Weill Medical College of Cornell University · Courses
PORT
11 courses with the subject PORT, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PORT 1210Elementary Portuguese I4
This course introduces students with no knowledge of Portuguese and with limited or no knowledge of Spanish to the Lusophone (Portuguese speaking) world. Emphasis is given to the development of language skills (e.g., speaking, listening, reading, and writing), as well as the appreciation and awareness of Global Portuguese-speaking cultures, prompting students to make comparisons to their own culture.
Second semester introduction to the Lusophone (Portuguese speaking) world. Emphasis is given to the development of language skills (e.g., speaking, listening, reading, and writing), as well as the appreciation and awareness of Global Portuguese-speaking cultures, prompting students to make comparisons to their own culture.
PORT 1502Conversational Skills for Portuguese in Global Contexts1
This course focuses on basic oral communication in Portuguese, with emphasis placed on developing speaking and listening skills and strategies in a culturally relevant context. It is designed for students with limited or no knowledge of Portuguese and those with a background in another Romance Language.
PORT 2010Intermediate Portuguese for Spanish Speakers I3
This is an intensive introductory course for those who are native/near native speakers of Spanish. Emphasis will be given in the development of the four skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing), as well as the appreciation and awareness of Portuguese-speaking cultures. Students will engage with a broad range of topics related to Afro-Luso-Brazilian culture through art (e.g., painting, theater, cinema, literature, photography, dance sculpture, etc).
PORT 2020Intermediate Portuguese for Spanish Speakers II3
This is a course designed to intermediate students to enhance their oral and written communication skills in Portuguese while engaging a broad range of topics related to Afro-Luso-Brazilian culture. Along with the textbook, students will read a short-essay book, be exposed to a number of films and critically reflect and discuss the films and readings. Students will continue to build their knowledge on grammar and vocabulary as well as Global Portuguese culture and language diversity.
This course provides an introduction and overview of Brazilian culture. It will study different periods of Brazilian history, through the analysis of films, literature, essays, visual arts, and music. Students will explore different definitions of Brazilian identity and Brazilianness focusing on key topics including the formation of the colonial Brazil and the emergence of the nation of Brazil as a tropical paradise; slavery and abolition; the particularities century; and the contradictions of the modernization process throughout the 20th century. We will consider elements of Brazilian popular culture such as Carnival, Samba, and telenovels, and some of the most important cultural movements of the 20th century, such as Modernismo, Cinema Novo, and Tropicalia. The primary objective of the course is to provide students with the relevant background to understand Brazilian cultural history.
This course provides intermediate level students with the opportunity to advance their oral and written fluency, proficiency, and understanding of the grammar of Portuguese. In addition, students will be introduced to several cultural aspects of the Lusophone world, including regionalisms of Portuguese language. This goal will be achieved with the aid of literary and journalistic texts. Students will be expected to give individual and group presentations, as well as to write short pieces in the target language. The course is tailored to bridge language learning and content-based courses and research in Portuguese.
What does it mean for a nation to "devour" the world and reinvent itself in the process? This course takes Oswald de Andrade's daring 1928 Cannibal Manifesto as its point of departure to explore how Brazil has continually reimagined itself through acts of cultural transformation and resistance. From the radical experiments of modernism and the neo-concrete movement, to the psychedelic aesthetics of Tropicalia and and the contemporary visions of Afrofuturism, this course traces how art, music, performance, film, and literature have reshaped Brazilian identity. Conducted in Spanish.
This course examines the many ways the Amazon-the world;s most biodiverse region, spanning nine countries-has been imagined and represented, from a "green hell" that consumes explorers to a realm of enchanted beings like the giant snake Cobra Grande and the pink river dolphin, and from the mythical El Dorado to industrial utopias and environmental dystopias. We will explore how extractive activities and deforestation have shaped the region, while also highlighting its role as a cradle of indigenous epistemologies, technologies, and medicines, and as a space of encounter between humans and countless other forms of life. Materials include novels, films, photography, documentaries, songs visual art, and travelogues. The class is conducted in Spanish.
What does it mean for a nation to "devour" the world and reinvent itself in the process? This course takes Oswald de Andrade's daring 1928 Cannibal Manifesto as its point of departure to explore how Brazil has continually reimagined itself through acts of cultural transformation and resistance. From the radical experiments of modernism and the neo-concrete movement, to the psychedelic aesthetics of Tropicalia and and the contemporary visions of Afrofuturism, this course traces how art, music, performance, film, and literature have reshaped Brazilian identity. Conducted in Spanish.
In this course, we will discuss innovative Brazilian narrative, poetry, and essays from the 20th century to the present. Some of the topics, literary movements, and debates to be addressed will include modernism, the representation of the Northeast region, Amazonian cosmogonies, speculative fiction, environmental issues, literary responses to dictatorship, issues of race, social inequality, and gender, and the relationship between the center and the periphery. Some authors to be discussed are Raul Bopp, Patricia Galv? Rubem Fonseca, Jo?Guimar? Rosa, Clarice Lispector, and Ana Paula Maia.
