Course Description
Emphasizes conversational skills, reading, writing, and listening comprehension. Not to be used to satisfy the undergraduate language requirement. This course is open only to graduate students.
Athena Title
Intensive Portuguese
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The main objective of the course is to provide students with a fairly broad background in the fundamentals of pronunciation, conversation, reading, writing, and listening comprehension so that students can develop these skills further if they decide to continue studying Portuguese. At the end of the course, students should be at the same level as students who have completed Intermediate Portuguese.
Topical Outline
1) Performing certain functions in the target language, such as ordering a meal, making reservations at a hotel, sustaining a simple conversation with someone who only speaks Portuguese, etc. 2) Learning some of the formal structures of the language through grammatical paradigms. 3) Learning basic vocabulary that will facilitate communication in the target language. 4) Learning important aspects of Portuguese-speaking cultures.
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global CultureSyllabus