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PORT 1 - Elementary Portuguese
(4) STAFF
Beginning course in Portuguese establishing fundamental auditory and oral skills, with secondary practice in reading and writing, pronunciation, intensive oral practice. Includes laboratory work.



PORT 2 - Elementary Portuguese
(4) STAFF
Continues activities commenced with Portuguese 1.



PORT 3 - Elementary Portuguese
(4) STAFF
Completes the basic study of the elements of the language.



PORT 4 - Intermediate Portuguese
(4) STAFF
Begins review of basic grammar and syntax.



PORT 5 - Intermediate Portuguese
(4) STAFF
Continues review of basic grammar and syntax.



PORT 6 - Intermediate Portuguese
(4) STAFF
An intensive course designed to develop students' skills in reading and oral and written expression by reading and discussing Luso-Brazilian texts and writing compositions on related topics.



PORT 8A - Portuguese Conversation
(2) STAFF
Informal conversation hour. Courses conducted entirely in Portuguese.



PORT 8B - Portuguese Conversation
(2) STAFF
Informal conversation hour. Courses conducted entirely in Portuguese.



PORT 11 - Portuguese for Graduate Students
(5) STAFF
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.
Designed primarily for graduate students who already possess a knowledge ofanother romance language and who wish to acquire a reading knowledge of Portuguese.



PORT 16A - Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
(4) STAFF
An intensive introductory sequence in Portuguese covering the first full year of Portuguese gammar and also advanced readings in Portuguese. Uses the grammatical structures of the Romance languges, especially Spanish, as a point of departure. Proficiency in all areas of Portuguese (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) are emphasized.



PORT 16B - Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
(4) STAFF
An intensive introductory sequence in Portuguese covering the first full year of Portuguese gammar and also advanced readings in Portuguese. Uses the grammatical structures of the Romance languges, especially Spanish, as a point of departure. Proficiency in all areas of Portuguese (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) are emphasized.



PORT 25 - Advanced Portuguese
(5) STAFF
Course is designed to reinforce students' comprehension and ability to express themselves in Portuguese, both orally and in writing, and to develop the students' vocabulary and awareness of syntactical structures in the language.



PORT 102A - Advanced Grammar and Composition
(4) STAFF
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
Study of the finer points of Portuguese grammar and syntax. Equal stress isplaced on written and oral practice of the language. The work in class willconsist of careful study of essays and articles.



PORT 102B - Advanced Grammar and Composition
(4) STAFF
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
Study of the finer points of Portuguese grammar and syntax. Equal stress isplaced on written and oral practice of the language. The work in class willconsist of careful study of essays and articles.



PORT 105A - Survey of Portuguese Literature
(4) Camilo dos Santos, Oliver,
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
Portuguese literature from its origins to the sixteeth century.



PORT 105B - Survey of Portuguese Literature
(4) Camilo dos Santos, Oliver,
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
Portuguese literature of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.



PORT 105C - Survey of Portuguese Literature
(4) Camilo dos Santos, Oliver,
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
Portuguese literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.



PORT 106A - Survey of Brazilian Literature
(4) Camilo-Dos-Santos, McGovern
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
Brazilian literature of the colonial period.



PORT 106B - Survey of Brazilian Literature
(4) Camilo-Dos-Santos, McGovern
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
Brazilian literature from the nineteenth century to 1922.



PORT 106C - Survey of Brazilian literature
(4) Camilo-Dos-Santos, McGovern
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
Brazilian literature from 1922 to present.



PORT 115 - Brazilian Literature (in English Translation)
(4) Camilo dos Santos, Oliver
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
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 120 - Portuguese Literature (in English Translation)
(4) STAFF
A presentation of major works in Portuguese to reveal the interest and the originality of Portuguese literature through the ages. Topics or author to be chosen by faculty member; each course on a different topic.



PORT 125A - Culture and Civilization of Portugal
(4) Camilo-Dos-Santos
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
The distinctive features of Portugal as manifested in institutions, art, music, and literature. Taught in English.



PORT 125B - Culture and Civilization of Brazil
(4) Camilo-Dos-Santos
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
The distinctive features of Brazil as manifested in institutions, art, music, and literature. Taught in English.



PORT 128 - Luso-Brazilian Cinema
(4) STAFF
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
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 180 - African Literature in Portuguese (in English Translation)
(4) STAFF
Writers from Angola, Mozambique, and other Portuguese speaking countries from Africa, presented in English translation, for the benefit of students who do not know Portuguese.



PORT 184 - Studies in Portuguese Linguistics
(4) Raposo
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
Topic chosen by faculty member.



PORT 185 - Brazilian Novel of the Twentieth Century
(4) Camilo-Dos-Santos
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
A study of the Brazilian novel from Machado de Assis to the present, including authors such as Lima Barreto, Erico Verissimo, Guimaraes Rosa, Lins do Rego, Graciliano Ramos, Mario de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Jorge Amado, Clarice Lispector.



PORT 189 - Brazilian Modernism
(4) Camilo dos Santos, Oliver
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
An introduction to the poetry and prose fiction of the Brazilian Avant-Garde of the 1920s and 1930s.



PORT 189 - Brazilian Modernism
(4) Camilo dos Santos, Oliver
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
An introduction to the poetry and prose fiction of the Brazilian Avant-Garde of the 1920s and 1930s.



PORT 189 - Brazilian Modernism
(4) Camilo dos Santos, Oliver
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
An introduction to the poetry and prose fiction of the Brazilian Avant-Garde of the 1920s and 1930s.



PORT 189 - Brazilian Modernism
(4) Camilo dos Santos, Oliver
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing.
An introduction to the poetry and prose fiction of the Brazilian Avant-Garde of the 1920s and 1930s.



PORT 195 - Senior Honors Independent Research
(4) STAFF
Prerequisites: 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 languageof Portugal, Brazil, or Portuguese-speaking Africa.



PORT 199 - Independent Studies in Portuguese
(1-5) STAFF
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing; completion of 2 upper-division courses in Portuguese; consent of department.
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
Prerequisites: 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
Prerequisites: 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 205C - Survey of Portuguese Literature for Spanish Graduate Students
(4) Camilo-Dos-Santos, Sharrer
Prerequisites: Portuguese 105C or concurrent attendance.
Nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will write and extensive paperand be responsible for additional readings to enrich their preparation and ready them for their Ph.D. examinations.



PORT 206A - Survey of Brazilian Literature for Spanish Graduate Students
(4) Camilo-Dos-Santos
Prerequisites: Portuguese 106A or concurrent attendance.
Colonial period. 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 206B - Survey of Brazilian Literature for Spanish Graduate Students
(4) Camilo-Dos-Santos
Prerequisites: Portuguese 106B or concurrent attendance.
From nineteenth century to 1922. Students will write an extensive paper andbe responsible for additional readings to enrich their preparation and ready them for their Ph.D. examinations.



PORT 206C - Survey of Brazilian Literature for Spanish Graduate Students
(4) Camilo-Dos-Santos
Prerequisites: Portuguese 106C or concurrent attendance.
From 1922 to present. 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
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.
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 222 - Studies in Galician-Portuguese Medieval Literature
(4) STAFF
Selected topics in light of recent scholarship.



PORT 250 - Studies on Eca de Queiros and the Portuguese Realistic Novel
(4) STAFF
Eca de Queiros's work, his conception of realism, his influence on Spanish,Spanish-American, and Brazilian literature, his most important followers.



PORT 255 - Studies on Machado de Assis and the Brazilian Novel
(4) Camilo dos Santos, Oliver
Machado de Assis' novelistic work; its innovative approach as a basis of modern fiction. Other novelists of his time will also be studied.



PORT 260 - Studies in Brazilian Post-Independence Literature
(4) STAFF
Selected authors and literary movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.



PORT 265 - Studies on Fernando Pessoa and the Avant-Garde
(4) Camilo dos Santos
Pessoa's poetry, its influence on contemporary Portuguese poetry, and its relationship to the world avant-garde movement.



PORT 283 - Individual Luso-Brazilian Authors and Special Topics
(4) Camilo dos Santos, Oliver
Intensive study on the work of an individual Luso-Brazilian author, to be chosen by the instructor.



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
Comlpetion of research paper, reporting regularly to class on progress of work.



PORT 590 - Spanish Teaching Methodology
(4) McGovern
Prerequisites: 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) STAFF
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) McGovern
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) STAFF
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) STAFF
Prerequisites: 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 597 - Individual Study for Master's Comprehensive or Ph.D. Examinations
(2-12) STAFF
Individual study for Master's comprehensive or Ph.D. examinations. Individual study under instructor who is member of the student's program committee.



PORT 599 - Ph.D. Dissertation Research and Preparation
(2-12) STAFF
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.
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
Ph.D. dissertation research and preparation. Research and writing of the dissertation. Instructor should be the chair of the student's doctoral committee.