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Class Schedules (Portuguese)

Fall 2026 Spring 2027

Fall 2026

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Num. / Sec. / CRN	Name	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
PORT 111-01 10592	Accelerated Beginning Portuguese	Days: M W F	Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am	Room: HUM 213	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 111-02 10593	Accelerated Beginning Portuguese	Days: M W F	Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm	Room: HUM 214	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 331-01 10594	Journeys through Brazil	Days: M W F	Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm	Room: HUM 217	Instructor: J. Ernesto Ortiz Díaz
Cross-listed with LATI 331-01 (10595) 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 2027

Visit the Registrar's Class Schedule for live registration information

Num. / Sec. / CRN	Name	Days	Time	Room	Instructor
PORT 221-01 30553	Accelerated Intermediate Portuguese	Days: M W F	Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am	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 30554	Intensive Portuguese for Spanish Speakers	Days: T R	Time: 09:40 am-11:10 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 381-01 30555	Portugal Meets "the Other," Overseas: Portuguese Navigators from the 15th to 17th Century	Days: T R	Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm	Room:	Instructor: J. Ernesto Ortiz Díaz
Cross-listed with INTL 294-03 (30859) Details In this course we will read travel accounts, official historiography, and literature from the period in which Portugal became the first European overseas empire. The Portuguese linked continents and cultures as never before traveling by sea; indeed this process can be understood as the first globalization because of the cultural cross-pollination that Portugal's voyages stirred up. We will focus on analyzing the way in which the Portuguese managed to portray 'the Other' by two contrary discourses: Portugal's providential mission, and the race for economical profit through trade and war in Africa and the Middle and Far East. We will also study the appropriation and resignification of these matters on works of literature and visual arts produced in the contemporary era. This course satisfies the Area 1 requirement for the Spanish major. Prerequisite(s): PORT 331 . General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials