PORT - Portuguese

Introduces first-year Portuguese language instruction and requires no previous study of Portuguese. Classes emphasize all language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, including cultural competence.

Introduces first-year Portuguese language instruction. Classes emphasize all language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, including cultural competence.

Course completes first-year Portuguese language instruction. Classes emphasize all language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, including cultural competence.

A systematic grammar review is combined with literacy and cultural readings, while communicative exercises focus on improving students' ability to understand and hold sustained conversations. Students expand their vocabulary and knowledge of Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking cultures through films, popular music, and other culturally authentic materials.

Sequential to PORT 65A, completes second-year accelerated instruction. A systematic grammar review is combined with literacy and cultural readings, while communicative exercises focus on improving students' ability to understand and hold sustained conversations. Students expand their vocabulary and knowledge of Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking cultures through films, popular music, and other culturally authentic materials.

Examines key literary texts and films of the Portuguese-speaking world (Brazil, Portugal, and Africa), and the strategies they use to portray notions of national identity, which were transformed and enriched by transnational contact. Taught in English.

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Surveys films by and/or about women from Brazil, drawing a picture of contemporary Brazilian cinema through the angle of gender in its articulation with sexuality, race, class, ethnicity, national identity, and other key concepts, while offering a visual and critical introduction to Brazilian culture. (Formerly offered as LALS 124.)

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.