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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Staff. Review of fundamental skills taught in previous courses. Introduction to Brazilian literature and culture through plays, short stories, articles, and film. Practice in composition.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Davis, Prof. Dunn. A combined survey course of Brazilian and Portuguese literatures, looking at issues such as realism, regionalism, and modernism;questions of cultural identities, relations between high and low culture, representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
Profs. Atencio, Avelar, and Dunn. This course provides an introduction to the Brazilian short story from 1870 to the present, while providing intermediate to advanced training in Portuguese conversation and composition.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Dunn. Reinforcement of spoken Portuguese and review of grammatical structures. Short stories and plays serve as the basis for further development of speaking and writing. Emphasis in dealing with the texts is on their utility for skill practice rather than literary analysis.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Atencio, Prof. Avelar, Prof. Dunn. Pre-requisite: PORT 203 or special permission.Â" " Reinforcement of spoken Portuguese and review of grammatical structures. A series of films serves as the basis for further development of speaking and writing. Emphasis in dealing with the films is on their utility for skills practice rather than film analysis.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Dunn. A survey of Brazilian literature in translation, focusing primarily on the novel and short story. Students engage a wide variety of texts, including representative works of romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. This course may be taken for major or minor credit if written work is completed in Portuguese.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar, Prof. López, Prof. Dunn. This survey of Brazilian cinema and film criticism covers key phases in national film production including early experiments, the failed Vera Cruz enterprise, Cinema Novo, Cinema Marginal, Embrafilme productions, and recent film directors include Mário Peixoto, Humberto Mauro, Anselmo Duarte, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Ruy Guerra, Glauber Rocha, Carlos Diegues, Walter Lima Junior, Luiz Carlos Barreto, Paulo César Saraceni, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Rogério Sganzerla, Júlio Bressane, Suzana Amaral, and Carla Camurati.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar, Prof. Dunn. This course focuses on the literary production of several canonical authors of Brazil from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The prose fiction of no more than two or three authors is covered in any given semester. Selected literary figures for in-depth study may include José de Alencar, Machado de Assis, Lima Barreto, Graciliano Ramos, João Guimarães Rosa, Clarice Lispector, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, and Nélida Piñón.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Dunn. This course provides an introduction to the history of Brazilian race relations, the fiction and poetry of black writers from Brazil, and the study of recent Afro-Brazilian cultural and social movements.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar. This course surveys the avant-garde movements in Spanish America and Brazil, focusing on the period from 1916 to 1935. Some of the movements to be examined include Huidobro’s creacionismo, ultraÃsmo, Brazilian modernismo and verdeamarelismo, Mexican estridentismo and the “Contemporáneos†group, and the impact in Latin America of surrealism and other European avant-garde movements. Readings in both Spanish and Portuguese, and the class is taught in both languages, but fluency in both languages is not expected. (Same as SPAN 619.)
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