Portuguese (PORTUG)
PORTUG 11 Elementary Portuguese 5 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Beginner's course. Not open to students who have taken Portuguese 101 or equivalent, nor native speakers.
PORTUG 12 Elementary Portuguese 5 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 11, or equivalent.
Continuation of Portuguese 11. Not open to students who have taken Portuguese 101 or equivalent, nor to native speakers. Completion of this course qualifies students for Portuguese 8, 25, or 102.
PORTUG 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Freshman Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PORTUG 101 Portuguese for Advanced Students 5 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of Lecture and 4 hours of Recitation per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Credit of 16-20 units or equivalent of another Romance language, or consent of instructor.
An intensive course for students with no previous study of the language. The emphasis is on reading, speaking, and understanding. After completion of this course, a student will be prepared to do further upper-division work.
PORTUG 101A Portuguese for Advanced Students 3 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Credit of 16-20 units or equivalent of another Romance language, or consent of instructor.
An intensive course for students with no previous study of the language. This offering may be taken independently for reading knowledge. In conjunction with 101B, it constitutes an intensive introduction to Portuguese, and prepares the student for further upper division course work.
PORTUG 101B Portuguese for Advanced Students: Workshop 2 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Workshop per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Credit of 16-20 units or equivalent of another Romance language, or consent of instructor. Must be taken concomitantly with 101A. No independent registration.
Emphasis on understanding, speaking and writing Portuguese. Taken in conjunction with Portuguese 101A, the course provides an intensive introduction to the language.
PORTUG 102 Readings in Portuguese 3 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: 101A-101B, 12, or equivalent.
The continuation of Portuguese 101A-101B, this course focuses on a variety of texts with special emphasis on 20th-century Brazil. Discussion in Portuguese; reinforcement and development of language skills.
PORTUG 103 Advanced Grammar and Composition 3 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: 1 to 4 and 102 or consent of instructor.
Advanced work in Portuguese grammatical structures. Practice in writing.
PORTUG 104 Introduction to Brazilian Literature 3 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 4 or equivalent.
A survey of Brazilian literature from the beginnings through the 20th century, with attention to the relationships between literature and society.
PORTUG 107B Survey of Portuguese Literature 3 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: 4 or equivalent.
A survey of Portuguese literature from the beginnings through the 17th century.
PORTUG 112 Portuguese Civilization 3 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 12 or equivalent.
This course offers a historical-cultural perspective on Portugal since its formation to the present. It looks at key themes in the development of a specifically Portuguese identity, and examines the concept of "Portuguese-ness" in terms of the foundation of not only European, but also African, Asian, and American Portuguese-speaking societies. Course materials include works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
PORTUG 113 Brazilian Civilization 3 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
The course presents an overview of major themes in Brazilian cultural expression with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.
PORTUG 128 Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literature 3 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 104 is recommended, but not required.
An examination of the most important 20th-century writers from the 1920s through the present. Emphasis on the shifting definition of "brasileiridade" and on new directions in contemporary poetry and fiction.
PORTUG 135 Studies in Luso-Brazilian Literature 3 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week. 8 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Twenty units or equivalent of Portuguese or another Romance language.
Study of literature and cultural texts representative of classical literary genres: narrative prose, plays and poetry.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PORTUG N135 African Roots of Brazil: Afro-Brazilian Culture and Identity 6 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 20 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 101A-101B or equivalent.
Offers a critical view of African contribution and presence in Brazil, with a homestay in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Focuses on race relations in Bahia and the formation of Afro-Brazilian identity and its cultural expression. Provides tools for critical assessment of social and cultural relations. Investigates concepts of cultural adaptation, and emergence of Afro-Brazilian culture. Topics include enslavement, group identity formation; spiritual and religious traditions; early resistance movements; women's roles; contemporary political movements.
PORTUG 139 Introduction to Contemporary Portugal 4 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 3 to 6 hours of lecture/discussion/site visits 5 days a week for 4 weeks.
Prerequisites: A working knowledge of the Portuguese language.
A combination of classroom lectures and discussion with visits to appropriate field sites, this course offers an introduction to mainland Portugal and the Azores. Students will spend two weeks in Lisbon and two weeks in the Azores Islands. They will study the relationship of contemporary Portugal both to the European Union and the the U.S. in terms of massive Azorean immigration to California and New England (there are presently approximately a million persons of Azorean descent in the U.S.). Students will examine the Azores both as part of a rapidly modernizing nation and as a point of departure--and increasingly, return--for immigrants. Lectures will provide an overview of contemporary Portuguese history, culture, and socio-economic development by professors in the ISCTE of Lisbon and the Universidade dos Acores in Sao Miguel.
Instructor: Slater
PORTUG C170/IAS C170 Portugal: Language and Culture 6 Units
Department: Portuguese; International and Area Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: In10sive 6 week summer travel course. Language acquisition courses in the morning; history, culture, and language courses in the afternoon.
This summer course provides the opportunity to begin and/or continue the study of Portuguese language and enhances awareness of Portuguese culture through direct contact with Portuguese educational and cultural institutions. Additionally, it examines historical, cultural, economic and political links between Portugal, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, particularly South America.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 24 units with consent of instructor.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 24 units. Instructor: Adao
PORTUG H195 Portuguese Honors Course 3 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual conferences.
Prerequisites: Twenty units or equivalent of Portuguese or another Romance language.
Directed study centering on the preparation/completion of an honors thesis (see Honors Program, Option B, above).
PORTUG 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 3 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Individual conferences.
Prerequisites: Senior honor status and 20 units or equivalent of Portuguese or another Romance language.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
PORTUG 275 Critical and Stylistic Studies of a Single Author or Period 4 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PORTUG 298 Special Study for Graduate Students 3 - 8 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 to 10 hours of Independent study per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.
Individual conferences on special programs of study or research in a restricted field not covered by available courses or seminars.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PORTUG 299 Special Advanced Study 3 - 8 Units
Department: Portuguese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: Individual conferences.
Prerequisites: Restricted to students writing doctoral dissertations.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
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