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The prevalence of popular baroque as one of the main sources of Brazilian culture in general puts a stress on the sensorial, the performative, the rhythmic and the sensual as preponderant elements of artistic creativity. Aims to explore this poetic of the senses in different dimensions: literature, poetry, music, dance, theatre, visual arts, film, architecture and urban design.
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Designed to introduce the student with little or no knowledge of the language to the Portuguese-speaking world. Teaches fundamental communication skills-understanding, speaking, reading, and writing-and, at the same time, provides exposure to the culture and civilization of Brazil and Portugal through media broadcasts, literature readings, films, music, and videotapes. By the end of the course, students should be able to communicate easily with native speakers as well as be acquainted with basic elements of Luso-Brazilian culture.
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An introductory language course designed for Spanish-English bilinguals. Along with the fundamental communication skills-understanding, speaking, reading and writing-the course will focus on those features of Portuguese which are most difficult for Spanish speakers: pronunciation, idioms and grammatical structures particular to Portuguese. Students will be introduced to the cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world through readings and authentic materials, including films, music, and videotapes.
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A continuation of Portuguese Ac. By the end of the second term, students should be able to communicate easily with native speakers and be acquainted with basic elements of Luso-Brazilian culture.
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Students engage in systematic grammar review, along with practice in writing and vocabulary enrichment, while examining contemporary Brazil as presented in the Portuguese-language press, television, literature, and film. They analyze the ways Brazilians and non-Brazilians construct different and conflicting images of Brazil and "Brazilness." Issues of race relations, national identity, ethnicity, and gender addressed. Discussions based on historical and literary tests, advertisements, films, videotapes of Brazilian television, and current issues of newspapers and magazines.
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Studies the richness and peculiarities of Brazilian popular culture, resonant of mythical and symbolical contents brought from ancient and medieval times, as well as its convergences, frictions, clashes and subversions of mainstream Brazilian culture.
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Discusses some creative and exciting trends in modern Brazilian culture that arose in resistance to military dictatorship: Tropicalismo, Concretismo and Neo-Concretismo, MPB, Cinema Novo, Teatro de Arena and Literatura Marginal.
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Examines major Brazilian films in their historical, political, and social context. Class discussion also focuses on documentaries, reviews, and critical articles. In-depth textual and grammatical analysis, vocabulary building, reflections on the similarities and differences of the oral and written Portuguese will lead students to achieve a high level of competency.
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A beginning intermediate course for students interested in expanding and strengthening their basic Portuguese linguistic skills. Reading, writing, and conversational competency is emphasized through the study of the Luso-African-Brazilian cultures. The course aims to promote cross-cultural understanding through the use of authentic materials such as literary texts, multimedia, film, music, and videotapes.
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Aims to further develop the four communicative skills while expanding students' background knowledge of the history and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world. Portuguese Cb covers the important grammar points not studied in Portuguese Ca.
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Study of the epic and lyric poetry of Camoes in the context of the European Renaissance. Special attention given to the love sonnets and to the lyrical passages of The Lusiads.
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A basic introductory course for students who can devote only one term to the study of Portuguese. Teaches fundamental communication skills-understanding, speaking, reading and writing-but does not offer a complete study of grammar.
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The main currents of Portuguese literature. Emphasis on major authors, literary schools, and socio-aesthetic ideas from Gil Vicente and Camoes to Eca de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Jorge de Sena and Jose Saramago. Aims to teach students to read Portuguese texts and to think and write about them in a broad Western European context.
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A continuation of Portuguese 122a.
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A comprehensive analysis of 20th century Brazilian literary and poetic development, studied within the context of the country's historical dilemmas, social contrasts, economic growth and cultural ebullience.
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A study of major lyrical texts of the Portuguese language, from medieval times to the present, with emphasis on poetry written in Portugal and Brazil after 1900. The approach is comparative, focusing on the formal aspects of poetry (meter, rhyme, rhythm).
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A continuation of Portuguese 118.
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Studies some lesser-known but quintessentially important writers, artists, dramatists and filmmakers who dissented, deviated from or confronted the cultural mainstream, thus helping to define the singularity of cutting-edge contemporary Brazilian culture.
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An advanced language course examining the Luso-African-Brazilian experience in the US. Promotes community engagement as a vehicle for greater linguistic fluency and cultural understanding. Students will be placed with Boston-area community organizations and agencies. Class work focuses on readings and films by and about Luso-African-Brazilians and specific uses of Portuguese language from these communities. Authors include D. Macedo, Braga Martes, Margolis, Sales, Albues, and Villas Boas.
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A historical survey of the theory and practice of the sonnet in the literature of the Portuguese language, from the Renaissance to the end of the 20th century. Portuguese and Brazilian authors include, among others, Camoes, Sa de Miranda, Bocage, Antero de Quental, Fernando Pessoa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Mario Quintana, Ledo Ivo, David, Mourao-Ferreira, Sophia de Melo Breyner Andresen, Alexandre O'Neill, and Jorge de Sena.
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