PORT - Portuguese

PORT 1 First-Year 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.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Quarter offered

Fall

PORT 2 First-Year Portuguese

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

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): PORT 1 or by placement exam.

Quarter offered

Winter

PORT 3 First-Year Portuguese

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

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): PORT 2 or by placement exam.

Quarter offered

Spring

PORT 65A Accelerated Intermediate Portuguese

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.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): PORT 3 or by consent of instructor.

General Education Code

CC

Quarter offered

Fall

PORT 65B Accelerated Intermediate Portuguese

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.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): PORT 65A, or by consent of instructor.

General Education Code

CC

PORT 80 Voices from the Portuguese-Speaking World: Portugal, Brazil and Africa

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.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff, Ana Seara

General Education Code

CC

Quarter offered

Spring

PORT 99 Tutorial

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

PORT 99F Tutorial

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

2

Instructor

The Staff

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

PORT 124 Brazilian Cinema

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.)

Credits

5

General Education Code

IM

PORT 199 Tutorial

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

PORT 199F Tutorial

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

2

Instructor

The Staff

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring