GALICIAN STUDIES IN BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION: THE PATH OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ

Abstract

Even today, Galician Studies are still (almost) absent in the Brazilian universitary landscape. Paradoxical fact because the role of Galicia and the Galician language are essential for understanding the history and current affairs of the Portuguese language (LAGARES; MONTEAGUDO, 2012). Thus, to minimally fill this gap, since 2016 the discipline of Introduction to Galician Language and Culture has been offered, as an option for students of the undergraduate courses in Letters at the Federal University of Paraná, in Curitiba. The 30-hour course deals globally with cultural, artistic-literary, linguistic and historical aspects between Galician and Portuguese; using methodological tools from the plural approaches to the teaching of languages and cultures (CANDELIER et al., 2012). Within this general context, the present research, of a qualitative and quantitative nature, proposes structured questionnaires to examine the students' familiarization with Galician Studies both at the beginning of the option and at the end. Thus, we can understand the contribution of such studies to the training of students, future professionals of Language Studies. Thus, we aim to achieve an understanding, through the student's response, of the awareness acquired throughout the discipline and observe how this allows UFPR students to get closer to the linguistic and cultural scope of Galicia.