These lectures present a relatively recent introduction into the class of discontinuos Galerkin (DG) methods, named Discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) methods. DPG methods, in which DG spaces form a critical ingredient, can be thought of as least-square methods in nonstandard norms, or as Petrov-Galerkin methods with special test spaces, or as a nonstandard mixed method. We will pursue all the...