The University of New Mexico
PORT: Portuguese Catalog Description

  Three Year Fall Semester Average
Course Catalog Description Enrollment Section
Capacity
Credits
PORT101 Development of all four language skills. Emphasis on listening, speaking, and cultural understanding. 25.33 25.33 76.00
PORT102 Continued development of four language skills. Emphasis on listening, speaking, and cultural understanding. An introduction to Portuguese for Spanish speakers. 12.00 20.00 36.00
PORT202 Intermediate Portuguese for students who have completed one year of beginning language study or its equivalent. Review of grammar and expansion of conversational and composition skills.
PORT275 An intensive one-semester introductory multimedia course using authentic models of communication in Portuguese. Students may not receive credit for this accelerated course (275) and the regular sequence (101-102). 29.00 36.67 174.00
PORT276 An intensive one-semester intermediate multimedia course using authentic models of communication in Portuguese. Prerequisite: 102 or 275. 23.33 24.67 140.00
PORT277 An accelerated multimedia class designed for natives or advanced level Spanish speakers that uses authentic models of communication in Portuguese. Students may not receive credit for this class (277) and the accelerated sequence (275-276). 7.00 7.33 42.00
PORT301 Practice of spoken Portuguese with an introduction to the phonetic systems and with comparisons to Spanish pronunciation. Discussions of topics from Portuguese-speaking world. Prerequisite: 276 or 277. 5.67 7.33 17.00
PORT311 Students develop their vocabulary and improve their writing skills through the study of readings, films and music from the Portuguese-speaking world and through practice writing compositions. Prerequisite: 276.
PORT312 Students improve skills in oral communication, including pronunciation and intonation, through the study and performance of dramatic scenes, and the filming and editing of those scenes. Prerequisite: 276 19.67 18.33 59.00
PORT335 Through the lens of Brazilian daily activities and ritual expressions, this course provides the student with an introduction to Brazilian history, culture and society.
PORT414 An advanced language course emphasizing interdisciplinary themes in Luso-Brazilian literature and culture. Course may be repeated for credit, no limit, with a change of topic. Prerequisite: 311 or 312. 2.67 5.00 8.00
PORT416 Survey of Brazilian cinema concentrating on the Cinema Novo movements of the 1950s and 1960s. Cinema is presented as an expression of national identity and is understood in relationship to literature and other cultural expressions. 6.67 5.00 20.00
PORT417 Survey of Brazilian popular music from 1950 to 2000 concentrating on contemporary sounds from the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo as well as new music from Brazil's other regions. 3.67 6.67 11.00
PORT421 A survey of 19th- and 20th-century drama by Brazil's best known playwrights. Includes the study of plays and their performances, key moments and individuals in theater history and foreign influences.
PORT457 Thematic study of history, culture, and literature based on key moments and movements in Brazil from 16th to 19th centuries. Prerequisite: 311 or 312.
PORT458 Thematic study of the history, culture, and literature based on key moments and movments in Brazil during 20th and 21st centuries. Prerequisite: 311 or 312. 4.00 10.00 12.00
PORT461 Individual authors, genres and periods of Brazilian Literature. May be repeated indefinitely for credit with a change of content. Prerequisite: 311 or 312.
PORT497 Restriction: permission of instructor. 1.00 50.00 2.33
PORT498 Work under direction of faculty to conduct research in preparation for writing honors thesis. Restriction: juniors and seniors approved by Honors Committee.
PORT499 Write essay or teach undergraduate course under the direction of a faculty member. Restriction: juniors and seniors approved by Honors Committee.
PORT511 Students develop their vocabulary and improve their writing skills through the study of readings, films and music from the Portuguese-speaking world and through practice writing compositions. Prerequisite: 276.
PORT512 Students improve skills in oral communication, including pronunciation and intonation, through the study and performance of dramatic scenes, and the filming and editing of those scenes. Prerequisite: 276 1.00 4.33 3.00
PORT514 An advanced language course emphasizing interdisciplinary themes in Luso-Brazilian literature and culture. May be repeated with a change of topic. Prerequisite: 311 or equivalent experience. 1.33 3.33 4.00
PORT515 Survey of Brazilian popular music from its origins at the end of the 19th century to 1950 concentrating on forms from the cultural centers in the south of Brazil as well as regional music.
PORT516 Survey of Brazilian cinema concentrating on the Cinema Novo movements of the 1950s and 1960s. Cinema is presented as an expression of national identity and is understood in relationship to literature and other cultural expressions. 0.67 1.67 2.00
PORT517 Survey of Brazilian popular music from 1950 to 2000 concentrating on contemporary sounds from the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo as well as new music from Brazil's other regions. 0.33 3.33 1.00
PORT521 A survey of 19th- and 20th-century drama by Brazil's best known playwrights. Includes the study of plays and their performances, key moments and individuals in theater history and foreign influences.
PORT551 May be repeated for credit, no limit. Restriction: permission of instructor. 1.00 83.33 3.00
PORT557 Thematic study of history, culture, and literature based on key moments and movements in Brazil from 16th to 19th centuries. Prerequisite: 311 or equivalent experience.
PORT558 Thematic study of the history, culture, and literature based on key moments and movments in Brazil during 20th and 21st centuries. Prerequisite: 311 or equivalent experience. 2.67 3.33 8.00
PORT561 The phonological, grammatical, and lexical development from Latin to Portuguese. 1.67 5.33 5.00
PORT570 Examines works of literature and/or culture and the scholarship written about them from a national or comparative framework. May be repeated for credit, no limit. 2.67 5.00 8.00
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PORT599 Offered on a CR/NC basis only. 1.00 50.00 6.00
PORT601 (Also offered as SPAN 601.) This course will offer either an overview of critical theory or an in-depth treatment of a critical school or individual theorist.

"PORT: Portuguese "Three Fall Subject Average - Enroll: 152.33 Capacity: 376.00 Credits: 637.33'