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Reading and Guided Study
Section numbers vary by instructor. Please check Banner for the correct section number and CRN to use when registering for this course.
- Primary Instructor
- Almeida
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- I: Independent Study/Research
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- I: Independent Study/Research
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- I: Independent Study/Research
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- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Green
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Simas-Almeida
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Smith
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Sobral
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Valente
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Vieira
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
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Research and Preparation of Honors Projects
This independent study course is designed for students working on honors projects. Written permission of the concentration advisor (Prof. Sobral) is required. Section numbers vary by instructor. Please check Banner for the correct section number and CRN to use when registering for this course.
- Primary Instructor
- Almeida
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
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- I: Independent Study/Research
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- I: Independent Study/Research
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- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Green
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Simas-Almeida
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Smith
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Sobral
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Valente
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Vieira
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
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Reading and Guided Study
Reading in Portuguese language, literature, civilization, and bilingual studies. Conducted via Portuguese readings and discussions. Section numbers vary by instructor. Please check Banner for the correct section number and CRN to use when registering for this course.
- Primary Instructor
- Almeida
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Lehnen
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Guimaraes de Sousa
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Green
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Simas-Almeida
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Smith
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Sobral
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Valente
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
- Primary Instructor
- Vieira
- Schedule Code
- I: Independent Study/Research
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Preliminary Examination Preparation
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.
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- E: Graduate Thesis Prep
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Thesis Preparation
For graduate students who have met the residency requirement and are continuing research on a full time basis.
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- E: Graduate Thesis Prep
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Accelerated Portuguese
This course serves as an accelerated introduction to Portuguese, one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. It is also an introduction to the diverse cultures of Portuguese-speaking societies. Specifically, the course will look into the ethnic, racial, social, and gender diversity in these cultures. Designed for students who have no prior knowledge of Portuguese, POBS 0105 meets five hours per week.
- Primary Instructor
- Sobral
- Schedule Code
- C: Discussion Section/Conference
- Primary Instructor
- Sobral
- Schedule Code
- C: Discussion Section/Conference
- Primary Instructor
- Sobral
- Schedule Code
- C: Discussion Section/Conference
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Writing and Speaking Portuguese
Designed to improve the students' 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 writing ability. A systematic review of Portuguese grammar is included. Prerequisite: POBS 0105, or POBS 0110, or placement. Conducted in Portuguese. Completion of POBS 0400 is the minimum requirement for participation in the Brown-in-Brazil Program. Offered every semester.
Prerequisite:POBS0105 or POBS0110 or placement exam.
- Primary Instructor
- Sobral
- Primary Instructor
- Sobral
- Schedule Code
- C: Discussion Section/Conference
- Primary Instructor
- Sobral
- Schedule Code
- C: Discussion Section/Conference
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Artful Teaching: Intersecting the Arts with Foreign and Second Language Acquisition
How can we create meaningful experiences for those learning a foreign or second language? What makes the creative arts (art)iculate so powerfully and naturally with foreign and second language acquisition? How do the arts enable students to become aware of surrounding cultures while simultaneously acquiring a new language? This course will explore connections between the arts--visual, literary and performing--and language acquisition in a combined workshop and seminar approach. Readings will include authors Sheridan Blau, Augusto Boal, Shirley Brice Heath, Paulo Freire, Jan Mandell, Twyla Tharp, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and others.
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Imagining the Environment the Lusophone World
In this course we will learn about how cultural production from Brazil, Lusophone Africa and Portugal imagines the environment and the human impact on the natural world. How does culture frame environmental issues such as deforestation, species and habitat loss, genetically modified crops? What is the relationship between environmental depredation, social inequality, and racial discrimination? What is the place that cultural expression plays in intervening in environmental crisis – either imaginatively or in other ways? We will broach these questions by reading a broad range of texts, watching documentaries, and looking at art works that touch upon environmental issues. Conducted in Portuguese. Prerequistes: POBS 105 or POBS 0110 and POBS 0400 (or instructor’s permission)
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Fernando Pessoa and Co
An analysis of key writings by the major Portuguese Modernist poet Fernando Pessoa, as well as by his more important heteronyms, particularly Alvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and António Mora. The course will emphasize the recurrent themes of identity, divided self, meaning, disquietude, and displacement. Conducted in Portuguese.
- Primary Instructor
- Almeida
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Brazilian Fictions of the Self
Focuses on representations of the self as a "supreme fiction" in Brazilian novels since the late 19th. century. Machado de Assis, Raul Pompeia, Raquel de Queiroz, Graciliano Ramos, Clarice Lispector, Lúcio Cardoso, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Raduan Nassar, Sérgio Sant'Anna and João Gilberto Noll. Open to advanced undergraduates with permission from the instructor. Conducted in Portuguese.
- Primary Instructor
- Valente
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Anthropocene with Many Accents: Environmentalizing the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Triangle
This course explores finer aspects of the cultural, social, ecological, and artistic landscapes of three historically interconnected Atlantic spaces: Angola, Portugal, and Brazil. Inspired by the concept of “Afro-Luso-Brazilian triangle” by the late Brown Professor Anani Dzidzienyo, we will foreground the intersectionality of struggles for the environment, racial and social justice, and gender equality, while introducing different perspectives on environmental thought. By acknowledging that we can learn from the experiences, testimonies, and fictional creations of local communities, literature, performance and the arts are central to this course. Conducted in English.
- Primary Instructor
- Lopes de Almeida
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Beyond the Masterpiece Tradition: Mining the Archive for Alternative Histories of Portuguese Cinema
Drawing on anthropology, new film history and media archaeology, this course takes the moving image archive as a departure point to revisit, reconceptualise and expand Portuguese film history and historiography. We will consider the works and formats that have been neglected – actualities, utility films, newsreels, amateur films, domestic footage and film fragments – to revise theoretical and historiographical assumptions and recover parallel, interrupted and non-teleological film histories that have hitherto failed to be written. We will also examine the appropriation of archival footage by other film productions and discuss the impact of the ‘digital turn’ on film archives. Conducted in English.
- Primary Instructor
- Ramos de Sousa Sampaio
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Lusophone Cities in Literature, Film and Music.
Description: Rio de Janeiro, Luanda, Lisbon, Macau: the cities of the Portuguese-speaking world are more than just post-card images. They are microcosms of social activity and repositories of historical memory which offer up endless avenues for exploration. In this course we deconstruct urban spaces in Lusophone Africa, Lusophone Asia, Brazil, Portugal and the diaspora, via analyses of works of literature, film, music and more. Some of the topics to be explored include: social and racial inequality; colonialism and urbanization; cityscapes and memory. Beyond this, the course aims to improve oral and written fluency in Portuguese and build knowledge of Lusophone cultures. Conducted in Portuguese.
