Development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills; building vocabulary, learning basic rules and terminology of grammar; and gaining a better understanding of Portuguese-speaking cultures, with focus on Brazil, in order to communicate in an accurate, effective, and informed manner within a variety of socio-cultural situations.

Development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills; building vocabulary, learning basic rules and terminology of grammar; and gaining a better understanding of Portuguese-speaking cultures, with focus on Brazil, in order to communicate in an accurate, effective, and informed manner within a variety of socio-cultural situations.

Designed to provide qualified Spanish-speaking students a rapid introduction to Portuguese language. Development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills; building vocabulary, learning basic rules and terminology of grammar; and gaining a better understanding of Portuguese-speaking cultures, with a focus on Brazil, in order to communicate in an accurate, effective, and informed manner within a variety of socio-cultural situations.

Explore the development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills, and build vocabulary. Review rules and terminology of Portuguese grammar. Examine complex grammar structures and Portuguese speaking cultures, with a focus on Brazil.

Focuses on the development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills while building vocabulary. Reviews rules and terminology of Portuguese grammar. Introduces complex grammar structures and Portuguese speaking cultures, with a focus on Brazil, in order to communicate in an accurate, effective, and informed manner within a variety of socio-cultural situations.

Designed for qualified Spanish-speaking students. Explore speaking and listening skills. Build vocabulary. Examine Portuguese-speaking cultures, with a focus on Brazil.

Continuation of Portuguese 610S.

Covers the same material as Portuguese 312K and 312L, but in one semester.

Review rules and terminology of Portuguese grammar. Explore complex grammar structures in the context of reading and writing. Build vocabulary in the context of Portuguese speaking cultures, with a focus on Brazil.

Designed for qualified Spanish-speaking students. Review rules and terminology of Portuguese grammar. Explore complex grammar structures in the context of reading and writing. Build vocabulary in the context of Portuguese speaking cultures, with a focus on Brazil.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Explore Portuguese pronunciation and the fundamental principles of phonetic analysis. Examine how Portuguese sounds are produced, how they fall into patterns, and how they change in different environments.

Study and practice of Portuguese grammar, including reading exercises and guided composition designed to develop writing skills across styles. Students will be exposed to various topics in Portuguese language, literature, and culture.

Overview of Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures, including the arts and popular expressions from a multidisciplinary perspective. Among the regions studied are Brazil, Portugal, and related areas in Africa.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Examines the dynamics of language structure and use throughout the Portuguese-speaking world. Covers topics such as sound systems, grammatical structures, historical developments, language learning and loss, dialect differences, and their social significance.

Explore post-colonial political and cultural relations between Portugal and Brazil. Examine nineteenth and twentieth century Portuguese travelogues, memoirs, films, and fiction.

Explore a critical overview of Brazilian cinema, from the silent era to the present day, with an emphasis on the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Explore Brazilian and Latin American literature and culture from the twentieth century and later. Examine the literary trends and social roles in the region while comparing and contrasting the culture and history from both Spanish America and Brazil.

Explores the interrelationship of language and society with reference to the Portuguese-speaking world. Examines how socio-economic , political, and anthropological factors like race, social class, gender, age, and identity influence linguistics forms.

Examines the United States Latino literary and cultural production from a multidisciplinary perspective, through literature, film, music, and performance. Analyzes the literatures and experiences of Brazilian American writers and artists in their historical and cultural specificities.

Introduction to the linguistic structure of Portuguese; application of linguistic principles to the teaching of Portuguese.

Explore cultural aspects of business practices in Brazil.

Examine twentieth-century literature, films, and other cultural artifacts of the multicultural Brazilian society. Critique the image of Brazil as a unified, harmonious, racially-mixed nation. Explore contemporary textual and visual representations of the Brazilian diaspora in the United States and Europe.

Explore Brazilian cultural politics through the message and performance of live and recorded song, including samba, bossa nova, protest song, Tropicalist counter-cultural song, Brazilian funk, hip hop, and manguebeat.

Examine important themes in Brazilian society related to cultural production including literature, audiovisual, and media production.

Central issues, concepts, and themes that define Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures. Focus on a specific case study or case studies that result in the production of a research paper on a particular topic of interest.

Supervised individual research on a literary, linguistic, or cultural problem, culminating in a written thesis.

Central issues, concepts, and themes that define linguistics. Focus on a specific case study or case studies that result in the production of a research paper on a particular topic of interest.

For students with special interests not met by other courses offered in any one semester.

Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option.