins. To explore the interactional history and culture of Portuguese-speaking countries. A particular focus will be placed on the typical cultural features of countries adopting Portuguese as the official language.

4

60 hrs

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PORT2141 

To allow students to learn specialized vocabulary from different professions, to better grasp the complex structure of the Portuguese grammar; to understand the different themes, written norms of articles; to understand their contents, and to communicate freely about topics related to the workplace life and current affairs and settings in an accurate and coherent manner.

6

90 hrs

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PORT2142 

To further strengthen previous Portuguese (as a foreign language) reading comprehension and written competence systematically, which combines reading comprehension/writing with the introduction of the society and culture of the Portuguese-speaking regions. Emphasis will be placed on the communicative competence in different settings of the workplace, with a particular focus on the contents of reviews and analysis, sources of evidence and their nature, with statements of opinion and argument. Students can expect to receive in-depth understanding of the importance of written communication in social life.

4

60 hrs

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PORT2143 

To train and enhance students' listening, speaking and interactive speaking skills in sophisticated discussion and communication, including understanding of longer contents, more abstract and diverse contents of the subject; to discuss about all kinds of events; to expressing opinions and justify with evidence; To participate in a longer dialogue and interaction in a very accurate and efficient manner. To allow students to use knowledge learned from "Structure of Portuguese IV", to express their meaning accurately and freely.

4

60 hrs

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PORT2144 

To introduce the writers and literary works of Portuguese - speaking countries from the perspective of comparative literature. At the end of the semester, students should be able to make comments on the creative genre and literary works of different Portuguese writers; they should understand and know how to compare the themes of various selective literary works and their writing styles. Overall, the course aims to improve the students' appreciation of art and literature, and in particular, to distinguish between the different characteristics of different literary genres, so that students’ literary criticism skills can be enhanced ultimately.

6

90 hrs

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PORT3131 

To describe the characteristics of literary and cultural values and aesthetics of literature; to distinguish between literary and non-literary language; to identify the patterns of literature, genre and text types; To explain the characteristics of lyric, narrative and drama; to distinguish the functions of narrative genres; To allow students to learn critical practice and methods in the analysis of literary works, and to learn the dynamics of each literary period. All of the above are based on Portuguese literary works as the target of study.

4

60 hrs

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PORT3132 

Mainly to explain the various periods of Brazilian culture and inherent literary characteristics. The study of Brazil's representative cultural schools of thoughts and writers, and their impacts on the formation of the Brazilian national characteristics. It aims to bring literature, society, history, culture and language together. The works of Brazilian writers will be studied.

4

60 hrs

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PORT3133 

To explore the relationship between African Portuguese language, literature, history, economy, society, thought and culture, especially those of Angola and Cape Verde. In the study of the culture and literature of these countries, analyses are also conducted as how their national characteristics were formed from the period of anti-colonialism to nationalism. Through analysis of works, to learn about these countries from the postmodern point of view and post-colonial interpretation.

4

60 hrs

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PORT3134 

At the end of the course, students should have the appropriate ability to respond to different needs, goals and audiences; to prepare, create, present oral reports, and to plan and write papers. To introduce the most important methods and to provide training for students, so that they know the 'whats' and 'hows' of both oral and written communication.

4

60 hrs

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PORT3141 

To study the most important Portuguese literary works from the medieval until the contemporary period. To teach the students to identify Galician - Portuguese literature; identification of humanism and classical culture and literary patterns, as well as models of style, and the Baroque style. To introduce the themes, thoughts and literary approaches of romanticism and naturalism/realism. To explain and distinguish between modernism and avant-garde, observe the various creative literary works of Portugal.

4

60 hrs

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PORT3142 

To analyze the roots and causes of contemporary Brazilian social status. To analyze the formation of contemporary Brazilian social, cultural and economic situations. Studies of Brazilian culture and literature will include literature, architecture, music, art and cinema.

4

60 hrs

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PORT3143 

To study the literature of Mozambique, Guinea Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe from a diachronic perspective. To analyze the literary, historical, social and cultural backgrounds of these countries. To reflect on the formation of the African history and culture of narrative, and poetry and drama. To study historical and cultural movements and representative works and writers in culture and literature.

4

60 hrs

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PORT3144 

Based on previous contents in "Oral and Written Communication Skills I", this course aims to teach students methods to strengthen their oral and written communication regarding both the 'what' and the 'how'. At the end of the course, students should have acquired competence to respond to different needs, goals and audiences and to prepare, create, present oral reports, and to plan and write the subject and content of the more complex written articles.

4

60 hrs

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PORT4131 

To study the main literary works of Portuguese language in East Asia and their backgrounds. Another focus is on the relationship between oriental cultural literature and Western cultural literature.

3

45 hrs

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PORT4132 

To promote awareness and use of multicultural opportunities and learning sources for all; to develop students' communication skills, to encourage students to participate in social interaction. Obviously, the individual characteristics and the establishment of common sense of belonging to the human race come from interactions with the community. To promote the planning/implementation of relevant cultural (or cross-cultural) programs so that students can better understand the "self" and the "others".

3

45 hrs

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PTEN3111

To introduce important theories about foreign language learning, allowing students to understand how to acquire/learn a foreign language, and to find out the foreign language acquisition/learning constraints and facilitating factors. 

2

30 hrs

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PTEN3121

On the one hand, the course aims to enable students to construct the theoretical framework and pedagogical methods of the Portuguese language (as a foreign language), and to further understand the "how" and "why" of adopting these special techniques for teaching Portuguese (as a foreign language); on the other hand, it aims to cultivate students' interest , and to teach them to self-manage and regulate during study and research work, adhering to life-long training and self-study. The study of the course should also help to cultivate students' professional ethics as a teacher in the future. 

4

60 hrs

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PTEN4111

To strengthen the theoretical and pedagogical foundations of the Portuguese language (as a foreign language), so that students can further understand the "why" of special techniques adopted in teaching Portuguese (as a foreign language). To explain the importance of dynamic interactions between various foreign language teaching and learning behavior in the formal learning environment; how to adjust different foreign language teaching models and methods according to different reference systems as a response to different teaching backgrounds and purposes. 

4

60 hrs

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PTEN4112

Mainly to evaluate existing teaching materials of Portuguese (as a foreign language). Designed to meet a variety of different requirements of materials for teaching Portuguese (as a foreign language), in order to take into account the different learning background and different target-user groups. 

3

45 hrs

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PTEN4113

So that students can understand the concept of the curriculum in their interactions with different participants in the education process; to understand the advantages of formal education in multidimensional learning and interdisciplinary learning settings; to examine the different types and tools of assessment, and their comprehensive training and special training effect. 

3

45 hrs

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PTEN4121

Cultivate the self-reflection ability of Portuguese-speaking foreign students; to comment on classroom teaching practice, plan/evaluate the continuation of teaching Portuguese (as a foreign language), and promote academic research in the field of teaching Portuguese (as a foreign language). 

4

90 hrs

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PTEN4122

On the one hand, the course aims to cultivate the academic ability and teaching ability of the student interns; on the other hand, it sets out to combine theory and practice to integrate education and training, the specialist field, the foreign language teaching and the teacher practice. To help student interns so that they can have the ability and the courage to self-reflect on their performance on the job, dare to answer queries and address criticisms, thus constantly improving themselves. 

10

180 hrs

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PTEN4123

To introduce to students the characteristics of research projects at different stages, through explaining the different methods/strategies of pedagogy research, and to train students' written and verbal expressive ability in Portuguese (as a foreign language) to meet the needs of public academic papers. 

2

30 hrs

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PTEN4124

This course aims to introduce to students the fundamental theories of educational psychology; and to use these basic theories learned from the course to guide teaching practice. The main contents of the subject include: Student and teacher psychology (students' personality development, measurement & evaluation of student individual differences, teachers' professional quality and mental health, etc.), learning theories (cognitive learning and behavioral theories, constructivism, humanity-based learning theories, etc.), psychology of learning (motivation, knowledge construction, problem solving and creativity, moral learning, etc.), psychology of teaching (effective teaching, classroom assessment, classroom management, etc.). The focus of this course is to learn the theories of learning, the psychology of learning, measurement and assessment of student individual differences. 

2

30 hrs

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PCLP3111

To learn the political structure of the community of the Portuguese-speaking countries, so that students can understand the similarities and differences between these different countries. To analyze the growing status of these countries in the international arena and how to cooperate with each other in various fields to jointly promote economic, political, cultural and Portuguese development. Understanding the political systems of these countries, especially the executive authorities, is important to understand the meaning of the common political strategies of these countries. 

2

30 hrs

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PCLP3121

To study the natural geography and human geography of the Portuguese-speaking countries (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome, and Principe and Timor-Leste) and the distribution of these countries in the world. Based on the development of these countries, the course also explores the assessment and management methods of natural resources, natural risks and environmental risks, their land planning systems and the formulation of land exploitation strategies. 

4

60 hrs

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PCLP4111

Characterized by linguistic pluralism, territorial and political differences, the Portuguese-speaking region has its own origins and history. Without a general knowledge of this basic history of the Portuguese-speaking countries, you simply do not know it and will not be able to understand its connotation and characteristics. Therefore, the purpose of this subject is to briefly describe the process of the formation of Portuguese; to study the history of the movements giving rise to the formation of the Portuguese language region; to analyze the birth of the Portuguese language areas/countries chronologically. 

4

60 hrs

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PCLP4112

To analyze the strategies of the Community of the Portuguese Language Speaking (CPLP) countries to strengthen their economic relations; to study the economic domains of strategic importance for these countries and to evaluate the advantages of cooperation in enhancing economic competitiveness and strengthening internationalization of the economy; to understand the role of the CPLP countries in the global economy. 

3

45 hrs

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PCLP4113

To enable students to appreciate the status quo of Portuguese-speaking countries (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe and Timor-Leste); to appreciate how the Portuguese language has been influenced by its spread to the world and its integration with other languages and cultural coexistence that lead to the formation of this language and its cultural characteristics. Special reference will be made to Macao in which Portuguese is used as the official language. 

3

45 hrs

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PCLP4114

There are many problems in translation studies that need to be faced, particularly when the typologies of languages in question are different. In this sense, it is important to emphasize to the students that to master the translation work, they need to be proficient in both the source language and the target language. Through case studies, the course will analyze the main differences between Chinese and Portuguese in linguistics and their implications for translation work. 

4

60 hrs

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PCLP4121

The history of the Portuguese-speaking region is much earlier than the age of the current Portuguese-speaking countries. The historical changes in these areas have affected the local language characteristics. Besides, some settlements where overseas citizens gather also belong to the Portuguese-speaking areas. So not only the concept of Portuguese language should be explored, but also its political implications should be investigated. As such, the course aims to conduct a brief analysis of how the Portuguese language has co-existed with local languages in each Portuguese-speaking country, and against this backdrop, to evaluate the impacts of immigration. 

3

45 hrs

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PCLP4122

The literature of the literary period and other art linked. Understanding of artistic expression techniques; understanding of comparative literature practice, and the prerequisites for the effective use of comparative literature in the field of literature and in the relationship between literature and other arts and knowledge. This will involve interdisciplinary and intertextual research. 

4

60 hrs

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PCLP4123

Students will be exposed to different industries using Portuguese when the vocabulary and style of the unique features. Students are expected to have a way to communicate in Portuguese-speaking languages in specific social or occupational areas to cope with different behaviors and ways of thinking. The content of this subject is extremely useful, students will explore and practice the application of different professional areas of written articles and oral expression. 

4

60 hrs

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PCLP4124

Being the first attempts to discuss academic papers, this course is designed to enable students to acquire essentials for research methods, thesis writing and presentation. Key contents include data collection, analysis, synthesis and extraction techniques; as well as the structure, organization, and writing of the formal dissertation. 

3

45 hrs

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