A course designed to permit visiting scholars, or existing staff, to offer postgraduate level courses in particular areas of specialization relating to Literary and Cultural Studies, History or Creative Writing, that do not already figure in the programme. The topic and content of the course will vary from year to year depending on the availability of specialized staff. Examples of topics that might be offered include: Advanced theories of Research, Advanced Theories of Literary analysis, Children’s Literature in the Portuguese language, the Modern History of a specific Portuguese speaking nation, Portuguese Creative writing for television and film, Macao Literature in Patuá (Macao Creole Portuguese), The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, Relations between Macao and Siam, The Manila-Macao connection, the Luso-Asian Family, Luso-Asian writing, Travel writing in Portuguese colonial times, the Portuguese historical cultural view of Asian Societies.

CILO-1: Identify relevant theoretical concepts to conduct literary and cultural analysis in literary works. CILO-2: Discuss relevant theoretical frameworks to conduct literary and cultural analysis in literary works. CILO-3: Evaluate authors’s papers and analyze their work.