Portuguese Courses for Winter 2010
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Portuguese 101.01
Elements of Portuguese grammar, with oral and written exercises; attention to ear training, oral practices and customs. Course conducted in Portuguese. Visit Portuguese 101.01 Home page to access course syllabus: requirements, resources and weekly calendar.Portuguese 101.51
Elements of Portuguese grammar, with oral and written exercises; attention to ear training, oral practices and customs.Portuguese 102.01
The elements of Portuguese grammar with abundant oral and written exercises; development of conversational skill; reading, vocabulary building. Course conducted in Portuguese. Visit Portuguese 102.01 Home page to access course syllabus: requirements and resources.Portuguese 102.51
The elements of Portuguese grammar with abundant oral and written exercises; development of conversational skill; reading, vocabulary building.Portuguese 103.51
Continued study of Portuguese; development of listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills; course conducted in Portuguese.Portuguese 104.51
Continued study of Portuguese language; development of listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills; course conducted in Portuguese.Portuguese 330
Integrated, multidisciplinary overview of modern Brazilian culture in terms of its visual, plastic, musical, literary, dramatic, and popular arts within socio-economic and political context.Portuguese 402
Development of students' reading and listening skills through newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stories and newscasts.Portuguese 501
Portuguese 501 is a Portuguese language course designed for native Spanish speakers, for those who have a basic background in Spanish (Spanish 104), or for those who speak any neo-latin languages. In this course students will be able to develop their listening, speaking, writting, and reading skills in Portuguese as well as learn a great deal about the Brazilian culture. The course is conducted in Brazilian Portuguese.Portuguese 597.01
When it conquered the northern-African territory of Ceuta in 1415, Portugal became the first European nation with an expanding colonial empire, which eventually would reach four different continents, and whose rule would last until 1999, when the city of Macau finally reverted to Chinese rule. In the twentieth-century Portuguese presence in Africa increased, and the development of its colonies of Angola and Mozambique ensued at a fast pace, reaching levels unheard of in the metropolis. By the 1960's Portuguese rule of these vast territories became porblematic and controversial, both at home and abroad. From 1961 to 1975, Portugal became involved in a war (known in Portugal as "colonial" and in the colonies as "war of liberation") that would exhaust the limited resources of this small nation and leave deep scars, which only today begin to be addressed. Nowadays, with full memebership in the European Union since 1986, Portugal maintains a very good relationship with the five African countries that were once under its colonial rule, and is becoming an important European gateway to Africa. How has this recent past been represented in literature? How are Africans received in Portugal, and how do African cultural representations find a way to the Portuguese and European market?In this course students will learn how literary representations produced in colonial as well as postcolonial contexts contribute to shaping contemporary societies and cultures. We will study these phenomena through examples of Portugal and its former African colonies, and, through supplemental readings issuing from disciplines such as history, sociology, anthropology and lierary theory they will also learn how to establish relevant connections between contemporary postcolonial experiences of the Portuguse-speaking world and global issues of the contemporary world at large.
Portuguese 611
Portuguese 611 is an introduction to the linguistic structure of Portuguese. It covers the sound system, word formation, and sentence structure of Portuguese. It also examines the evolution of Portuguese from a Romance language into the two main dialects-European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.Portuguese 611 will help intermediate and advanced students of Portuguese understand how the language functions at all levels, and will give students of linguistics a useful starting point for work on the structure of Portuguese. The course is organized around the Prof. Wayne Redenbarger's own materials and Milton Azevedo's text .
Portuguese 750
The Western 'Tertúlia': Literature, Historiography and the Politics of Iberianism in the Portuguese Geração de 70In Spring 1871 a group of young Portuguese intellectuals met at the Lisbon Casino for a series of public talks, which addressed pressing issues of the moment: the causes of Iberia’s perceived cultural decline, the need for institutional reform, socialism, revolution, and the latest developments in literature and aesthetics. The conferences were eventually cancelled by police order, but their impact on Portuguese (and Iberian) culture was indelible, as the young men involved in their creation were to become Portugal’s leading intellectuals of the time. In this course students will get acquainted with the intellectual production of the main authors of this generation, which covered fields as diverse as literature, sociology, political science and history, and will study the impact that their work had on the development of a Portuguese artistic and political modernity, as well as on the Spanish authors that would become known as the Generación del 98. Readings will address issues such as orientalism, naturalism and realism, cosmopolitanism, religion and secularism, republicanism and Iberianism.
