Undergraduate Portuguese Courses

 Below you will find the undergraduate Portuguese course descriptions. If you need to see the courses taught in the current semester, please click HERE.

PORT 10100 Elementary Portuguese I

Language Lab. PORT 10100 not usually credited without PORT 10200. 3 hrs, 3 cr.

PORT 10200 Elementary Portuguese II

Language lab. PORT I0200 not credited without PORT 10100. 3 hrs, 3 cr.

PORT 20100 Intermediate Portuguese I

Language lab mandatory. prereq: PORT 10200 or 2 yrs high school Portuguese. 3 hrs, 3 cr.

PORT 20200 Intermediate Portuguese II

Language lab mandatory. prereq: PORT 20100 or three yrs high school Portuguese. 3 hrs, 3 cr.

PORT 22100 Conversational Portuguese

Students hone their speaking and listening and, to a lesser extent, their writing skills in Portuguese. The course employs a variety of materials, including literary texts, music, and cinema, alongside the traditional tools of grammar and vocabulary introduced through a textbook.  prereq: PORT 20200 or fourth-semester proficiency in Portuguese. 3 hrs, 3 cr.

PORT 27000 Portuguese Grammar and Composition

This course offers students an opportunity to review the grammar and syntax they have already encountered in lower-division language courses and to acquire new and more complex structures.  Students use a workbook and authentic materials to hone their grammar and composition skills. prereq: PORT 20200 or fourth-semester proficiency in Portuguese. 3 hrs, 3 cr.

PORT 34100 Portuguese and Brazilian Literature

Students will read some of the masterpieces of Portuguese and Brazilian literature.  Presented in chronological order, this survey of the tradition touches on key intellectual, social, and political developments that marked literary production in Portuguese, notably the colonization of Brazil and the birth of its own literary tradition.  The course fosters creative writing as well as critical thinking through literary analysis. The course is taught in Portuguese. prereq: PORT 20200 or fourth-semester proficiency in Portuguese. 3 hrs, 3 cr.