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  • PTGSE 3118: Pop Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course explores ways that popular media and entertainment reflect and shape how Portuguese speakers view themselves, their community, and their own and other cultures. Students will be introduced to historical contexts and perspectives of popular media as cultural products and practices. Students will utilize interpretive communication skills (listening and reading) in order to speak and write in a detailed, organized way about events and experiences in various time frames, confidently handle routine situations with unexpected complications, and share their point of view in writing and discussions on some complex cultural and historical issues. Prerequisites: A minimum of a 3 on the NEWL Exam.
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  • PTGSE 3580: Contemporary Issues

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Introduction to historical, political, social, economic and cultural issues affecting Brazil today. The goal of the course is to use and expand the students Portuguese language skills (speaking, comprehension, reading and writing) while discussing current affairs in Brazil. Course taught in Portuguese. Repeatable for credit. Prerequisite: Portuguese 3060 OR Instructor's Consent.
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  • PTGSE 3680: Braz Music of Protest

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Explores Brazilian popular music's role as an important forum for political expression and resistance. It traces its evolution from its origins in Samba in the early twentieth century through MPB and utilizes it as a lens for examining history, culture, and national identity during the twenty-one years of the military regime (1964'85). Conducted in Portuguese.
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  • PTGSE 3903: CLAC: Portuguese

    1.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Cultures & Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) offers students the exciting opportunity to apply their proficiency in a second language to the study of academic content in fields. This class is a one credit hour supplement to another three credit hour course notated on the schedule and must be taken with the corresponding course. It may be repeated for credit when the topic varies.
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  • PTGSE 3940: Community Engaged Learn

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Involves students in thoughtfully organized service through community-engaged leaning. Students have the opportunity to use and expand their language skills and cross-cultural understanding while doing community-engaged learning projects on campus and in the local community. Academically the course seeks to provide a better understanding of challenges and problems faced by immigrants and their communities. This course entails lectures and readings, cross-cultural communications through simulation exercises, and community service in the Salt Lake region.
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  • PTGSE 4510: Business Portuguese

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    A course devoted to learning basic terminology and vocabulary related to commerce in the Portuguese-speaking world. Prerequisites: PTGSE 2020 or equivalent.
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  • PTGSE 4520: Medical Portuguese

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    A course devoted to learning Portuguese terminology and vocabulary related to healthcare. It offers an overview of patient-provider communication and intercultural competence applied to interactions with Portuguese speakers in healthcare contexts. Language Level Requirement: *This course requires an intermediate-high level of Portuguese. You should feel confident that you can take this course if you: 1. have previously taken PTGSE 3060, 2. are a native or heritage Portuguese-speaking healthcare practitioner, or 3. have lived in a Lusophone country for a significant amount of time and provide healthcare to Portuguese-speaking populations.
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  • PTGSE 4560: Cultures of Brazil

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to Brazilian history and culture. It will examine such topics as the legacies of indigenous people and empire, authoritarianism and democratization, migration and urbanization, racial and ethnic identity, women's roles, religion, the role of the complexity, variety, and unique cultural and historical experiences that characterize Brazil. Course taught in Portuguese. Prerequisite: PTGSE 3040 or 3060.
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  • PTGSE 4620: Voices from Empire

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Introduces the concepts of empire, lusofonia, and the lusotropicalist myth by way of the literature and other cultural products of Portugal, Brazil, and the Portuguese-speaking diaspora ' including Mozambique, Angola, Macao, and others. Conducted in Portuguese. Prerequisites: PTGSE 3060 OR Equivalent.
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  • PTGSE 4630: Intro Brazilian Lit

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Readings in Brazilian Literature from the colonial period to the present, covering varied genres in their respective cultural, historical, and esthetic contexts. Prerequisites: PTGSE 3060 OR Equivalent.
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