PORTUGUESE COURSES, 2020-21
FALL 2020
PORT 27: WRITING STUDIES: THE AFRO-LUSO-BRAZILIAN WORLD (A. Santos)
Writing Studies: The Afro-Luso-Brazilian World is designed for Portuguese students who have completed Portuguese 3 or Portuguese 11B to offer you the opportunity to further develop your communicative skills, especially writing. Discussions and activities will increase your knowledge and ability to comprehend a variety of forms of cultural production in the Portuguese language. You will continue to acquire cultural competence, and you will be introduced to the study of literature, with a specific focus on themes and topics pertinent to the Lusophone world.
PORT 46 (GE Course): BRAZIL AND PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING WORLD (P. Lino)
Brazil and Portuguese-Speaking World introduces different key aspects of the Luso-Afro-Brazilian world through literary, cinematographic, and artistic texts or objects. Genres to be studied in the course include novel, short story, poetry, cinema, painting, performance, and music. This course offers students an introduction to significant works, concepts, and theories of the Luso-Afro-Brazilian as well as the necessary and adequate tools for the analysis of creative practices or inter-artistic relations.
PORT 142A: BRAZIL AND ITS CULTURE: DIVERSITY, RHYTHMS, PEOPLE, AND PLACES (A. Santos)
Brazil and its Culture: Diversity, Rhythms, People, and Places explores the roots of contemporary Brazil through study of broad chronological periods from Portuguese colonization to present and how they shaped idea of Brazilian exceptionalism, racial mixture as source of national identity, and lusotropicalism and its influence on Brazilian historiography. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
PORT 290 (Graduate Seminar): THE OBSESSIONS OF LUSO-BRAZILIAN POETS (P. Lino)
The Obsessions of Modern Luso-Brazilian Poets will focus, from a postcolonial perspective, on some of the obsessions nurtured by Brazilian and Portuguese poets of the 20th and 21st centuries — and on the variation of these differences between each respective country. Some of these obsessions focus on the question of uselessness (or, rather, of drawing pleasure from being useless), identity, the problems posed by the interdisciplinary or monodisciplinary poem, the expansion of Greco-Latin culture in the modern world, the political or aesthetic resistance, or humor. While these problems are not particular to the Portuguese-Brazilian world, they remain fundamental to understanding the most recent interests driving the central themes and problems of their poetic universes.
LANGUAGE COURSES
1 - ELEMENTARY PORTUGUESE (B.Burt)
11A - INTENSIVE PORTUGUESE (B.Burt)
Writing Studies: The Afro-Luso-Brazilian World is designed for Portuguese students who have completed Portuguese 3 or Portuguese 11B to offer you the opportunity to further develop your communicative skills, especially writing. Discussions and activities will increase your knowledge and ability to comprehend a variety of forms of cultural production in the Portuguese language. You will continue to acquire cultural competence, and you will be introduced to the study of literature, with a specific focus on themes and topics pertinent to the Lusophone world.
PORT 46 (GE Course): BRAZIL AND PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING WORLD (P. Lino)
Brazil and Portuguese-Speaking World introduces different key aspects of the Luso-Afro-Brazilian world through literary, cinematographic, and artistic texts or objects. Genres to be studied in the course include novel, short story, poetry, cinema, painting, performance, and music. This course offers students an introduction to significant works, concepts, and theories of the Luso-Afro-Brazilian as well as the necessary and adequate tools for the analysis of creative practices or inter-artistic relations.
PORT 142A: BRAZIL AND ITS CULTURE: DIVERSITY, RHYTHMS, PEOPLE, AND PLACES (A. Santos)
Brazil and its Culture: Diversity, Rhythms, People, and Places explores the roots of contemporary Brazil through study of broad chronological periods from Portuguese colonization to present and how they shaped idea of Brazilian exceptionalism, racial mixture as source of national identity, and lusotropicalism and its influence on Brazilian historiography. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
PORT 290 (Graduate Seminar): THE OBSESSIONS OF LUSO-BRAZILIAN POETS (P. Lino)
The Obsessions of Modern Luso-Brazilian Poets will focus, from a postcolonial perspective, on some of the obsessions nurtured by Brazilian and Portuguese poets of the 20th and 21st centuries — and on the variation of these differences between each respective country. Some of these obsessions focus on the question of uselessness (or, rather, of drawing pleasure from being useless), identity, the problems posed by the interdisciplinary or monodisciplinary poem, the expansion of Greco-Latin culture in the modern world, the political or aesthetic resistance, or humor. While these problems are not particular to the Portuguese-Brazilian world, they remain fundamental to understanding the most recent interests driving the central themes and problems of their poetic universes.
LANGUAGE COURSES
1 - ELEMENTARY PORTUGUESE (B.Burt)
11A - INTENSIVE PORTUGUESE (B.Burt)
WINTER 2021
PORT 40B (GE Course): ZEN AND THE ART OF READING BRAZIL (J.L. Passos)
Zen and the Art of Reading Brazil. Taught in English. The course introduces modern and contemporary writing by authors depicting Brazil from the perspective of health, hospitality, kindness, and visiting rituals. Emphasis on authors from a diversity background, with participation of guest-writers from Brazil via Zoom. Open to students from any major. No previous knowledge of Portuguese language or Brazilian literature is required.
PORT 130: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE IN PORTUGUESE (P. Lino)
Introduction to Literature in Portuguese proposes the comparative and dialectical approach of various authors who produced literary works in Portuguese between the 16th and the 21st centuries. Among some of these authors are most canonical and internationally acclaimed writers, such as Gil Vicente, Eça de Queirós, Machado de Assis, Mário de Andrade, Fernando Pessoa, or Clarice Lispector, as well as less internationally known, and new voices from the contemporary Luso-Afro-Brazilian world: Carolina Maria de Jesus, Cora Coralina, Luandino Vieira, Ondjaki, or Pedro Eiras.
PORT 142B: BRAZIL AND PORTUGAL IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (P. Lino)
Brazil and Portugal in Comparative Perspective proposes a post-colonial and interdisciplinary approach to both Brazilian and Portuguese cultures through the analysis of literary texts, film, music, and performance. Studying the Portuguese colonization of Brazil and the ideological ambitions and the projects of fascist regimes in Portugal and Brazil in the early 20th century sets the foundation to understanding multiple cultural, literary, artistic, and social phenomena related to both countries. This class will study these movements by centering minorities — racial identities, gender and sexuality, and social class — and will explore their presence in modern Portugal and Brazil.
PORT 290 (Graduate Seminar): ON REMOTENESS (J.L. Passos)
On Remoteness. Taught in English. Graduate seminar on theories and narratives of distancing, remoteness, and connection. Open to undergraduate students. Readings include female and Afro-Brazilian authors such as Machado de Assis, Mário de Andrade, and Clarice Lispector. Texts available in Portuguese and Spanish or English. Open to students from all fields. No previous knowledge of Portuguese language or Brazilian literature is required.
LANGUAGE COURSES
2 - ELEMENTARY PORTUGUESE (A. Santos)
11A - INTENSIVE PORTUGUESE (A. Santos)
11B - INTENSIVE PORTUGUESE (A. Santos)
Zen and the Art of Reading Brazil. Taught in English. The course introduces modern and contemporary writing by authors depicting Brazil from the perspective of health, hospitality, kindness, and visiting rituals. Emphasis on authors from a diversity background, with participation of guest-writers from Brazil via Zoom. Open to students from any major. No previous knowledge of Portuguese language or Brazilian literature is required.
PORT 130: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE IN PORTUGUESE (P. Lino)
Introduction to Literature in Portuguese proposes the comparative and dialectical approach of various authors who produced literary works in Portuguese between the 16th and the 21st centuries. Among some of these authors are most canonical and internationally acclaimed writers, such as Gil Vicente, Eça de Queirós, Machado de Assis, Mário de Andrade, Fernando Pessoa, or Clarice Lispector, as well as less internationally known, and new voices from the contemporary Luso-Afro-Brazilian world: Carolina Maria de Jesus, Cora Coralina, Luandino Vieira, Ondjaki, or Pedro Eiras.
PORT 142B: BRAZIL AND PORTUGAL IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (P. Lino)
Brazil and Portugal in Comparative Perspective proposes a post-colonial and interdisciplinary approach to both Brazilian and Portuguese cultures through the analysis of literary texts, film, music, and performance. Studying the Portuguese colonization of Brazil and the ideological ambitions and the projects of fascist regimes in Portugal and Brazil in the early 20th century sets the foundation to understanding multiple cultural, literary, artistic, and social phenomena related to both countries. This class will study these movements by centering minorities — racial identities, gender and sexuality, and social class — and will explore their presence in modern Portugal and Brazil.
PORT 290 (Graduate Seminar): ON REMOTENESS (J.L. Passos)
On Remoteness. Taught in English. Graduate seminar on theories and narratives of distancing, remoteness, and connection. Open to undergraduate students. Readings include female and Afro-Brazilian authors such as Machado de Assis, Mário de Andrade, and Clarice Lispector. Texts available in Portuguese and Spanish or English. Open to students from all fields. No previous knowledge of Portuguese language or Brazilian literature is required.
LANGUAGE COURSES
2 - ELEMENTARY PORTUGUESE (A. Santos)
11A - INTENSIVE PORTUGUESE (A. Santos)
11B - INTENSIVE PORTUGUESE (A. Santos)
SPRING 2021
PORT 175 (Creative Writing) — HOW TO WRITE A SHORT STORY (J.L. Passos)
How to Write a Short Story. Taught in Portuguese. Open to participation in English and Spanish. Open to graduate students. Creative writing techniques and skills in a collaborative and student-focused context. Readings include classic short fiction from Brazil. Students will work on their own stories. No previous experience in creative writing or knowledge of Brazilian literature is required.
PORT 46 (GE Course) — BRAZILIAN CULTURE AND CINEMA (B. Burt)
Introduction to Brazilian culture with a focus on national cinema. The course will consider questions of national identity, race, and geographical diversity while viewing Brazilian films beginning with Cinema Novo. Students will compose close readings of scenes from fictional and documentary films and write a comparative essay on a theme of their choice. Taught in English. Open to participation in Portuguese.
PORT 191 (Special Topic) — BRASÍLIA TO ZAPATISMO: UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO (B. Burt)
The course will consider the concepts of utopia and dystopia through the lens of Mexican and Brazilian literature and film. Students will consider multiple historical moments marked by utopian aspiration or dystopian circumstances in both countries. Readings include utopian studies criticism, history, and fiction. Included films range from science fiction to documentary. Assignments will include close readings and an essay comparing one or more works from each country. Taught in English. Open to participation in Spanish and Portuguese.
PORT 235 (Special Topic) — PROFESSIONAL GRADUATE WRITING WORKSHOP (J.L. Passos)
Graduate Writing Workshop. Taught in English. Open to students from all fields. A hands-on approach to graduate writing, focusing on individual projects proposed by students at the beginning of the course. Practice in writing and peer-critique of conference presentations, abstract and prospectuses, and dissertation chapters. No previous knowledge of Portuguese language or Brazilian literature is required.
LANGUAGE COURSES
Port 3 - INTERMEDIATE PORTUGUESE (A. Santos)
Port 11B - INTENSIVE PORTUGUESE (A. Santos)
How to Write a Short Story. Taught in Portuguese. Open to participation in English and Spanish. Open to graduate students. Creative writing techniques and skills in a collaborative and student-focused context. Readings include classic short fiction from Brazil. Students will work on their own stories. No previous experience in creative writing or knowledge of Brazilian literature is required.
PORT 46 (GE Course) — BRAZILIAN CULTURE AND CINEMA (B. Burt)
Introduction to Brazilian culture with a focus on national cinema. The course will consider questions of national identity, race, and geographical diversity while viewing Brazilian films beginning with Cinema Novo. Students will compose close readings of scenes from fictional and documentary films and write a comparative essay on a theme of their choice. Taught in English. Open to participation in Portuguese.
PORT 191 (Special Topic) — BRASÍLIA TO ZAPATISMO: UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO (B. Burt)
The course will consider the concepts of utopia and dystopia through the lens of Mexican and Brazilian literature and film. Students will consider multiple historical moments marked by utopian aspiration or dystopian circumstances in both countries. Readings include utopian studies criticism, history, and fiction. Included films range from science fiction to documentary. Assignments will include close readings and an essay comparing one or more works from each country. Taught in English. Open to participation in Spanish and Portuguese.
PORT 235 (Special Topic) — PROFESSIONAL GRADUATE WRITING WORKSHOP (J.L. Passos)
Graduate Writing Workshop. Taught in English. Open to students from all fields. A hands-on approach to graduate writing, focusing on individual projects proposed by students at the beginning of the course. Practice in writing and peer-critique of conference presentations, abstract and prospectuses, and dissertation chapters. No previous knowledge of Portuguese language or Brazilian literature is required.
LANGUAGE COURSES
Port 3 - INTERMEDIATE PORTUGUESE (A. Santos)
Port 11B - INTENSIVE PORTUGUESE (A. Santos)