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World Portuguese Language Day

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The Portuguese Language program and the General Consulates of Portugal, Brazil, and Cape Verde in Boston invite you to celebrate World Portuguese Language Day . The event will start with a panel discussion with Prof. Gilvan de Oliveira (Universidade...

PORTUG 15 - Intensive Beginning Portuguese: A Pathway to Luso-Brazilian Cultures

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This intensive Beginning Portuguese course provides an accelerated introduction to Portuguese with emphasis on interpersonal communication and interpreting and producing language in written and oral forms. Goals include building students' vocabulary...

PORTUG 10S - Beginning Portuguese for Spanish Speakers I: Português Beyond Portuñol

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This beginning Portuguese course is designed for students with a strong background in Spanish (Spanish 40 or equivalent is recommended). The course presents the linguistic structures necessary for basic communication and emphasizes the most challenging...

PORTUGUESE 077 - Laughter and Disaster

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This course engages the twin lenses of the comic and the disastrous as modes of studying Portuguese and Brazilian cultures. We will consider how reactions to disastrous events and how creating comic scenarios in written texts and performance are...

PORTUG 11S - Beginning Portuguese for Spanish Speakers II: More SAMBA, less Salsa!

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PORTUGUESE 11S is a continuation of PORTUG 10s and keep on exploring semantic, grammatical, and phonological features of Portuguese that are most challenging for Spanish Speakers. This course will help you solidify your foundation in Portuguese by...

PORTUG 11 - Beginning Portuguese II: Beyond Copacabana

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PORTUG 11 is a continuation of PORTUG 10 and helps you solidify your foundation in Portuguese by offering you opportunities to improve your linguistic skills in real contexts (via Teletandem), or close to authentic interaction situations, by interpreting...

PORTUG 20 - Intermediate Portuguese I: Justice, Equity and Rights in the Lusophone world

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In this intermediate-level language course, you will explore social justice issues related to education, labor, environment and sustainability, race, gender, migration, among other topics of relevance in Lusophone countries nowadays. You will engage with...

PORTUG 52 - Advanced Portuguese II: Sounds of Brazil: Writing Through Music

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Portuguese 52 explore the Brazilian music as a powerful expression of the Brazilian experience and a means of civic engagement and social change. The course presents some of the main musical styles in Brazil (as samba, baião, choro, bossa nova, rap...

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PORTUG 30 - Upper-level Portuguese: Traditions, Culture, and Current events through Brazilian folklore

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PORTUG 30 engages students in the exploration of Brazil’s five geographic regions, while examining the role of Brazilian folklore and traditions in contemporary society. Students learn about cultural elements (as folk tales, celebrations, practices, and...

Cristiane Soares

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Academic Degrees: Ph.D. in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory, UMass- Dartmouth; M.A. in Applied Linguistics, UMass- Boston; B.A in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Roles: Coordinator of the...

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