Class Schedules (Portuguese)

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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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The word crônica in Portuguese does not have the same meaning as chronicle, its English equivalent. In Brazil, a crônica is a “short composition, often humorous in tone, that may at times resemble a short story or an essay or that may be a commentary on almost any subject.” In this course, students will improve their proficiency in Portuguese in the four language skills –listening, speaking, reading, and writing– and also gain a deeper cultural knowledge on contemporary Brazil through the discussion of a selection of crônicas. We will analyze these short texts written by famous Brazilian authors (published in the 1970s, 1990s, or 2010s) that will provide us with opportunities to learn more about historical and current Brazilian cultural environments.Prerequisite: PORT 221 or permission of the instructor

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Writing WA
Internationalism

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Humanities

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