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Class Schedules (Portuguese)

Fall 2025 Spring 2026

Fall 2025

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Num. / Sec. / CRN	Name	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
PORT 111-01 12683	Accelerated Beginning Portuguese	Days: M W F	Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am	Room: HUM 402	Instructor: Fernanda Bartolomei-Merlin
5 credits Details Intensive instruction in speaking, understanding, reading and writing Portuguese. Brazilian usage emphasized. Successful completion with a minimum grade of C- allows enrollment in the second level Portuguese course, PORT 221. Three class hours per week plus two hours of tutorial. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
PORT 111-02 12684	Accelerated Beginning Portuguese	Days: M W F	Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm	Room: HUM 215	Instructor: J. Ernesto Ortiz Díaz
5 credits Details Intensive instruction in speaking, understanding, reading and writing Portuguese. Brazilian usage emphasized. Successful completion with a minimum grade of C- allows enrollment in the second level Portuguese course, PORT 221. Three class hours per week plus two hours of tutorial. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
PORT 194-F1 12685	Soultracking Brazil: Shuffling Through the Sounds of a Musical Nation	Days: M W F	Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am	Room: THEATR 213	Instructor: J. Ernesto Ortiz Díaz
First-Year Course only Details What binds together a continental-sized country, stretching across both hemispheres and four time zones, made up by a wide array of landscapes and climates, encompassing half of the population of South America and with a society that is the quintessence of racial diversity? In this course, we will study how the idea of Brazil as a nation rests upon the ongoing creation of a popular soundtrack that brings the country’s different cultural regions closer through a melody of sounds, rhythms, and musical genres. Every week, we will shuffle through the national musical archive to look for the soul of Brazil to the beats of samba, bossa nova, modinha, xote, forró, lundu, choro, frevo, carimbó, maxixe, maracatu, among many others. As we explore the musical richness of Brazil, we will also reflect on how concepts like gender, identity, race, ethnicity, and class have informed the national music scene. This course will be taught in English. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials
PORT 331-01 12686	Journeys through Brazil	Days: M W F	Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm	Room: HUM 215	Instructor: J. Ernesto Ortiz Díaz
Cross-listed with LATI 331-01 (12687) Details Primarily designed to improve oral communication and to strengthen students' written proficiency and their awareness of grammar intricacies in Portuguese. In relation to writing, it serves as a bridge to upper-level courses. Conversations and compositions are based on the civilization and cultures of Brazil, which despite its continental size and being among the largest world economies, remains a mystery to many. This course explores the socio-historical, political and cultural trajectory Brazil has undertaken while, at the same time, reflecting on how ideas such as nation, identity, race, ethnicity, and class have transformed the face of the country. A wide array of texts and materials -literature, music, painting, sculpture, architecture, dance, and cinema- is used to gain a broad and critical understanding of the Brazilian universe. It involves extensive reading appropriate to the level. Prerequisite(s): PORT 221, or PORT 231, or consent of the instructor. General Education Requirements: Writing WA Internationalism Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials

Spring 2026

Visit the Registrar's Class Schedule for live registration information

Num. / Sec. / CRN	Name	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
PORT 221-01 32583	Accelerated Intermediate Portuguese	Days: M W F	Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm	Room:	Instructor: Fernanda Bartolomei-Merlin
5 credits Details This course covers the second year of Portuguese in one semester. It extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Portuguese, and it introduces the history and culture of Lusophone countries. Brazilian usage emphasized. This course is appropriate for students who have taken PORT 111 or for highly self-motivated students with appropriate prior experience in Portuguese. Successful completion allows enrollment in PORT 331. Three class hours per week plus two hours of tutorial. Successful completion of this course satisfies the college language requirement. Prerequisite(s): PORT 111 with a minimum grade of C- or consent of the instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
PORT 231-01 32584	Intensive Portuguese for Spanish Speakers	Days: M W F	Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am	Room:	Instructor: J. Ernesto Ortiz Díaz
5 credits Details This fast-paced and intensive course is designed for highly self-motivated students with upper-intermediate level skills or higher in Spanish or in another Romance language. It introduces and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Portuguese (speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills) while introducing the history and culture of Lusophone countries and communities worldwide. Completion of this course with a C- or higher allows enrollment in PORT 331. Three class hours per week plus two hours of tutorial. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 305 or SPAN 306 or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
PORT 341-01 32585	Voices from the Margins: Afro-Brazilian Women Writers	Days: M W F	Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm	Room:	Instructor: Fernanda Bartolomei-Merlin
Cross-listed with LATI 394-02 (32898) Details This course focuses on the writing of black women writers from Brazil. We will study the history of race relations in Brazil as the framework of the struggle of Afro-Brazilian women against invisibility and injustice. We will analyze a wide array of texts, which revolve around the experiences and the position Black women have traditionally had within Brazilian society and the way they are now contesting such circumstances and roles through literature, music, art, theater, folklore, Afro-Brazilian religion, and cinema. Students will learn about "escrevivência", the process of writing the experience of the marginalized and the oppressed. Prerequisite(s): PORT 331 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials