Courses
Semester I, Fall 2007-2008
Primarily for Undergraduates
POBS 0100: ELEMENTARY PORTUGUESE
Section 01, Registration Number: 10550
An introductory course designed for students with little or no preparation in the language. Stresses the fundamental language skills of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing. Aspects of Portuguese and Brazilian culture are also presented. Uses a situational/natural approach that emphasizes communication in Portuguese from the very first class. A year course; only in exceptional circumstances is credit given for one semester alone.
Ms. Beal and Mr. Bocskay.
Meeting Times: 2:00-2:50 pm MW, 1:00-2:20 pm TR
POBS 0110: INTENSIVE PORTUGUESE (Double Credit)
Section 01, Registration Number: 12330
A highly intensive course for students with little or no preparation in the language. Stresses the fundamental language skills of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing. Aspects of Portuguese and Brazilian culture will also be presented. Uses a situational/natural approach that emphasizes communication in Portuguese from the very first class. A two-semester sequence in one semester with ten contact hours each week. Carries double credit and covers the equivalent of two semesters. This course should be chosen by students beginning the study of Portuguese as sophomores who would like to participate in the Brown-in-Brazil Program as juniors.
Ms. Sobral, Mr. Perez, and Ms. Teixeira.
Meeting Times: 10:00-10:50 am MWF, 1:00-1:50 pm MWF, 10:30-11:50 am TR
POBS 0400: WRITING AND SPEAKING PORTUGUESE
Section 01, Registration Number: 10593
Designed to improve the student's ability in contemporary spoken and written Portuguese. Using such cultural items as short stories, plays, films, videos, newspaper and magazine articles, and popular music, students discuss a variety of topics with the aim of developing good communication skills. Attention also given to developing students' writing ability. A systematic review of Portuguese grammar is included. Prerequisite: POBS 0110, POBS 0200, or placement. Conducted in Portuguese. Completion of POBS 0400 is the minimum requirement for participation in the Brown-in-Brazil Program.
Mr. Prazeres.
Meeting Times: 11:00-11:50 am MWF, 12:00-12:50 pm MW
POBS 0610: MAPPING PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING CULTURES: BRAZIL
Section 01, Registration Number: 10594
Selected literary and cultural texts that serve as vehicles for a deeper understanding of Brazilian society. Literary materials will be taken from several genres and periods with special attention to contemporary writings. Other media such as film and music will also be included. Considerable emphasis on strengthening speaking and writing skills. Prerequisite: POBS 0400, placement or instructor’s permission. Conducted in Portuguese.
Mr. Nielson.
Meeting Times: 2:30-3:50 pm TR
POBS 0810: BELONGING AND DISPLACEMENT: CROSS-CULTURAL IDENTITIES
Section: 01, Registration Number: 10596
Focuses on the representation of immigrants, migrants and other “border crossers” in contemporary literature from Brazil and other countries. How do people respond to the loss of home and the shift to a new culture? Is “going home” possible? How do individuals deal with their dual or triple identities? Piñon, Lispector, Scliar, Rushdie, Salih, Cristina Garcia, V. S. Naipaul and others. Conducted in English.
Ms. Sobral.
Meeting Times: 9:00-10:20 am TR
For Undergraduates and Graduates
POBS 1030: PORTUGUESE STYLISTICS; ADVANCED LANGUAGE STUDY AND CREATIVE WRITING
Section 01, Registration Number: 10597
An intensive writing course covering basic genres: letter, short essay, diary, short story and poetry. Students will write five pages per week on five different preassigned topics. These range over a wide variety of subjects in order to expose the students to idiomatic and stylistic writing in a multitude of areas. In class, students read and comment on each other's writings. Conducted in Portuguese.
Ms. Simas-Almeida.
Meeting Times: 12:00-2:20 pm R
AFRI 1210: AFRO-BRAZILIANS AND THE BRAZILIAN POLITY
Section 01, Registration Number: 14353
Explores the history and present-day conditions of Afro-Brazilians, looking specifically at the uses of Africana in contemporary Brazil, political and cultural movements among Afro-Brazilians, domestic politics and its external dimensions, and Brazilian race relations within a global comparative framework. Texts from a variety of disciplines. A reading knowledge of Portuguese is not required but students so advantaged should inform the instructor.
Mr. Dzidzienyo.
Meeting Times: 3:00-5:20 pm W
ANTH 1321: IMPACT ON COLONIALISM: GENDER AND NATIONALISM IN INDIA
Section 01, Registration Number: 14659
This course is designed to look into colonial and postcolonial identities within the disciplines of anthropology, history, and literary studies. We will adopt an anthropological approach to address these subjects, considering the cultural construction of gender as the guideline for analysis. Topics will include: orientalism and gender; gender and nationalism; nationalism and fundamentalism; post-colonialism and diaspora; diaspora, nationalism and gender. The seminar aims to compare British and Portuguese colonial systems in relation to caste, family, and gender, and to highlight cultural differences and specificity of each colonial structures and strategies. Through historical and ethnographic works, novels, and media representations the students will be able to understand present day communities in India and abroad. The ethnographic experience of the professors will be a reference for the understanding of the themes under discussion.
Ms. Fruzetti and Ms. Perez.
Meeting Times: 3:00-5:20 pm W, Wilson 204
POBS 1500S: PORTUGUESE LITERATURE: FROM BIRTH TO MATURITY
Section 01, Registration Number: 10604
Starting with the Cancioneiros, the course will travel from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance tracking down the evolution of Portuguese literature, while paying particular attention to the Portuguese-Galician troubadours, the crónicas of Fernão Lopes, the theater of Gil Vicente and the lyrical poetry of Camões. Conducted in Portuguese.
Ms. Simas-Almeida.
Meeting Times: 12:00-2:20 pm T
POBS 1500U: The leaping chameleon: reconfiguration of self-identity and culture in contemporary brazilian fiction
Section 01, Registration Number: 12084
Focuses on reconfigurations/redefinitions of concepts of identity -- personal and cultural in Brazilian prose fiction form the 1980s to the present. Protean forms and unstable subjectivities become apparent in fictional portrayals of aberrant and disfigured beings in liminal spaces, these serving as vehicles critical of urban strife, cultural instability, estrangement, and social segregation, written by authors such as André Sant'Anna, Bernardo Carvalho, Lilian Fontes, Marcelino Freire, Cíntia Moscovich, Ivana Arruda Leite, Luiz Ruffato, and others. Conducted in Portuguese.
Mr. Vieira.
Meeting Times: 4:00-6:20 pm R
POBS 1600K: On the Dawn of Modernity
Section 01, Registration Number: 10608
A look at the emergence of modernity and its conflicts with the classical worldview as revealed in the writings of the Portuguese navigators (15th and 16th centuries) on their encounters with the non-European world. Readings will focus on fields such as astronomy, cartography, geography, shipbuilding, and anthropology, as stepping-stones to the first scientific revolution. This literature has been practically unknown to non-Portuguese readers. Conducted in English.
Mr. Almeida.
Meeting Times: 3:00-5:20 pm W
HIST 1670: HISTORY OF BRAZIL
Section 01, Registration Number: 13117
This course charts the history of Brazil from Portuguese contact with the indigenous population in 1500 to the present. It examines the country’s political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural development to understand the causes, interactions, and consequences of conflict, change, and continuity within Brazilian society. Conducted in English.
Mr. Green.
Meeting Times: 10:30-11:50 am TR
HIST 1950E: Europe and the Indian Ocean, 1500 - 1800
Section 01, Registration Number: 13624
Aims to characterize the Indian Ocean in the early modern period and examine the complex relationship between this lively world and a variety of European players. The classical topics related to the economic history of maritime Asia and how the trading world of the Indian Ocean was impacted by different Western powers (The Portuguese Estado da Índia, the European commercial companies) will be addressed. However, the course will focus on a set of relevant social and cultural phenomena, ranging from the interaction between European and Asian political, religious, scientific and artistic structures to the indigenization of individuals, groups and “micro-societies”, or the formation and circulation of mutual ethnographical images. Conducted in English.
Mr. Flores.
Meeting Times: 9:00-9:50 am MWF
POBS 1970: READING AND GUIDED STUDY
Section numbers vary by instructor. Please see the registration staff for the correct section number to use when registering for this course.
Section 01, Registration Number: 10816, Professor Onesimo T. Almeida
Section 02, Registration Number: 10819, Professor Adeline Becker
Section 03, Registration Number: 10820, Professor Anani Dzidzienyo
Section 04, Registration Number: 10821, Professor Jorge Flores
Section 05, Registration Number: 10845, Professor James Green
Section 06, Registration Number: 11240, Professor Maria F. Pacheco
Section 07, Registration Number: 11243, Professor Leonor Simas-Almeida
Section 08, Registration Number: 11250, Professor Sara Smith
Section 09, Registration Number: 11261, Professor Patricia Sobral
Section 10, Registration Number: 11262, Professor Luiz Valente
Section 11, Registration Number: 11265, Professor Nelson Vieira
HIST 1972M: Portuguese Discoveries and Early Modern Globalization
Section 01, Registration Number: 13124
Explores the Portuguese presence in Africa, Asia and America, 1415-1808. Examines different phases in the context of geographical regions, subsequently integrating the different regions into a multi-continental, multi-oceanic, global system. Explores political, commercial, military, cultural and social dimensions. Emphasizes European/non-European contacts and interactions. No knowledge of Portuguese required. Conducted in English.
Mr. Flores.
Meeting Times: 3;00-5:20 pm F
POBS 1990: RESEARCH AND PREPARATION OF HONORS PROJECTS
This independent study course is designed for students working on honors projects. Written permission of the concentration advisor (Ms. Sobral) is required. Section numbers vary by instructor. Please see the registration staff for the correct section number to use when registering for this course.
Section 01, Registration Number: 11265, Professor Onesimo T. Almeida
Section 02, Registration Number: 11267, Professor Adeline Becker
Section 03, Registration Number: 11268, Professor Anani Dzidzienyo
Section 04, Registration Number: 11271, Professor Jorge Flores
Section 05, Registration Number: 11544, Professor James Green
Section 06, Registration Number: 11545, Professor Maria F. Pacheco
Section 07, Registration Number: 11546, Professor Leonor Simas-Almeida
Section 08, Registration Number: 11551, Professor Sara Smith
Section 09, Registration Number: 11553, Professor Patricia Sobral
Section 10, Registration Number: 11565, Professor Luiz Valente
Section 11, Registration Number: 11574, Professor Nelson Vieira
Primarily for Graduates
POBS 2020D: Theories in First and Second Language Acquisition
Section 01, Registration Number: 11637
Theory and current research relating to first and second language acquisition and learning are examined from a pedagogical perspective. Focuses both on learning and teaching a second language. Conducted in English.
Ms. Smith.
Meeting Times: 4:00-6:20 pm T
POBS 2500B: PORTUGUESE OVERSEAS ENCOUNTERS
Section 01, Registration Number: 12086
A critical analysis of some classic Portuguese travel writings from the 15th to the 20th century. The readings include Zurara, Camões, Fernão Mendes Pinto, História Trágico-Marítima, Ramalho Ortigão, Raul Brandão, as well as the contemporary Pedro Rosa Mendes. Conducted in Portuguese.
Mr. Almeida.
Meeting Times: 3:00-5:20 pm M
POBS 2500F: TALES OF THE “SERTÃO”
Section 01, Registration Number: 11636
The reality and mythology of the "sertão" have long been a source of inspiration for Brazilian writers, visual artists and filmmakers. In this seminar we consider the transformations of the "sertão" motif since the second half of the century. Fiction by José de Alencar, Euclides da Cunha, Graciliano Ramos and João Guimarães Rosa. Films by Glauber Rocha and José Araújo. Conducted in Portuguese.
Mr. Valente.
Meeting Times: 3:00-5:20 pm W
POBS 2970: PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION PREPARATION
Section 01, Registration Number: 11638
For graduate students who have met the tuition requirement and are paying the Registration Fee to continue active enrollment while preparing for a preliminary examination. No course credit.
Mr. Vieira
POBS 2980: READING AND GUIDED STUDY
See Reading and Guided Study for course description. Section numbers vary by instructor. Please see the registration staff for the correct section number to use when registering for this course.
Section 01, Registration Number: 11596, Professor Onesimo Almeida
Section 02, Registration Number: 11602, Professor Adeline Becke
Section 03, Registration Number: 11611, Professor Anani Dzidzienyo
Section 04, Registration Number: 11615, Professor Jorge Flores
Section 05, Registration Number: 11624, Professor James Green
Section 06, Registration Number: 11625, Professor Maria Pacheco
Section 07, Registration Number: 11627, Professor Leonor Simas-Almeida
Section 08, Registration Number: 11632, Professor Sara Smith
Section 09, Registration Number: 11633, Professor Patricia Sobral
Section 10, Registration Number: 11634, Professor Luiz Valente
Section 11, Registration Number: 11635, Professor Nelson Vieira
HIST 2971E: LATIN AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
Section 01, Registration Number: 13631
This course examines the development of historical writings on Latin America produced in the United States from the late nineteenth century until the present. We will focus on themes, such as race, gender, labor, subaltern studies, dependency theory, postcolonial analysis, and post-modernism, to understand the diverse approaches to Latin American history. Conducted in English.
Mr. Green.
Meeting Times: 4:00-6:20 pm R
POBS 2990: THESIS PREPARATION
Section 01, Registration Number: 11660
For graduate students who have met the tuition requirement and are paying the Registration Fee to continue active enrollment while preparing a thesis. No course credit.
Instructor TBA