Elementary Catalan for Graduate Students
Globalization has unified economies, torn down political barriers, and turned local spaces into tourist attractions.
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Elementary Portuguese for Graduate Students
An accelerated introduction to the structure of the Portuguese language, covering in one semester content matter usually reviewed in two semesters. This course is taught in Portuguese.
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Reading Portuguese for Graduate Students
An advanced course designed to build vocabulary and competence in more sophisticated written Portuguese. It involves composition, reading and grammar. Themes are drawn primarily from current issues in Brazil.
This course is a continuation of P491 and is taught in Portuguese.
Brazilian Cinema
An introduction to Brazilian cinema and society, focusing on Brazil’s New Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as contemporary films, including City of God, Elite Squad, and Bacurau.
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We will begin the course by discussing into the politics of literary translation, with a specific focus on the Luso-Brazilian context. We will examine the distribution and readership of translated literary works originally written in Portuguese across different historical periods and diverse markets.
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This course studies three renowned and widely translated writers from Portugal, iconic authors engraved in the country’s literary canon and wall art.
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The goal of the Professionalization Workshop Series is to provide support, resources, and opportunities as graduate students transition through various stages of the program and into professional careers—both inside of and outside of academia.
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This course explores in detail the sound system (phonology) of Spanish based largely on acoustic details (phonetics).
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This course provides students with an introduction to the theoretical humanities.
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This course provides a foundation in the theory and techniques for teaching university-level foreign language in a classroom setting.
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This course will examine the beginnings of Spanish Colonialism in the Americas.
Learn more about this courseTopics in Spanish Syntax
This course is a graduate-level introduction to the study of syntactic and semantic change, with a focus on Spanish and more broadly Romance data.
Learn more about this courseThe Pragmatics of Intercultural Communicative Competence
The course examines current issues in intercultural pragmatics and the development of intercultural communicative competence in three learning contexts: foreign language, study abroad, and heritage language pragmatics. Evaluation is based on short assignments, class discussions, and a research project.
Learn more about this courseTopics in Medieval Iberian Literature and Culture
The first part of this course will examine the emergence, development, and impact of a thirteenth-century poetic school known as the Mester de Clerecía.
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