2006-2007 Graduate Courses in Portuguese
| AUTUMN | WINTER | SPRING |
|---|---|---|
| 30100 Intermediate Portuguese | 30200 Advanced Portuguese | 31500 Estilística da língua portuguesa |
| 30400 Intermediate Portuguese | 42100 Readings and Research | 31700 Proust on Interpretation |
| 33002 Allegories of the Political | 32001 The "Western Tertúlia" | |
| 42100 Readings and Research | 42100 Readings and Research |
Graduate Course Descriptions
30100. 30400. Intermediate Portuguese. In this intermediate/advanced-level sequence, students review and extend their knowledge of all basic patterns (e.g., grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, sociocultural norms) of the language. They develop their oral and written skills in describing, narrating, and presenting arguments. They are exposed to texts and audio-visual material that provide them with a deeper understanding of Portuguese literature, culture, and contemporary society. A.M. Lima. Autumn.
30200. Advanced Portuguese. PORT 20200 is specifically designed to help students develop their descriptive and narrative skills through exposure to written and oral documents (e.g., literary texts, interviews). Students are taught the grammatical and lexical tools necessary to understand these documents, and to produce their own analysis and commentaries. A.M. Lima. Winter.
31500. Estilística da língua portuguesa. This course is specifically designed to help students develop their skills in understanding, summarizing, and producing written and spoken arguments in Portuguese through readings and debates on various issues of relevance in contemporary Luso-Brazilian societies. Special consideration is given to the major differences between continental and Brazilian Portuguese. In addition to reading, analyzing, and commenting on advanced texts (both literary and nonliterary), students practice and extend their writing skills in a series of compositions. A.M. Lima. Spring.
31700. Proust on Interpretation (SCTH 30630) In this seminar we will read the two final episodes of Proust's masterpiece, sometimes known in English as The Fugitive and Finding Time Again. Topics to be discussed include certainty, evidence, error and intention. My contention will be not that Proust's novel is a fictional illustration of such "philosophical" topics but rather that Proust's novel is straight, unmediated, philosophy, and indeed describes most of what we need to know about those issues. M. Tamen. Spring.
32001. The 'Western Tertúlia:' The Portuguese Generation of the 1870s or Iberia at a CrossroadsIn the last three decades of the 19th-Century Portugal produced a remarkable generation of intellectuals, who, through the discourses of literature, philosophy, history and political science, not only reassessed Portugal's legacy and place in the world--and in Iberia in particular, but also set the stage for major events that characterized the 20th-Century, such as African colonialism, dictatorship and generalized social unrest. We will pay particular attention to the impact of this generation in post-1898 Spain, as well as to the cultural conflict that it produced, between an European and an Atlantic identity, which ultimately would only subside with Portugal's entrance in the European Union in 1986. Readings in Portuguese, English and Spanish. P. Pereira. Spring.
33002. Allegories of the Political in Contemporary Post-Colonial Fiction from Portugal, Brazil and Angola. In this course we will focus on how political claims, concerns and aspirations, in a broad sense of the word 'political' to be addressed in class, are represented and transformed in literature, through an examination of fiction works as well as critical texts published in Portugal, Brazil and Angola in the last ten years. Readings in Portuguese and English. P. Pereira. Autumn.
42100. Readings and Research. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.