Portuguese Studies

A beginning course designed for students who wish to start their study of Portuguese and have no proficiency in another Romance language. The four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing are developed at the basic level.

Prerequisites: PORT W1101 or the equivalent. A course designed to acquaint students with the Portuguese verbal, prepositional, and pronominal systems. As a continuation of Elementary Portuguese I (PORT W1101), this course focuses on the uses of characteristic forms and expressions of the language as it is spoken and written in Brazil today.

Prerequisites: knowledge of Spanish or another Romance language. An intensive beginning language course in Brazilian Portuguese with emphasis on Brazilian culture through multimedia materials related to culture and society in contemporary Brazil. Recommended for students who have studied Spanish or another Romance language. The course is the equivalent of two full semesters of elementary Portuguese with stress on reading and conversing, and may be taken in place of PORT W1101-W1102. For students unable to dedicate the time needed cover two semesters in one, the regularly paced sequence PORT W1101-W1102 is preferable.

Prerequisites: PORT W1120 or the equivalent. General review of grammar, with emphasis on self-expression through oral and written composition, reading, conversation, and discussion.

Prerequisites: PORT UN1120 or PORT UN1320 or the equivalent. General review of grammar, with emphasis on self-expression through oral and written composition, reading, conversation, and discussion.

Prerequisites: PORT UN1102 or PORT UN1320. Prerequisites: this course is an intensive and fast-paced coverage of both PORT UN2101 and PORT UN2102. Students MUST demonstrate a strong foundation in Portuguese and meet the following REQUIREMENT: A- or higher in PORT UN1102 or PORT UN1320. If you fulfill the above requirement, you do not need the instructors permission to register. HOWEVER the instructor will additionally assess student proficiency during the Change of Program Period. Students who do not have the necessary proficiency level may not remain in this course. This course replaces the sequence PORT UN2101-PORT UN2102.

For centuries, the transatlantic has been a space of forced labor migrations, mercantilism, colonial and capitalist extraction, imagination, resistance, and resignification. The transpacific, too, has long been a space of imperial imaginaries and conquests, and subaltern protagonisms. In this seminar, we will examine the restructuration of the gradual end of African slavery and the shift to new forms of involuntary labor, or what sociologist Dale Tomich calls, the second slavery. We will examine the relationship between political economy and aesthetics with a focus on Asiatic labor and Asiatic racial form to understand ways that colonial stereotypes about Asian laborers were curated to facilitate the restructuration of the global division of labor. Focusing on the aesthetics of Chinese exclusion in mediating debates about labor, we will examine hemispheric American debates that reconfigured Transatlantic slave relations with eugenics and scientific racism to new forms of transpacific labor. We will question how visual cultures that circulated ideologies about racial capital, miscegenation, and economic liberalization shaped racialized nationalisms and immigrant restriction policies. While we will focus primarily on the Brazilian context, we will also examine the way these discourses took shape in other Latin American countries to interrogate the hemispheric circulation of the ways eugenic ideas about racial mixing shaped deliberations of political life, citizenship, and national belonging.