Portuguese Course Descriptions
Spring
PORTUGUESE 101.51
Elementary Portuguese I - Individualized InstructionElements of Portuguese grammar, with oral and written exercises; attention to ear training, oral practices and customs.
PORTUGUESE 102.51
Elementary Portuguese II - Individualized InstructionThe elements of Portuguese grammar with abundant oral and written exercises; development of conversational skill; reading, vocabulary building.
PORTUGUESE 103.51
Intermediate Portuguese I - Individualized InstructionContinued study of Portuguese; development of listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills; course conducted in Portuguese.
PORTUGUESE 104.51
Intermediate Portuguese II - Individualized InstructionContinued study of Portuguese language; development of listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills; course conducted in Portuguese.
PORTUGUESE 202
Portuguese Conversation and CompositionPortuguese Composition and Conversation is a course designed for second-year students of Portuguese to improve their speaking, writing, and reading skills. The course is based on material contained in the packets, which will be supplemented by videos, magazine and newspaper articles, conversation and debate exercises, and music. Upon completion of this course students will be more skilled in reading, writing and speaking Portuguese, as well as understanding the Brazilian culture and costumes.
PORTUGUESE 502
Portuguese for Spanish Speakers IIContinuation of 501; Portuguese language for students with at least intermediate-level Spanish skills.
PORTUGUESE 611
Introduction to Portuguese LinguisticsPortuguese 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 2005 text Portuguese: A Linguistic Introduction which reflects his course at the University of California, Berkeley.PORTUGUESE 650/750
Topics in Literature of the Portuguese-Speaking WorldAdapting to the Times: Strategies of Cinematic Adaptation in Brazil
This course will examine several Brazilian films and their real (and sometimes imagined) source texts. We will pay special attention to how the context (e.g., political, esthetic) in which the films were produced helped to determine the adaptational dynamics. The class will be taught in Portuguese; written texts and films will also be in Portuguese.
PORTUGUESE 730
Studies in Portuguese LinguisticsPortuguese Morphology and Morphophonology
Portuguese 730 covers the synchronic analysis of underlying representations andderivational rules of contemporary Brazilian Portuguese inflectionalmorphology. The model employed is an 'item and process' model of the typedeveloped by Matthews, Anderson, and Aronoff. Readings will also includerecent work by Giegerich and by Blevins aimed at further constraining theabstractness of such models and of integrating the facts of articulatoryphonetics and historical change into a synchronic'inferential-realizational' model.
After an exposition of the descriptive model, students will receive a series of problem sets to be solved; these are Portuguese data with the most transparent phenomena analyzed in the earlier problem sets followed by problems involving processes which occur earlier in the rule set; the solution to each subsequent problem set will often require adjustment of the solution to previous problem sets. Achieving an effective, coherent solution is the ultimate goal of the course. Students will be provided a computer rule testing system to test their cumulative solution as the course progresses.
The course may be taken by linguistics or cognitive science students who are not already versed in Portuguese. Grading is based primarily on students' solution to the problem sets, plus the in class discussion of alternative solutions. There is no final exam.
For further information, contact Prof. Wayne Redenbarger.
