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Fall 2022

Num. / Sec. / CRN	Name	Days	Time	Room	Instructor	Avail. / Max.
PORT 111-01 10680	Accelerated Beginning Portuguese	Days: M W F	Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am	Room: HUM 217	Instructor: Fernanda Bartolomei-Merlin	Avail./Max.: 1 / 15
5 credits; first day attendance required 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 331. Three class hours per week plus two hours of tutorial. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
PORT 111-02 10681	Accelerated Beginning Portuguese	Days: M W F	Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm	Room: HUM 214	Instructor: J. Ernesto Ortiz Diaz	Avail./Max.: 1 / 15
5 credits; first day attendance required 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 331. Three class hours per week plus two hours of tutorial. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Course Materials
PORT 331-01 10682	Journeys through Brazil: Oral and Written Expression	Days: M W F	Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm	Room: HUM 214	Instructor: J. Ernesto Ortiz Diaz	Avail./Max.: 6 / 15
First day attendance required; cross-listed as LATI 331-01 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 consent of the instructor. General Education Requirements: Writing WA Internationalism Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials

Spring 2023

Num. / Sec. / CRN	Name	Days	Time	Room	Instructor	Avail. / Max.
PORT 221-01 30669	Accelerated Intermediate Portuguese	Days: M W F	Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm	Room: HUM 214	Instructor: J. Ernesto Ortiz Diaz	Avail./Max.: 2 / 15
5 credits; first day attendance required 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 381-01 30670	Portugal Meets "the Other," Overseas: Portuguese Navigators from the 15th to 17th Century	Days: M W F	Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm	Room: HUM 213	Instructor: J. Ernesto Ortiz Diaz	Avail./Max.: 10 / 15
First day attendance required 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. The course will be taught in Portuguese. This course satisfies the Area 1 requirement for the Spanish major. Prerequisite(s): PORT 331 . General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: Humanities Course Materials