2001-2002 Calendar: Portuguese Courses

PRT Portuguese Courses

HUM199Y
First Year Seminar 52T

Undergraduate seminar that focuses on specific ideas, questions, phenomena or controversies, taught by a regular Faculty member deeply engaged in the discipline. Open only to newly admitted first year students. It may serve as a distribution requirement course; see page 44.

NOTE
The Department reserves the right to place students in the language course best suited to their linguistic preparation.

PRT100Y1
Introductory Portuguese 52L, 26P

An introduction to the main elements of the language with emphasis on oral and written practice. (May not be taken by students who, in the judgement of the Department, qualify for entry into PRT220Y)
Exclusion: Grade 13/OAC Portuguese

PRT110Y1
Elementary Portuguese 52L, 26P

An introduction to Portuguese for students who speak or understand Portuguese but have not formally studied it. (May not be taken by students who, in the judgement of the Department, qualify for entry into PRT220Y)
Exclusion: Grade 13/OAC Portuguese
Prerequisite: A familiarity with Portuguese

PRT220Y1
Composition and Oral Practice II 52L

Students enlarge their vocabulary and improve their oral and writing skills through reading, composition and translation.
Prerequisite: Grade 13/OAC Portuguese/PRT100Y/110Y

PRT250H1
Portuguese Culture and Civilization 26L

A survey of historical and cultural trends in Portugal from the Middle Ages to the present. Art and music are studied in addition to historical/cultural movements to gain a perspective of the uniqueness of Portugal both within Iberia and in Europe in general. (Offered in alternate years)

PRT258H1
Introduction to Luso-Brazilian Studies

(formerly PRT258Y) 26L
The introductory study of literary texts and consideration of the various ways authors express and situate themselves in culture. Semiotics, gender, the literary canon, advertising, the nature of literary language, and cinema.
Co-requisite: PRT220Y

PRT299Y1
Research Opportunity Program

Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See page 44 for details.

PRT320Y1
Composition and Oral Practice III 52L

Intensive practice in written and oral Portuguese for the advanced student. Reading and discussion of contemporary literature.
Prerequisite: PRT220Y

PRT343H1
Laughter and Disaster in the Theatre 26L

Concentration on the two classic modalities of theatre, the comic and the tragic, to understand how playwrights shape the world. Early theories of the tragic, comic, and the grotesque. Texts from several Portuguese-speaking cultures may be included. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: PRT220Y, 258Y

PRT351H1
Discovery and Conquest: Literature and Nationhood

(formerly PRT351Y) 26L
A study of the driving ideologies behind the "Age of Discoveries." Close scrutiny of key texts reveals how the ideas of displacement, sex, violence, gender, and colonization play crucial roles in the establishment and maintenance of nationhood and nationality in Renaissance Portugal. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: PRT210Y/220Y, 258Y

PRT357H1
Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Literature

(formerly PRT457Y) 52L
Focus on modern and contemporary Brazilian literature and its social contexts, and examination of the relationship between literary movements and Brazilian cinema, music and art. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: PRT220Y, 258Y

PRT358H1
Topics in Portuguese Studies 26L

In years when this course is offered, topics are described in detail in the departmental brochure.
Prerequisite: PRT220Y

PRT359H1
From Pessoa to Saramago

(formerly PRT456Y) 52L
An examination of Portuguese literature as it confronts the changing social, political, and aesthetic currents of the twentieth century. The Orpheu movement of Fernando Pessoa and Sa-Carneiro, Presenca and Neo-Realism as well as contemporary authors such as Lydia Jorge and Jose Saramago are studied. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: PRT220Y, 258Y

PRT361H1
Foreign Mappings: Portugal and Brazil Seen from Abroad 52L

The invention of the concepts of "Portugal", the "Portuguese", "Brazil" and the "Brazilian" in texts written by foreigners through the centuries from Pero Vaz de Caminha, Hans Staden, William Beckford, to Elizabeth Bishop, Joseph Brodsky, John Updike and P.K. Page. (Offered in alternate years)

PRT398H0/399Y0
Independent Experiential Study Project

An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. See page 44 for details.

PRT420Y1
Syntax and Stylistics 52L

The expressive resources of the language. Introduction to the stylistic analysis of literary texts. Intensive written and oral practice. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: PRT320Y

PRT423Y1
Translation 52L

The syntax and expressive resources of Portuguese and English. Written and oral translation of literary, technical and commercial texts. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: PRT320Y

PRT452H1
Camoes

(formerly PRT352H) 26L
A study of the works of Camoes, including the entirety of Os Lusiadas, and a substantial portion of the lyrics and theatre. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: PRT220Y, 258Y

PRT454Y1
The Luso-Brazilian Novel 52L

Fiction in Portugal and Brazil from the 19th century to the present. Naturalism, realism, the experimental novels of the 1920's, the novel of social protest. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: PRT220Y, 258Y

PRT455Y1
Machado de Assis and Eca de Queiroz

(formerly PRT356Y) 52L
The novel as a way of life. The growth and maturation of Machado and Eca as novel-/life-writers, from Eca's critical examination of Portuguese society to Machado's corrosive skepticism. The ongoing dialogue between the two authors evidences their philosophies of novelistic writing and reading. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: PRT220Y, 258Y

PRT458H1
The Luso-Brazilian Story 26S

The development of the Luso-Brazilian short story. Examination of theories of the genre as they relate to short stories of Machado de Assis, Eca de Queiroz, Graciliano Ramos, Joao Guimareaes Rosa, Clarice Lispector and Miguel Torga. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: PRT220Y, 258Y

PRT490H1
Independent Study

TBA
Individual study with a member of staff on a topic of common interest including readings, discussion and written assignments.
Prerequisite: PRT320Y and written approval of the Undergraduate Coordinator