PORT301
Advanced Portuguese PORT 301 offers advanced work in composition for students who have reached the Language-Requirement level of Portuguese. PORT 301 is an advanced level course for students who wish to improve their writing skills, vocabulary and style. Students will practice reading and writing in Portuguese. Although part of the term will be devoted to […]
PORT392
This course explores the genealogy of the myth of ‘racial democracy’ through Brazilian literature.
PORT222
Introduction to the Analysis of Portuguese and Brazilian Cultures Cross-listed with RMST260 Welcome to the study of Lusophone Cultures! Lusophone cultures are the cultures of places where Portuguese is spoken. In this course, we will focus on the cultures of Portugal, the cradle of Lusophone Culture, and Brazil, the country with the largest Lusophone population. […]
PORT210
Intermediate Portuguese for Romance Language Speakers PORT 210 is part 2 of a course for students who already have a heritage background in Portuguese or who have a native or excellent command of another Romance language and who wish to acquire an intermediate knowledge of Portuguese in an efficient time frame. The course offers development […]
PORT202
Second-Year Portuguese II Welcome to the Lusophone world, the world of the Portuguese-speaking countries! Study the most widely spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere and the 5th most spoken native language in the world! PORT 202 is the second half of second-year Portuguese language learning through a culture-oriented and interactive course. The rich cultures of […]
PORT201
Second-Year Portuguese I Welcome to the Lusophone world, the world of the Portuguese-speaking countries! Study the most widely spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere and the 5th most spoken native language in the world! PORT 201 is the first half of second-year Portuguese language learning through a culture-oriented and interactive course. The rich cultures of […]
PORT110
Elementary Portuguese for Romance Language Speakers PORT 110 is offered for students who already have a heritage background in Portuguese or who have a native or excellent command of another Romance language and who wish to acquire a basic knowledge of Portuguese in an efficient time frame. Students who do not have the appropriate knowledge […]
PORT102
First-Year Portuguese II PORT 102 is an interactive course that builds upon the basics you learned in PORT 101, following a culture-oriented, interactive approach to learning a foreign language. The material used in class incorporates cultural aspects of Brazil and Portugal, designed for the Portuguese 102 level of linguistic comprehension. The activities include role-play, group […]
ITAL420H
[Cross-listed with Italian Studies 421H] Cultural Crossings Between Italy and China Over the centuries, crossings between Italy and China have produced the most sustained, and arguably the most influential, strand of cultural texts on East-West borrowings. France and Britain also contributed significantly to European understandings and imagination of modern China. This course examines the evolution […]
RMST420C
[Cross-listed with Italian 404 and Italian Studies 414] Think Like a Forest: A Dialogue Between Pre-Modern Worldviews, Environmental Humanities, Indigenous Knowledge How do we think? Are we aware of the kind of thinking we entertain? What kind of world do our individual and collective, conscious or unconscious thought-processes generate? Do we even have a choice […]