Global Portugal: Historical Memory and Cultural Identity - Winter 2023

Study in Portugal will take place December 27, 2023 - January 4, 2024.*

Please note that this program includes a second eight-weeks fall semester course that will meet Mondays and Wednesdays on campus.

*All travel dates are tentative and subject to international travel restrictions.

Course Title: HON-H251: Global Portugal: Historical Memory and Cultural Identity

Academic Director & Instructor:  Estela Vieira

Syllabus Description:

“Global Portugal: Historical Memory and Cultural Identity” is a course designed around Portugal’s cultural history and its global connections to other parts of the world, Asia, Brazil, and Africa. More broadly the course helps students think about the ways in which history and culture are memorialized and forge cultural identity, traditions, and practices. This course enables students to deepen their understanding of how historical memory relates to cultural identity. The Portuguese colonial empire was the first and longest lived of the modern European empires. The country’s historical ties to far-off places are central to its national ethos, and its fraught history as a seafaring, imperial, and colonial power have resulted in important cross-cultural relations with different parts of the world. This course introduces students to Portugal’s history and to the ways in which culture and art can commemorate, reinterpret, and silence history. The course is divided into three units, each dedicated to a specific historical period and geographic region. The course provides a comprehensive overview of Portugal’s cultural history as well as critical thinking skills that are then applied to analyze art, literature, and architecture to define and identify forms of both creating and erasing historical and political memory.

• Daily course excursions to different sites of the city and surrounding areas, including:
  
  • Museum visits
  • Belém Tower
  • Discoveries Monument
  • Mafra Palace
  • Sintra (Moorish Castle and Pena Palace)
• Overnight trip to Lagos, Portugal

Program participants will stay in shared apartments located in downtown Lisbon. The accommodations are conveniently located near shops, public transit, and program excursion sites. 

Program Fee - $1750*

The program fee includes airport transfers in country, accommodations in Portugal, some meals, transportation to and from all excursion sites, entry fees to all museums and historical sites, student travel insurance, and administrative fees

*Program fee is subject to change due to unforeseeable circumstances.

IUB Tuition

If you are enrolled as a full-time student during the spring semester and enroll in HON-H251 as part of your block credits, there is no additional tuition cost to participate in Global Portugal: Historical Memory and Cultural Identity.

Additional Variable Costs

Variable costs are paid before and after you arrive in Portugal as you pay for roundtrip international airfare, some meals, snacks, personal expenses, and independent travel outside the program. 

Note: The program fee will appear on your bursar bill and is paid directly to IU. See the program fee sheet for more details.

Scholarships

All admitted program participants are awarded an automatic HIEP Hutton Honors Study Abroad Scholarship of $1000 applied directly to the program fee. No separate application is required.

Note: Program participants are not eligible to apply for the HIEP Grant.

Please see the IU Office of Overseas Study website for more information on other available scholarships and financial aid opportunities.

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