PORTUG230-SEC01 Intermediate Port I Fall 2023

Expands on basic language skills. Greater oral fluency through vocabulary building and review of fundamental language structures. Active class participation. Prerequisite: PORTUG 120 or 126, or equivalent.

PORTUG110-SEC02 Elem Portuguese I Fall 2023

Acquisition of basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Basic principal structures and vocabulary of Portuguese. Oral participation strongly emphasized.

PORTUG470- General View of Portuguese Linguistics - Fall 2023

This course offers and introduction to general notions of language and linguistics. Students will learn structural properties of the Portuguese language: phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

PORTUG316 - Brazil (Fall 2023)

This course focuses on the origins and current configuration of the Brazilian society through the lenses of historical and cultural events. Some of the topics addressed in the course are the colonization (16th to 19th centuries); culture contact between Europeans and native populations; slavery and the resistance to it; economic development; immigration and internal migration; life in the backlands; urban problems; the military dictatorship (1964-1980), the redemocratization in the 1980s and the current challenges faced by the country. The Brazilian society is one of the most diverse ones in the world. Not only because of its Indigenous, African and European origins (more than 50% of its population is of African descent), but also because of mass migrations that occurred from Asia in the 20th century. Students explore the past and present consequences of this multicultural and multiethnic society at the same time they are exposed to different forms of artistic representations, from film to music, dance, literature and other forms of artistic expressions.   

PORTUG302-SEC01 Conversatnl Port II Fall 2023

Discussions based on varied topics of current interest and from modern Portuguese writers, to develop speaking ability in Portuguese. Conversations focus on everyday life situations. Use of current newspapers, magazines, articles and pamphlets dealing with social and cultural issues. Prerequisite: PORTUG 240 or equivalent.

PORTUG110-SEC03 Elem Portuguese I Fall 2023

Acquisition of basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Basic principal structures and vocabulary of Portuguese. Oral participation strongly emphasized.

PORTUG110-SEC01 Elem Portuguese I Fall 2023

Acquisition of basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Basic principal structures and vocabulary of Portuguese. Oral participation strongly emphasized.

PORTUG490STA-SEC01 ST-Brazil in Translation Fall 2023

What is the history of translation of Brazilian fiction into the English language? How has Brazilian literature been pictured in the Anglophone world? Which works and authors were translated during the Second World War and why? Is the 21st century the age of Brazilian literature retranslation? This course aims to provide an overview of Brazilian literature in the English language by looking at the most representative works, authors and translators from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The course will, at the same time, offer a space for an introductory practical workshop of Portuguese-English translation emphasizing translation as a creative, inspiring and powerful activity. Through various readings, discussions and translation activities we will be doing then two main things in this course: first, explore the trajectory of Brazilian fiction in English; second, experience the challenges and beauty of translating from Brazilian Portuguese. The course consists of an introduction and four main modules. Each module includes several case studies that students will research, analyze and reflect through translation. By way of these specific case studies the course will introduce key moments in the translation of Brazil in the United States, explore the various historical contexts involved in each case and study their specific linguistic, cultural and political themes.