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PORT 102A.
Advanced Grammar and Composition
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Portuguese 6
Study of the finer points of Portuguese grammar and syntax. Equal stress is placed on written and oral practice of the language. The work in class will consist of careful study of essays and articles.
PORT 102B.
Advanced Grammar and Composition
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Portuguese 102A
Study of the finer points of Portuguese grammar and syntax. Equal stress is placed on written and oral practice of the language. The work in class will consist of careful study of essays and articles.
PORT 105.
Survey of Portuguese Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing
A survey of the main writers of Portuguese Literature from its beginnings up to the present. Designed to give the student historical, cultural and literary contexts, a chronological panel, in order to prepare the student for more specific and focused courses within the area of Portuguese. Also prepares the student for understanding these contexts in order to apply the knowledge acquired in this survey to other fields of interest.
PORT 106.
Survey of Brazilian Literature from its Beginnings to the Present
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
A survey of the main works of literature produced in Brazil and about Brazil from its beginnings up to the present. Involves travel literature about Brazil, written in the sixteenth century, at the time of its discovery, as well as the literature produced in Brazil up to the present, represented by significant authors and periods. Designed to give the student a historical, cultural and literary context, a chronological panel, in order to prepare the student for more specific and focused courses within the area of Portuguese. Also prepares the student for the understanding of cultural contexts in order to apply the knowledge acquired in this survey to other fields of interest.
PORT 108.
How to Read and Why: Brazilian Literature and More
(4)
OLIVER
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Students are exposed to readings of aesthetic and cultural value, such as literature in all its genres: poetry, short story, crônicas, novels, memorials etc. Also introduces students to the basic concepts of literary theory and aesthetics, and to some specific literary genres like travel literature and satire. Students will acquire skills to engage critically with other aesthetic forms, like the visual arts and architecture, as well as engaging with philosophical texts.
PORT 109.
Nature and Environment in Brazilian Culture and Literature
(4)
OLIVER
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
This multidisciplinary course aims to understand how Brazilian culture and literature approach its surrounding environment, using different sources of materials: travel writing descriptions, accounts of visitors and explorers, scientists, visual arts, literary texts, anthropological and ethnographic approaches, history, philosophy and media. The course offers a complete survey of the complex relations involving the Portuguese Colonial system of exploration and exploitation of the environment (plantation, monoculture, slavery), land and border occupation of indigenous lands, demarcation, and the 20th occupation of the Amazon. It provides the essential historical and cultural backgrounds of Brazilian engagement with its environment.
PORT 114.
Literature of the Portuguese Expansion
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Literary masterpieces of the Portuguese Golden Age (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and part of the seven- teenth century): chronicles of the discoveries, the epic poem Os Lusiadas by Camoes, dramatic narratives of shipwrecks--all translated into English.
PORT 115AAZZ.
Brazilian Literature (in English Translation)
(4)
CAMILO DOS SANTOS, OLIVER
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units provided letter designations are different.
Significant writers and poets of nineteenth and twentieth century Brazil. Topic or author to be chosen by faculty member. Each course on different topics. Taught in English.
PORT 115A.
Brazilian Literature in English Translation
PORT 115AA.
Brazilian Literature (in English Translation)
PORT 115B.
Brazilian Literature (in English Translation)
PORT 115BB.
Brazilian Literature (in English Translation)
PORT 115ED.
Brazilian Literature (in English Translation)
PORT 115EE.
Brazilian Literature (in English Translation)
PORT 115EO.
Brazilian Literature (in English Translation)
PORT 116.
Portuguese Literature in Translation
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
A broad overview of Modern and Contemporary Portuguese literature, in English translation. It investigates the relationship between literature and society in novels, short-stories, poems, and essays produced between the Modernist period and the present. Taught in English.
PORT 125A.
Artistic and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Portuguese Language Countries
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
The distinctive features of Portugal, Brazil, and African countries as manifested in institutions, art, music, and literature. Taught in English
PORT 125B.
Culture and Civilization of Brazil
(4)
VALARINI OLIVER, ELIDE
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Provides students with tools to understand, discuss, and learn many aspects of Brazilian culture. From the beginning, the complexities involved in the Portuguese colonization, the special conjuncture bringing the Portuguese Royal family to Rio de Janeiro, and the circumstances involving the formation of Brazil and Brazilians, make Brazilian culture one of the most complex in the whole of the Americas. Students engage with important texts and materials that provide a full perspective of Brazilian culture.
PORT 128AAZZ.
Luso-Brazilian Cinema
(4)
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units provided letter designations are different.
Portuguese and Brazilian films of the past forty years both as an art medium and as a document of changing society. Topic or author to be chosen by faculty member; each course on a different topic. Taught in English.
PORT 128AA.
Luso-Brazilian Cinema
PORT 128BB.
Luso-Brazilian Cinema
PORT 128C.
Luso-Brazilian Cinema
PORT 128D.
Luso-Brazilian Cinema
PORT 128MP.
Luso-Brazilian Cinema
PORT 128P.
Luso-Brazilian Cinema
PORT 128RB.
Luso-Brazilian Cinema
PORT 128RP.
Luso-Brazilian Cinema
PORT 129AAZZ.
Portuguese Cinema
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Repeat Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 20 units, provided letter designations are different.
Portuguese films of the past forty years both as an art medium and as a document of changing society. Topic or author to be chosen by faculty member; each course on a different topic. Taught in English.
PORT 129A.
Portuguese Cinema
PORT 129B.
Portuguese Cinema
PORT 129C.
Portuguese Cinema
PORT 130AAZZ.
Brazilian Cinema
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Repeat Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 20 units, provided letter designations are different.
Brazilian films of the past 40 years both as an art medium and as a document of changing society. Topic or author to be chosen by faculty member; each course of a different topic. Taught in English.
PORT 130A.
Brazilian Cinema
PORT 130B.
Brazilian Cinema
PORT 130C.
Brazilian Cinema
PORT 183AAZZ.
Studies in Portuguese Literatures
(4)
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated to a maximum of 20 units provided the letter designation is different.
Topic or author to be chosen by faculty member; each course on a different topic.
PORT 183A.
Studies in Portuguese Literatures
PORT 183B.
Studies in Portuguese Literature
PORT 183BP.
Studies in Portuguese Literature
PORT 183C.
Studies in Portuguese Literature
PORT 183D.
Studies in Portuguese Literature
PORT 183E.
Studies in Portuguese Literatures
PORT 183EO.
Studies in Portuguese Literatures
PORT 183G.
Studies in Portuguese Literature
PORT 183HS.
Studies in Portuguese Literatures
PORT 183J.
Studies in Portuguese Literatures
PORT 183M.
Studies in Portuguese Literature
PORT 183P.
Studies in Portuguese Literature
PORT 183PL.
Studies in Portuguese Literatures
PORT 183R.
Studies in Portuguese Literature
PORT 183RV.
Studies in Portuguese Literatures
PORT 183S.
Studies in Portuguese Literature
PORT 183T.
Studies in Portuguese Literature
PORT 183U.
Studies in Portuguese Literatures
PORT 183W.
Postcolonial Lusophone Africa
PORT 189.
Brazilian Modernism
(4)
VALARINI OLIVER, ELIDE
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Recommended Preparation: Portuguese 6 or equivalent.
Dedicated to all the aspects of the Movimento Modernista. Provides a full picture and perspective, not only of important productions from Brazilian Literature (theater, novel, poetry, short story, and crônicas), but also of Modernism in visual arts, architecture, music, and more. Students learn how to critically read literature, and delve into some of the most important works by some of the most important writers and artists in Brazil. Extends up to the contemporary scene in the Brazilian letters and culture.
PORT 193.
Capstone Seminar
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Concurrently offered with Portuguese 293.
The Capstone Seminar offers outstanding Portuguese Majors the opportunity to conduct research alongside M.A. and Ph.D. students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. The course aims to improve the students' critical thinking and ability to analyze and contextualize primary and secondary sources within Brazilian and Portuguese Literature. Students learn to identify and locate reliable sources, compile and present bibliographical data in a consistent format, and improve their ability to write scholarly prose in clear, idiomatic Portuguese.
PORT 195.
Senior Honors Independent Research
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Admission to the Portuguese senior honors program.
The student engages in research leading to a paper of considerable depth and complexity on a topic dealing with the literature and/or language of Portugal, Brazil, or Portuguese-speaking Africa.
PORT 199.
Independent Studies in Portuguese
(1-5)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; completion of 2 upper-division courses in Portuguese; consent of department.
Enrollment Comments: Students must have a minimum 3.0 GPA average for the preceding 3 quarters and are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199AA-ZZ courses combined.
Independent studies in selected subjects not covered by course offerings.
PORT 205A.
Survey of Portuguese Literature for Spanish Graduate Students
(4)
CAMILO-DOS-SANTOS, SHARRER
Prerequisite: Portuguese 105A or concurrent attendance.
From origins to sixteenth century. Students will write an extensive paper and be responsible for additional readings to enrich their preparation and ready them for their Ph.D. examinations.
PORT 205B.
Survey of Portuguese Literature for Spanish Graduate Students
(4)
CAMILO-DOS-SANTOS, SHARRER
Prerequisite: Portuguese 105B or concurrent attendance.
Sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Students will write an extensive paper and be responsible for additional readings to enrich their preparation and ready them for their Ph.D. examinations.
PORT 212.
Approaches and Methods for Research in Hispanic Literature and Linguistics
(4)
PERISSINOTTO, SHARRER, RAPOSO
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Enrollment Comments: Concurrently offered with SPAN 212.
Approaches and methods for research in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literature and linguistics. Study of main bibliographic resources with particular emphasis on computer-aided research and resulting in the production of a substantive research project proposal in a field of graduate research.
PORT 220.
Environmental Humanities and the Lusophone World
(4)
CORRÊA DE SÁ
Explores literature, visual arts and films from the Lusophone cultures (Portugal, Brazil, Angola and Mozambique). Through an interdisciplinary, transnational inquiry, we pay special attention to the ways they entangle with the environment. We examine works that overtly deal with ecological issues, but also apply an ecocritical point of view to works we don't primarily think of as ecological. We look at Amerindian cultures, Big Game hunting in colonial Africa, Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms, and environmental imaginary in contemporary cinema. We explore how the arts can shape environmental thinking, raise awareness of non-human lifeworlds, and provide cultural responses to the growing climate crisis.
PORT 255.
Studies on Machado de Assis and the Brazilian Novel
(4)
CAMILO-DOS-SANTOS
Enrollment Comments: Course content may vary from quarter to quarter and may be repeated for credit with the consent of the department graduate adviser.
Machado de Assis' novelistic work; its innovative approach as a basis of modern fiction. Other novelists of his time will also be studied.
PORT 265.
Studies on Fernando Pessoa and the Avant-Garde
(4)
STAFF
Enrollment Comments: Course content may vary from quarter to quarter and may be repeated for credit with the consent of the department graduate adviser.
Pessoa's poetry, its influence on contemporary Portuguese poetry, and its relationship to the world avant-garde movement.
PORT 283CD.
Individual Luso-Brazilian Authors and Special Topics
PORT 283HS.
Individual Luso-Brazilian Authors and Special Topics
PORT 283JC.
Individual Luso-Brazilian Authors and Special Topics
PORT 293.
Capstone Seminar
(4)
STAFF
Enrollment Comments: Concurrently offered with PORT 193.
The Capstone Seminar offers the graduate students from the Spanish and Portuguese Department the opportunity to conduct research alongside upstanding seniors who seek to obtain distinction in the Portuguese major. The course offers MAs and PhDs the opportunity to hone their critical thinking, oral, and writing skills. It also allows the graduate students the chance to mentor their undergraduate classmates by teaching them to analyze and contextualize primary and secondary sources within Lusophone Literature.
PORT 295A.
Research Seminar in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature
(4)
CAMILO-DOS-SANTOS
Primarily intended to train students in techniques, background materials and selection of topics.
PORT 295B.
Research Seminar in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature
(4)
CAMILO-DOS-SANTOS
Enrollment Comments: A two-quarter in-progress sequence course with grades for both quarters issued upon completion of the final quarter.
Comlpetion of research paper, reporting regularly to class on progress of work.
PORT 590.
Spanish Teaching Methodology
(4)
MARQUES-PASCUAL
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and appointment as a teaching assistant or student associin Portuguese.
Preparation of students to conduct intitial research in areas related to Applied Linguistics, and the application of both theoretical and practical considerations of the current literature on actual teaching.
PORT 591.
Teaching Assistant Practicum
(4)
Enrollment Comments: Units earned do not apply toward completion of advanced degrees. S/U grading only. Required of all teaching assistants in Portuguese.
Supervised teaching of lower-division Portuguese courses at UCSB. Participation in occasional workshops related to the field of teaching willbe required.
PORT 592.
Teaching Associate Practicum
(4)
MARQUES-PASCUAL
Enrollment Comments: Units earned do not apply toward completion of advanced degrees. S/U grading only. Required of all student associates in Portuguese.
Supervised teaching of lower-division Portuguese courses at UCSB. Participation in occasional workshops related to the field of teaching willbe required.
PORT 593.
Research Assistant Practicum
(2-4)
Enrollment Comments: Units earned do not apply toward completion of advanced degree. S/U gradingonly.
Supervised research in Luso-Brazilian literature, linguistics, or culture.
PORT 594.
Special Topics
(1-4)
STAFF
A special seminar on research subjects of current interest.
PORT 596.
Directed Reading and Research
(2-4)
Prerequisite: Consent of the program advisor.
Individual tutorial. A written proposal for each tutorial must be approved by student's program adviser and by the department chair. The number of units which a student may take in this series depends on the nature of the program and the consent of the adviser or the departmental graduate committee.
PORT 597AAZZ.
Individual Study for Master's Comprehensive or Ph.D. Examinations
(2-12)
Enrollment Comments: S/U grading. No unit credit allowed toward advanced degree.
Individual study for Master's comprehensive or Ph.D. examinations. Individual study under instructor who is member of the student's program committee.
PORT 597AA.
Individual Study for Master's Comprehensive or Ph.D. Examinations
PORT 599.
Ph.D. Dissertation Research and Preparation
(2-12)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Enrollment Comments: S/U grading only.
Ph.D. dissertation research and preparation. Research and writing of the dissertation. Instructor should be the chair of the student's doctoral committee.
PORT 599AA.
Ph.D. Dissertation Research and Preparation
(2-12)
STAFF
Enrollment Comments: S/U grading only.
Ph.D. dissertation research and preparation. Research and writing of the dissertation. Instructor should be the chair of the student's doctoral committee.
SPAN 100.
Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
(4)
RAPOSO, MIGLIO,MARQUES-PASCUAL
Prerequisite: SPAN 16B or SPAN 25 (may be taken concurrently).
Enrollment Comments: Prerequisite to all other upper-division courses in Hispanic linguistics.
Introduction to linguistic theories, methods, and problems as applied to Spanish. Taught in Spanish with Spanish examples.
SPAN 101.
American Spanish
(4)
PERISSINOTTO
Prerequisite: Spanish 100.
Geographical, social, and stylistic distribution of phonemic, morphosyntactic, and lexical features in Spanish as spoken in Latin America.
SPAN 102A.
Advanced Composition through Literature
(4)
JEFFERSON, GONZALES-SMITH
Prerequisite: Spanish 6 or Spanish 25 or Spanish 16A or Spanish 16B.
Enrollment Comments: Required for teaching credential candidates with a major in Spanish.
The study of the finer points of Spanish grammar and syntax. Stress is placed on writing critical analyses of literary readings.
SPAN 102B.
Advanced Composition through Literature
(4)
JEFFERSON, GONZALES-SMITH
Prerequisite: Spanish 6 or Spanish 25 or Spanish 16A or Spanish 16B.
Enrollment Comments: Required for teaching credential candidates with major in Spanish.
The study of the finer points of Spanish grammar and syntax. Stress is placed on writing critical analyses of literary readings.
SPAN 103.
Beyond Advanced Spanish Proficiency
(4)
MARQUES-PASCUAL
Prerequisite: Spanish 16B or Spanish 25.
Designed to provide students who have completed Span 25 or Span 16B and one additional upper-division Spanish course with the opportunity to practice the four language skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Students will practice different communicative skills, from defending an opinion to mastering transactions and exchanges.
SPAN 104.
Teaching Spanish for Heritage Speakers
(4)
MARQUES-PASCUAL
Prerequisite: Spanish 100.
Designed for students who have completed Span 100 and who are considering a teaching career. The course covers frequent issues encountered when working with students who have learned Spanish through their family history or place of origin.
SPAN 105.
Spanish/English Contrasts
(4)
MARQUES-PASCUAL
Prerequisite: Spanish 100.
The scope of this course is the Spanish language and its differences vis-a-vis English, ranging from pronunciation and grammar to word meaning, language use, and social and dialectical variation.
SPAN 106.
Introduction to Latin American and Iberian Studies
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as LAIS 100.
Designed to acquaint students with current research on the main areas of Latin American and Iberian Studies. Taught in English.
SPAN 107.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the History and Societies of Latin America and Iberia
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as LAIS 101.
Issues central to the study of Latin America and Iberia across the social sciences and history. Topics include nationalism, revolution, politics and the state, economic development and international relations, labor, popular culture, race, gender, religion, migration, environment, imperialism, and colonialism. Taught in English.
SPAN 108.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Cultures, Languages, and Literatures of Latin America and Iberia
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as LAIS 102.
Issues pertinent to the diverse cultures, languages, and literatures of Latin America and Iberia. Disciplines and approaches may include: pre-Columbian studies, Spanish and Spanish American literatures, Portuguese and Brazilian literatures, translation studies, cultural, gender, and queer studies, romance language and linguistics. Taught in English.
SPAN 109.
Spanish in the United States: The Language and Its Speakers
(4)
MARQUES-PASCUAL
Prerequisite: Spanish 100; Upper-division standing.
Study of Spanish used in United States by native and immigrant groups: Mexicans, Chicanos, Cubans, Puerto Ricans and others in Spanish-speaking enclaves. Focus on language and social and cultural manifestations arising in contact between linguistically different groups. Taught in Spanish.
SPAN 110A.
Spanish Literature from the Beginning to the Present
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Spanish 102L or Spanish 30 (may be taken concurrently).
Medieval Spanish literature.
SPAN 110B.
Spanish Literature from the Beginning to the Present
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Spanish 102L OR Spanish 30 (may be taken concurrently).
Golden age literature.
SPAN 110C.
Spanish Literature from the Beginning to the Present
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Spanish 102L OR Spanish 30 (may be taken concurrently).
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish literature.
SPAN 110D.
Spanish Literature from the Beginning to the Present
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Spanish 102L OR Span 30. (Prerequisite may be taken concurrently).
Twentieth-century Spanish literature.
SPAN 111A.
Spanish-American Literature from the Beginning to the Present
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Spanish 102L OR Span 30. (Prerequisite may be taken concurrently).
Colonial Spanish-American literature.
SPAN 111B.
Spanish-American Literature from the Beginning to the Present
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Spanish 102L OR Span 30. (Prerequisite may be taken concurrently).
Nineteenth-century Spanish-American literature.
SPAN 111C.
Spanish-American Literature from the Beginning to the Present
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Spanish 102L OR Span 30. (Prerequisite may be taken concurrently).
Twentieth-century Spanish-American literature.
SPAN 112A.
Non-Castilian Literatures of Spain