A continuation of POR 101. Students will continue to develop skills of oral/aural comprehension, speaking, reading and writing, while gaining further exposure to the Portuguese-speaking world through the media, literature, film and music of Brazil, Portugal and Lusophone Africa. Students who successfully complete POR 102 will place into POR 107.

This course is tailor-made for Spanish speakers, using your existing language knowledge for the accelerated learning of Portuguese. You'll quickly develop the ability to speak, read, write, and understand Portuguese, all at the same time. In just two semesters (POR 106-109), you'll be ready to explore, research, and connect with people in Brazil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa. Get ready to unlock new adventures and opportunities - your Portuguese journey starts here!

Immerse yourself in Portuguese and expand your intercultural understanding in this interactive, second-semester course! Building on communicative approaches, you'll enhance your listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills through real-world tasks and meaningful interactions. The course integrates grammar in context with authentic materials, including thought-provoking readings, films, and novels from Brazil, Portugal, and Portuguese-speaking Africa. You'll engage in discussions, collaborative projects, and reflective tasks designed to deepen both your language proficiency and cultural awareness.

This course focuses on the works of individuals and collectives whose projects challenge traditional notions of women's writing and representation. From renowned authors like Clarice Lispector to contemporary figures such as Txai Suruí and Djaimilia Pereira, we will look at writers and artists with gender identities ranging from cisgender to transgender and non-binary, examining how their interventions reshape the feminist canon. By connecting words, bodies, and voices, and engaging with works from outside the Portuguese-speaking world, we will analyze how feminist ideas move and transform across languages, cultures, and experiences.

An introduction to Machado de Assis (1839-1908), the course aims at comprehending how the best-known and most canonical Brazilian author has been "whitened" and how a true "Black Turn" is now responsible for new readings of his works and life. Machado's peculiar, subtle way of dealing with race in pre- and pos-Abolition Brazil will be analyzed, so we can understand how within certain contemporary circles he's become a "quebradeiro" (a person who belongs to the peripheries), without having ever lost his centrality in the country's "ciudad letrada" (Lettered City).

This is an introduction to Lima Barreto (1881-1922). The 100th anniversary of his death coincided with the 100 years of the "Semana de Arte Moderna," a landmark of Modernism in Brazil. Unike the Spanish American "vanguardias," Brazilian Modernism was influenced by the primitivism of the European avant-garde, which saw Black and Indigenous people as the unconscious bearers of modernity. We study how Barreto's literature, which explored popular orality and religions, was expelled from the literary cannon and how the author has re-emerged as one of the most meaningful Black voices of the Brazilian Republic.

This course offers an introduction to key terms, concepts and issues in the fields of second-language acquisition and language-teaching pedagogy as it relates to the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese. Students acquire knowledge, as well as develop and practice skills that prepare them to teach foreign languages, select content and create materials, assess student performance, and reflect upon their own teaching practice. The course's theoretical principles are applied to the teaching of the four linguistic skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The teaching of culture and use of new technologies are also addressed.