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First Year Seminars The 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students. These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate the students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. Details here. Notes 1. All courses taught in Portuguese unless otherwise specified. PRT100Y1 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 PRT110Y1) PRT110Y1 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 PRT220Y1) PRT217H1 Communication practice in small groups, with an emphasis on skills in speaking, listening, and reading. Selective review of grammatical structures and active vocabulary, with readings from Portuguese authors. PRT220Y1 Students enlarge their vocabulary and improve their oral and writing skills through reading, composition and translation. (May not be taken by students who, in the judgement of the Department, qualify for entry into PRT320Y1) PRT234H1 This course examines Portuguese immigration in North America. It highlights selected themes and topics, focused on Portuguese settlements in USA and Canada. Through readings, films and other art forms students will analyze concepts of cultural history, self and identity, community building and related issues. PRT250H1 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; taught in English) PRT252H1 Study of Portuguese literature, art, and culture in the context of colonization and immigration, with a specific emphasis on the islands of the Portuguese Atlantic. Readings in the cultural heritage of island settlements, and in diasporic movements to other countries. (Offered in alternate years; taught in English) PRT255H1 Taught in English, this course examines the historical and cultural contexts of Brazilian identity. The impact of colonial history on issues such as race, religion and regionalism is explored. The course focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries: Positivism, Modernism, the Anthropophagous Movement, music and Cinema Novo are discussed. (Offered in alternate years) PRT258H1 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. PRT299Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details here. PRT320Y1 Intensive practice in written and oral Portuguese for the advanced student. Reading and discussion of contemporary literature. (May not be taken by students who, in the judgement of the Department, qualify for entry into PRT420Y1) PRT351H1 A study of the driving ideologies behind the “Age of Discoveries.” Close scrutiny of key texts reveals how the ideas of displacement, violence, gender, and colonization play crucial roles in the establishment and maintenance of nationhood and nationality in Renaissance Portugal. (Offered in alternate years) PRT355H1 In years when this course is offered, topics are described in the departmental brochure. PRT357H1 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) PRT358H1 In years when this course is offered, topics are described in detail in the departmental brochure. PRT359H1 An examination of Portuguese literature as it confronts the changing social, political, and aesthetic currents of the twentieth century. The Orpheu movement of 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) PRT365H1 Studies Portuguese and Brazilian Romanticism tracing the development of a new sense of personal and national identity in those countries as reflected in novels, poems and essays. (Offered in alternate years) PRT398H0 PRT399Y0 An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details here. PRT420Y1 A study of the more advanced areas of Portuguese grammar and language use. Discussion of issues relating to syntax, vocabulary and style as they arise in essays and readings of literary texts. The expressive resources of the language. Introduction to the stylistic analysis of literary texts. Intensive written and oral practice. PRT442H1 Whether writing about the adulterous and incestuous relationship between cousins, or the downfall of a great family, or later the transformation of a Parisian dandy into a robust Portuguese countryman, Eça had one great subject: Portugal. The course examines the shifting perspective of the country through close readings of novels. PRT443H1 Beginning with Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, Machado de Assis developed the art of creating characters who prefigure the 20th and 21st century selves: contradictory, often delusional. His novels destroy whatever certainties the late 19th century offered. The course examines the transformation of Machado through readings of his novels. PRT452H1 A study of the works of Camões, including Os Lusíadas, and a portion of the lyrics and theatre. (Offered in alternate years) (Taught in English) PRT454Y1 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) PRT458H1 The development of the Luso-Brazilian short story. Examination of theories of the genre as they relate to short stories of Machado de Assis, Eça de Queiroz, Graciliano Ramos, João Guimaraes Rosa, Clarice Lispector and others. (Offered in alternate years) PRT490H1 Individual study with a member of staff on a topic of common interest including readings, discussion and written assignments. |