Portuguese: Language, Literature, Culture (including courses in English)

• CAS LP 111: First-Semester Portuguese
  Introduction to grammatical structures. Fundamental communications skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Exposure to the culture and civilization of the Portuguese-speaking world through media broadcast, literature readings, films, music, and videotapes. Lab required. Four hours weekly.
• CAS LP 112: Second-Semester Portuguese
  Covers the important grammar points not studied in CAS LP 111. Further develops the four communicative skills while expanding students' background knowledge of the history and cultures of the Portuguese- speaking world. Lab required. Four hours weekly.
• CAS LP 123: Intensive Elementary Portuguese
  Intensive elementary Portuguese for those with previous study of Spanish and other interested students. Equivalent of one year of college Portuguese. Emphasizes the four communicative skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Introduces grammar and the culture of the Lusophone world through media broadcast, literature readings, films, music, and videotapes.
• CAS LP 211: Third-Semester Portuguese
  Promotes cross-cultural understanding of the Luso-African-Brazilian cultures through authentic literary texts, multimedia, film and music. Completes study of grammatical structures and syntactical patterns. Emphasizes reading, writing and conversational competency. Conducted in Portuguese.
• CAS LP 212: Fourth-Semester Portuguese
  Review of the grammar and syntax of Portuguese. Further develops reading, writing, and conversational competency while expanding students' knowledge of history and culture. Conducted in Portuguese. Fulfills the CAS language requirement.
• CAS LP 305: Topics in Portuguese Language and Culture
  Taught in Portuguese. Centers on advanced Portuguese grammar and improves writing, reading, and speaking skills beyond the level reached in CAS LP 212 through engagement with key aspects of Luso-Brazilian culture. Also suitable for heritage speakers. Students may choose between two topics offered in 2015/2016. Topic for Fall 2015: Introduction to Brazilian History and Culture. Topic for Spring 2016: Language Through Brazilian Film.
• CAS LP 307: Portuguese for Business and Professional Life
  This course emphasizes cultural and linguistic competence in professional, business-oriented settings. It is designed to provide students with advanced proficiency in Portuguese while exploring different aspects of the culture and professional life of the Brazilian and the Portuguese-speaking world.
• CAS LP 310: Introduction to Brazilian Cinema (in English translation)
  An overview of Brazilian cinema in the 60s, 70s and 80s, its discourse on revolution and marginality, as well as its connection to artistic, musical, and literary movements. Focus on the work of avant-garde filmmakers and younger generations. Also includes attention to Cuban cinema. Taught in English.
• CAS LP 312: Inventing Brazil (in English Translation)
  Exploration of several cultural realms, tropes, and intellectual disciplines--- literature, history, art, film, sociology, anthropology--- that situate Brazil within Western modernity. Focus in Spring 2016 is on important figures, concepts, and debates that forged the national image of Brazil.
• CAS LP 350: Brazilian Literature Before 1900
  Brazilian literature from the colonial period to 1900. Topics include Jesuits and indigenous peoples; the Baroque and satirical poetry; the struggle for independence; the abolition of slavery; the process of modernization; the rise of the metropolis.
• CAS LP 352: Tropical Metropolis and Brazilian Modernity
  Focus on aesthetic and thematic changes in Brazilian art and literature during the country's modernization (1889-1930), with attention to the repercussion of those themes in 1960s film production, the Tropicália movement, and concrete poetry.

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