A continuation of Intermediate Portuguese. Content-based review
of Portuguese grammar and systematic vocabulary and skill
development. Integration of language, culture, and literature.
Athena Title
Intermediate Portuguese
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in PORT 2120
Prerequisite
PORT 2001 or PORT 2600 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will narrate events in the past in detail and adequate sequence; make conjectures and informed predictions about the future; describe what has been happening in your life, a community, or the world, and express hypotheses and reactions.
Students will engage in social interactions with ease in various time frames, sometimes even when there is an unexpected complication, in a way you can be understood by a sympathetic speaker.
Students will present information in an organized manner, navigating through colloquial, professional, and academic registers to deliver sociopragmatic-adequate speeches and texts.
Students will demonstrate cultural knowledge of the Lusophone world, and compare it to their native culture, regarding language variation/prejudice, immigration, colonization, and current sociopolitical issues.
Topical Outline
Language Issues:
Writing as process, reading for meaning, contrastive cultural topics. The global village and the environment, censorship and freedom, indigenous civilizations,
discovery or encounter toward a definition of culture.
